1. Professor Prabhat Datta, (President): He held the Centenary Chair  of Public Administration in the Department of Political Science , University of Calcutta (1993—February 2014). Currently he is working as the Honorary Adjunct Professor , Institute of Development Studies Kolkata sponsored by the Government of west Bengal.  

He had earlier worked as Honorary Adviser , State Institute of Panchayats and Rural Development and Institute of Local Government and Urban Studies , Government of West Bengal. He served as a member of the executive Committee of number of Government Organizations like Society for Training and Research in Panchayats and Rural Development ,  Society for Training and Research in Urban Governance .  He was a member of the Municipal Law Review Committee, Municipal Administration Reforms Committee and worked as a chairperson of the Technical  Advisory Group, Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission, West Bengal  . He was vice President of the Indian Institute of Public Administration , West Bengal Regional Branch  He has been elected  to the Board of Directors of the Asian Association of Public Administration ( 2014—2016). He had worked as a member of the Executive Committee of the professional bodies like Indian Public Administration Association and Indian Political Science Association. He was a member of the University Grants Commission Panel on Political Science and Public Administration. He worked as  a nominee of the Government of India on the General Body of the Moulana Adul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies His specializations include Indian government and politics, democratic decentralization in India in general and West Bengal, in particular. He has published more 20 books and 100 articles in reputed national and international journals He has participated as an invited speaker in more than a dozen international conference

2.  Professor Dipankar Sinha, (Vice-President): Dipankar Sinha is Professor and former Head, of the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta. He is also Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, Nominated Member, Association of Third World Studies (USA) and Honorary Associate of the Centre for Media History in Macquarie University, Sidney. He also works in the advisory capacity in governmental and non-governmental organizations. He has publications in leading international and national journals and edited volumes published from India and abroad. Sinha’s most recent book is Development Narratives: Walking the Field in Rural West Bengal (Orient Blackswan, 2014). It has a chapter on evaluation of development intervention in the Sunderbans.

3. Mr. Partha Pratim Mitra, Former Principal Advisor(IES), Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India. Partha Pratim Mitra is a former Indian Economic Service Officer in the Government of India. He is an expert on matters of Rural Development, Social Justice, Banking, Economic Affairs, Commerce and Industry, and has been one of the top economic advisors to the Government on subjects of his expertise. Introduction The focus of the study is to identify the reasons for their remaining poor and backward, and designing a skills and employment strategy based on the ground conditions as revealed by the census data. ; Environmentalist, Researcher, Author.

4.    Professor Anirudda Mukherjee, Professor, Environmental Science, Calcutta University.

5.    Mr. Tilak basu, Scientist, Engineer WaterPlant Social Worker; Environmentalist,  Researcher, Author.

6.  Mr. Uday Kumar Mandal, A local inhabitant      and a Traditional forest-dweller of the Sundarbans, Retired Teacher,  (Sundarban); Social Worker; Grassroots Environmentalist.

7. Professor Suvasis Saha, Dept of Business Management Calcutta  University; Former Executive Body Member of SHUSHRI; Researcher on Eco-Tourism in Sundarban a Marketing Perspective (UGC Project) and Organic farm  in  Sundarban. Environmentalist; social worker; author. 

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