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University, India. He led numbers of River Basin programme including Amudariya Basin (Tajikistan, Afghanistan), Indus (India, Pakistan and Afghanistan), Ganges and Brahmaputra (India, Bhutan and Bangladesh) etc. He served as visiting faculty for Master's studies at international humanitarian and social work programme, Department of Christian Social Work, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic as well as Beijing Normal University, faculty of GeoSciences (2019). Served as Regional Capacity Development Officer at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal and coordinated Research-based University network called as Himalayan University Consortium, HUC for 8 Himalayan Countries (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, China, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Myanmar) of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH), Region). Being International Professor (Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change) & University Export committee Head/Lead Researcher developed course curriculum for 7 universities in 5 countries including Post Graduate Disaster Management courses for Odisha State Open University, Govt of Odisha. He is associated with international research Centres like; University Consortium for Atmospheric Research, USA, National Centre for Atmospheric Research, USA, FK- Norway, SIDA, CSIRO-Australia, United Nation University, National Science Foundation, USA and ECODIT-USA. He published more than 22 International SCI/Scopus Indexed Scientific Research papers/ journals and 2 Books and many under process internationally. Coordinated, hosted and led more than 180 Skill based Modular Trainings and capacity development programmes with Government Officials, Community Leaders, NGOs & INGOs, Training of Trainers (ToT) Professionals.



Anupama Dubey is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise. She is a post-graduate of Allahabad University and holds M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees in the area of water conservation and management from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She has experience of more than ten years in teaching, research and training. She has been on faculty of geography at Delhi University and also has worked as senior research analyst at the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT, Delhi) on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Project of the Ministry of Human Resource Development). She has wide experience in heading and contributing to various research and consultancy projects funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR, India); University Grant Commission (UGC); Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB); National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD, India); International Developmental Research Centre (IDRC, Canada); World Health Organisation; and University of North Carolina (USA). Her papers have been published and presented in national and international journals and conferences. She has chaired national and international conferences and organized conferences and workshops at the national and international levels. She has authored two books published by Springer (Singapore) and is an editor of a book by the Academic Foundation (New Delhi, India).

R. B. Singh is Professor and Head in Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is the first Indian and second Asian to be elected secretary-general and treasurer of the International Geographical Union. At present, he is chair of the Research Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Government of India. He is also a member of the International Science Council (ISC) Scientific Committee, elected president of the Earth System Science Section of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA). Earlier, he was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research (JSPS) Fellowship and has visited more than 40 countries. He counts 15 books, 36 edited volumes and more than 240 research papers in journals. He has supervised 36 Ph.Ds. and 81 M.Phils students. UNESCO/ISSC (Paris) awarded him the Research and Study Grants Award in Social and Human Sciences. He was also awarded a prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship at Hiroshima in 2013 and several travel fellowships, and he has received other forms of support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), among others.