Dr. Dilip is Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest and carries around 34 years of experience in Indian Forest Service. He has served forest department at various level including Divisional Forest Officer in Jhabua, Khandwa and Satna, Jabalpur, Bhind and Gwalior districts. In addition, he has been Registrar of IIITM-Gwalior for almost 5 years and has also been director, Grameen Rozgar in Rural Development department, GoMP.

He is heading the largest & state-of-the-art manufacturing unit of Vindhya Herbals products in Madhya Pradesh. He always tries to take initiative and do innovation, he is trying to scale Mahua based industries like “Mahuaprash”, Honey and other products.

She is currently working as Principal Advisor in the Centre for Urban Governance and NRM and Decentralised Governance at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis(AIGGPA), Bhopal.

She is a Natural Resource Management professional / Ecologist, working in the interphase area of natural and social sciences, to address the socio-ecological concerns for sustainable management of natural resources, sustainable livelihoods of rural communities. Committed to improving the lives and livelihoods particularly of women, indigenous and rural communities.

More than 30 years’ experience of working with academics, multilateral organizations such as UNESCO and NGO in various urban and rural landscapes in India. She has acquired expertise in training, research and evidence for policy and practice. Her strength lies in climate resilience and Integrated Natural Resource Management,
She worked as a Professor in the faculty area of Ecosystem and Environmental Management at Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.

She earned her Ph.D in Botany from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She has authored several research papers in national and international journals of repute, book chapters, co-edited books and project/technical reports.

Mr. Yogesh is working as a CEO with State Federation of Farmers Producer Organisation of Madhya Pradesh popularly known as MADHYA Bharat Consortium of FPOs. Currently organisation is working with 1.67 Lakh farmers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states directly and through network of farmer producer organisations.

Mr Dwivedi came from farming family and having more than 22 Yrs of experiences on promotion of sustainable agriculture & small farmer’s agribusiness development through farmers’ collectives. He was instrumental in the promotion of more than 60 farmer’s producer organisations in the states like MP. Bihar and Chhattisgarh under different Government Projects. He did his graduation and post graduation in agriculture science from the agriculture universities IGKVV and JNKVV MP respectively and later did diploma in business management. Mr Dwivedi is intensively involved for transforming agriculture of small farmers from loss making to a profitable livelihood enterprise through ensuring better access to market, finance and technologies.

Dr. Ved Prakash is currently heading Doppler Weather Radar department of IMD Bhopal. He has 10 years of experience various aspects of meteorology like Satellite, AI, Climate Science and machine learning to name a few. He is qualified engineer in Comp. Sc. & Engg. From IIT BHU and Ph.D. in Advance Machine Learning from IIT Patna.

His current responsibilities include issuing severe weather warnings/Nowcast, briefing to media. He is also looking after Seismology unit and DRMS (hydrology) unit. He is nodal officer for climate change and human health committee.

He has keen interest in research and worked as co-principal investigator in few research studies focused on weather alert system and farming solutions. He has also written/edited 2 books on climate behaviour and NTFP. He proudly has 2 patents in his name regarding meteorological subjects. He was conferred with young scientist award and best paper award. He has got 10 research articles published in various reputed journals.

Dr. Kamal S Kirad is Ph.D. in horticulture and currently working as Addl. Dir. with Horticulture deptt. since 2021-22. He has unique combination of experience working as professor, researcher, practitioner and administrator. Before joining GoMP, he was head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dhar (MP). Under his able leadership many technology demonstration units were established on farm based high income livelihood models.

He was assistant professor of horticulture in Naini Agricultural Institute. His numerous research articles have been published in journals of international and national repute.