Important Honours and Awards to Prof M V Nadkarni
Honorable Positions Conferred
- Elected as President at the 55th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics held at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) in 1995.
- Vice-Chancellor, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, 1999-2002.
- Member of the Board of Governors for Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research (Dharwad),
- Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute for Social & Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, since 2002.
- ICSSR National Fellow (2002-04).
- Member of the Board of Governors of Centre for Development Studies (Thiruvananthapuram),
- Member of the Board of Governors for Institute for Economic Growth (Delhi),
- Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2005-07).
- Member of the Board of Governors of ISEC, Bengaluru, continuously from 1992 to2006.
- Member of the Board of Governors for Madras Institute Development Research (Chennai).
- Elected as Chairman of the Governing Council of the Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, (2007-09).
Tributes
- Quest for Planetary Wellbeing - Festschrift titled 'Quest for Planetary Wellbeing - Essays in Honour of M V Nadkarni', edited by Prof Ananta Kumar Giri and Prof R S Deshpande, published by Palgrave Macmillan, was presented to MVN on 23 February, 2026, and discussed by a Panel of eminent speakers including the two editors, at ISEC Bangalore.
MV Nadkarni's response to the festschrift
Awards Conferred
- Conferred with the title of INSEE (Indian Society for Ecological Economics) Fellow ‘for his outstanding contributions to Ecological Economics’ at the 12th INSEE Biennial Conference at the BML Munjal University, Kaprivas, Haryana, during January 31- February 2, 2024.
- Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the Forum of Former Vice- Chancellors of Karnataka during the Teachers’ Day (September 5) 2023.