Kamaljit Bawa - Session 05, 2020-08-26

Kamaljit Singh Bawa, born in 1939, in Punjab, India, is a distinguished evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist. He earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees from Punjab University. He is the founder of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research interests include climate change in the Eastern Himalayas, plant population biology, reproductive traits of plants and biodiversity and global change. Bawa’s remarkable achievements, amongst many, include receiving the first Gunnerus Sustainability Award in 2012 and being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.