Vikram Dayal is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He holds a Ph.D in Economics from university of Delhi in Economic analysis of Ranthambhore National Park, Masters in Economics with specialization in Natural Resource Economics from University of Colorado at Boulder, USA and Masters in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has published his papers in various national and international journals and has also published books. In 2014 he published in SpringerBriefs in Economics, a book titled: "The Environment in Economics and Development: Pluralist Extensions of Core Economic Models" and in 2009 he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Economics in India with Professor Kanchan Chopra. His open access papers on Simulating to understand mathematics for economics with Excel and R in 2012. He is contributing articles to newspaper, Economic Times ranging from Controlling air pollution, energy shortage & count of nature's gifts. He also wrote the abridged version of Looking Back to Think Ahead: GREEN India 2047.

He also attended the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in Bloomington, Indiana as a Visiting Scholar SANDEE (South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics) Partha Dasgupta Fellow in 2011. He received several awards, including Global Development Network First Prize Medal for Research on Exploitation of Natural Resource Management: Trends and Environmental Implications, for the paper on 'Social Diversity and Ecological Complexity: how an Invasive Tree could affect Diverse Agents in the land of the Tiger', 2008 Awards and Medals Competition, in Kuwait in 2009.