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Yash Tandon is an academic, a teacher, a political activist, a rural development specialist, an NGO activist, and an institution builder. He founded the Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI). Offices of SEATINI were also established in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Geneva. In 2005, he was appointed the Executive Director of the South Centre in Geneva and is now the Senior Adviser to the Centre. He has written several books and for academic journals and newspapers. His main interest is in writing that has immediate practical value – to educate and learn, as policy inputs, to trigger alternative thoughts from the dominant thinking, and to build a better, non-violent, and just world.
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Tandon, Y. Open Versus Closed Energy Systems and Climate Change. Development 54, 190–193 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.27
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