Program Manager Ruchi Chaudhary has a successful track record of implementing innovative and gender-transformative programs in global organisations, and has handled multiple grant projects from bilateral and multilateral donors and private institutions under their CSR initiatives. Her expertise is in the areas of grants management, child protection and safeguarding, gender equality and social inclusion, girls’ […]

Director   Sanjay Vashist has been actively working towards mobilising civil society action on climate policies in countries of South Asia and the region. Under his leadership, CAN South Asia’s membership base has increased from 20 to 200+ NGOs, spread across countries of the South Asian region. The network has successfully consolidated the climate actions […]

Program Coordinator Santosh Patnaik has been at the forefront of working with community-led initiatives, first in natural resource management and later in the nexus of bioenergy and community-based adaptation. His interest areas include resilience planning at a local level, participatory research, and knowledge-driven policy advocacy. He is also proficient in the dissemination of research findings, […]

Senior Advisor, Communications & Advocacy Shailendra Yashwant is a photographer, journalist, and activist based in India. He has been investigating, documenting, reporting, and campaigning on environmental issues across Asia for over three decades now. He was Campaigns Director with Greenpeace in India and Southeast Asia (1998-2013) and has partnered with leading international NGOs to develop […]

Head of Finance Tinu Sood, member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, has immense experience across industries and has advised on various issues involving corporate taxation, and accounting matters. In his current capacity, Tinu Sood is responsible for maintaining the balance sheets, and seamless management of the annual audit process, wherein the organization’s financial […]

Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri is Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Pakistan’s premier policy research think-tank. Till 2022, he served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council/National Economic Advisory Council for three terms, and the National Advisory Council of the Planning Commission of Pakistan.  Currently, he serves as a member of […]

Md Shamsuddoha is the Chief Executive of Center for Participatory Research and Development –CPRD (www.cprdbd.org), a policy think tank in Bangladesh. Being a marine scientist by training, over the last two decades, Md Shamsuddoha has turned to a development enthusiast with his progressive involvement in research, advocacy and activism. He is conversant with the UNFCCC […]

Dr Md. Golam Rabbani is Head of the Climate Bridge Fund Secretariat at BRAC (Building Resources Across Communities) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was a key team member involved in preparing Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (2005), the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC (2012), as well as the Adaptation Chapter for the Third National Communication […]

Mujtaba Bashari is Board Member of the Afghanistan Environmental Experts Association, and was GEF Program Manager at the World Conservation Society, Afghanistan program. He was also with the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of Small Grant Programme (UNDP) and member of Global Youth Biodiversity Network. He is presently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Environmental […]

Sarath Ekanayake is Secretary, CABRE (Center for Applied Biodiversity Research and Education) – a partner organisation of CANSA. Concurrently, he serves as a consultant plant ecologist of IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Sri Lanka, and a member of the species expert committee of the Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka. He has worked with the […]