Nandan Nawn is an economist by disciplinary training with a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Classical Political Economy, Ecological Economics and, Environment and Development have been his persistent research interests. He taught at various colleges in University of Delhi in ad-hoc positions (1998-2001) and in regular positions at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata (2001-14), TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi (2014-22) before joining Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia as a Professor in June 2022. On deputation, he has joined Jawaharlal Nehru University, as the RBI Chair Professor, in its Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, his alma mater.

He has designed/co-designed 13 and taught 21 courses across levels and programmes in four institutions across two cities of India. He has supervised 28 Master’s thesis, 1 M.Phil. dissertation and 1 Ph.D. thesis. His works have been published in Journal of Agrarian Change, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, and Biodiversity Conservation, among others. He has co-edited volumes published by Springer and Sage. He has received doctoral fellowships from UGC at Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU (1997-2001) and ICSSR at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (2011-12), a Fulbright Fellowship (2018), an RBI Scholarship (2022), and was an Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla (2006, 2008, 2010).

He has served as Coordinator, School of Social Sciences, NUJS (2004–06), Head, Department of Policy Studies, TERI SAS (2017-18), Secretary, Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) (2016-18), Managing Editor, Ecology, Economy and Society—the INSEE Journal (2018-21), co-editor, Review of Environment and Development, EPW (2016-20), Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, TERI SAS (2018-21), Leader, Bioeconomy programme, Preparatory stage proposal to ‘National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-Being’ funded by Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India (2019-21), Director, ICSSR Sponsored two-week Capacity Building Programme on ‘Academic Writing and Publication Processes’ (2022) and a pro-bono consultant to the Power Foundation of India (under Ministry of Power, Government of India).

He serves as the Publisher and Printer of and Associate Editor in Scopus indexed Ecology, Economy and Society—the INSEE Journal. He maintains profiles on Google Scholar, ORCiD, Scopus, Web of Science, Vidwan, ResearchGate,