Dr. Gopi Nath Ghosh

Director and Chief of Policy Research

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Title: Food Security, Livelihoods and Policy Advisor (South Asia)Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Food Security, Agriculture, Poverty, Livelihoods, Policy Advocacy, Institutions, Scenario Analysis, Knowledge Management

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Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta

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Title: Environmental Economics, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation Specialist

Location: Kolkata

Area of Expertise: Environmental Economics, Education, Climate Change, Disaster Management, Public Policies for Sustainable Development & Food Security

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Dr. Gour Krishna Choudhury

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Title: Agriculture, Water resources, Policy formulation, Food security Mission and Livelihoods

Expert Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Food Security- Food Security Mission Formulation and policy decisions with implementation at grassroots level, Agriculture & Irrigation, Expertise in project preparation, formulation, evaluation and examination (irrigation, Agriculture and Water Resources consolidation projects) – particularly those poised for international finance, Rural livelihood projects & programmes and climate change related; A national Award winner on the above line, Poverty, Livelihoods, Policy Advocacy, Institutions, Scenario Analysis, Knowledge Management

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Bedanga Bordoloi

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Title: Sustainability Development Specialist

Location: Guwahati

Area of Expertise: Environment, Business Innovation for Informal Sector, and Project management

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Subhas Bhattacharjee

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Title: Food Technology, Agro Forest and Marketing Expert

Location: Guwahati

Area of Expertise: Food Technology, Production, Planning & Management, Quality Assurance in Food Processing, Strategy in Agribusiness & Agriculture Marketing

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Dr. Deepika Anand (PhD, Nutrition)

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Title: Nutrition and Health Education Associate

Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Program research on Nutrition, HIV/ AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security and Knowledge Management

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Vandita Sahay

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Title: Development & Environmental Economics

Areas of interest: Socio-economic development with special emphasis on environmental economics, urban challenges, Health, Education, Development with special emphasis on Sustainable development, Gender and Labour issues

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Dr. D K Paul

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Title: Scientist-Water Management and Watershed Development

Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Soil & Water Conservation, Irrigation & Drainage/ Water Productivity Improvement /Resource Conservation, Watershed Development.

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Etali Sarmah

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Title: Agribusiness development and Value Chain Expert

Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Agribusiness development, rural development, women empowerment, agri-enterprise restructuring, value chain strengthening efforts and agricultural marketing.

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Shefali Misra

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Title: Human Rights and Women’s Empowerment – Advocacy Specialist

Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Advocacy on citizens’ rights, gender justice, women empowerment, and corporate social responsibility.

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Dr. Sainath Banerjee (Ph. D in Physical Anthropology)

Director – Urban Health

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Title: Urban Health Program, Governance and Policy advocacy, Urban Health Planning and Technical Assistance Support, Capacity Building, Community Engagement and Institution Development Process, Private Sector Engagement and Partnerships, Operation Research, Learning and Measurements.

Location: New Delhi

Area of Expertise: Urban Primary Health, Health System, Policy Advocacy, RMNCH, Child Survival, Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, Food Security, Program and Institutional Review, Analysis and Assessment, Knowledge Management.

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