Sanjay Kumar Srivastava

Col. Sanjay is an active Climate and environmental risk management practitioner involved in operationalising the technology to augment solutions with Governments, UN/INGOs, academia and community. His core area is remote sensing, early warning, communication and technological intervention in Development & Disaster Management. Single Emergency Number 112, Lightning forecast and safe grid management system, proactive drought management, crowd management, Kisan Samridhi Yojna few successful concepts implemented in many states are to his credit.
Col Sanjay - a war decorated veteran from Air Defence branch of Armed forces has held prestigious operational and instructional appointments in field and MoD level. Post AF, he was instrumental in setting up Disaster Management in Jharkhand. He has also been with UN institutions, FEMA, KOICA (South Korea) etc.
Col Sanjay hails from Ranchi, Jharkhand and is alumni of St. Xaviers College Ranchi, IIM Ahmedabad, IAT Pune etc. He is a prolific writer and specializes on strategic and real time issues on climate change. He has 31 publications to his credit and is a key writer/speaker in media. He is involved with scientific institutions & academia in Research and teaching. Currently he is Chairperson of Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROPC), New Delhi and is convener of Lightning Resilient India Campaign 2019-2021 - a unique extreme climate Change adaptation programme.