The Mountain Institute
Prof. Gianumberto Caravello (Washington, D.C., USA) Professor, Dept. of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padua
Christina Chan (Ithaca, NY, USA) Student, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University.
Mr. Bala Chandran (Tribandrum, Kerala, India)
Ms. Gitanjali Chaturvedi (New Delhi, India) Student, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy, New Delhi, India.
Mr. Ron Joseph Chepesiuk
(Chittagong, Bangladesh) Professor, Chittagong University (Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, Department of Journalism)
Dr. Maitreyee Choudhury (Siliguri, West Bengal, India)
Director, Centre for Himalayan Studies; Reader, North Bengal University
Ms Catherine Nixon Cooke (Washington, D.C., USA)
President & CEO, The Mountain Institute
Mr. Milan Dahal (Bhaktapur, Nepal) Nepal Electricity Authority, Environment and Social Studies Department, Adwait Marg, Kathmandu
Ms. Joan Delgai ( Ganado, Arizona, USA) Director, Dine be' inna (DBI) Navajo Lifeway, Navajo Nation
Cholpon K. Dyikanova (Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic) Director,
Kyrgyzstan Community and Business Forum
Dr. Jon Griffon Donlon (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
Mrs. Manuela Te-em Dul-og (Baguio City, Philippines) Teacher
Mondira Dutta (New Delhi, India)
Mr. William Forbes Department of Geography, University of North Texas
Mr. Anthony John Freake (New Barnet, Herts., UK) Founder and Director, Phortse Community Project; President, Austrian Alpine Club (UK);
Department of Geography, University of North Texas
Dr. Uday N. Gaur (Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India) Student, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal, India
Dr. Krishna Hari Gautam (Sapporo, Japan) Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Mr. Akshaya Prakash Gawarikar (Indore, MP, India) Professor, IIPS
K.R. Ghorpade (Mumbai, India) Senior Planner,
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India.
Dr. Sergey V. Golunov (Volgograd, Russia) Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Regional and Transboundary Studies, Volgograd State University, Russia.
Dr. Jorge Marcelo Gonnet (Las Heras-Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina) Departamento de Áreas Protegidas, Direccion de Recursos Naturales Renovables
Mr. Ghana S. Gurung (Kathmandu, Nepal) Director of Programs - Mountain,
WWF Nepal Program
Ms. Janita Gurung (Kathmandu, Nepal) WWF Nepal Program
Kushal Gurung (Pokhara, Nepal)Student, Environmental Science, Viswa Niketan Science campus, Banasthali Chock, Nepal
Dr. Irene M. Herremans (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) Associate Professor, Haskayne School of Business
Ms. Lisa Hiwasaki (Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan) Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Dr. Amzad Hossain, M.D. (Canning Vale, Western Australia) Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP), Murdoch University
Mr. Shafqat Hussain (New Haven, CT, USA) Student, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Ichiro Imai (Sanda city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan) School of Policy Studies, Kwanseigakuin University
Mr. Showkat Iqbal (Raja Rammohunpur, West Bengal, India) Student, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, Darjeeling, India
Bruce Jefferies(New Zealand) Forest Department, Sarawak, Malaysia (Wildlife Master Plan Project)
Margaret Jefferies (New Zealand)
Darja Jenko (Kamniik, Slovenia)
Ms. Norma Decrepito Jumilla (Davao City, Philippines) Department of Tourism, Magsaaysay Park, Davao City, Philippines
Dr. Sunil Kainthola (Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India) Secretary Janaadhar & Convener, Alliance for Development, Uttarakhand
Dr. Ranjan S. Karippai (Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India) Asst. Prof. in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Agricultural Extension, Kerala Agricltural University
Mr. Bhaskar Singh Karky (Kathmandu, Nepal) Programme Officer, Annapurna Conservation Area Project, King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation
Ms. Isabella Khadka, Information Management and Communications Division (IMCO), ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Narendra Raj Khanal, Professor, Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Martha Kiley-Worthington, professor, Girton College, Cambridge UK
Mr. Pankaj Kumar (Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India)
Mr. Kazuya Kurita
(Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan) Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Mr. Simon Hing Yeung Lo (Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR) Professor, Institute of Human Performance, The University of Hong Kong
Mr. Lesmana Lurie, industrial engineer
Dr. Aníbal Manzur (Luján, Mendoza, Argentina) Director, Natural Protected Areas, Natural Renewal Resource Administration , Mendoza Province, Argentina
Mr. Prashant Maurya (Goa, India) Representing Visit India Tours & Travels
Mr. Brendan Joseph Mendes (Mumbai, India) Graphics Artist, USL, Mumbai, India
Ad. Amitava Mukherjee (New Delhi, India) Executive Director,
Development Tracks
Ms. Pratibha S Naithani (Mumbai, Maharastra, India) Department of Political Science, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Mr. Tapan Kumar Nath (Chittagong, Bangladesh) Assistant Professor, Institute of Forestry & Environmental Sciences,University of Chittagong, Chittagong,Bangladesh
Md. Shah Newaz (Chittagong, Bangladesh) Assistant Professor, Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong
Mr. Sjoerd Nienhuys ( Kathmandu, Nepal) Architect,
Senior Renewable Energy Advisor, SNV Nepal.
Mr. Balaraju Nikku (India) Student, Irrigation and Water Engineering Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
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Dr. Samuel Iyiola Oni (Lagos, Nigeria) Department of Geography
University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
Nkemakonam Dickson Orji (Enugu, Nigeria) Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka , Anambra Nigeria
Ms. Elizabeth Scholl Pazdernik (Baltimore, Maryland) Student, Geography & Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Ram Kumar Panday (Kathmandu, Nepal) Professor and Head, Department of Geography Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Dr. Tara Nath Pande (Palmerston North, New Zealand) Student, Pasture and Crops, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Srikanta Panigrahi (New Delhi, India) Former UNEP/UNESCO Fellow, Consultant(Environment), Planning Commission, India
Ms. Neeta Pokhrel (Kathmandu, Nepal) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London
Dr. Krishna Prasad Poudel Professor, Department of Geography Education, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Padma Chandra Poudel General Secretary, Nepal Geographical Society;
Professor, Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Shreekar Pradhan (Lalitpur, Nepal) M.Sc. Student, Center for Energy Studies
Mr. Maurya Kumar Prashant Travel agent, Margao (Goa), India
Mr. Aftab-ur-Rehman Rana (Islamabad, Pakistan) Director General, Adventure Foundation Pakistan
Binay Rana (Kathmandu, Nepal) International Center for Integrated Development of Mountains (ICIMOD)
Mr. Dhan Singh Rana (Lata, Chamoli, India) Leader of the local resistance movement
Ms. Greta M. Pennington Rana (Kathmandu, Nepal) Information,Communications and Outreach, ICIMOD
Ms. Sarit Rana (Kathmandu, Nepal) International Center for Integrated Development of Mountains (ICIMOD)
Dr. Kate Rawles (Ulverston, Cumbria, UK) Member, Lancaster University
Mr. Dhananjay Regmi (Kirtipur, Nepal) Student, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido university
Mr. Robin E. Reid (Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada)
Faculty of Tourism, University College of the Cariboo
Dr. Vasant Kabir Saberwal (New Delhi, India) Director, Moving Images
Ms. Alka Sabharwal (New Delhi, India) Associate Expert-Ecotourism, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sudhir Sahi (New Delhi, India) Tourism & Environment Services Consultant
Miss Azeezat Abimbola Sanni (Lagos, Nigeria) Student, Business Administration, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Dr. Vishwambhar Prasad Sati (Shivpuri, MP, India) Assistant Professor, Geography Govt. PG College, Shivpuri, MP INDIA
Mr. Babar Shahbaz (Islamabad, Pakistan) Sustainable development Policy
Institute (SDPI), Islamabad
Mr. Ujol Sherchan (Kathmandu, Nepal) Information Management and Communications Outreach, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Ang Tshering Sherpa (Kathmandu, Nepal) Trek Leader, World Expeditions, Baluwatar, Kathmandu.
Dr. Lhakpa N. Sherpa (Shegar Township, Dingri County, Tibet Autonomous Republic, China) Manager,
Qomolangma Conservation Programme.
Mingma Norbu Sherpa (Kathmandu, Nepal) Environment Specialist, Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Programme (TRPAP)
Mr. Phudorji Lama Sherpa (Kathmandu, Nepal) Student, Wesleyan University, CT, USA
P. T. Sherpa (Kathmandu, Nepal) Director of the Kathmandu Environmental Education Project (KEEP)
Tsedam Sherpa (Namche Bazar, Khumbu, Nepal) proprietor, International Mountain Equipment, Namche Bazar, Nepal
Mr. Anil Kumar Shrestha (Hetauda, Nepal) Institute of Forestry, Hetauda, Nepal
Ganesh Ram Shrestha (Tripureswore,
Kathmandu, Nepal) Executive Director,
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)
Dr. Seth Sicroff (Ithaca, NY, USA), Director, Bridges: Projects in Rational Tourism Development
Dr. Mika Sillanpää (Oulo, Finnland) Professor, University of Oulo
Mr. Paramjeet Singh (New Delhi, India) Architect
Ms. Pratima Singh (Ahmedabad, India) Senior Research Fellow,
School of Planning, Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology
RKP Singh (Barapani, India)
Scientist, Agril Engg Division,
ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region,
Barapani- 793103 (Meghalaya) INDIA
Dr. Durojaye Adebola Soewu
(Ago-Iwoye, Ogun, Nigeria) Professor, Biological Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University
Campbell Spencer (Australia) Journalist
Junko Tabei director of Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan (HAT-J),an organization dedicated preserving mountain enviroments; First Woman to Summit Mt. Everest (1975), First Woman to do the "Seven Summits" (highest peak on each continent) Honorary Chair of the NC Organizing Committee
Mr. Toshihiro Tsukihara (Fukui, Japan) Associate Professor, Department of Regional Enviromnent Studies, Fukui University, Fukui, Japan
Mrs. Pranita Bhushan Udas (Nepal) Student, Irrigation and Water Engineering Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
Mrs. Nazeli Vardanyan (Yerevan, Armenia) Director, "Yanus" Environmental-Legal NGO, Armenian Forest Program
Ivan Guram Vashakmadze (Tbilisi, Georgia) Director, Sustainable Tourism Center, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Moses Vaughan (Mill Valley, CA USA) Architect.
Dr. Teiji Watanabe (Sapporo, Japan) Associate Professor, Laboratory of Geoecology,
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan
Joseph Oswald Wenisch (Kathmandu, Nepal) Student, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; and Tribhuvan University, Kathmand, Nepal
Vladislav Zagoroul'ko Forest Institute, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk
Filial, Russia.
Guillermo F. Garcia Zamora (Chacras de Coria, Mendoza, Argentina)
