GREEN Foundation About Staff

1. Dr. Vanaja Ramprasad
Director, GREEN Foundation.
Vanaja Ramprasad started her career in a Community Health Programme in 1973. This set her on a search for viable answers to the problem of poverty and malnutrition. She has worked with many grass root level organisations to seek funding support for facilitating planning, monitoring and evaluating development programmes. She has been actively involved in issues relating to women and population control, rational use of medicines, alternative health care systems and now alternative agricultural practices. In 1992 she initiated the seed conservation programme in the backward border areas of Tamilnadu and Karnataka. Vanaja Ramprasad has a very strong spiritual leaning and believes in nature's order of evolution.

2. Mr. Krishna Prasad,G.
Our environmental enthusiast who has a keen interest in photography, Krishnaprasad is a qualified Environmental Engineer who is deeply committed to the work of Bio-diversity conservation from past 12 years. Presently, he is involved in networking with different NGOs for implementing seed conservation activities and establishment of community seed banks in different parts of Karnataka, which is an offshoot of GREEN Foundation's decade of effort to conserve agricultural diversity in subsistence crops. He received the prize for the best freelance writer on agricultural matters in Karnataka in 2002.

3. Mr. Srikanth
Post graduate in agriculture with specialization in Soil Sciences and Agriculture Chemistry. Initial work experience in pesticide residue analysis and digital analysis of remote sensing data for crop acreage and production estimation. Strong expertise in varietal multiplication, commercial seed production of vegetables, cotton, field crops and oilseeds crops, plant varietal purification, integrated pest and diseases management, plant nutrition, demonstration and multi locational trails, product management and agricultural extensions research in organic farming and business development product promotion.

4. Mr. Srikanta Murthy
A Masters in sociology and post graduate diploma in human resoure management. For over 2 decades involved in rural community development, watershed development and management, and rural livelihood projects.

5. Mr. Mahesh . K
Financial custodian of GREEN Foundation. He is our accounts manager, Masters in commerce, effcient and genius in his work. He, in his earlier stint worked with a leading chartered accounting firm associated only with the NGOs, auditing their works. He was deputed to Sri Lanka for Tsunami Financial assessment for the donors.

6. Mr. Shivakumar
A law graduate. Involved in rural development and poverty allevation, authority in soil conservation and watershed program and trainer in rural capcity building for village development committee.

7. Mr. Ningappa Kakkol
Post graduate in agriculture with specialization in Agronomy. Has initial work experience as Research Associate in University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. Has expertise as agricultural specialist in Rural Management, Consultancy at community level and Agricultural Research with community participation.

8.Mr. Madhu S.K.
Post graduate in agriculture with specialization in Agronomy.

9. Ms. Veena
Post graduate in agriculture. Documentalist with GREEN incharge of documenting of our research activities and publications. She is a person with a innovative bent of mind and commited to the cause.

10. Dr. B.R. Athani
Basically a veterinary graduate with post graudation in Rural Development Managment (IRMA) and bioinformatics. He has a vast experience of 20+ years in dairy industry, particularly community baed organisations, livelihood, promotion, rural enterprises, marketing and enterprise management solutions. His areas of interest are agrobiodiversity conservation and promotion of livestock based livelihood interventions.

11. Mr. Shivaraj.C. Hunagund
Post graduate in environmental biology,Apiculturest and applying this knowledge in five districts of North Karnataka. . He is also responsible to disseminate the GREEN Foundation activities in the network project area.

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Our Co-staff Members
In addition to the above, Green Foundation has 16 Field Managers employed across three projects many of whom have degrees in agricultural, commerce or related subjects. In addition a small head office team of 5 provide administrative support on project initiation and financial control. A staff of 4 are employed at the model farm and training and seed conservation centre at Thalli.

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Members Of The Governing Council

Dr. Sudha Premnath
An ecologist with a docotoral degree in ecological sciences he has worked with CEE, Bangalore on their education programme and is now teaching at the Valley School of Krishnamurthy Foundation in Bangalore.

Dr. Arunachalam
A well known plant breeder in South India, he is currently working with MSSRF as chief consultant for a participatory crop improvement research project. He facilitates GREEN Foundation's Participatory Plant Breeding Programme.

Swamy Jai Chaitanya Dasa
He is the Vice President of the Hare Krishna movement in Bangalore and practices biodynamic agriculture.

Dr. G.N.S. Reddy
Director of BAIF Karnataka and an expert in livestock management .

Prof. Ramesh
Lawyer of the National Law School, Heads the Center for Environmental law and advocacy CERA

Dr. O.B. Reddy
Senior Scientist working in National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bangalore

Dr. Vanaja Ramprasad
Founder and Director, GREEN Foundation has spent the three decades in the field of health and nutrition and initiated the work on seed conservation. She is also a member of the Governing Council of Karnataka Watershed Development.

Ms. Neelam,
Trustee of Indus Tree Foundation, working with artisans to develop handicrafts.

Dr. Irfan,
A fellow scientist from ATREE working on Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing.

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Our Trustees

Dr. H. Sudharshan
The Founder Director of Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK), working with the Soliga tribes for the past 25 years in B.R.Hills, Chamarajanagar district. He is also a steering committee member of Karnataka Lokayukta and has been honoured with the Right livelihood Award and Devaraj Urs award by Government of Karnataka.

Prof. A.R. Vasavi
An anthropologist working with National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore as a senior faculty member of the Institute.

Dr. Vanaja Ramaprasad
Founder and Director of Green Foundation and a member of the Governing Council of KAWAD.

Mr. Doraiswamy Ashok
He is Chief Executive of Gossamer Solutions, a Management Consultancy firm and is also a Faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in the area of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems.

Dr. Eswara Prasad
He is a member of Tavistock Institute's Advanced Organisation Consultation Society. He is involved with organizational consultancy, research and training for a variety or organizations.

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