Resume

• 2002

  PhD

  Natural Resources Governance

  Michigan State University

• 1988

  Post Graduate

  Indian Institute of Forest Management

  RIGHTS AND RESOURCES INITIATIVE | NOVEMBER 2020 Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversi...

  Final_Rights_Conservation_RRI_05-01-2021.pdf

• 1985

  BSc Honors

  Physics

  St. Stephen's College

• Policy

  International Development

  Qualitative Research

  Economics

  Analysis

  Research

  Capacity Building

  Science

  Policy Analysis

  Natural Resource Management

  Sustainability

  Higher Education

  Data Analysis

  Environmental Awareness

  Statistics

  Program Evaluation

  Nonprofits

  Community Development

  Climate Change

  Sustainable Development

  Erasing the Swiddens: Shifting Cultivation

  Land and Forest Rights in Odisha

  Erasing the Swiddens: Shifting Cultivation

  Land and Forest Rights in Odisha

  Territorialisation and Marginalisation in the forested landscapes of Orissa

  India

  Territorialisation and Marginalisation in the forested landscapes of Orissa

  India

  Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world

  Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world

  Democratic Assertions: The Making of India's Recognition of Forest Rights Act

  Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?

  Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity?

  Decentralisation and democratic forest reforms in India: Moving to a rights-based approach

  Confronting Extractive Capital: Social and Environmental Movements in Orissa

  Confronting Extractive Capital: Social and Environmental Movements in Orissa

  The Opportunity Framework 2020 Identifying Opportunities to Invest in Securing Collective Tenure Rights in the Forest Areas of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  The Opportunity Framework 2020 Identifying Opportunities to Invest in Securing Collective Tenure Rights in the Forest Areas of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  The sacred mountain: confronting global capital at Niyamgiri

  Promise and Performance of the Forest Rights Act A Ten-year Review

  Promise and Performance of the Forest Rights Act A Ten-year Review

  Kumar

  Rights and Resources Initiative

  University of Toronto

  Michigan State University

  National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

  India

  Michigan State University

  Rights and Resources Initiative

  Washington DC

  Director

  Asia Program

  National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)

  India

  Assistant Professor

  University of Toronto

  Toronto

  Ontario

  Canada

  Independent Researcher/Advocate for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

  Regional Director

  Asia

  Rights and Resources Initiative