Jairam Ramesh is a Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment, Forests & Climate Change. He has been Union Minister and handled various portfolios including Rural Development, Drinking Water & Sanitation, Environment & Forests, Power and Commerce.

He is the author of Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India, Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature.

His recent book is The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined The Buddha.