Kamaljit Singh Bawa

Kamal Bawa is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Founder-President of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), one of India’s top-ranked environmental think tanks based in Bangalore. He has worked in the Himalaya for a number of years on a wide range of issues from biodiversity conservation to climate change. Among the many awards he has received are: Guggenheim Fellowship (1987), Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment (1992), the Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability Science from the Royal Norwegian Society of Letters and Sciences (2012), and the international MIDORI Prize in Biodiversity (2014) from the Aeon Foundation in Japan. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society. His latest book Himalaya: The Mountains of Life, a companion volume to Sahyadri: India’s Western Ghats, was published in 2013.

Kamal Bawa is Editor-in-Chief of Conservation and Society (www.conservationandsociety.org) and a new journal Ecology, Economy and Society