Dr Dinesh R BHUJU is an academician at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. Besides his academic work on ecology and environment, he has been actively involved in the promotion of science. He holds a PhD from Chiba University, Japan.

in 2008. He is a geographer/ regional planner with wide experience in the Himalayas. He holds a PhD in regional planning from Cornell University, USA.

Mr SHARMA has more than 15 years of combined experiences in development sector mainly programme design, implementation and monitoring in development sector mainly on child labour, education, gender mainstreaming, social dialogue, workplace cooperation, industrial relation, social policies, enterprise development, informal economy, youths and employment, training and capacity building. He has special interest in project cycle management, research and development.

She has been working on Water pollution, Indoor and outdoor air pollution studies, emission inventories, air pollution modeling, forest fire and risk assessment researches with respect to human health and environment. She has served as Resource Persons at various national and international meets, published about 50 peer review national and international scientific papers, co-authors of three reference books, production of TV programs, bulletins with the various environments related issues of the country, supervised several MSc and PhD dissertation researches.

Dr Ram B CHHETRI is a professor of anthropology at Tribhuvan University. His specialization includes community-based resource management. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from University of Hawaii, USA.

of Wollongong in Australia. She has wider experience working as researcher for women, ethnic groups, livelihood, forestry, school children and served RHF as Program Officer for five years.

She is working as Environment Specialist at Center for Education and Human Resource Development. Her role is to address the environment and social safeguard and School safety, review, draft policy, reports, correspondence and other documents, and monitor the implementation of safety and safeguard issues in the schools and worked as Research assistant in Nepal Academy of Science and Technology and been Coordinator of Environment Graduates in Himalaya.

With over 10 years of experience in different roles at GOs, NGOs and INGOs projects over Nepal, he holds a PhD in Natural Science (Biodiversity and Climate Change) from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univeristy, Germany.