Sunita Narain, 2007 Mentor

Personal Profile:
Sunita Narain has been with the Centre for Science and Environment from 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down to Earth.

In her years at the Centre, she has worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development and at creating public consciousness about the need for sustainable development.

Over the years, she has also developed the management and financial support systems needed for the institution, which has over 100 staff members and a dynamic programme profile. She is currently in charge of the Centre’s management and plays an active role in a number of research projects and public campaigns.

Her research interests are wide-ranging - from global democracy, with a special focus on climate change, to the need for local democracy, within which she has worked both on forest-related resource management and water-related issues. She began her career by writing and researching for the State of India’s Environment reports and then went on to study issues related to forest management. For this project she travelled across the country to understand people’s management of natural resources and in 1989 co-authored the publication Towards Green Villages advocating local participatory democracy as the key to sustainable development. In the early 1990s she got involved with global environmental issues and she continues to work on these as researcher and advocate.

Currently resides in:
New Delhi, India

Website:
www.cseindia.org

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