Sudipto Chatterjee, Associate Professor at, TER School of Advanced Studies where he teaches Biodiversity and Conservation and Wildlife Conservation and Management. , He has been working for conservation of forests and biodiversity since 1992. He worked as Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Specialist in Sikkim Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Management Project, Govt. of Sikkim, as Heads of Forests Conservation Programme of WWF-India and Biodiversity and Conservation programme of Winrock International India. He served as Team Member Biodiversity in the Technical Facilitation Organization for the Sustainable Ecosystem and Land Management Country Partnership Project at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Govt. of India. He worked as Heads the Communities and Biodiversity Division and Forests and Carbon Division of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). He received the Whitley Associate Award, 2009 from Whitley Fund for Nature, UK for conservation of Rhododendrons in Eastern Himalaya. He is the Co Lead in the Global Challenge Research Fund supported project on impacts on pollution on forests of Himalaya as Lichens as an indicator.