ILDC 2021 Speakers on 24nd Nov 2021
Harshal Gajjar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-A1″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Harshal is a graduate of urban planning from CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and public policy from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He is currently an external consultant with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Delhi where he researches affordable housing, urban entitlements, and informal self-employment. Harshal is also one of the four coordinators of the Main Bhi Dilli Campaign, a civil society collective engaging with the preparation of the 2041 Master Plan for Delhi [/expand] |
Anagha Jaipal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-A3″ ] Anagha Jaipal is currently working as a Research Officer at Housing and Land Rights Network, New Delhi. A graduate in Public Policy and Governance, from Azim Premji University, she has contributed to research on forced evictions, displacement, homelessness, women’s land rights in India and has also been involved in assessments of human rights in light of the Covid-19 Pandemic |
Vidhulekha Tiwari |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-erA3″ ] Vidhulekha Tiwari is a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Center for Urban Sciences and Engineering, IIT Bombay, working on urban energy optimization from the planning perspective. She has completed her Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal. She has worked with LBSNAA as a Researcher in the field of Urban Land Governance, after her post-graduation. Her areas of expertise include urban growth prediction modeling through machine learning, data-driven urban planning and governance, and advanced method in town planning. She has a unique approach towards policy and urban governance and she will surely bring her nuance while mentoring the team. [/expand] |
Shambhavi Gupta |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-A5″ ] Shambhavi Gupta is a Planner and a researcher whose interest lies in exploring the planning processes in housing, water and urban governance, socio-spatial segregation, public participation, social inclusion and justice & urban resilience. She is currently working as a Junior Researcher at the Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub – India Collaboratory at the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi. Her ongoing area of research is Water Sensitive Planning Theory and Socio-Spatial Segregation in Indian Cities. Simultaneously, she has been part of various events, namely the UN75 Initiative, High-level Delegation to the People’s Republic of China, among others. She is presently volunteering at Cityspeaks. |
Swapnil Saxena |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-A2″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Swapnil Saxena is an urban development practitioner based out of New Delhi. A gold medallist from the School of Planning and Architecture, she has over 5 years of work experience across a range of development projects with numerous stakeholders, including the Government of India (MoHUA and MoEFCC), various state and local governments, Smart cities, donor agencies, and civil society. She’s a firm believer that integrating sectoral expertise with solution-oriented management is pivotal for the success of inclusive development initiatives. Her works include looking at the core development challenges from perspectives of domains as diverse as housing, climate, education, health, public space-making, and she frequently writes on these subjects. [/expand] |
Lakshmi Jahnavi |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-A4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus; Lakshmi Jahnavi is working on land conflicts in Andhra Pradesh for her doctoral thesis. She completed her Masters’s and M.Phil from the University of Hyderabad, where her M.Phil dissertation focused on the political ecology of the informal seed supply system in Telangana. Her research interest varies across Rural Agrarian Studies, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Environment and Sustainable Development
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Sukrit Nagpal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-3gA4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Sukrit Nagpal is an urban researcher, working as the Team Lead for the land rights vertical at SEWA Bharat. He has done his graduation from Hindu College, Delhi University, and went on to pursue a Masters in development from The Azim Premji University. A fellowship with the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) helped shape his interest in urban informality, land rights, tenure, service delivery, and governance in informal settlements. [/expand] |
Shipra Deo Director- Women’s Land Rights, Landesa |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Shipra Deo leads Landesa’s work for gender equal and inclusive land governance in India. She is passionate about the gender dimension of social development and specializes in designing and implementing gender responsive strategies and programmes including those related to land. In the recent years she has done intensive research on inheritance by women and gendered aspects of land laws. Her work in the past two decades has focused on expanding opportunities for rural women and girls enabling them to have more control over their lives. She has intensive experience in strategic planning, management of cross-functional teams and catalysing positive changes in challenging contexts. [/expand] |
Dr. Kalindi Kokal Post Doctoral Fellow- Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-03″ ] Kalindi Kokal is a researcher on law and society. She is currently a post doctoral fellow at the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies in IIT Bombay Kokal’s research emphasises an inter-disciplinary approach and focuses on understanding how state law in India works on ground as it filters through social structures of caste, class, religion and gender. Kokal is the author of State Law, Dispute Processing and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India (Routledge: 2020). |
Dr. Chamu Kuppuswamy (University of Hertfordshire, UK) |
| [expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy is a public international lawyer by training, with a PhD in human rights and development. Chamu has completed a UKIERI funded project on Land ownership and access to commons and food security (2017-2021) and continues her research in the region through work on the SDGs. She is the Research Lead for interdisciplinary research in areas that impact the Global economy at the Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of Hertfordshire, UK. [/expand] |
Dr. Prakash Shah Reader in Culture and Law, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-04″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Prakash Shah is Reader in Culture and Law at Queen Mary University of London. He has research interests in caste, religion, culture, migration, and law. He has a long standing interest in legal pluralism. He used to be an advisory board member of the Journal of Legal Pluralism from which he has now resigned. After having long advocated legal pluralism as a framework for the study of law, he has recently become a critic of it. He is co-editor of the book Western Foundations of the Caste System (Palgrave 2017). |
Govind Kelkar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S22-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Govind Kelkar is the Senior Advisor at Landesa, India and a Regional Council Member of Asia and Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand. She has previously worked as coordinator of IFAD-UNIFEM Gender Mainstreaming Program in Asia and later headed Economic Empowerment of Women Unit at UN Women, South Asia Office, New Delhi. Dr. Kelkar taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand. At AIT, Dr Kelkar founded the graduate program in Gender Development Studies and also the Gender, Technology and Development Journal, published by SAGE, India. She holds a Distinguished Faculty position at AIT. Dr. Kelkar has extensively worked on the impact of women’s right to land on gender relations in rural Asia, has authored 12 books and contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals with a focus on women’s right to agricultural land in India and China. She has been in close touch with women’s movements in the region and has been a keynote speaker at several international and national conferences. [/expand] |
Beth Roberts |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S22-03″ ] Beth Roberts directs the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights. She is a law, policy, and gender expert who works to strengthen gender-equal and socially inclusive rights to land and productive assets. She provides legal and policy recommendations to government decision-makers, traditional authorities, civil society partners, and international human rights and climate change bodies, conducts consultations and assessments with rural communities, and works to collaborate with, strengthen, and expand the network of practitioners focused on gender and natural resource justice worldwide. During her time at Landesa, she has focused on advocacy at both global and national levels for greater policy coherence and stronger implementation related to gender and land in global agendas (the Sustainable Development Goals, human rights norms and standards, and climate change); and internally on organizational change initiatives and program and project management. She leads and works with a team of gender specialists across Landesa that seeks to ensure an integrated approach to Landesa’s gender equality and social inclusion work. Beth holds three advanced degrees from the University of Washington: a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on international development and nonprofit management, a Juris Doctor (JD), and an LL.M in Sustainable International Development Law. |
Usha Ramanathan |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S22-05″ ] Usha Ramanathan works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She researches, writes and speaks on issues that include the nature of law, Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass displacement, eminent domain, manual scavenging, civil liberties including the death penalty, beggary, criminal law, custodial institutions, the environment, judicial process. She has been tracking, and engaging with, the UID project and has written, and debated extensively on issues of technology and the human conditions of freedom and liberty over the years. She is a regular speaker at various universities,and at the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal and the Delhi Judicial Academy to address judges, on various issues of law and poverty, and on technology and the law. [/expand] |
Reema Nanavaty |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S22-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Reema Nanavaty has been working with the Self-Employed women workers from informal sector since 1984 when she joined the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and stayed on to be elected as its General Secretary in 1999. She expanded membership to new heights making SEWA the single largest union of informal sector workers. Her key focus has been to provide full-employment & self-reliance to the 1.7 million members of SEWA. 30 years of her selfless service was honored by Padma Sri (the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India) by Government of India for her distinguished contribution in the area of Social Services in 2013. [/expand] |
Nitya Rao |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S22-04″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Nitya Rao is a professor of Gender & Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. She has a vast research experience on topics related to gender equality and women’s empowerment, within broader issues of resource rights, social equality and rural development. Gender Analysis underpins all her research, be it in relation to understanding changes in land and agrarian relations, migration, livelihoods, food and nutrition security, growth and well-being, equity issues in education policies and provisioning, or indeed processes of policy change. Her book on land as a resource in the struggle over gendered identities entitled “Good women do not inherit Land”: Politics of Land and Gender in India was published by Social Science Press and Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, in 2008, republished in 2012. Dr.Rao’s recent work on gender and land has been published by World Development in 2017. Titled ‘Assets, Agency and Legitimacy: Towards a relational understanding of gender equality policy and practice’. Dr. Nitya has coordinated with UNRISD on research project for about 3 years and at present she’s working with 2 major research consortia- LANSA and ASSAR, where she’s responsible for mainstreaming a gender perspective in them. |
Srikanth Badiga |
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Nagesh Kumar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”t2257-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Prof Nagesh Kumar is Director and Chief Executive of the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), a public-funded policy think-tank based in New Delhi. Between May 2009-April 2021, he served as Director at United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) where he has held a number of senior management roles. These include Chief Economist of UNESCAP, Director of the Macroeconomic Policy and Development Division (MPDD) and Director of the Social Development Division (SDD), at the UNESCAP headquarters in Bangkok and Head of the South and South-West Asia (SSWA) Office of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) based in New Delhi, that he had the privilege to establish. [/expand] |
Bipin Menon |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”t22-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Bipin Menon (I Trade S:1997) has been appointed as Development Commissioner (JS level), Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ), Noida under the Department of Commerce. [/expand] |
Malini Tantri |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”t2ty2-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Malini L. Tantri is with the Centre for Economic Studies and Policy at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, India. Her areas of specialisation include international trade and development, trade facilitation, doing business, India–China studies, Special Economic Zones, trade and gender, and food security. Her works have been published by leading national and international publishers. She was a visiting scholar with the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada. As part of her consultancy work with GIZ–Lao, Dr. Tantri assisted the Government of Lao PDR (National Committee on SEZ) with the draft of the Prime Minister’s Decree on SEZs. Besides this, she has worked with many funding agencies in India and abroad. [/expand] |
Aradhna Agarwal |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”t2ty2-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Aradhna Aggarwal is Professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this she was with the Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi. She earned her PhD in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. Her thesis was awarded the prestigious Professor Chhablani prize in recognition of its research contributions. Her research interests include industrial growth, entrepreneurship, globalisation, economic reforms, competition, international trade, FDI, special economic zones, technology transfer, technology creation and innovations, export competitiveness, and WTO-related issues. She has been a recipient of the GDN best research award (2000), and the GDN-IMF, and CAPORDE fellowships. [/expand] |
Ramaa Arun Kumar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”t2ty298-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Ramaa Arun Kumar is a Doctorate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics. Prior to joining ISID, she was a Consultant in CII working on a study on ‘Trade Analysis between India and China under RCEP’. She has worked in many reputed institutions like Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi and UNCTAD India Project. Her major area of research has been international trade and industrial issues for over eight years. Her research inputs have contributed to policy making in the Ministry of Commerce as well as Ministry of External Affairs. She has also taught Macro-Economics and Indian Economy to Management under graduate students as an Assistant Professor. [/expand] |
Sajith Babu |
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Dr.Ranjan Kumar Ghosh |
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Sumeendranath R |
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Susheela Bhatt |
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Hari Chandran |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”q2-9002″ text-color=”#f5f300″] An Electrical Engineer retired from Indian Railway and have been actively involved in public causes since 1995 by actively participating in Consumer Protection organisations. [/expand] |
Ms.Seema Mundoli |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”ttq2-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Seema Mundoli is a faculty at Azim Premji University, located in Bengaluru, India, where she teaches in the masters and undergraduate programmes. Her research focuses on the role of nature in addressing the challenges of environmental sustainability and social justice in Indian cities. Her recent co-authored books (with Harini Nagendra) include, “Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities” (Penguin India) and “So many leaves” (Pratham Books). [/expand] |
Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22t6s8-P4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Arabinda Kumar Padhee is an Indian national. He has a Master’s degree in Agricultural Science from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and a PhD from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) from University of Birmingham, UK. He has taken public policy courses at University of Toronto; Civil Services College, Singapore; and University of Cambridge at various points in his career. Dr Padhee joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1996 and belongs to Odisha cadre. Among the various positions he has held are District Magistrate and Collector; Director, Agriculture and Food Production; Director, World Bank assisted Rural Livelihoods Project; Revenue Divisional Commissioner, Cuttack; Chief Administrator, Shree Jagannath Temple, Puri; Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Tourism and Culture Department, Odisha and Joint Secretary, Department of Fertilizers, Government of India, New Delhi. During his tenure with the Odisha Government, he was instrumental in drafting the Odisha State Agriculture Policy in 2008. He has also served as a member of the Technical Support Group of the erstwhile Planning Commission that prepared the District Agricultural Plan manual. Government of India appointed Dr Padhee as the first nodal officer to implement Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in fertilizers in 2016. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22t346s8-P4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ruth Hall holds the South African Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, which is funded by the National Research Foundation. The Chair is located at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She has published several books, including Africa’s Land Rush, Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions from Below, Another Countryside? and The Land Question in South Africa. She is a co-founder of the Land Deal Politics Initiative, the BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies and the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative. She is a founding member of the Network of Excellence in Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) and leads training courses for policy makers and professionals on the political economy of land governance in Africa. Ruth also served as a member of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Advisory Panel on Land Reforms. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22txx4ui6s8-P4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Jasmine Joseph has extensively worked with marginalised communities of South Asia with focus on agriculture, gender and livelihoods. She has specialisation in Rural Development. She has extensive grassroot experience of working with tribal women farmers in Central India and has led training workshops for women leaders and farmers. She is part of the South Asia Regional Enablers of the SAFBIN programme where she is responsible for research, knowledge management and communications. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22txxik4ui6s8-P4″ text-color=”#f5f300″] S M Zillur Rahaman is an agriculturist by profession with 23 years of diverse experience in the field of participatory research, participatory rural development; climate change – induced disaster risk management; natural resources management such as water, forestry and fisheries; needs assessment; institution building; participatory monitoring; impact assessment of development projects; program development and participatory poverty assessment. He is specialized in participatory approaches (PRA) and its application to research and development. He is extensively engaged in the field of training, farmer field school, horticulture, social forestry, nursery establishment and management, homestead gardening, establishment of demonstration plots and demonstration of adaptation technique on climate change and socio-economic activities with vulnerable households in stress environment. His research interests are On Farm Adaptive Research (OFAR), Agro-environmental studies, and Cereal and horticultural crop cultivation in flat and Barind Tract of Bangladesh. He is actively engaged in training, development and evaluation. [/expand] |
Mr. S M Zillur Rahaman
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22tias33-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Managing an action research in south-asia called Strengthening Adaptive Farming in Bangladesh, India & Nepal (SAFBIN) focusing on “building resilience to climate change through strengthening adaptive small scale farming systems in rainfed areas in Bangladesh, India and Nepal”. This programme is supported by European Union under the “Food Security thematic programme” of the “Global Programme on Agricultural Research for Development”. South Asia Coordination Unit of the Programme is based in Caritas India with partners in Austria, Bangladesh, India and Nepal. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22inds33-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Sharma is a research and development officer at Caritas Nepal/SAFBIN program. He has completed Master’s in Agriculture with conservation ecology as a major subject from Agriculture and forestry University. He has experience of working in the field of climate change research, nutrition sensitive agriculture and agriculture marketing. [/expand] |
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22ihjks33-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Pradipta Kishor Chand, presently working as Lead – Climate Adaptive Agriculture and Food Sovereignty (CAA&FS) in Caritas India. Having more than 17 years of diverse experience on the field of Agriculture, climate resilient farming system and value chain of small-farm-agri-food through smallholder led forums, he has demonstrated many good agriculture practices and models in Eastern, Western and Central regions of India through various programs. Prior to working with Caritas India, he has the privilege to serve Watershed Mission Odisha and World Vision India. [/expand] |
 Lokho Puni |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22-01″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr. Lokho Puni was conferred Indian Forest Service of 1989 batch from Manipur-Tripura cadre. He is a retired Principal Chief Conservator of Forest/Climate Change & Forest Conservation Act, Govt. of Manipur. He is a graduate from North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Bachelor of Science and obtained M.Sc. and Doctor of Philosophy from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, (IARI), New Delhi in Agricultural Biochemistry. He had earlier served as PCCF/CC & FCA, Member Secretary/MBB, State Mission Director (National Bamboo Mission) in the Forest department, Govt of Manipur; District Forest Officer (DFO) Govt. of Manipur, APCCF/Biodiversity and NTFP, APCCF/Working Plan/Res. & Training; Member Secretary/Manipur Biodiversity Board; CCF/Development, CCF/OSD, Forest Research & Training in the state Forest department, Wildlife (HQ) & Zoological Park, Imphal and in other districts of Manipur. [/expand] |
Holkhomang Haokip |
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Prisca Gonmei |
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Hechin Haokip |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22-07″ text-color=”#f5f300″] M Hechin Lheikhochin Haokip is a Secretary of Centre for Women and Girls, Lhunnajang village, Pallel, Tengnoupal district, Manipur. She is a Chairperson of Child Welfare Committee, Chandel, a member of Manipur Human Rights Commission, Co-convenor (women committee) of United NGOs Missions Manipur, President of NGO Forum Chandel and a member of State working committee of Manipur Alliance for Child Rights. She is a well experienced person who is actively involved in the field of community development, women empowerment and child rights issues. She is currently pursuing Master in Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS) at Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, Cambodia. She had attended conferences on International Conference for Grassroot Women Leaders on UNSCR 1325 “Women Peace and Security”, Brussels, Seminar on “Peace from the Soil” for Asia-Pacific Region, The Asian Rural Institute, Japan and attended 3 conferences of General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council, Geneva She was awarded as ‘Prominent Women Leader of Chandel District’ in the field of women empowerment by the Department of Social welfare, Government of Manipur in 2019, in the year 2018 she was awarded the ‘Best Performing Chief Functionary of NGOs in Chandel District’ by NERCORMP Chandel, Government of India, and an awardee of Dr. B.R Ambedkar National Award in recognition of Social Work, by Dalit Sahitya Academy, Manipur in 2017. [/expand] |
Dimgonglung Rongmei |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Dimgonglung Rongmei is a secretary of Development & Relief Department, RNBA Manipur. He is a graduate in B.Sc. Botany from Manipur University, obtained Master in Conflict Study from Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. He holds Diploma in Development Leadership, Coady International Institute, StFX University, Antigonish, Canada and had exposed on bamboo value chain analysis and bamboo sector development study at China. He is been actively involved in NGO sector (rural development) since 2001 and has experiences around sustainable livelihood through proper natural resources management. Food and livelihood security through proper NRM, Capacity Organization of the community members, and people’s-oriented policies, Good governance, quality education and land rights. [/expand] |
Pouchunlung Panmei |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22-04″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mr. Pouchunlung Panmei is a Senior Programme Manager at Development & Relief Department, RNBA, Manipur. He is a graduate from North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Shillong, Meghalaya and Master in Social work from Martin Luther Christian University (MLCU) Shillong, Meghalaya. Since 2011, he is been involved in NGO sector under community development issues working with different communities of Manipur. [/expand] |
Akeina Gonmei |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”R22-05″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Mrs. Akeina Gonmei is a Secretary of the 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.She works actively for ‘Naga Women Advocate for land Rights through Participation in Decision Making and a mentor for research program ‘land Rights and Development Justice’ (FPAR 2018-2020). Since 2019 she is serving as a Director Childline 1098 Peren District [/expand] |
Dr Serene Ho Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Urban Futures at RMIT University |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-05″ ] Serene Ho is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Urban Futures at RMIT University. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on the urban poor, where she investigates land rights, trustworthy land information systems, social innovation, gender and climate resilience. She is currently investigating the use of disruptive technologies used to map land rights in India, and how this impacts trust in formal land administration systems, one of the most corrupt public institutions globally. Serene is also currently engaged in a UNFCCC funded, a multidisciplinary project investigating climate resilience in Honiara, Solomon Islands where she leads the community profiling and gender-related work packages in the project. |
Ms Chilombo Musa PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-07″ ] Chilombo is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research analyses institutions that govern land and housing provision in informal settlements in developing countries, particularly Zambia. She uses a New Institutional Economics approach to understand the relationships that create and sustain land and housing markets, drawing distinctions between different types of informal settlements with varying degrees of informality. Chilombo has previous work experience in teaching and research, with a bias toward land, land policy, land reform and globalisation. She is also currently working on the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies’ project on the Formalisation of Customary Land and Implications for Women’s Land Tenure Security and Livelihoods in Southern Africa. [/expand] |
Dr. Pradeep Nayak Faculty, Administrative Training Institute, Odisha |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-09″ ] Pradeep K Nayak is a Senior civil servant under Odisha Government and currently serves as Faculty, Administrative Training Institute, Odisha. He holds PhD in law and governance studies from JNU. He is a former Fellow at IIAS, Shimla. His recent books are Land Reform to Land Titling: Emerging Paradigm in Land governance, Sage, 2021, Land and Livelihood in Neoliberal India, Palgrave, 2020, (Co-edited) , The State and Land Records Modernisation (2015) published by Cambridge University Press. Earlier books are Party Politics and Communalism: A Study of Ram Janamabhoomi and Babri Masjid Dispute (1993) and co-edited Communalisation and Tenth Lok Sabha Elections (1993). He has contributed several papers to journals and edited books. His areas of interest are party politics, communalism, public policy, governance studies and Indian society. [/expand] |
Pranab Choudhary Secretary ILDC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-06″ ] Pranab leads Center for land Governance, which, seeks to improve and expand land governance space through partnerships, networking and evidence building. CLG hosts annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) and engages with inter-disciplinary issues around land tenure, land uses, informalities, technology, gender, and land administration. As a researcher and consultant on natural resources management and governance, he has more than 25 years of experience – first as a land use scientist with the Indian Government and later as an independent practitioner, working with development actors across South Asia, exploring inclusive land and livelihood solutions, aiming sustainability and equity. [/expand] |
Aparna Das Senior Advisor with GIZ, India |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-08″ ] Aparna Das is an urban planning professional working as a Senior Advisor with GIZ, India, for the last ten years. She received her master’s degree in Urban Development Planning from Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), in 2000. Aparna received a SPURS fellowship (2018-19) located within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At MIT, she focused on urbanization aspects in the Global South and explored methodologies for efficiently distributing economic resources and achieving spatial justice in urban areas. Aparna has more than 20 years of work experience with different sector partners; national, state and city governments, national and international NGOs, and multi and bilateral agencies such as UNICEF, UNDP, DFID India, and the World Bank. She has also worked in Cairo, Egypt, and Bangladesh. Her key sectors of experience are affordable housing, municipal governance, basic urban services, urban planning, and in situ slum upgrading and linkages of these thematic areas with the land legislation and land tenure in urban areas. At Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, India between 2014-2018, she worked as a deputy leader to the project “Inclusive Cities Partnership Programme (ICPP)” jointly implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and GIZ. In recent years, she focuses on the contestations over land in urban areas and equity concerns in cities. In her current role at GIZ, she leads the Housing and Planning vertical of the Sustainable Urban Development in Smart Cities project. [/expand] |
Dimuna Phiri |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22rft-08″ ] I possess 15+ years of progressive leadership and responsible professional experience at both Local, Regional and International level in Zambia, South Africa and Australia. I have demonstrated expertise in the private and Non-Profit Organisations as well as strategic partnerships development with governments. In social and economic justice, research, legal and policy reform, dispute resolution, communication, project coordination and management. [/expand] |
Taruna Jakhar |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-120″ ] She has completed BALLB(Hons) from Jaipur National University and LLM from National Law University Jodhpur in Intellectual Property Rights. She has also pursued a Diploma in Cyber Law from Government Law College in association with Asian Society of Cyber Law and in Intellectual Property Rights Law and Management from Gujarat National Law University. She is pursuing PhD from Gujarat National Law University in the field of Artificial Intelligence and IPR. She has written IPR Modules for IGNOU. Ms. Taruna has presented papers in international conferences on Green Intellectual Property & Climate Change Mitigation Technologies: Way Ahead and III virtual IPIRA Conference on the topic Standard Essential Patents and Competition law in India: Time to go Beneath the surface of Standardization. Her interest area of research is Intellectual property Rights Law and Alternate Dispute Resolution. [/expand] |
Soma K Parthsarathy Policy analyst |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-12″ ] A policy researcher and analyst, practitioner in the field of gender, development, livelihoods and environmental justice with almost 35 years of experience. I straddle the space between support to gender inclusive community initiatives for development and livelihoods, institutional and organization development and policy analysis from a feminist position. My research lens is feminist political ecology. I engage with several networks as a gender and development specialist for ecologically sustainable livelihoods solutions in India such as National Forum for Women Farmers Rights, CFR La (Community Forest Rights Learning Alliance) and seek to bring voices of marginalized and grassroots women to natural resource and developmental policy debates and platforms. [/expand] |
Varsha Ganguly |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-12ss” ] Dr. Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly is a professor at Institute of Law, Nirma University. She has worked as a professor at Centre for Rural Studies, LBSNAA and as a fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Studying land from the perspective of development sociology is one of her core areas of interests along with citizen’s rights, collective action, pastoralists and pastoralism, and Gujarat. Her recent publications on land are: Land rights in India: policies, movements and challenges (Routledge, 2016, 2018); Journey towards land titling in India (LBSNAA and Shipra, 2017); The land question in neoliberal India: socio-legal and judicial interpretations (Routledge, 2020). [/expand] |
Neema Pathak Broome Coordinator, Conservation and Livelihoods Programme at Kalpavriksh Environment Action Group |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-1a1″ ] Neema Pathak Broome, has studied environmental science and completed a post graduate diploma in wildlife management. She is a member of Kalpavriksh, coordinating the Conservation and Livelihoods programme. She is part of the team monitoring implementation of conservation laws and policies in particular the Wildlife Protection Act and the Scheduled Areas and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006. Her main area of interest is conservation governance, particularly Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). She has been involved with documentation, research, analysis and advocacy related to inclusive conservation governance and ICCAs in India and South Asia. She has been part of team coordinating the National Community Forest Rights Learning and Advocacy Process since 2011. She also coordinates a local process of participatory conservation governance in Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra [/expand] |
Chockalingam S Director General, Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-1q3″ ] Chockalingam, an IAS officer of the 1996 Batch, was born and brough up in Pudukottai in Tamilnadu. While completing his LLB, he got fascinated by Civil Services and became an IAS in 1996. He served in almost all regions of Maharashtra during his career as an Indian Civil Servant in various capacities. As the Land Settlement Commissioner of the state, he spearheaded the mapping of rural settlements in Maharashtra using drone and CORS technology to create rural property records, which brought him to limelight in Indian Land Administration scenario. He was appointed as a member of the Expert Committee on Land Titling constituted by the Government of India and as a member of the Task Force of NITI Ayog on Land Titling, contributed to the report- “Land Titling-A Road Map” and to the drafting of the “Model Land Titling Bill and Rules”. Further, he helped to establish the Country’s First Land Titling Centre at YASHADA, Pune. He has helped the federal government in designing a national rural property card scheme called SVAMITVA which aims to map India’s 0.66 million villages. He is currently posted as the Director General, Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune. [/expand] |
Jayesh Bhatia Managing Director, NRMC (Intellecap Subsidiary) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-p2s992s14″ ] Mr. Jayesh Bhatia has over 29 years of experience in the natural resources management and the rural development sector. With post graduate degrees from the prestigious Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal and University of Oxford, Mr. Jayesh has worked with a range of organisations and institutions in India. Mr. Jayesh is a strategic thinker, problem solver and a leading voice in the social development sector, especially in augmenting livelihoods for the underserved communities. [/expand] |
Dr. Shekhar Shah |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-99xP1″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Shekhar Shah was until recently the Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. As the CEO during 2011-21 of India’s oldest and largest, independent, non-profit, economic think tank, he managed NCAER’s wide-ranging research across all sectors of the economy, including its extensive data collection, analytical, and curation activities. He is credited with NCAER’s outstanding institutional transformation, the redevelopment of its new, world-class campus, and the significant role NCAER now plays in economic research and public policy discussions in India. [/expand] |
Dr. Nivedita Haran Former-Addl Chief Secretary, |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-rt120″ ] 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] |
Pranab R Choudhury Secretary ILDC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-hj99s213″ ] Pranab leads Center for land Governance, which, seeks to improve and expand land governance space through partnerships, networking and evidence building. CLG hosts annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) and engages with inter-disciplinary issues around land tenure, land uses, informalities, technology, gender, and land administration. As a researcher and consultant on natural resources management and governance, he has more than 25 years of experience – first as a land use scientist with the Indian Government and later as an independent practitioner, working with development actors across South Asia, exploring inclusive land and livelihood solutions, aiming sustainability and equity. [/expand] |
Usha Ramanathan |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”S2299-05″ ] Usha Ramanathan works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She researches, writes and speaks on issues that include the nature of law, Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass displacement, eminent domain, manual scavenging, civil liberties including the death penalty, beggary, criminal law, custodial institutions, the environment, judicial process. She has been tracking, and engaging with, the UID project and has written, and debated extensively on issues of technology and the human conditions of freedom and liberty over the years. Her work draws heavily upon non-governmental experience in its encounters with the state, a 6 year stint with a law journal (Supreme Court Cases) as reporter from the Supreme Court, and engaging with the state on matters of public policy. She is a regular speaker at various universities,and at the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal and the Delhi Judicial Academy to address judges, on various issues of law and poverty, and on technology and the law. She was a member of the Expert Group on Privacy set up in the Planning Commission of India which gave in its report in October 2012. She was a member of a committee (2013-14) set up in the Department of Biotechnology to review the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012. She was a member of the Committee set up by the Prime Minister’s Office (2013-14) to study the socio-economic status of tribal communities which gave its report to the government in 2014. She has been on a series of committees on revising the vagrancy law. She was awarded Access Now’s Human Rights Heroes Award in 2019. [/expand] |
Shipra Deo Director- Women’s Land Rights, Landesa |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”22-t299s1604″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Shipra Deo leads Landesa’s work for gender equal and inclusive land governance in India. She is passionate about the gender dimension of social development and specializes in designing and implementing gender responsive strategies and programmes including those related to land. In the recent years she has done intensive research on inheritance by women and gendered aspects of land laws. Her work in the past two decades has focused on expanding opportunities for rural women and girls enabling them to have more control over their lives. She has intensive experience in strategic planning, management of cross-functional teams and catalysing positive changes in challenging contexts. |