Prof. Manish Kumar Goyal, is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. Prof Goyal has ‘i’ index and ‘h’ index equal to 82 and 33, respectively, with total citations of 3324. He holds more than 100 refereed publications on different domains of GIS and remote sensing, water resources, climate change, hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling, soil carbon sequestration, anthropogenic changes, risk and resilience. He serves as an Associate Editor for several journals. His contribution fetched him Recipient of ASCE EWRI Visiting International Fellowship, Recipient of ASCE-Best Theoretical-Oriented Paper Award, Indo-US WARI Fellowship Award, DST–SERB Young Scientist-fast track grant, Inspire Faculty award, Erasmus Mundus Interweave Award, JSPS fellowship award and Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship AwardProf. Anil Kumar Gupta is a sustainability risk management strategist working in the area of disaster management, environment and climate resilience for more than 25 years with national, sub-national and business administrations. He is currently a full Professor and Head of India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He is Programme Director of the Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience and implementing projects, viz. CAP-RES (with DST, under National Knowledge Mission on Climate Change), National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare). He was a recipient of Excellence Award by the Society of Environmental & Occupational Health, and bestowed with IDRC Canada’s Thank Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship 2011 for policy research.Dr. Akhilesh Gupta is presently Secretary of the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). Also, Dr. Gupta currently heads the Policy Coordination and Programme Management Division (PCPM) division and is the overall in charge of 5 National Missions at DST-- National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical System, National Mission on Quantum Technology and Applications, National Super-computing Mission, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change and National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem. A distinguished atmospheric scientist, Dr Gupta has to his credit over 200 research articles in National & International journals as well as proceedings. He is editor of 5 books and author of over 350 articles and nearly 1000 reports. He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Indian Meteorological Society (FIMS) and Association of Agro-meteorologists (FAAM).
