Shuddha Rafiq

Since 2021 I am listed as RePec’s world Top 5% of authors in Economics and Finance based on Number of Citations, Discounted by Citation Age https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.dcites.html#pra676.  

As of March 2023, my citation records are:

Google Scholar: Scopus:

    All   Last 5 Years

Citations         2683     1985         1705

h-index               21             20               16

i10-index             27                        26

On June 15, 2022, the result dissemination workshop on 'the Adoption of Climate-Smart Solar Irrigation Technology in Bangladesh' was held in The Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Was truly glad to moderate this closing session with respect to our Climate Challenge project titled, ' "Innovating Nonmonetary Interventions for Climate Smart Agriculture: An ADOPT Model for Technology Diffusion" financed by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the Government of UK through the World Bank’s PARCC Trust Fund and organised by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. 

ISEDEG, Indonesia Invited Lead Speech

CEEND Industry Workshop

News and Updates:

• July 2024: Andrea La Nauze and I are leading a session on 'Business, Policy, & Market for Energy,' in the upcoming Deakin University & Indian Institute of Technology, Madras led ENERGY SUMMIT 2024 on NOVEMBER 26-29 @ Deakin Burwood Corporate Centre. Please feel free to submit your abstract through https://lnkd.in/gfj8F2wQ submission closes on August 2 https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/3dbc2803-0567-4c7d-a300-03d4e9c83de9/summary. 

• January 2022: Been awarded as the finalist Climate Innovation Challenge competition for our research project on "Innovating Nonmonetary Interventions for Climate Smart Agriculture: An ADOPT Model for Technology Diffusion", which is funded under the #worldbank Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC) grant as administered by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center. Our consortium comprises of seven parties including Curtin University, Deakin University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Agricultural University, and Rajshahi University Bangladesh. Project Funding: USD 150000. 

• October 2020: Signed grant agreement as one of the members of the multidisciplinary team to study, 'Use of Emerging Technologies for Native Wildlife Population Assessment and Management.', Total Funding $554,000 from a consortium of Deakin University Research Network, in collaboration with the Arthur Rylah Institute and Parks Victoria Use of Emerging Technologies for Native Wildlife Population Assessment and Management. The funding authority: Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning (DELWP), Victoria.

• July 2020: Webinar on Impact of Covid19 with the Chairman of BRAC, The largest NGO of the world: COVID19's impact on Bangladesh 

• June 2020: Covid-19: Lessons from first wave and a roadmap for economic rebound 

• Our paper on, 'Urbanization, openness, emissions, and energy intensity: A study of increasingly urbanized emerging economies,' is listed as the third most highly cited articles published in Energy Economics since 2016 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-economics/most-cited-articles. 

• Lead speaker at the International Conference on Sustainable Environmental Development and Economic Growth (isedeg.conference.unair.ac.id/) held on August 01, 2019 at Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. For news about the event in Indonesian national newspaper: http://www.surabayapagi.com/read/feb-unair-gelar-konferensi-internasional.

• Presented two papers in WEA International’s 94th Annual Conference in San Francisco, California, June 28-July 2, 2019. One in an invited session on Contemporary Economic Policy and another session organised by Association for Economic and Development Studies of Bangladesh (AEDSB).

• CEEND organised a daylong CEEND Industry Workshop: An expanding nexus > energy, environment and natural disasters.  CEEND Workshop 2018

• Interview on National Energy Guarantee and ACCC energy pricing report

• Interview on Australian Domestic Gas Prices

• October, 2018: Presented a paper on, "Projecting Post-Crisis House and Equity Prices Since 1870s: Not All Crises are Alike" in the seminar series at the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, NZ.

• February, 2018: Became Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disaster (CEEND)

• September, 2017: Presented a paper on, “Can human capital alleviate pollution in China?" in the seminar series at the School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania.

• November, 2016: Received Annual Early Career Researcher Commendation Award in Deakin Business and Law School.  

• October, 2016: Obtained Best paper award in ANZAM 2016 Conference on Sustainability and Social Issues in Management Steam. 

• October, 2014: Presented a paper on, " Agriculture, Trade Oppresses, CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Linear and Nonlinear panel estimations" in the seminar series at the Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne