Suprava Patnaik served as National Project Coordinator for UNESCO’s World Heritage Biodiversity Project in India, bringing together three decades of work across government, academia, and the development sector in natural resource management and ecology. She has been Professor at the Indian Institute of Forest Management and Principal Advisor at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance, and currently serves as Principal Advisor for Climate Action Initiatives at CYSD, Bhubaneswar. She holds a PhD in Botany from North-Eastern Hill University and an MSc in Environmental Biology from Berhampur University.
