Auteur: Akhilesh Gupta

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a noted resilience and sustainability strategist, full professor of Policy and Strategies, Integrated Resilience;head of the ECDRM Division, International Cooperation, Director of projects and Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience;and nodal officer for Central Ministries at National Institute of Disaster Management (Govt. of India), New Delhi. He is also a member of the expert team for WMO Climate Statement and core group member of IUCN-Council of Ecosystem Management. He is an elected fellow of Society for Earth Scientists, International Society of Environmental Botany and vice-chair of Association of Occupational & Environmental Health.    Dr. Akhilesh Gupta is the Secretary of Science and Engineering Research Board and Senior Advisor atthe Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India). Dr. Gupta currently heads the Policy Coordination and Programme Management Division (PCPM) division and is the overall in charge of 5 National Missions at DST —National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical System, National Mission on Quantum Technology and Applications, National Super-computing Mission, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. Dr Gupta has to his credit over 200 publications. He is editor of 5 books, author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS) and Associationof Agro-meteorologists (FAAM). Dr Gupta has been one of the authors of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) and head of the Secretariat which drafted India’s new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, that is under finalization.  Ms. Pritha Acharya is a research associate at National Institute of Disaster Management (Ni DM).is an environmental sustainability and biodiversity professional. She holds expertise in the field of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, nature based solutions and policy planning for disaster, climate resilience and sustainability. She has worked with the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) for their Business and Biodiversity Programme and is currently looking after the Climate Adaptive Planning for Resilience and sustainability in Multi-hazard Project (CAP-RES ) (DST supported) project at NIDM.