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Professor Prodyut Bhattacharya is former Dean of University School of Environment Management at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Government of NCT of Delhi, New Delhi. Currently, he is Professor in the area of Natural Resource Management. He has 26 years of experience in research, training, and teaching post-graduate and PhD students. Professor Bhattacharya is also Fellow of Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) of the University of California, Berkley, USA and Visiting Scientist Fellowship (JSPS) under University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has received advance training on community forestry and microfinance from RECOFTC, Kassetsart University, Bangkok and University of Naropa, Colorado, USA. He has worked as Associate Professor with the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal, under Ministry of Environment and Forests, Goverment of India. He was the founder Coordinator to set up the International Centre for Community Forestry (ICCF) at IIFM, Bhopal.