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degrees. She participated in the Commonwealth Geographical Bureau Workshop on Human Consequences on Climate Change at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka) in 2005 and received the International Geographical Award three times to present her research in Durban (South Africa), Cologne (Germany), Szeged (Hungary) and Kyoto (Japan). She also presented her research in Boston, USA, in 2017. She has initiated an academic collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society, London, and has visited the University of Sydney, New South Wales, and Canberra in Australia as part of the Gauhati University team in connection with academic links and the opening of Gauhati University Alumni chapter in Australia. She was the general secretary of the North East India Geographical Society from 2016 to 2018.Rituparna Bhattacharyya holds a Ph.D. from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. She is a Senior Fellow, Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy), UK, and an Adjunct Professor, Indian Insitute of Technology, Guwahati. She also works as a research consultant and editor-in-chief (Joint) of the journal Space and Culture, India. She does volunteer work at the Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, a public charitable trust in India, and the Alliance for Community Capacity Building for North East India, a UK-registered charity. She has more than 65 publications to her credit in international outlets.

R.B. Singh was the secretary general and treasurer of the International Geographical Union and a former head of the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India (2013-2016 and 2019-2020). He has supervised 40 Ph.D. and 81 M.Phil. research scholars and numerous M.A. students. He has been the chair of the University Grants Commission (UGC) National Committee's Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework since July 2018. He was invited by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)-Global Network of Science Academies to join a working group for statements on science and technology for disaster risk reduction. Prof. Singh was unanimously elected president of the Earth System Science Section of the Indian Science Congress Association for 2019-2020. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, Government of India, invited him to be a member of the committee for preparing Vision India 2035. He has authored 16 books and edited 40 books, with more than 250 research papers published in national and international journals. He is the series editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences (Springer) and Sustainable Development Goals (Springer). He was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship at Hiroshima in 2013 and several travel fellowships and support from various organisations.