ILDC 2022 Speakers on 07 Dec 2022
Dr.M.Homayoun Ludin, Afghanistan Steering Committee Member SAPA |
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Ms. Pawna Kumari, State Secretary of Himachal Ghumantu Pashupalak Mahasabha |
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Mr. Dharm Raj Joshi Nepal Steering Committee Member SAPA |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-06″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Dharm Raj Joshi (M.A.), a researcher and development worker with more than 8 years’ work experience in Nepalese development sector. Currently, he is working as National Coordinator for ILC’s National Engagement strategy (NES) in Nepal and facilitating the Multi-stakeholder Platform on People centered land governance called National Land Coalition (NLC) Nepal/ Land Governance Working Group – LGWG. Previously, he served COLARP – a national level research-based organization as Executive Director. He has received national and international fellowships for policy research and professional courses for land governance. [/expand] |
Mr. Sanjoy Patnaik Land and Forest Tenure Specialist, Foundation for Ecological Security |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-9a” text-color=”#f5f300″] Sanjoy has been engaged in rights-based work on natural resource management for close to three decades with core competency on policy research and advocacy action on land and forests. Sanjoy specialized on innovative programme planning and design on rural livelihoods – productive land use, land to the landless, forest produce marketing including inclusive and decentralized planning exercise as key components of empowered local governance system. At present Sanjoy is engaged as Strategic Policy Advocacy Adviser in Foundation for Ecological Security, and provides strategic guidance to elevate the debate on Commons and Climate Change. Prior to that Sanjoy served as the India Country Director, Landesa and designed a range of land rights programmes with special focus on land to landless and women’s land rights. [/expand] |
Ms. Rakshita Swamy Founder, Social Accountability Form for Action and Research (SAFAR) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-9a” text-color=”#f5f300″] Rakshita Swamy is a public policy practitioner with over 13 years of experience in conceptualizing, demonstrating and institutionalizing mechanisms of social accountability in the delivery of schemes and functioning of public institutions. She is the founder and head of Social Accountability Form for Action and Research (SAFAR), where she along with her team work on building rule-based public accountability frameworks in collaboration with Governments and Civil Society Organizations. [/expand] |
Mr.Holkhomang Haokip Secretary, Rural Aid Service (RAS) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-9a” text-color=”#f5f300″] Holkhomang Haokip is the Secretary of Rural Aid Service (RAS) Churachandpur, and a Director of Childline Churachandpur, Manipur. He is a graduate in History. He is an Executive member of Kuki chief association Manipur. [/expand] |
Ms. Prisca Gonmei Program Manager, Rongmei Baptist Association (RNBA) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-9a” text-color=”#f5f300″] Prisca Gonmei is a Thematic Expert in Land Mapping and Land Tenure Documentation in RNBA, Manipur. She is a graduate in Social Work from College of Social Work Nirmala Niketan, University of Mumbai and obtained Master in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She has been engaging with different communities in the field of land and land mapping, since 2017. [/expand] |
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Mr. Deepak Sanan IAS (Retd),Former- Addl Chief Secretary, HP and former Advisor to NCAER, IIHS & CPR |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-18″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Deepak Sanan retired from the Indian Administrative Service in 2017, where he was attached to the State of Himachal Pradesh. He held senior positions in public finance, land governance, and the water and sanitation sectors at both the State and national levels. He also had significant tenures in the health, urban development, and power sectors. Currently, he is an adviser for projects on water and sanitation and land governance at a number of institutions in India. He has been a Consultant with the World Bank, IFAD, DFID, IDS Sussex, and AusAid. He has also served as the India Country Team Leader in the Water and Sanitation Program (South Asia) at the World Bank. [/expand] |
Mr. Dimgong Rongmei Executive Director, Rongmei Naga Baptist Association (RNBA) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-18″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dimgonglung Rongmei is the Executive Director, Rongmei Naga Baptist Association (RNBA). RNBA is a non-profit, secular and non-governmental organization with a history of serving marginalized and vulnerable people of Manipur for 37 years. He has over 22 years of experience in sustainability and livelihood through Natural Resource Management in Northeast India. He is been involved in development sector (NGO) since 2000 as volunteer for 2 years. Served as Field Officer at Development & Relief Department, Rongmei Naga Baptist Association (RNBA) for 3 years in Longrang area of Tamenglong district, supported by Adheri Hilfe Bonn, Germany supported project. Take over People’s Endeavour for Social Change (PESCH) as Executive Director, since 2005 till 2015 (10 years). [/expand] |
Dinesh Rabari, MARAG/ Founding member SAPA |
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Sujata Thakur SAPA |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-04″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Sujata Thakur is an engineer with a Post Graduation in Construction and Project Management from CEPT University in 2001, she has trained herself to apply her knowledge in the development sector. She further pursued a PG course in Technology and Sustainable Development jointly conducted by IIT-Chennai and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne which helped her connect her professional training to the humanitarian sector. She has a keen interest in documenting grassroot practices, conceptualising and designing interventions and analytical documentation. Earlier she started her career with international organisations like Oxfam and Care. During her 15 years of experience, she has worked as a full time employee as well as a consultant to various organisations. She supports the research and monitoring functions of the organisations and provides support across multiple areas of work in different states. She has been a member of multiple evaluations and assessments. She has been associated with MARAG since 2018. At present she is the Focal Person for SAPA where she is responsible for establishing cross learning and knowledge sharing across different members. |
Dr. Usha Ramnathan Senior Law Researcher and Human Rights Activist. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-08″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, the University of Nagpur, and Delhi University. |
Ms. Astha Saxena Legal Researcher & Doctoral Fellow, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Astha is a legal researcher and a doctoral fellow at NALSAR University if Law, Hyderabad. She has authored “Land Law in India” Routledge 2020 and co-authored “Criminalisation of Adivasis and the Indian Legal System” IPRI 2022. Her work lies in the rights to property and land, laws of land reform, acquisition and the workings of Forest Rights Act, 2006. She also works with various groups of lawyers and social researchers to explore forest land jurisprudence and expand the boundaries of legal education. In her doctoral studies, she is examining the relevance of legislative paradigms towards the realisation of socio-economic rights. [/expand] |
Ms. Yingkongshon Shaiza Program Manager in RNBA, Manipur |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-05″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Yingkongshon Shaiza is a Program Manager in RNBA, Manipur. At present she is leading a project; Inclusive Land Tenure Security and Ensured Sustainable Livelihood for Tribals and Minorities of Manipur. Prior to joining RNBA in 2018 she contributed as a Research Assistant for The Jurists, Delhi. She holds a Law degree from University Law College, Bangalore. [/expand] |
Mr. Simon L. Hrangchal Development Department Evangelical Assembly Church (EAC), Churachandp |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-07″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Simon L. Hrangchal is the Director of Relief & Development Department Evangelical Assembly Church (EAC), Churachandpur. The department is the social concerned ministry of the Church. He completed Bachelor of Arts from Scottish Church College, Kolkata under Calcutta University, Kolkata, West-Bengal and Master of Arts in Rural Development (MARD) from Churachandpur Study Centre under Indira Gandhi National Open University, New-Delhi, India. Obtained Diploma in Development Leadership from Coady International Institute under St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Has experiences in working with integrated strategies for poverty alleviation, Food Security and Environment Development through Natural Resource Management (NRM) based activities of tribal people, Tribal Land Rights with the community for the past decade He had exposed to various trainings and workshops like Community transformation Course, Peace, Governance and Justice workshop, Logical framework analysis workshop, Financial Management Training, Pro-poor and gender, Institutional building, Micro Planning, PME and Project formulation, Livelihood Promotion, NE MF & Livelihood Summit, Development Consultation which includes regional, national and international experiences. [/expand] |
Ms. Akeina Gonmei Development Secretary, Rongmei Baptist Association, Nagaland (RBAN) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-12″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mrs. Akeina Gonmei is a Secretary of Development Department, Rongmei Baptist Association Nagaland (RBAN) since 2000. She has been working in livelihood based community development with special emphasis on environment and community livelihood program through women SHGs, capacity building and empowerment. [/expand] |
Ms. Joanna Dawson, Rural Futures – Anthropological Visioner, Balipara Foundation |
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Joanna Dawson is involved in developing strategy, publications and partnerships for the Balipara Foundation, to advance the organization’s vision and goals for the Eastern Himalayas. She brings an anthropological approach and experience in the development sector and marketing to the table to develop the organization’s human-centric conservation strategy & growth. Joanna is also involved in shaping the organization’s thought leadership and original material for the Foundation’s communications strategy & publications, including articles in regional & national publications. Her current projects include policy research and an index for social and ecological indicators to enhance impact monitoring. Her prior experience is in the development sector in India, and in marketing – communications, analysis and research, and she holds a Master’s degree in anthropology. [/expand] |
Ms. Karishma Shelar Programme Manager – Farms and Forests, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) |
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Karishma has been an interdisciplinary researcher on agrarian distress specifically focusing on credit-debt relations and its linkages with environmental degradation, adaptive governance mechanisms for landscape restoration and tenure and resource rights. She has previously worked with WRI for over seven years in multiple capacities and was most recently engaged with the Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration program. Here, she conducted restoration opportunity assessments in the Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh and co-developed the MAP Tenure platform to address the orange areas land conflict in central India. She would enrich ATREE with her experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis and participatory research techniques. She is proficient in partnership, network building and communications as well.
Karishma has done her graduation in Sociology and Economics from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai and holds a MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, (ISS) part of Erasmus University in the Hague. [/expand] |
Dr. Ruchika Singh Director, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration Program, World Resources Institute India |
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Mr. Arun K Bansal, IFS (retd), Former Addl. Director General of Forests, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change |
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Mr Arun K Bansal has an experience of over 44 years in all aspects of conservation of forests, development of forest sector in the country including evolution of forest policy and legal framework, and international collaborations. He has been directly involved in evolution and implementation of national policy relating to forest conservation & management – sustainable forest management, forest certification, climate changes adaptation and mitigation– REDD+, forestry and forest product research & education. He has contributed to the evolution of JFM through his association with JICA assisted forest projects in the Country since 2006. A qualified International Lead Auditor for Forest Management Certification, he has worn many hats during this work tenure in the government and post his retirement as Addl. Director General of Forests, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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Mr. Siddharth Edake, Senior Manager, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration Program, WRI India |
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Mr. Siddharth Edake, Senior Manager, Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration Program, WRI India Siddharth Edake is a Master’s of Science (M.Sc.) in Biodiversity from Pune University and currently is a Senior Manager with the Sustainable Landscape Restoration program at World Resources Institute India. Here, he manages WRI led programmes on forest and landscape restoration that support enhancement of national carbon sinks and are a cost effective, natural climate change solutions. He has over 14 years of experience focusing on biodiversity assessments, carbon finance, commons governance, ecosystem service valuation and restoration of habitats in a span of 10 years. Siddharth is a former national badminton player, loves traveling, and enjoys wildlife photography.
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Mr. Ishan Agrawal, General Manager-Programs, Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) |
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Ishan Agrawal works with Foundation for Ecological Security, an NGO working for restoring fragile ecosystems in India through rural community centered efforts. He deeply believes in Commons and community’s ability to act as stewards for conservation of natural resources. He worked for a decade around Kanha tiger reserve landscape especially on conservation aligned livelihoods for tribal communities. He is currently working with Commons Collaborative, an effort anchored in FES for building a coalition of actors in the country for realising the promise that commons hold for larger issues that country faces, like poverty, environmental degradation and gender disparities. [/expand] |
Mr. Pradeep Sharma, CMO, Chattisgarh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-13″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Name – Shri Pradeep Sharma Designation – Advisor to Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh, Agriculture, Rural Development, Planning and Policy Place – Raipur, Chhattisgarh Mr Pradeep Sharma Petroleum and Geoscience expert by education, Mr Pradeep Sharma has spent about 30 years in developing various models for just and sustainable society. He has played critical role in national and international level strategic alliance and people’s movement on water and environment issues. He is founder of Krishak Biradari, a farmer policy advocacy group in Chhattisgarh. As CEO of Sewa, he innovated low cost models of multi layered vegetable cropping system for round the year nutrition supply to an household. He is instrumental in designing and operationalising the Chhattisgarh Government’s flagship program Suraji Yojna, which is an integrated approach for restoration of commons like Naruwa (drainage system), Garuwa (Cattle system) and HH’s resource development practices like Ghuruva (Composting) and Badi (Homestead vegetable cultivation). His pioneer work on Godhan Nayay Yojna has been appreciated by state and central government. He is presently working on Rural Industrial Park (RIPA), a state initiative for revival of rural economy and creating local job for youth and women based on Gadhian’s philosophy. [/expand] |
Ms. Vaishnavi Rathore Climate and Land Reporter, Scroll.in |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-15″ text-color=”#f5f300″] D Vaishnavi Rathore is a Climate and Land reporter with Scroll.in where she covers long-form stories for their segment, “Common Ground.” Prior to this, Vaishnavi led the environment vertical for The Bastion, a young development journalism platform. Before stepping into journalism, she worked on Forest Rights Act, 2006 in Himachal Pradesh with Himdhara Environment Collective, and local decision making with Foundation for Ecological Security, Gujarat. Vaishnavi has also been a recipient of the Laadli Media and Advertising Award, 2022, and Prem Bhatia for environmental and developmental reporting, 2021. She has also received various national and international fellowships to support her on-ground journalism. [/expand] |
Ms. Ranjitha Kumar Digital Economy Researcher, IT for Change |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-17″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ranjitha Kumar is a digital economy researcher at IT for Change. Her work explores the development of inclusive, worker/producer-owned models of platform economies through empirical research on cooperatives, producer organisations and women informal sector workers. With a post-graduate degree in development studies, much of her interest and experience lie in exploring the rapidly-changing political economy of data and data capitalism, particularly in the context of transforming labour-land relations. [/expand] |
Ms. Pooja Chandran Senior Project Manager, FES |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-14″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Pooja Chandran is a legal researcher with the Foundation for Ecological Security. Her work lies at the interface between environmental regulations, bio-cultural rights and critical legal empowerment, with a focus on improving transparency and social accountability for the effective governance of Commons. She’s an environmental lawyer and was previously practicing law at the High Court of Delhi. [/expand] |
Ms Namita Mishra State Coordinator, Raipur, FES |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-16″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Name – Ms Namita Mishra Designation – State Coordinator, Foundation For Ecological Security Place – Raipur, Chhattisgarh Namita Mishra, Post Graduate in Social Work and working on management and governance of natural resources for the last 25 years. Her work surrounds strengthening local governance institutions, capacity building, women leadership, decentralised planning and leveraging government schemes like MGNREGA for landscape restoration, stream rejuvenation and climate resilient livelihoods. She worked with various kinds of agencies: NGOs, bilateral, Corporate, namely GIZ, UNDP, PwC, IPE Global and State Rural Development Department, to name a few. As a state team lead for different programs, she has worked extensively with government departments and programs involving multiple stakeholders and coordinated projects at a scale. She has been nominated for state level committees formed by the Chhattisgarh government on CAMPA executive committee, agriculture and rural development task force and shared her work at India’s Pavilion in UNFCC’s COP 24. While in FES, she had worked both at grassroots and coordination level. She is PhD scholar of TISS and pursuing PhD (off campus) on Forest right act. She joined common’s collaborative vertical in 2021 and presently leads the Chhattisgarh state team. At personal level, she actively follows her interest for regenerative farming and social movements. [/expand] |
Dr Ruth Manorama General Secretary, Women’s Voice, Karnataka |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-19″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Ruth Manorama is a well-known Social and Political Activist and a Feminist. She was a student of the Madras University and we are proud to say , she is an alumnus of the Department of Social Work, batch of 1975 – 77 MA Social Work and a parent of one of our former students. She holds numerous positions and is currently the National President of the National Alliance of Women (NAWO), National Convener of the National Federation of Dalit Women and General Secretary of Women’s Voice, Karnataka. She is also the Advisor and founder of Karnataka Gruha Karmikara Sangha, the first Trade Union registered in the country for domestic workers and Vice President of National Centre for Labour (NCL) for the unorganized sector. With an illustrious career spanning four decades, she has been actively involved in educating, organizing and mobilizing women, Dalits, urban poor and the unorganized sector from the grass-root to the National levels. She has been an advocate standing with the people in their struggle for Human rights, championing their cause to end discrimination and deprivation. Her passion, lobbying and negotiation skills have earned her positions as a member of several commission and committees such as Member, National Commission on Population, chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. Member, National Advisory Council, Right to Education (RTE). Member, National Standing Committee for Women Scientists, Union Ministry of Science and Technology. [/expand] |
Dr L.S. Ghandi Doss Department of Social Work, Bangalore University and Institute for Youth and Development |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-20″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr L.S. Ghandi Doss, retired Professor of Social Work at Bangalore University and Central University of Jammu. He also served as the Executive Director of the Bangalore Urban Poverty Alleviation Programme (BUPP) which was a government initiative of the Government of India and Government of Karnataka in collaboration with the Netherlands Embassy in India. Currently, he is the National President of the India Network of Professional Social Workers’ Associations (INPSWA) and also lead the Institute for Youth and Development, a NGO based in Bengaluru. [/expand] |
Ms. Leelavati Secretary KKNSS Bangalore District Committee |
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Mr. PG Govindarajulu Jeevika |
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Mr. Shivakumar, |
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Mr. Brij K Agarwal IAS Retd., Former Chief Secretary, HP |
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Ms. Divyani Kohli University of Twente |
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Mr. Mukul Verma |
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Mr. Bharath M. Palavalli Fields of View |
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Ms. Amy Coughenor Chief Executive Officer, CADASTA |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-27″ text-color=”#f5f300″] AMY COUGHENOUR BETANCOURT Chief Executive Officer With over 28 years of experience, Amy is a results-oriented, mission-driven executive leader with a proven record of significantly growing organizations. Amy comes to Cadasta from the National Cooperative Business Association, CLUSA International (NCBA CLUSA) where she served as the Chief Operating Officer of International Programs from 2011 to 2018. In this role, she oversaw a team of over 800 staff and a near tripling of the portfolio in 20 countries across Africa, Latin America, and Asia working in resilience, food security, and rural development. Prior to her work at NCBA CLUSA, Amy worked as the Deputy Executive Director of the Pan American Development Foundation; the Deputy Director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Washington Director of the Center for Occupational Research and Development; and as the Vice President for North America for the International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA). She currently serves on the board of Interaction, the premier alliance of International NGOs working in humanitarian assistance and development. [/expand] |
Mr. Abhyudaya Saxena Lead – Deliveries AUS – Aarav Unmanned Systems |
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Mr. Anshul Mishra Member Secretary, CMDA, Tamil Nadu |
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Ms. Maria Marealle Land Expert African Development Bank |
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Mr. James Kavanagh Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) |
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Dr. Rudiger Ahrend Head, Urban Policy, Public Governance & Territorial Development, OECD |
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Mr. Paul Bidenset |
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Dr. Moatoshi Assistant Professor in Faculty of Law, University of Delhi |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-32″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Moatoshi Ao is an Assistant Professor in Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He graduated in law from Govt. Law College, Mumbai. He holds LL.M degree from the University of Mumbai and Ph.D from the University of Delhi. Before joining the University of Delhi, he was associated with Singhania & Co. LL.P., Mumbai during his legal practice in the High Court of Bombay. He has also taught LL.B students in Rizvi Law College, Mumbai, simultaneously during his practice. Dr. Ao has authored various articles in renowned journals and magazines.
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Mrs. Irwin Lalmuanpuii Hnamte Assistant Professor Department of Law, University of |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-34″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mrs Irwin Lalmuanpuii Hnamte, completed her MPhil from The Indian Law Institute (Deemed University). And now working as a Assistant Professor Department of Law, University of Delhi. Mrs Irwin has a expertise in Master of Laws (LL.M) with Specialisation in International Trade Law and Intellectual Property Rights. [/expand] |
Dr. Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy Senior Lecturer, Global Economy Research Lead, Hertfordshire Law School and the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hertfordshire. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-33″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, and University Research Theme Champion for Global Economy at the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hertfordshire. Research interests include the law of global commons, commons, Research based teaching and output aimed at building knowlegde in the area, as well as feeding into policy making, particularly at the international level via reports to international organisations. [/expand] |
Mr. Vinod Vaysulu Centre for Budget and Policy Studies |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-36″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Vinod Vyasulu is an economist associated with the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore, with an interest in improving policy design and implementation in developing countries. His area of current interest is fiscal federalism. [/expand] |
Ms. Bhargavi S Rao Environment Support Group |
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Ms. Melinda Lis Maldonado |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Melinda Maldonado Argentine lawyer (Catholic University of Santa Fe, Argentina, 2004) with a degree validated in Colombia (2010). She has a PhD in Urban Studies (National University of General Sarmiento, Argentina, 2021), a specialization degree in Real Estate and Urban Law (National University of Rosario, Argentina, 2010) and studies in Urban Land Policies (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007). She has extensive experience in the public and private sector in urban and environmental issues. She is an independent consultant and a professor at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and at various universities. Her areas of expertise are: comparative urban law, urban-environmental conflicts and climate change. [/expand] |
Dr. Kundan Kumar Independent Researcher |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Kundan Kumar is a researcher and advocate for Rights Based Approaches to Climate Justice and Conservation. He has experience as a researcher/teacher (University of Toronto); in international NGOs (Rights and Resources Initiative, Washington, DC) and as a social movement activist for indigenous and community rights in India. He has supported Indigenous Peoples and local communities across the Asia Region in their efforts for recognition of collective resource rights over their lands and territories. His current interests are in Indigenous Peoples’ Collective Rights over territories and natural resources and their intersections with conservation, climate change and ecological restoration. [/expand] |
Mr. Tushar Dash Independent Researcher |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Tushar Dash is a researcher working on forest rights and governance issues in India. He is associated with national initiatives of civil society organisations working for the implementation of Community Forest Rights provisions of the Forest Rights Act. He is also associated with organizations of pastoral communities supporting their work on forest rights for pastoral communities. He has conducted several training programs on FRA organized by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs for the state governments as well as learning workshops for the civil society organizations, development agencies and academic institutions. He has served in committees and policy forums set up by the central and state governments, and has written extensively on the implementation of FRA. [/expand] |
Prof. A Narayana Azim Premji University |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] A.Narayana, an associate professor in the School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, has over two decades of experience in the media, academics and consultancy. He holds a doctorate from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex for his thesis on Information and Communication Technology-based Reforms in Land Governance. He was the Karnataka State Coordinator for the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework Project. He was a consultant for the Karnataka Government’s High-Power Committee on Restructuring the Governance of Bangalore City. He was a member of the technical committee constituted by the Election Commission of India to promote electoral literacy in India. Earlier, he also worked as a journalist in Bangalore-based English daily Deccan Herald. He writes in both English and Kannada newspapers and magazines on issues of politics, political economy and governance [/expand] |
Dr. Nivedita Haran IAS (Retd)Ex-Addl Chief Secretary, Kerala and Faculty, JNU |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Nivedita P. Haran Graduated with Economics and Philosophy (Hons), obtained Masters in Philosophy from Jadavpur University and PhD in Sociology from IIT, Delhi. She joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1980 and worked in the state of Kerala and in Govt of India in various departments that include departments of Land Revenue, Disaster Management, Agriculture, Industries, Labour & Employment, Planning and Home apart from serving as District Collector/ Magistrate. She was Director and later Joint Secretary in Ministry of Urban Development, Govt of India. She was on deputation to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo for 5 years. Post-retirement she has been engaged in activities related to research and academics in the areas of Digitisation of Land Records, Disaster Resilience-building, Good Governance, , Labour & Migration issues and management of Water, Waste Water and solid waste. She is a member of the Court-appointed Committee of Experts for cleaning up and conservation of the Dal Lake and the committee related to modernization of land records in Delhi. She is also the chairperson of the Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development and Ente Bhoomi Trust. She has been a regular speaker at various training Institutes including the Civil services training academy at Mussoorie. [/expand] |
Mr. Gustavo Marulanda Head, Geographical Institution Agustin Codazzi (IGAC) |
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Gustavo Marulanda He is a public administrator with experience in finances and management of territorial institutions and has worked in the public sector as director of cadaster in Bogotá and the National Planning Office (DNP in spanish) among others. He holds a master’s degree in territorial institution management and has been a consultant for the World Bank. He is Currently the head of Geographical Institution Agustin Codazzi (IGAC) and leads the cadaster registration in Colombia. Email: direccion@igac.gov.co [/expand] |
Mr. Bryan Triana Ancinez Lawyer, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Bryan Triana Ancinez Lawyer from Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). Master’s degree Student in administrative law with emphasis on public law at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Researcher at the Observatorio de Tierras in the project Legal institutions, armed conflict, and agrarian inequality. He works on topics related to drug economies, agrarian justice, judges, and land titling programs. Email: bryan.triana@urosario.edu.co [/expand] |
Ms. Margarita Varón Funder and Chief Executive Officer – CEO – of Colombia Rural |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-38″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Margarita Varón Founder and Chief Executive Officer – CEO – of Colombia Rural. Company dedicated to rural land management, land governance and land administration. Formerly member of the Colombian Government team for Land Restitution Public Policy design. Executive Director of Land Tenure at the Ministry of Agriculture in Colombia; Led the Formalization Program. Consultant for the Rural Mission. Advisor of the Presidency for the peace agreements implementation concerning land tenure. Lawyer and LLM at Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia. [/expand] |
Mr. A.R. Shivakumar |
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Mr. Leo Saldanha Environment Support Group |
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Ms. Sushmita Verma Researcher and Journalist |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Sushmita is a researcher, an award winning journalist and a former engineer. She is currently working to expand on the ideas of an equitable climate action model. Her issues of interest are climate change, just transition, forest rights, environment, agriculture and gender based issues. She has taught modules on climate change and public and mental health to Masters students of TISS. She researched and reported extensively on impact of COVID-19 on forest dwelling communities, and policy measures at the time. In 2020, she was selected for Earth Journalism Network’s Asia Pacific story grant for critical reporting on environmental crime, wildlife issues, climate change and their intersections with social and economic issues in the background of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her writings have been published in reputed Indian and international publications like The Caravan, The New Indian Express, Down to Earth, The Wire, The Thirdpole, Mongabay etc. Her upcoming writings on climate change and intersections with livelihoods is expected in Lexington Books, while her writings on COVID-19 are expected in The Hindu Public Policy Centre and Routledge. [/expand] |
Dr. Jolyne Sanjak Sr. Director of Global Programs, Landesa |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Jolyne Sanjak is Senior Director of Global Programs, Landesa. Dr. Sanjak has more than 25 years of experience in the land tenure sector, and previously served as Chief Program Officer at Landesa and Deputy Vice President, Sector Operations at the Millenium Challenge Corporation. She also served as the lead US Representative in the VGGT negotiations. She is an experienced leader, manager and technical expert. Skilled in sustainable development, rural and urban land governance, monitoring and evaluation and other areas of international development. Has engaged in international development from academic, public sector, non-profit and private sector consulting practices. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Agricultural Economics and International Development from University of Wisconsin-Madison. [/expand] |
Mr. Zanofer Ismalebbe Chief – Knowledge Management, UNOSSC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Zanofer Ismalebbe is the Chief of Knowledge Management at the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) Headquarters in New York. He possesses over 22 years of global, regional and country level development, humanitarian, conflict, post-conflict and human rights policy and programme leadership, diplomacy, representation, partnerships, and coordination. Until recently, he served as the UNOSSC Regional Chief – Division for Arabs States, Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (Istanbul), and led a wide range of strategic and catalytic policy, research and partnerships initiatives aimed at regionalizing UNOSSC’s global and UN system-wide mandates as well as supporting country level priorities, in collaboration with regional and sub-regional institutions, regional UN entities, national institutions, Resident Coordinator Offices and UN Country Teams, and other stakeholders in the two regions. Prior to this, he served as the Team Leader – Intergovernmental Engagement and Team Leader ad interim – UN System Affairs Group in the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (UNDP Headquarters, New York); Senior Policy Specialist – Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General (New York); Policy Advisor and Global Programme Manager (UNDP Geneva); Human Rights Development Officer (UN Resident Coordinator System, Tashkent); Programme Officer (UNDP Tashkent); Programme Officer – Children Affected by Armed Conflict (UNICEF Colombo); and Legal Consultant (UNHCR London and Colombo). He has also worked as a Researcher at the Law and Society Trust (Colombo). He is a lawyer by training with a Master of Law (LL.M.) from the University of Essex, UK, where he was a ‘Chevening Scholar’ of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He has also completed several leadership and managerial learning initiatives through the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University); Ross School of Business (University of Michigan); Harvard Business School; and the UN System Staff College [/expand] |
Mr. Pranab Ranjan Choudhury Secretary ILDC ,Founder NRMC-CLG(Intellecap Subsidiary) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Pranab Ranjan Choudhury is an expert with more than 20 years of experience in Natural Resources Management and Governance in India and abroad. He has founded and coordinates NRMC Center for land Governance, a think tank attempting inclusive and informed dialogue around land governance in India for shared prosperity. A post-graduate in Forestry, Mr. Pranab has earlier worked as a Scientist with Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) for about 8 years. He has coordinated implementation of LGAF for World Bank in India and has carried out studies on women land rights, forest rights and land governance with international agencies. He has also worked closely with Govt. Departments across hierarchies (primarily with land use and land administrative departments including Revenue, Forest, Water, and Agriculture etc.), with International and National Donors, NGOs and CBOs in many states of India. His past/ongoing clients/partners include the Donors (The World Bank, UNDP, DFID, JBIC, JICA, EED/BfW etc.), Consultancy Firms (NR International, Pragmatix etc.), State Govts (Odisha, Gujarat, Bihar, UP etc.), International Research Institutes (ICRISAT, ICRAF), INGOs (Caritas, RDI-Landesa) and NGOs. He is well versed with the legal-institutional frameworks and stakeholders (in Govt, Academics and NGO sector) around land and land-use sector in India. [/expand] |
Ms. Anaclaudia Rossbach Director Latin America and Caribbean, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Director, Latin America and the Caribbean Anacláudia Rossbach is an economist with more than 20 years of experience working on issues such as precarious settlements, informality, social housing, and land and urban policy. She has worked on projects such as designing one of the world’s most significant municipal-level slum-upgrade programs, in São Paulo, Brazil. She was the founding director of an NGO that developed high-impact projects in informal communities in the state of São Paulo and the city of Recife, Brazil. Later, she served as a senior housing specialist for the World Bank in Brazil and internationally. In that role, she served as a high-level consultant and provided technical assistance to the develop and implement Brazilian housing and slum-upgrading policies, including the Growth Acceleration Program for Favelas and the housing subsidies program Minha Casa, Minha Vida (“My House, My Life”). From 2014 to 2022, she worked for the Cities Alliance, serving as the regional manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. In that role, she supported communities of practice, promoted the transfer and exchange of knowledge, and provided advisory services on housing and urban policies in the global south. In addition, from 2020 to 2021, she led the organization’s Global Programme on Informality, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic [/expand] |
Ms. Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas Academic Coordinator, Observatorio de Tierras |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas Lawyer, specialist in Tax Law and Doctor of Law from Rosario University (Colombia). Currently she works as academic coordinator of the Observatorio de Tierras (land observatory), as a research professor, as editor of the Estudios Socio-Jurídicos journal and as part of the Derecho Público Research Group of El Rosario University, she has worked on issues concerning public policy, transitional justice, legal mechanisms to guarantee Human Rights of displaced population in Colombia, negotiation and conflict. [/expand] |
Ms. Ana María Santofimio Sociologist & Journalist, Geographical Institution Agustin Codazzi (IGAC) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-39″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ana María Santofimio She is a sociologist and journalist and holds a master’s degree in Human Rights from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO – Mexico). She has extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale citizen participation methodologies and gender and ethnic inclusion in processes related to land tenure, cadaster, alternative conflict resolution mechanisms, armed conflict, and human rights. Currently she works at the Geographical Institution Agustin Codazzi (IGAC in Spanish) where she leads the social and participation component for cadaster. Email: ana.santofimio@igac.gov.co Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/ana-maria-santofimio-mahecha-232a71154 [/expand] |
