Asha Ramachandran
Treasurer

Asha RAMACHANDRAN is a Special Correspondent with Delhi bureau of The Statesman. Apart from Environment, she mainly reports on economic issues, including Finance, Commerce, Industry and Civil Aviation. Her writings cover major policy issues of the government as well as events related to environment. She was previously Coordinator of Down To Earth, an environment and science fortnightly brought out by the Centre for Science and Environment. Prior to this, she was a senior environmental correspondent with the economic division of Press Trust of India, a leading news agency, which she joined in 1986. In a previous position at the news agency, she coordinated the features division and wrote a number of articles exploring crucial environmental issues from a cross-section of perspectives. She has a bachelor's degree in botany, zoology and chemistry. Her diploma in news agency journalism is from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. She also holds an Advanced Diploma in French from the Delhi University and Alliance Francaise.