Sujatha Byravan
E-mail: crg@gene-watch.org

Sujatha BYRAVAN, is Executive Director at the Council for Responsible Genetics (http://www.gene-watch.org), a non-profit/non-governmental organization devoted to fostering public debate about the social, ethical, and environmental implications of the new genetic technologies.She was Director of the Fellows Program at LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) International from 1999-2002, and in that capacity was responsible for developing and executing the program for the graduates of LEAD, who number over 1000 and work all over the world in many sectors. Before joining LEAD, Sujatha worked in the area of science communication. She was coordinator of the Science Training and Communication Centre in the National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR) in Bangalore, India. She was also editor for Resonance, an undergraduate science journal produced by the Indian Academy of Sciences and freelanced as a science journalist. Sujatha has a Ph.D. in Biology and completed postdoctoral work at the University of California in Los Angeles, U.S.A. She is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar on Biotechnology: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues.