Positions Held

2009, Member

  • National Ganga River Basin Authority.

2009, Member

  • Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board.

2008, Member

  • National Tiger Conservation Authority.

2008, Chairperson

  • Committee set up for monitoring village relocation as per recomendations of the Tiger Task Force.

2007, Member

  • Commission on Climate Change and Development, Sweden
  • Swedish Development Policy Council
  • Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change

2006, Member

  • Working group for plan on Quality Certification and Conformity
  • Steering Committee on Environment, Forests and Wildlife for Eleventh Five Year Plan

2006, Chairperson

  • Sub –Committee for ‘Wider dissemination information and know- how’ under the Artificial Recharge of Ground Water Advisory Council, New Delhi

2005, Member

  • Board of Trustees, Center For International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia

2004 to Present

  • Member, Executive Board, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • Member, committee on environment, Indian Planning

2002 to Present

  • Member, Environment Pollution Authority for the National Capital Territory, Government of India, New Delhi.
  • Member, Board Gram Vikas, Orissa

2001-2004

  • Member, IUCN Council, IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland

2000-2004

  • Steering Committee member for setting up SCIDEV, a science for development website, promoted by Nature.

2001-2003

  • Member, Executive Board, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

2000 to Present

  • Member UNDP CSO Committee to provide strategic, policy and substantive guidance to the Administrator of UNDP.

1999-2001

  • Founding Board Member, ILEIA Foundation (The information centre for low external input and sustainable agriculture), The Netherlands.

1997-1999

  • Member, Scientific Planning Committee for the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change.
  • Member, Global Water Contract, established by The Group of Lisbon under the chairpersonship of Mario Soares, former President of Portugal.
  • Member, Mid-size grant task force, Global Environmental Facility, Washington.

1996 to Present

  • Chairperson, Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad.

1995, Member

  • Independent Expert Group on Global Forest Policy established by the Swiss and Peruvian governments, Geneva.

1995-1999

  • Member, Program Committee of the Urban Waste Expertise Program of WASTE Consultants set up to oversee the project by the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation, Gouda.
  • Member, National Standing Committee on Rural Technology of the Council for Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology, Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment, Government of India.
  • Member, Grant in Aid Committee for assistance to voluntary agencies under the scheme of ‘Environmental Orientation to School Education’, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

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