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Pacific (Affiliated to the UN), Dehradun, India. He was awarded C.V. Raman fellowship to carry out Post Doctoral research work on urban studies from School of Forestry and Environment Studies, Yale University, USA in the year 2013-14. His areas of research include land use change, climate change, spatial data analysis for urban planning and regional development; spatial aspects of governance, disaster management, sustainability studies and to bridge research gap between social sciences and geospatial discipline. He has completed many international research projects, namely Subaltern Urbanisation funded by ANR France, Risks & Responses to Urban Futures funded by ESPA, UK and ReMapping of Global South funded by DAAD and national projects ,namely Snow Spectral Properties and Regional Climate funded by DST, GoI, Spatial Governance of Decentralised Local bodies funded by ICSSR and Geovisualisation of landscape and e-learning course funded by DST, Government of India. He has published an edited book Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi: Issues of Land, Livelihoods and Health and has more than 50 research papers in the reputed national and international journals. Currently holding administrative position of Director Admissions at JNU, New Delhi, India.



Nivedita P. Haran, Indian Administrative Service (Rtd.), Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala who spearheaded the first Kerala State Disaster Management Authority.

Dr. Haran, a post-graduate in Philosophy from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1976 in I Class
and a PhD in Sociology from IIT, Delhi on the topic Bureaucracy in India was selected to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1980. She has more than three decades of rich professional experience with the IAS in India and in the state of Kerala where she served in several senior positions of leadership and decision making. She held crucially important positions as a District Planning Officer, as a Head of Revenue Administration, Land Administration, Land Records Management, Renewable Energy in Public Offices, coping Climate Change Strategies, and post-Tsunami Rehabilitation project. She also held the position of Deputy Secretary in the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Government of India, New Delhi. As the Home Secretary, she brought some meaningful innovations such as the digitization of police records, simplification of procedures, bringing transparency and accountability through the use of new cost-effective technological innovations such as Video Conferencing and other ICT applications. She has also been the Director of The Centre for Innovations in Public Systems at Hyderabad. Her most passionate project with the NAPSIPAG (Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, JNU) was the creation of NYSAF (Network of Young Scholars and Administrators Forum) by bringing academic research closer to administrators and enable them to work together for the country's development.



Thiyam Bharat Singh, is Reader in the Centre for Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Manipur University (MU), India. He is currently editor of Working Paper (ISSN No: 2393) of CSSEIP, MU. He is also an editor of a book entitled Social Exclusion, Marginalisation and Deprivation in Manipur, published by the Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, India. He has co-edited a book titled Social Exclusion and Inclusive Development in the North East. Dr. Thiyam Bharat Singh was one of the Review Committee Members of Dictionary of Economics for Schools published by NCERT, New Delhi. He is currently undertaking a research project on "Estimation of Poverty in Manipur", under the sponsorship of Planning Department, Government of Manipur, India. Apart from this, he has been able to complete two Major Research Projects under the financial assistance of University Grants Commission (UGC) and Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. His articles have been published in Journals such as Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), Indian Economic Journal (IEJ), MARGIN (SAGE publication), NCAER and Journal of Exclusion Studies. He has organized several seminars, workshops and conferences (both international and national) on various issues as a Convener. Apart from that, he has also presented papers in various international and national seminars. His areas of interest is development economics, trade, poverty, tourism, gender, socioeconomic resilience and disaster reduction and social exclusion.