Pranab Ranjan Choudhury

Pranab is a passionate researcher and an empathetic soul, eager to contribute to sustainability and equity, globally and locally. For more than 25 years, he has been working around inter-disciplinary issues related to natural resources management and governance in global south, with governments, DFIs, (I)NGOs, and communities.

He started his journey as a Scientist with India’s National Agriculture Research System, developing model watersheds to restore hill landscapes and tribal livelihoods, that led to the prestigious National Award in 2002. To serve the development sector more flexibly, he left his job after a decade and since then, has expanded his engagements around water, livelihoods, forestry, and land, building evidence and making recognizable impacts, at the national and international level. He has led and guided large scale bilateral and multi-country projects around climate change, food security, forestry and livelihoods and has accompanied and evaluated donor-funded projects around NRM, livelihoods and value chain projects across South Asia.