DR. GHANASHYAM SHARMA — SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Programme Manager & Head, The Mountain Institute – India, Gangtok, Sikkim banstolag@gmail.com · +91 95475 04405 · ORCID 0009-0006-1435-3976 Three lengths are supplied below. Please use whichever fits your programme, and do not alter the figures — every number is checked against his CV. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 WORDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ghanashyam Sharma is a Himalayan ecologist and agroecologist, and Head of The Mountain Institute – India in Gangtok, Sikkim. Across thirty-two years he has published around 91 works and led 22 projects as Principal Investigator. He is also a practising traditional farmer of forty-eight years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 150 WORDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ghanashyam Sharma is a Himalayan ecologist and agroecologist, Programme Manager and Head of The Mountain Institute – India in Gangtok, Sikkim, and a practising traditional farmer of forty-eight years from an indigenous farming family whose practice goes back two hundred years. Over thirty-two years he has produced around 91 publications, including 27 international peer-reviewed articles and seven authored books, and has led 22 projects as Principal Investigator worth ₹5.68 crore. His work has revived some 150 springs, established 20 community seed banks, and supported 196 Biodiversity Management Committees and 196 People's Biodiversity Registers across Sikkim. He holds a doctorate in ecology and environment and was a JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University, Tokyo, selected one of five globally. He received the Sikkim Sewa Samman, the state's highest civilian award, in 2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 300 WORDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ghanashyam Sharma is a Himalayan ecologist and agroecologist, Programme Manager and Head of The Mountain Institute – India in Gangtok, Sikkim. He is also a practising traditional farmer of forty-eight years, from an indigenous farming family whose practice in the Sikkim Himalaya goes back two hundred years — a dual identity that runs through all of his work. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environment (2003) for research on productivity and nutrient cycling in an age series of Alnus–cardamom agroforestry in the Sikkim Himalaya, published in Annals of Botany. From 2005 to 2007 he was a JSPS–UNU Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University, Tokyo, selected one of five globally, and concurrently an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Across thirty-two years he has produced around 91 publications — 27 international peer-reviewed articles, seven authored books and 20 international book chapters — and has led 22 projects as Principal Investigator worth ₹5.68 crore, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, NABARD, ICIMOD, JICA, Arghyam, TERI and the Government of India among others. His applied work includes the revival of around 150 springs, 35 rivulets and three lakes across Sikkim and Kalimpong, benefiting more than 20,000 households; 20 community seed banks; a phased revival strategy for large cardamom adopted as state policy in 2023; the technical volume behind Sikkim's State Policy on Organic Farming; and 196 Biodiversity Management Committees with 196 People's Biodiversity Registers. He coordinated the process and wrote the technical report supporting FAO recognition of Sikkim Himalayan agriculture as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. He has presented some 92 papers across 19 or more countries, serves on nine state statutory and advisory committees, reviews for 16 international journals, and holds the Sikkim Sewa Samman (2013). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- STILL TO BE SUPPLIED -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TODO: high-resolution headshot — add as headshot.jpg in this folder TODO: full CV as PDF — add as ghanashyam-sharma-cv.pdf in this folder