Uttam Shrestha

Uttam Babu Shrestha is founding director of the Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (GIIS), Nepal. He has completed a Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and has two masters’ degrees. He was awarded by Outstanding Graduate Student Award for my Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2014 and the Graduate Academic Excellence Award for my Master’s degree at Northeastern University in 2008. So far, he has published 57 peer-reviewed papers, one book, two book chapters, and several articles in popular press.
He was a member (2015-2020) of the Global Young Academy—a global organization of young scien¬tists around the world where he co-leaded a working group—Science Diplomacy in South Asia and a fellow for the global assessments of Biodiversity at the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from 2016-2019 and lead author for the assessments of sustainable use of wild species at IPBES from 2018-2021. He is a fortnightly columnist for Kantipur daily–the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Nepal.