{"id":18083,"date":"2023-01-20T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risingqueens.in\/savehimalay\/?page_id=18083"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:32:20","slug":"dr-eklabya-sharma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/risingqueens.in\/savehimalay\/about-us\/hum-secretariat\/dr-eklabya-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Eklabya Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_nofslyz1hn\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_boxed\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_tsg36hzfki\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_rrgejmijg\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_center\">\n\t<h2 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">Himalay Unnati Mission Secretariat<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_ho2wm72u7h\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_fullwidth\">\n<div id=\"ourfounder\" class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner cmsmasters_row_fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin cmsmasters_row_columns_behavior\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_vuxp379gg\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_fb_ef96kw9r8s\" class=\"cmsmasters_featured_block\">\n<div class=\"featured_block_inner\">\n<div class=\"featured_block_text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_row_o7lrzmkc5b\" class=\"cmsmasters_row cmsmasters_color_scheme_default cmsmasters_row_top_default cmsmasters_row_bot_default cmsmasters_row_fullwidth\">\n<div id=\"ourfounder\" class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_inner cmsmasters_row_fullwidth\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_row_margin cmsmasters_row_columns_behavior\">\n<div id=\"cmsmasters_column_yyl1fo96hn\" class=\"cmsmasters_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsmasters_column_inner\"><div id=\"cmsmasters_heading_073bxzcix\" class=\"cmsmasters_heading_wrap cmsmasters_heading_align_left\">\n\t<h2 class=\"cmsmasters_heading\">Dr Eklabya Sharma<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"cmsmasters_text text-justify\">\n<p>Dr Eklabya Sharma is the Strategic Advisor and Distinguished Senior Fellow of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a Chairperson of Scientific Advisory Committee of the G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India; and Policy Advisor, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>An ecologist with over 35 years of experience in sustainable development, he has contributed to research and development as <strong>Regional Head of the G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment<\/strong> in Sikkim, India and the <strong>Deputy Director General at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)<\/strong>, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was <strong>Vice-Chancellor of TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi<\/strong>, India.<\/p>\n<p>His expertise is on biodiversity conservation, natural resources, transboundary landscape management, biogeochemical cycling in ecosystems including agroforestry systems, climate change impact assessments, adaptation and nature-based solutions, and resilience building. Dr Sharma has expedience in contributing to policies at national, regional and international levels; and managing relationships with regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya and international donors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharma was a Chief Editor of <em>Journal of Hill Research<\/em> and served the journal <em>Tropical Ecology<\/em>. He served as the Asia Regional Editor of\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrd-journal.org\/\"><em>Mountain Research and Development<\/em><\/a> (MRD)\u00a0journal and also was one of the Directors of the International Mountain Society, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharma was elected as the Fellow of the National Institute of Ecology (NIE), India 1994; Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India 1999; and Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), India 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharma contributed to many global discourses including promoting the mountain agenda in UNFCCC, CBD and SDG processes and helping to close science gaps on Hindu Kush Himalaya mountain knowledge in IPCC and IPBES processes. He organized and guided\u00a0the 5-yr Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment process engaging 350+ leading researchers, practitioners, experts, and policymakers that Springer Nature published as the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/lib.icimod.org\/record\/34383\">Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharma contributed to many national and international initiatives of which to mention some are: Honorary Trustee of The Mountain Institute, USA; Member of Steering Committee of the UNEP\u2019s \u201cGlobal Mountain Waste Management Outlook\u201d, coordinated by UNEP Vienna Office; Member of Steering Committee of the Nutrition in Mountain Agriculture Programme of Switzerland in three Continents namely Asia, Africa and South America; Member of the Silk Road Development Global Think Tank with Secretariat at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China; Member of Adhoc Expert Committee on Mountain Biodiversity of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada; Member of the Expert Panel on \u2018Research for Development\u2019 call of the Swiss National Science Foundation and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Switzerland; Member Steering Committee of IUCN\u2019s \u2018The Asia Protected Areas Partnership\u2019, IUCN Regional Office Bangkok, Thailand; Member of Governing Council of Sikkim Manipal University of Health, Medical &amp; Technological Sciences, Sikkim, India; Advisor, Mountain Environment and Development, Chief Minister\u2019s Office, Government of Sikkim; and Member of Board, SaciWaters, India.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharma received many national and international awards including the Young Scientist Award of the Indian National Science Academy 1988; Vishisht Vaigyanik Puraskar (Eminent Scientist Award) from the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, Government of India 1995; and Honorable Mention Paper Award from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, USA 1999. 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