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Seminar 9
“Future of Planet Earth” Participant Biography
Paris,
France | June 3–5, 2008
Raman Sukumar
Raman Sukumar is presently Professor and Chair of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has authored three books, over seventy-five technical papers, and several technical reports and popular articles. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.
Sukumar was born in 1955 at Chennai, India, where he had his undergraduate and postgraduate education in biology. His interests in natural history and conservation developed during his college days at Chennai. In 1979 he moved to Bangalore to earn a Ph.D. in ecology (1985) at the Institute of Science where he eventually joined as faculty. His doctoral research on the interactions between elephants and humans, published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press, is recognized as pioneering work in the field of wildlife-human conflicts. Since then his interests have expanded to the relationship between humans and nature, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, and climate change. Apart from academic research his activities extend to field conservation and shaping government policy in conservation.
From 1997 to 2004, Sukumar was Chair of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group. In 1997, he set up the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation that incorporates the Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, an organization that has carried out several field projects in India and other Asian countries on elephants and their habitats. He represents Indian conservation scientists in a number of national and state governmental committees. Among others he has been a member of the Indian Board for Wildlife (chaired by the Prime Minister of India), Project Elephant Steering Committee (chaired by the Union Minister for Environment and Forests), and National Tiger Conservation Authority. He is presently a member of the Expert Panel on Climate Change chaired by the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.
Sukumar was a Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University (1991–92) and Adjunct Faculty (2001–present) at Columbia University, New York. He is the recipient of several national and international honours and awards including the Presidential Award of the Chicago Zoological Society (1989); Order of the Golden Ark, The Netherlands (1997); Whitley Gold Award for International Nature Conservation (2003); University Grants Commission National Award in Environmental Science and Ecology (2006); International Cosmos Prize, Japan (2006); B.P. Pal National Environment Fellowship Award for Biodiversity (2007); and a Commendation by the Prime Minister of India for contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the Noble Peace Prize (2007).
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