Prof. SK Barik is the Director of CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow. Previously, he was the Professor and Head, Department of Botany, Centre for Advanced Studies in Botany, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong Prof. Barik is well known for his research in forest ecology. His works on impact of anthropogenic disturbances on plant species diversity and ecosystem functioning …
Kireet Kumar started his professional career in 1986 through a World Bank sponsored Kanpur Urban Development project focusing on water and wastewater management. He, then worked with Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi till Feb 1991 on aspects of environmental quality management; Environmental Impact Assessment; Development of emission and effluent standards for asbestos and mini …
Deepak Apte is the Director of Bombay Natural History Society, India. He is also supervising programmes on Himalaya, Climate Change and Threatened Species; Wetlands and Bird Flyways; Grassland and coastal and marine programme. A researcher and scientist of international repute, Deepak is a recipient of the prestigious Whitley Award for International Nature Conservation, granted by …
Bharat is the Vice President of BAIF, an Indian NGO working for rural livelihood through sustainable management of natural resources for last 45 years. He is also a member of Planning and Review Committee, National Institute of Hydrologyand Working Group on Water Mission, Department of Water Resources, Government of India. He is managing associate organizations …
Mr. Narayanan is currently the Head of the Sustainability and Climate Business Unit in the Global Financial Markets department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Also part of the Climate Business Group in IFC, his team is mandated with the role of growing the financing of …
Sunder has served as an Advisor in Development Consulting at ICRA Management Consulting Services Ltd (IMaCS), a trans-disciplinary consulting firm. He has worked across IMaCS’s consulting verticals, including International Development, Infrastructure, Urban Development, Energy, and Corporate Sector, providing advisory leadership to many mandates and team support to a range of multilateral, bilateral, and other clients …
Richa Pant has been awarded the Commonwealth-Cheavening Bursary 2001 to do her Masters in International Journalism at the University of Westminster, London. She now currently focussing on radio documentary. Richa is on a a year’s sabbatical from New Delhi Television (NDTV), which produces Star News, India’s first 24 hour news channel. Richa has worked for …
Mrs B. Padma S.Rao is a chemical engineer, working as senior scientist for the last 20 years in Air pollution control Division and NEERI KZL, Kolkata of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, NEERI, (CSIR) India. She has undertaken the projects of developing expertise in design and implementation of air pollution control system for small scale …
Asha Ramachandran is a Features Editor with The Statesman. In this position, she handles the features pages of the newspaper, including supplementaries and in the main paper. She also reports on environment and economic issues. She was earlier Special Correspondent with Delhi bureau of the newspaper. Her writings cover major policy issues of the government …
Anuradha Chaturvedi is an Assistant Professor in the department of architectural conservation at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. In addition to teaching courses on heritage management and conservation of traditional building materials, she is working on compiling a database on building crafts & heritage buildings & is developing a computer based cultural …
