India
Saji Baby, PhD
Former Director, Center for Excellence in Sustainability, Environment & Climate Change
🏛️ MIT World Peace University, Pune, India
Quick Overview
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."
— Mahatma Gandhi on Ecological Harmony & Restraint"Gandhi's Hidden Blueprint That Foretold the Age of Climate Change and Sustainable Development"
Presentation Overview & Abstract
Tracing Mahatma Gandhi's lived ethics—Truth (Satya), Non-violence (Ahimsa), Self-rule (Swaraj), and Local Self-reliance (Swadeshi)—to form a holistic worldview for addressing modern climate crises. Saji Baby argues that Gandhi's principles of voluntary restraint, ecological harmony, and decentralized living served as an early warning and a foundational philosophy for modern environmental sustainability.
About Saji Baby, PhD
Dr. Saji Baby was the Director of the Center for Excellence in Sustainability, Environment, and Climate Change at MIT World Peace University, Pune. A Chartered Environmental Engineer with over three decades of experience, his expertise encompasses waste-to-energy, coastal and marine systems, emissions mitigation, smart cities, low-carbon energy, carbon capture, risk assessment, clean technologies, and climate forcing.
Dr. Saji Baby has led over 138 projects in the UAE and Kuwait as Principal Investigator and Project Leader, securing over USD 4 million in research and developmental funding. His notable contributions include Kuwait’s nuclear energy discourse, the Kuwait Metro and National Railway projects, Damietta Sea Port in Egypt along the Mediterranean Sea, Sargassum studies in Qatar waters, and the sustainable development of Al Samalia Island in Abu Dhabi.
Dr. Baby is the author of 2 books, 32 journal articles, 35 conference papers, and 5 book chapters, and has edited more than 120 international conference proceedings. He has delivered 90+ invited lectures across 28 countries and served as Editor-in-Chief of 8 Scopus-indexed journals from 2010 to 2022.
He received the prestigious Bharat Jyoti Award in 2013 for Best Researcher and Global Awards in 2012 for developmental projects. He has been featured in international biographical directories since 2022 and has led regional workshops across Asia-Pacific and South Asia, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Kyoto, Manila, Shanghai, and Kuala Lumpur. He also serves as a jury member for the Creative Decisions Foundation at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and the Association of Higher Education Multidisciplinary Researchers, Manila Chapter, Philippines.