Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati

Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati is an internationally renowned conservation and development specialist with close to three decades of experience working at national, regional and international levels, holding positions such as Vice-Chancellor, TransDisciplinary University (TDU, India); Chief of Biodiversity, Land Law and Governance programmes at United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment, Kenya); Senior Policy Fellow at Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI, Norway); Chairman, National Biodiversity Authority-Government of India (NBA, India); Coordinator, Biodiplomacy Programme at United Nations University (UNU-IAS, Japan); Head, Regional Biodiversity Programme for Asia at the World Conservation Union (IUCN, Sri Lanka); Head, Biodiversity and Biotechnology programme at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF, India). He has advised more than 30 countries on conservation and development policy and served as advisor to international bodies such as the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and others.

Currently, he is the Chairperson of FLEDGE based in India. He can reached at [email protected]