Speakers

Professor Muhammad Yunus

Nobel Laureate, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

Patricia Mukhim

Padma Shri, Journalist, writer, Social Activist & Editor of The Shillong Times

Jadav Payeng

Padma Shri, Environmental Activist, Forest Man of India

Rupa Chinai

Journalist, Author of "Understanding Indias Northeast - A Reporter's Journal"

Prof. Johan Westman

Prof. Johan Westman is an ethnomusicologist from Boris in Western Sweden.

Prof. Ursula Fasselt

Prof. Ursula Fasselt is a Professor of Law and Human Rights at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany.

Dr. Harish Hande

Co-Founder of SELCO India

Dr. Bodhi SR

Lead Facilitator of the workshop is National Convener, Tribal Intellectual Collective India.

Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao

Co-Facilitator of the workshop is Member, Tribal Intellectual Collective India and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Sonam Wangchuk

Founding Director of the Students' Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL),

Dr. R.K. Ranjan Singh

Politician and Member of Parliament

Mr. Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan

Founder, Brahmaputra Foundation and Station Manager, Radio Brahmaputra

Prof. Partha Sen

Former Professor Delhi School of Economics India

Mohan H.L

Social Scientist KHPT India

Dr. Juri Gogoi Konwar

Assistant Professor Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University India

Mr. Letlapa Mphahlele

Author - Child of This Soil : My Life as a Freedom. Fighter and Former Member, PAC South Africa

Mr. Monjib Mochahari

Asst. Professor Assam Don Bosco University India

Prof. Mrinal K. Dutta

Professor IIT Guwahati India

Prof. Nigamananda Biswas

Professor Aligarh Muslim University India

Ms. Rakshita Swamy

Founder Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research (SAFAR) India

Ms Amber Rose Heimann

Founder PeaceCYCLE Foundation (USA) India

Ms. Varsha Chanda

Chief Executive Officer ENVISIONS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT India

Ms. Varnali Deka , IAS

Deputy Commissioner , Kokrajhar Govt. of Assam India

Shantanu Nandan Sharma

Senior Editor The Economic Times India

Sachin Gogoi

Editorial Lead, BBC (Asia Pacific). Former US Embassy, UNI, IANS, PTI BBC (Asia Pacific) India

Afrida Ali

News Editor Times Television Network India

Sandeep Phukan

Senior Journalist, Deputy Editor The Hindu India

Prof. Pran Hari Talukdar

Retd. Prof. & Head, Dept. of instrumentation, Gauhati University India

Dr. Samarjeet Kachari

Asst. Professor Department of Electronic Media and Communication Pondicherry University India

Dr. Amit Verma

Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) in Journalism & Mass Communication, Directorate of Online Education, Manipal University Jaipur Rajasthan India

Navo Kr. Boro

Director, Alliance Mantra Alliance Mantra India

Prof. Pramod Kumar

Professor & Dean Indian Institute Mass Communication, Delhi India

Dr. Samudra Gupta Kashyap

State Information Commissioner, Assam India

HE Mr. Jigme Thinlye Namgyal

Consul General Royal Bhutanese Consulate

Prof. Nani Gopal Mahanta

Education adviser to the Government of Assam India

Monirul Hussain

Guwahati University, Guwahati India

Dr. Madhumita kothari

Lawyer/Legal Activist Delhi, India

Dr. S B Medhi

Former Member State Human Rights Commission, Assam India

Niketu Iralu

Prominent Intellectual, India

Vimal Khawas

Associate Professor, Sikkim University India

Mr. Sabda Ram Rabha

Advocate Gauhati High Court, Guwahati India

Mr. Nigel Heywood

IofC, Australia

Ms. Penuo Hiekha

IofC, Nagaland

Mr. Sunny Donkupar Mawlong

Former Vice President of the North East Community Organization Pune (NECOP) and the Meghalaya Youth Association Pune (MYAP)

Dr. Arup Kumar Misra

Chairperson Pollution Control Board of Assam India

Dr. Amarjyoti Kashyap

Founder President and Chief Functionary ENVIRON India

Dr. Harish Hande

Chief Executive Officer SELCO Foundation India

Jyotiraj Patra

Climate Change and Adaptation Specialist United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India

Dr Om Katel

Lecturer Royal University of Bhutan Bhutan

Peter Newell

Professor University of Sussex UK

Rituraj Phukan

Founder & President Indigenous People

Md Rafiqul Islam

Independent Journalist, Risingbd Bangladesh

Arup Kumar Dutta

Author Freelance Justice India

Professor Anamika Barua

Professor IIT-Guwahati India

Prof. Ramesh Chander Bhardwaj

Vice Chancellor, Maharshi Valmiki Sanskrit University India

Prof. Mumin Chen

Hon'ble Vice Ambassador of Taiwan Taiwan

Dr. Dorji Thinley

President, Paro College of Education Bhutan

Dr. Prasanta Boro

Assistant Professor and General Secretary Bodoland Sahitya Sabha India

Nisar Ahmed

Executive Director Envision Institute of Development India

Prof. Stephen P. Marks

Ex-Director, Fran

Prof. Kishore Kumar Wary

Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago Illinois, US

Prof. (Dr) Jayantee Kalita

Professor, Department of Neurology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow India

Prof. (Dr) Khagen Basumatary

Professor, Government Ayurvedic College under Srimanta Sankardeva University of Health Sciences, Guwahati India

Dr. Mythili Hazarika

Associate Professor, Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, Guwahati, Assam

Prof. (Dr) Anku Moni Saikia

Professor; Principal-cum-Chief Superintendent Dhubri Medical College, Dhubri India

Dr. Raja Sriswan Mamidi

Scientist D, Clinical Division (Maternal and Child Health) of ICMR- National Institute of Nutrition India

Dr. Umesh Phangcho

Director cum CHD, Department of Health, Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) India

Mr. Aranyak Saikia, IAS

Sub-Divisional officer (Civil) Gossaigaon, Kokrajhar India

Dr. Harish Chander

Deputy Director (QC), National Institute of Biologicals India

Dr. Sambuddha Chaudhuri

Assistant Professor & Assistant Dean O.P Jindal Global University, Jindal School of Public Health & Human Development India

Dr. Jagadish Mahanta

Director (Retired) RMRC (ICMR), Dibrugarh India

Dr Aparup Das

Director ICMR- National Institute for Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur India

Ms. Pinky Brahma Choudhury

Artist and Filmmaker India

Prof. Atul Bhalla

Head of Department, Department Of Art, Media and Performance, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence, New Delhi India

Dr. Iram Ghufran

Associate Professor, Department Of Art, Media and Performance, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence India

Mr. Ratan Hazarika

Assistant Professor, Sobha Brahma Fine Arts College, Kokrajhar India

Dr. Anil Saikia

Retired Principal, Moran College, Assam India

Prof. Bhupen Narzaree

Professor, Department of Bodo, Gauhati University

Dr. Anwesa Mahanta

Sattriya Dancer & Scholar India

Maneswar Brahma

Artist and Incharge Lalit Kala, Srimanta sankardeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati India

Dr. SK Makbul Islam

Associate Professor and HoD Bengali, St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College, West Bengal India

Prof. Bibhash Choudhury

Dean, Faculty of Arts and HoD, English Gauhati University

Prof. Irom Gambhir Singh

HoD, Department of English and Cultural studies, Manipur University Manipur University India

Miguel Lopez Medina

Prosthetic Artist Mexico

Prof. (Dr.) Radhesyam Pradhan

Professor, Tribhubhan University, Kathmandu Nepal

Dr. Wirote Thongplew

Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanity and Social Science Surindra Rajabhat University, Surin Province Thailand

Shri S. Mathivanan

Director, Regional Directorate of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Guwahati, Assam India

Dr. Amnuay Wattanakornsiri

Vice President Surindra Rajabhat University, Surin Province Thailand

Dr. Nar Bahadur Bista

Principal and Managing Director Uniglobe College, Kathmandu Nepal

Prof. (Dr). M.Z. Mamun

Pro Vice- Chancellor, East-West University, Dhaka Bangladesh

Ms. Hanjabam Shubra Devi

Proprietor, Meira Foods, Imphal, Manipur India

Mr. Nava Baro

Founder & Director, Alliance Mantra, New Delhi India

Mr. Partha Saikia

Proprietor, Assam Keteki Tea, a unit of Kaziranga Enterprise, Guwahati, Assam India

Aditya Mittal

Patent Associate, LS Davar and Co. Delhi India

Dipen Deka

Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences, Guwahati University India

Adv. Frederick P. Rooney

CEO Consortium for Access to Justice USA

Prof. Adv. Ganesh S. Hingmire

Chairman, Great Mission Group Consultancy, Pune India

Dr Kerekoppa P Ramesha

Principal Scientist (Animal Genetics & Breeding) and Director AIC, SRS, ICAR-NDRI India

Professor Narendra Lahkar

President Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) India

Dr. Sanjib Paul

Scientist CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad India

Professor Ratikanta Ghosh

Professor Emeritus India

Dr. Ram Pratap Singh

Associate Professor & Head of the Life Science Department at the Central University of South Bihar (CUSB), Gaya

Dr Pranab J Patar

Chief Executive, Global Foundation, New Delhi India

Neelam Dutta

Managing Director and Founder, Pabhoi Organics India

Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sarma

Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, HoD India

Prasanta Talukdar

AGM, NEDFi India

Ms. Kabita Mushahary

District Horticulture Coordinator, APART India

Debabrata Rabha

Agriculturist, Entrepreneur India

Dr. Hemanga Kumar Kalita

HOD and Professor Sarat Chandra Sinha College of Agriculture India

Dr. Sumit Chakravarty

Associate Professor Uttar Banga Krishi Vishwavidyalaya India

Prof. Debabrata Das

Vice-Chancellor Assam Rajiv Gandhi University of Cooperative Management India.

Prof. Azilah Kasam

Professor School of Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management University Utara Malaysia

Bhavesh Tanwani

Entrepreneur Bab Al Qasr Hotel & Residence Abu Dhabi

Prof. Saurabh Kumar Dixit

Professor Head of the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management Registrar (I/C) North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya India

Biswajit Chakraborty

Senior Director Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry India

Mr. Sudip Pradhan

Independent Director Numaligarh Refinery Limited India

Prof. Seema Sharma

Dean, Commerce, & Management Assam Down Town University India

Dr. Biju Moni Das

HoD of Commerce Assam Don Bosco University India

Joefe B. Santarita

Professor of Asian Studies Asian Centre, University of Philippines Diliman Philippines

Kushum Shakya

Dean Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal

Pranjit Bora

Professor KKHSOU, Guwahati India

Md Abdul Wadud

Professor Rajshahi University Bangladesh

Ratul Mahanta

Professor Gauhati University, Guwahati India

Saikat Sinha Roy

Professor & Head Jadavpur University, West Bengal India

Sazzad Alam

Joint Secretary Act East Dept, Govt of Assam India

Utpal Kumar De

Professor NEHU, Shillong India

Anup Sekhar Chakraborty

Assistant Professor Dept of Political Science and Political Studies, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies India

Prof Rajdeep Singh Rawat

Professor and Head, Natural Science and Science Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr. Arun Kumar Sarma

Director General North East Centre for Technology Application and Reach (NECTAR) Meghalaya

Prof. Ganesh Chandra Wary

Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor, Department of Physics Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam

Dr. Pawan Kumar Sharma

Dean, Research & Development Professor, Department of Chemistry Kurukshetra University, India

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Grischek

Professor Division of Water Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany

Dr. Cornelius Sandhu

Senior researcher Division of Water Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany

Dr. Hilmar Börnick

Researcher Technische Universit

Dr. K. P. Ramesha

Principal Scientist National Dairy Research Institute-Southern Research Station, Bangalore India

Dr. Natalie West Dauner Kharkongor

Mentor, SCORE Sandhills United States of America

Dr. Sudip Kanta Basistha

Technical ADVISOR, NERAQ German Development Agency (GIZ), Guwahati India

Dr Saurabh Kumar Dubey

Project Coordinator World Fish Centre, Assam, India

Prof. Shurajit C Mukhopadhyay

Professor and Dean Royal School of Humanities and Social Sciences, India

R.A. Sreepada

Senior Principal Scientist CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, India

Dr. Jayanta Kr. Sharma

Senior Program Associate Natural Resource Management Program Aaranyak, Assam, India

Shri Debyendu Sarkar, IAS Rtd.

Former Commissioner, MGNREGS Government of West Bengal, BRLF, New Delhi India

Mrinal Gohain

Program Manager Action Aid India

Dr Himanshu Kulkarni

Scientist (Emeritus) with ACWADAM BRLF, New Delhi, India

Dr Siddhartha Singha

Assistant Professor School of Agro and Rural Technology, IIT-Guwahati India

Stephan Bognar

Director of Sustainability Asia for Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC) Sustainability Asia for Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC) USA

Prof Anil Kumar Anal

Professor Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Prof DR. ABHAYA PRASAD DAS, FLS

Professor, North Bengal University India

Prof. Debendra Chandra Baruah

Professor, Tezpur University India

Prof. Sachin Kumar Borthakur

Retired Professor, Gauhati University India

Prof Ganti S Murthy

Professor Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering India

Dr Meenakshi

Assistant Professor, Department of Sanskrit University of Delhi, India

Dr. Shireen Huq

Founder, Naripokkho Bangladesh

Prof. Kamal Maiya Pradhan

Prof. (retired) Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Prof. Rajarshi Roy

Professor, Viswa Bharati, Shantiniketan India

Dr. Samhita Barooah

Assistant Professor, Tezpur University India

Indrani Raimedhi

Features Editor, The Assam Tribune India

Dr. Santosh

Director of Kolkata Rista India

Purnima Eliza Boro

Founder, Mahila Shakti Kendra India