Vedika Thimmaiah is currently pursuing her masters at Azim Premji University.

Pramod has been working in diverse fields related to conservation biology, environmental impact assessment and climate change. Presently, he is leading a team with the aim to integrate conservation, governance and livelihood for the sustainability of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayas. He has a masters’ degree in Biodiversity and Conservation, from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. Pramod has also done a professional certificate course on ―Governance of Landscape, Forest and People from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Contact: (pramod.yadav31@gmail.com)

Sneha Haridas is a Project Associate at the Insect Taxonomy and Conservation Lab at ATREEE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), Bangalore.

Nathan V. Whelan is the director of United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southeast Conservation Genetics Lab. His research focuses on evolution and conservation, particularly freshwater snails.

Nicholas Gladstone is a PhD student at Auburn University, working with Dr. Nathan Whelan to better understand freshwater snail systematics and evolution.

Dr. Sanjeeta Sharma Pokharel is an elephant biologist, who worked to understand the stress physiology in free-ranging Asian elephants. Besides being a researcher she is also a poet and a cartoonist.

Dr. Lisa Riley is a lecturer in animal welfare at the University of Winchester, specialising in primate conservation. She is a member of the BIAZA Research Committee’s Research Engagement Group. 

Frederic Ducarme is an associate researcher in ecology & philosophy at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. As a scientific diver, he spends part of the year at sea.

Mariyam Begum is currently pursuing a masters program in Art History from Visva bharati, Santiniketan. In her spare time, she draws comics and writes poetry.

Suzanne Mikesell works as a Wildlife Behavior Specialist at San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Her primary animal is the African cheetah and has worked on her field research in Tanzania and Kenya. She completed this project as a part of her graduate work with Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Sutirtha Lahiri is a researcher at IISER Pune who studies birds in North-east India. He is passionate about birds as well as the role of communities in conservation and stewardship. He is always on the look out for good tea and stories.

Rohit Jha is currently a researcher with the Wildlife Institute of India working on riverine birds of Chambal. He is on a quest towards ideal conservation models and how they could be just and compassionate.

Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University, Tempe (ostrom@indiana.edu).

Jay Mazoomdar is an independent journalist and writes on environment, conservation and wildlife issues.

Vinod More www.vindowart.blogspot.com.
 
 
 

Arati Rao is a freelance journalist, market research analyst and graphic designer based in Bangalore.

Morten Odden is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Hedmark University College, Norway.

John Linnell is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim, Norway. John.Linnell@nina.no

Raman Sukumar is Professor and Chairman at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, & Founder Trustee of the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, Bangalore, India. rsuku@ces.iisc.ernet.in

Lalitha Murali is the Communications Officer at the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, Bangalore, India. lalithamurali@ces.iisc. ernet.in

Amit Kurien is a Ph.D. scholar at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Bangalore, India. amit.kurien@atree.org

Divya Karnad is a post-graduate in wildlife conservation biology with an interest in marine systems. She is currently carrying out an independent project on over-fishing in India. ecodivs@gmail.com

Sneha Vijaykumar is a PhD student at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India

Joyshree Chanam is a Ph.D. student at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India. joy@ces.iisc.ernet.in