Raj M S Liberhan

CHAIRPERSON

Raj Liberhan, management and financial expert has varied experience with a significant range of responsibilities at the senior level in government, public sector and NGO environments, building and sustaining organisations, programmes and missions with sector specific objectives and services. He served as Chief Executive of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi for fifteen years and helped create a unique institutional mechanism.

M S Swaminathan

EMERITUS CHAIRPERSON

Dr Swaminathan is one of India's foremost agricultural scientists. His pioneering work has earned him several awards, including the Padma Vibhushan, the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the World Food Prize. He has held many distinguished positions, including that of Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the International Rice Research Institute.

Sunita Narain

DIRECTOR GENERAL

Sunita Narain has been with Centre for Science and Environment since 1982, and has headed it since 2000. Her research interests range from global democracy with a focus on climate change, to the need for local democracy where she has worked on forest-related resource management, water and waste issues. Ms Narain serves on the boards of different organisations, and writes and speaks regularly on key concerns of environment and development.

Jagdeep Gupta

TREASURER

Jagdeep Gupta is currently the Executive Director, Planning and Operation. She brings a rare and befitting mix of a pure science background with management, experience indispensable to understanding the nature of work and the ethos behind an organization like CSE. Over the years she has shown her excellence in acquiring the best talents, developing a wholesome system of monitoring the research outcomes, providing the best infrastructural facilities, developing a wide array of important contacts, and widening the outreach of CSE's research publications. Her forte has been her human management skills, which gives her the edge to handle problem situations in a balanced and unbiased approach. Needless to say, it requires lot of grit and tenacity to manage so many divergent verticals, which she does with immense ease. She stands as a strong pillar with huge institutional memory and has great contributions to the growth of CSE in many different ways.