Overseas Advisers and Consultants

Overseas Advisers and Consultants

Dr. Shaun Russell

Dr. Shaun Russell is currently the Director, Treborth Botanic Garden, Bangor University and was the Director, Wales Environment Research Hub (WEHR), Bangor, UK. from 2007 to 2015. He is also the former Deputy Director (Training), Centre for Arid Zone Studies, Bangor University, Darwin Research Fellow, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent at Canterbury and an Environment Adviser (Biological Sciences, Forestry, Fisheries and Food Science), British Council, Manchester. Some of the additional responsibilities held by him in the past were as a Part-time Lecturer (Biodiversity Conservation), College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Wales. Representative to the UK Open Air Learning (OPAL) Citizen Science Committee, Member, Darwin Expert Committee (UK Government, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, “Darwin Initiative”), Member, Management Group, UK Environmental Observation Framework (UK and devolved governments, departments and agencies), Member, Welsh Government environmental management and biodiversity advisory committees. Visiting Professor of Natural Resources, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. In India, Dr Russell previously co-delivered a major series of specialist training courses for IFS personnel in the UK, funded by the British aid program and for three years he directed the UK Foreign Office-funded training programme in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development for leading young environmental scholars from India. Dr Russell has carried out many biodiversity conservation advisory missions to India including: Government-funded workshops on wildlife crime in New Delhi and Assam (Kaziranga National Park); conservation management training at IGNFA and WII, Dehra Dun; protected area management training for IFS officers in Karnataka; ecotourism assessment at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur and an ecosystem assessment mission for the Government of Maharashtra.

Dr. Shaun Russell

Director, Operations, Overseas Projects

Prof. Mark Everard

International Adviser

Prof. Mark Everard

Professor Mark Everard is a scientist, author and broadcaster based in the UK but having worked widely across the developing and the developed worlds.  He now works principally as an academic, consultant for various intergovernmental bodies and businesses, author, and adviser to a range of NGOs; formerly, Mark worked for 22 years in the public sector.  Mark has a lifelong passion for wildlife, water and aquatic life particularly including fish – his PhD in 1983 was on aquatic ecosystems – and he is a science communicator having published 40 books and many scientific papers and press articles, also contributing regularly to television and radio.  As a systems scientist, Mark sees everything as interconnected – including human lifestyles fully interdependent with supporting ecosystems and their amazing array of species – and that recognition of this connectivity in all of our societal activities is vital for us to achieve a sustainable future.

Dr. Fredric Landy

Frédéric Landy is a professor of geography at the university of Paris-Nanterre, France, and a former Director of the French Institute of Pondicherry, India (2016-20). He has coordinated the UNPEC project (Urban National Parks in Emerging Countries and Cities—Mumbai, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town) (2012-17). In the project entitled “Whose landscape in Asia?” (2014-18), he investigated indigeneity in Uttarakhand, Nepal, China and Laos through the study of ecotourism and heritage making of the agrarian landscape. He is now working mostly on agroecology in South India and on environmental diseases in Singapore.

In English he is the author of Feeding India. The spatial parameters of food grain policy, Manohar-CSH, 2009. He has co-authored Food and agriculture in India. From Independence to globalization, Manohar-CSH-Quae, 2009, and edited From urban national parks to natured cities in the global South: The quest for naturbanity, Springer, 2018. He has also co-edited Megacity slums. Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India, Imperial College Press, 2013, Reconfiguring Identities and Building Territories in India and South Africa, Manohar, 2005, and Globalization and local development in India. Examining the spatial dimension, Manohar, 2004.

Prof. Frédéric Landy

International Adviser

International Consultant

Director Treborth Botanic Garden. He is associated with Bangor University and has served as the Director, Wales Environment Research Hub. He is Associate Adviser (Environment), British Council and Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile. His field of expertise are Natural Resources Conservation, Ecotourism International Capacity Building and EIA.

Dr. Fredric Landy

Professor, Department of geography, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense (formerly Paris 10), France. He is Head, laboratory Gecko, University of Paris Ouest, Honorary Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France (2003-2008) and Associate fellow, Centre of Studies on India and South Asia (CEIAS) (CNRS- EHESS), Paris. His field of expertise is Social Geography, Sustainable and Conservation Oriented Development

Dr. Collin Price

Retd Senior Professor, Bangor University, United Kingdom. He is World renowned Environmental Economist

Dr. Shitij Mehta

Environmental Sciences Research Institute, USA His expertise lies in Technology Development and Applications

Dr. Rahul Rakshit

Project Manager, Holmes Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He specializes in GIS project management, Lab setup, QA/QC GIS troubleshooting, Training, Image interpretation