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Dr. Neharika Vohra

Director

Ex-Vice Chancellor at Delhi Skill & Entrepreneurship University, Prof. Dr. Neharika Vohra has been a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad for over two decades where she headed 'Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship’ (CIIE). She is a passionate advocate of skill based education and believes that 'Behind everything we consume, or has survived over time, the underlying issue is skill and it doesn't come by learning theory.’

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Priya V

Founder Director

Trainer, entrepreneur, storyteller - over the past 25 years Priya has designed and delivered experiential programs to explore nature, leadership and team performance. Priya began her nature journey as a WWF volunteer (1998) and continues as a resource person with Ecoedu, Jungle Lodges and Resorts, WWF-India. Priya has helped to develop the qualification packs for the Nature Guide and Naturalist roles for the sectoral skills council and is India's first Master Trainer (TR178868) with the MSDE for these job roles. She has also helped to institute India's only credit course in Nature & Wildlife Interpretation at Bangalore University. As a climate ambassador Priya has had the distinction of being both in the Arctic and Antarctic Circles in 2019 on an expedition to explore climate change and sustainability

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Sanjai Mohan IFS (Rtd)

Mentor & Advisor

Shri. Sanjai Mohan IFS is ex-Head of Forest Force, Karnataka. He has managed various positions in the Forest Department throughout his tenure including being the Chief Wildlife Warden of the State. Among other positions, he has worked as CEO of Karnataka Ecotourism Development Board and MD of Jungle Lodges and Resorts. He has initiated projects for conservation of smaller wildlife (canids), Great Indian Bustard, Floricans, endemic Mahseer and established the states first Vulture breeding centre. Sanjai Mohan also has been instrumental in facilitating the declaration of Karnataka’s State Butterfly - The Southern Birdwing. A learner and a naturalist at heart, Sanjai Mohan has a gleam in his eye even today when he spots a tiny butterfly or a lovely jumping spider.

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Karthikeyan Srinivasan

Chief Naturalist JLR & Technical Advisor

Karthikeyan has been educating and creating awareness among the young and old on various aspects of natural history through nature camps, talks and nature-based activities for over 40 years. He began as an Education Officer, Karnataka State Office with WWF-India for 14 years and currently serves as the Chief Naturalist, Jungle Lodges & Resorts Ltd. since 2006. He also serves concurrently as the Chief Trainer KEDB, Karnataka State. Karthik has over 30 publications in technical journals to his credit and authors the wildly popular wildwanderer.com. His field guides on Avenue Trees, Common Spiders & Butterflies have served many a hobbyist over the years. He has been conferred the Carl Zeiss Award for Conservation in 2013.

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Prof. Dr. N. Nandini

Academic Advisor

Dr. Nandini a professor and the chairperson of Dept. of Environmental Science, Bangalore University (Retd.). Prof. Nandini has several international and national publications with 6 books to her credit. She has a teaching and research experience spanning 30 years. In 2008, As an active member of the Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC), Dr. Nandini has documented Bengaluru’s biodiversity for its first People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR). 11 years after the PBR submission, she has been again invited on the new board constituted by the BBMP in 2021.

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Dr. Bitapi Sinha

Academic Advisor

Dr. Bitapi Sinha as faculty in the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) has been involved in nature interpretation, conservation education, and wildlife tourism since 1993. Her interests include low-cost planning and development of interpretive facilities, understanding the attitudes of tourists and benefit of wildlife tourism to the community living around the protected areas. She has developed nature interpretive facilities in India and Bangladesh alongwith training guides for visitor management in protected areas. She is also involved in planning and preparing curriculum-based conservation education programs for students.