Jyoti Parikh is a Member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change –India and is a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC authors in 2007. She served as the senior professor and Acting Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai 1986-2003. IIASA, Austria for 8 years (1980-86, 76-78) and Planning Commission, as a senior energy consultant at New Delhi (1978-80).
She has been appointed as the advisor for Global commission on adaptation set up by UN Secretary-General and Gates foundation managed by the World Resources Institute. She was also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda on Decarburization of Energy Sector. She has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, EEC, Brussels and UN agencies such as UNIDO, FAO, UNU, and UNESCO, UNDP, and the World Bank. She also worked as an advisor to various ministries of the Government of India