Vineet Soni

Who is Vineet Soni?

Vineet Soni is a plant conservation biotechnologist and the founder of the "Save Guggul Movement", a community-based conservation effort to conserve threatened plant species, particularly guggul. His conservation efforts were well received by local villagers and conservation communities from all over the world. Soni was profiled as one of 20 global "Earth Movers" by IUCN. Initially his conservation work received financial support from the IUCN Sir Peter Scott Fund.

Soni specializes in plant molecular biology, conservation biology, and photosynthesis research. He obtained his doctorate in India in 2005 and performed postdoctoral work at the University of Geneva in 2007. He has served as a visiting scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France. He is a member of three International Union for Conservation of Nature commissions: the Species Survival Commission, the World Commission for Protected Areas, and the Commission on Education and Communication. Recently, he was elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.