Veena Ravichandran is currently Founder and Chief Executive at Climate & Development Consulting Inc., Ottawa, Canada. Previously, she was Senior Research Advisor, Climate and Development Knowledge Network at Overseas Development Institute. She has also served as the Senior Program Officer, Innovation Policy and Science at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada. Her work …
Mamita works with the WaterAid India as the Regional Coordinator for the Western Region. WaterAid is an International NGO, dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene promotion to the poorest people of the world. She is managing projects in 3 states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, in India. …
Tejinder Singh Bhogal is a Development Consultant at NGOs and Government Organizations working on Rural Development. He focusses on providing Organizational Development (OD) and Capacity Building support to such organizations. He is also involved in helping development organizations resolve internal conflict, as well as to develop mechanisms of monitoring individual performance, recruitment and selection. A …
Dr. Lalbiakmawia Ngente is an Architect and a Management Graduate by profession. A devoted and articulate Leader, he is a recipient of National Merit Scholarship, Vikas Ratna Award. After serving the Government of Mizoram for a short stint in 1987, he started his own Consultancy firm viz. M/s L.B Associates (Architecture and Construction Consultants). As …
Mona Dhamankar is currently working as an Advisor, Sustainable Economic Development Division, Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands. She had been an independent consultant since August 2001 and works with government and non-governmental organizations as facilitator for project formulation, program evaluation, development orientation of professionals, process documentation, capacity building, and institutional development for field-based programs. Her …
Ganesh is a fellow of the Ashoka Innovators for the Public Program based in Washington, and the East-West Centre, Hawaii. Before joining IWA, Ganesh was the Head of the Ecosystem and Livelihoods Group and the Head of the Water Programme of the IUCN Asia Regional Office. Previously, he was an Associate Coordinator at the International …
Dr. Vinayak Rao, a national of India, is a specialist in Climate Change, International Relations, Leadership and Higher Education. He has a doctorate in Diplomatic Studies and International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (1993). In the realm of Climate Change, his core interests include: capacity building in developing countries with a focus on climate negotiations; …
Salim Javed is currently Manager, Terrestrial Assessment and Conservation Unit at Biodiversity Management Sector of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (EAD). He also looks after the Bird Programme at the Agency which he established in 2002. Salim has nearly 20 years of experience of working with government and non-governmental organizations in a variety of capacities, …
Dr. Archana Godbole is the Founder Director of Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) which aims to maintain sacred forests as strategy of adaption, linking them to private forest conservation. Plant taxonomist and ethno biologist by training, she has developed various programmes of AERF through on the ground work over 18 years. She has also represented …
Anoop Upadhyay is building a database and mathematical models as Deputy Conservator of Forests for the Resource Survey and Management Division of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. The database and models are to be used in decisions regarding sustainable forest management. He also teaches forest management to post-graduate students. He is a member of the Indian …
