Professor Prakash C. Tiwari, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Kumaun University, Nainital, India, is a distinguished authority on Mountain Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation. He currently serves as Expert Consultant for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Spring Assessment Outlook at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, while also holding key international roles as Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG) and Vice Chair of the IGU Commission on Cold and High-Altitude Regions (CHAR). With decades of pioneering research, Professor Tiwari has advanced interdisciplinary knowledge on climate resilience, adaptive resource management, and sustainable mountain development. His contributions as Lead Author of ICIMOD’s flagship HIMAP report have shaped regional climate policies across the Himalaya. He has successfully directed major collaborative projects funded by NASA, the European Union, USAID, AUSAID, SDC, NORAD, DFG, JSPS, DAAD, and other prestigious agencies. An internationally acclaimed scholar, he has held highly competitive fellowships, including the Mercator Fellowship (DFG), JSPS Invitation Fellowship (Japan), DAAD Guest Professorship (Germany), and Shastri Fellowships (Canada). He has also served as Visiting Professor at leading universities in the UK, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Austria, and Finland, and Visiting Scientist in Germany. His global academic engagements reflect his enduring commitment to advancing sustainable mountain futures.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:  High Mountains, Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)

Researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE) and Goethe-University Frankfurt. I am currently investigating just knowledge integration in the context of biodiversity conservation and transdisciplinary collaboration. In my research I build on the concept of epistemic justice and how it can be more systemically integrated in transdisciplinary collaboration to utilize its transformative potential. My main areas of research are currently Biosphere Reserves in the Global North.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: forest ecosystems in Europe

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