SURENDRA Lawrence

A Chemical Engineer and Environmental Economist by Profession, is the Founder Director of ARENA and served as the Director of  ARENA Hong Kong Centre, from it’s founding in July 1980 till September 1988. In 1997, he was a scholar-in-residence at the Dag Hammarksjold Foundation, Uppsala. Between 1994 and 2002, he has served the United Nations – ESCAP, Bangkok in different capacities and worked in Indo-China countries such as Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. He is Co-Director of the Project on Knowledge Systems and Plant Genetic Resources, of the Centre for Plants, People and Ecosystems (CPPE), Madras.

He is a Senior Advisor to the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden and a member of the International Advisory Panel of  Experts for UNESCO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok with reference to the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) 2005-2014. He has published extensively.

He presently holds, the Government of India, Planning Commission Professorial Chair, at the Department of Economics at the University of Mysore.