Raman Sukumar

Who is Raman Sukumar?

Raman Sukumar is a leading Indian ecologist best known for his work on the ecology of the Asian Elephant and wildlife-human conflict. He also works on climate change. and tropical forest ecology. He was born in India in 1955. In 1986 Sukumar also helped design the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, the first of its kind in India. In 1997, he set up the Asian Nature Conservation Foundation, a public charitable trust that incorporates the Asian Elephant Research and Conservation Centre, an organization that has carried out several field projects in India and other Asian countries on elephants and their habitats. In 2006, he was awarded the International Cosmos Prize,Japan, the first Indian to get this award. He was also commended by the Prime Minister of India for contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the Noble Peace Prize in 2007.

He got his BS from the University of Madras in 1977 and did a Masters in Botany from the same university. He obtained a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1985.