Project Specialist

anu_johny@isb.edu

Anu has done her graduation in Sociology from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. She also holds a Masters degree in Development Studies from Ambedkar University Delhi. She has been working with Prof Ashwini Chhatre since the past four years. She has worked on research designing and has been coordinating data collection during the period. In the ‘Forest Governance Project’, she will be working on the designing and setting up of ‘Social Ecological Monitoring Survey’.

Research Associate

arunmurali_cm@isb.edu

Arun holds Master’s degree in Geoinformatics from TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) School of advanced studies, New Delhi. He worked in multiple research projects as Research intern, which involved intensive data handling and analysis. He joined Indian School of Business as a Research Associate and is currently working with Forest Governance team in information extraction and analysis of remotely sensed datasets.

Research Associate

apurva_d@isb.edu

Apurva holds a Masters degree in Natural Resources and Governance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and has been associated with ISB as a Research Associate (RA) since the last one year. She has been actively working on Forest related datasets and currently is a part of the Forest Governance team. She has played an instrumental role in- Setting up of Socio-Ecological Monitoring System, Project Monitoring System and CFR

Project Specialist

avijit_Chhaterjee@isb.edu

Avijit holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from Calcutta University. Before joining the Forest Governance team as a Project Specialist, he was associated with Vikalp Social Organisation where he worked with forest dependent Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dependent working people across Uttar Pradesh, parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. He has extensive experience in training communities in the process of claiming rights as per FRA, building awareness about FRA Rights, etc.

Senior Analyst

dhanapal_g@isb.edu

Dhanapal has a master’s degree in Environment Management from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. His research interest is in Forest and Landscape Restoration for biodiversity conservation and improving the livelihood of forest-dependent communities with a current focus in the central Indian landscape. He has worked on several forestry projects and ecological studies funded by organizations like WRI, World Bank, DFID and USAID.

Sr. Research Fellow

divya_gupta@isb.edu

Divya Gupta has worked extensively on natural resource governance issues for almost ten years. Her research is multi-disciplinary in nature and operates at the intersections of several fields within the human dimensions of natural resources.  These include forest policies and politics; collaborative forest governance across government agencies, NGOs, citizens, and industries; equitable resource distribution; sustainable development; and climate change discourse.
 
Divya got her Ph.D. in Environment and Natural Resources from the Ohio State University. Her undergraduate degree is in Botany and masters degree in Environmental Studies, both from University of Delhi.

Consultant

durga_satapathy-v@isb.edu

Durga is an Engineer in Electronics. Post her engineering, she did her MBA in rural management from IRMA (Institute of Rural management Anand). Prior joining ISB, she worked as  Dy.SP in state police services of Odisha, as CSR (Corporate social responsibility) manager in Arnapurna MFI and as Dy. Manager in the ICT dept. of NDDB (National Dairy Development Board), Gujarat. Her specializations include Project management and Content management.”

Research Associate

hemanth_guthala@isb.edu

Hemanth Guthala holds a master’s degree in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and Bachelors in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He is currently working with the  Forest Governance team on the Project management tool and research on sustainability issues. Prior to this, he had worked as a consultant for Deloitte USI.

Research Associate

madhulika_gurazada@isb.edu

Leela has worked in multiple projects for over 26 years and has been associated with various State Governments, NIRDPR and UNDP. She worked as a visiting fellow at NIRDPR for more than 4 years and as Director of Social Audit Unit of Chhattisgarh. She also developed the SDG roadmap for Gujarat and Uttarakhand states when she was with UNDP and gained vast experience in conducting workshops and training besides research, monitoring, and evaluation of poverty alleviation programs. She is capable of developing networks of organizations for effective implementation of various policies.  She did her Postgraduation in agriculture sciences and Ph.D in Rural Development.  At present, she is working as a Project Specialist in the Tenure Facility project.

Sr. Associate

merlyn_jude@isb.edu

Merlyn Jude is an experienced Senior Associate with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Research, Management, Customer Service, Project Management, and Microsoft Office. Strong professional with a Master's degree focused in Journalism and Public relations from Osmania University.

Research Assistant

megha_madan@isb.edu

Megha holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Amrita University, Coimbatore. Before joining the Forest Governance team as a Research Assistant, she was associated with a research team working on CAMPA in Odisha, compiling notifications of protected forests, and creating hard data on the amount of land lost in the name of offsetting forest diversion in Odisha to be used by civil society organizations. She began her career at L&T Technology Services, where she worked for nearly 4 years in multiple roles across the Testing horizontal and the Building Automation and Machinery vertical, following which she spent a year working at LiquidHub as a Market Research Analyst, based in Hyderabad

Project Associate

nitisha_jaiswal@isb.edu

Nitisha is an experienced Project Associate with a demonstrated history of working organizations like Apple and Google. She has worked in different domains with skill sets spanning, General Management, Project Management, Customer Service and Microsoft Office. She has a degree in Aviation and Hospitality Industry. 

Research Associate

nirali_bakhla@isb.edu

NNitisha is an experienced Project Associate with a demonstrated history of working organizations like Apple and Google. She has worked in different domains with skill sets spanning, General Management, Project Management, Customer Service and Microsoft Office. She has a degree in Aviation and Hospitality Industry. 

Research Assistant

shreya_basu@isb.edu

Shreya has a double Masters degree in Geography and Geographical information sciences and remote sensing. She is currently working on potential forest restoration mapping project where she is using her expertise of GIS and remote sensing skills to find how this project will overall impact the climate. She has always been involved in creation of maps and query analysis through maps for different projects, worked extensively on secondary datasets and also has been on the field for few projects. She has significantly contributed in creating a Rainfed atlas of India.

Research Coordinator

sanjoy_mondal@isb.edu

Sanjoy completed his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Burdwan in 2009. Post completion he worked as an intern for the RRAN project. Currently, he is working as a Research Coordinator in the Forest Governance team. His job involves traveling to Madhya Pradesh (Dewas and Khandwa), Odisha(Malkangiri), West Bengal (Bankura), Maharashtra(Nashik), and Jharkhand (Chattarpur) for various data collection activities and GIS mapping of forest area. He has developed polygon of more than 130 forests across states and created a land-use map of 20 villages of West Bengal.

Research Assistant

shriya_thakkar@isb.edu

Shriya Thakkar holds a Bachelors (BSc) and Masters (MSc) degree in Anthropology from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, India. As an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship holder, she recently completed her Double Masters (MA) in Women & Gender Studies from the University of Hull (UK) – Utrecht University (The Netherlands). She has previously worked in a couple of ICSSR funded projects and undertaken extensive fieldwork within the Western as well as North-Eastern India. Her prior engagements remain with the Royal Tropical Institute (Amsterdam) where she worked as a Policy Research Intern, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) as a fellow and IIM, Ahmedabad as a Teaching Assistant.

Research Associate

vipul_bhave@isb.edu

Vipul graduated with a master’s degree in Forestry from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. His broad research interest is in applications of Remote Sensing & GIS in Agriculture & Forestry, Climate Change & Forests, and Forest-based livelihoods. Prior to joining Forest Governance team, he worked with Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, Government of Andhra Pradesh as Young Professional with the project Climate Resilient Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF). He also has two post-Masters Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun and in Rural Development Management from National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad

Project Specialist

yashashree_garge@isb.edu

Yashashree has more than 3 years of experience that includes working as a science educator in the DST funded Science Express Climate Action Special, Project Officer at Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad and Project Fellow at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun. She has completed her BSc (Hons.) Zoology, MSc Environmental Sciences and MPhil. Environmental Science and Sustainable Development. Her theses work includes quantification of carbon and provisioning ecosystem services in the Western Ghats and assessment of soil moisture estimation tool (STM2). She also completed certification courses in climate change and environmental law and policy as well as PgDiploma in Urban Environment Management and Law. She has joined Prof. Ashwini Chhatre in the Tenure Facility project as a Project Specialist to engage the corporate sector for endorsing CFR, prior to this she worked on ecological assessment of linear infrastructure to propose mitigation measures.