报告人：Ishwaran Natarjhan 

题目：Agroecology Research and Development 2020-2030: opportunities in China

时间：11月21日，下午2:00

地点：资环楼B211

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附-学者简介：

Ishwaran is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Environmental Development (Elsevier) and is a Visiting Professor and advisor to the International (UNESCO) Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) in Beijing, China.

Ishwaran holds a B.Sc (Honors) in Zoology and a M.Sc in ecology and conservation from Sri Lanka. He received his Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife (Wildlife Biology and Management) from Michigan State University, USA; he was a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Award for graduate studies in the USA.

Ishwaran has more than 40 years of experience on wildlife conservation, protected area management, natural heritage, environment and sustainable development. His career originated with research on wild elephants and their conservation in the context of large-scale river valley development projects in Sri Lanka. In 1986 he joined UNESCO as a natural heritage specialist and built a 26-year career in UNESCO serving important positions including Program Specialist for Environment, Science and Heritage in UNESCO, Jakarta, Indonesia (1993-1996), Chief, Natural Heritage Section, World Heritage Centre (1996-2004) and Director, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences and Secretary of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program (2004-2012). After leaving UNESCO in 2012 he was enrolled as a “State recruited expert” under the “Thousand Talents Program” of the Chinese Government for a 3-year period and helped to develop HIST (see above) as a UNESCO Category 2 Centre dedicated to applying space technologies for conservation, monitoring and management of UNESCO designated World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks. During 2016-2018 he has been a recipient of international fellowships offered by the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has facilitated HIST to develop partnerships and projects in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands and with another UNESCO Category 2 Centre based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo for collaboration with several African countries.

He has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed academic/scholarly journals and has good public speaking and negotiations skills for developing projects and programs dedicated to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. He is interested and dedicated to combining conservation and development initiatives in large landscapes under the framework of UN Conventions such as UNFCCC, CBD and UNCCD.