Description: Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was born on 20 August 1940 in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, India. He received his education at La Martiniere
Menu Early life and Career Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri was born on 20 August 1940 in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, India. He received his education at La Martiniere College in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar .
He belongs to the 1958 Batch of Special Class Railway Apprentices, a prestigious program which heralded the beginning of mechanical engineering education in India. He began his career with the Indian Railways at the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi . He joined North Carolina State University in Raleigh, United States, where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering in 1972, and a PhD with co-majors in Industrial Engineering and Economics in 1974. His doctoral thesis was on energy demand forecasting.
He served as Assistant Professor (August 1974 – May 1975) and Visiting Faculty Member (Summer 1976 and 1977) in the Department of Economics and Business at North Carolina State University . He was a Visiting Professor of Resource Economics (August 1981 – August 1982) at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources , West Virginia University , and served as a Visiting Research Fellow (June – September 1990) at The World Bank , Washington, DC. On his return to India, he joined the Administrative Staff College