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Senior Associate-Remote Sensing & Geoinformation-SERVIR Managing cryosphere and water risks (SG1-AAA) Climate and environmental risks (SG1)
Sravan Shrestha is a Senior Associate–Remote Sensing and Geoinformation for ICIMOD’s work on Managing Cryosphere and Water Risks. He works on disaster risk reduction and loss and damage assessments, specifically crop monitoring, food security, and agriculture-related climate risk management services. Sravan joined ICIMOD in 2019.
Prior to this, he worked as Research Associate for the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Nepal (ISET-Nepal) on disaster risk reduction, climate change vulnerability and impact assessments, and developing climate and food security indicators. He also worked with the International Rice Research Insitute (IRRI), Philippines, where he conducted crop monitoring and rice field identification using remote sensing data.
Sravan holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation from ITC, the University of Twente. He served as a Faculty Council Member of ITC for one year.
Sravan Shrestha
How do you protect the pulse of the planet?
The pulse of a planet will only beat when the storage tank of the planet is full and when the people around the region are food secure. Therefore, I protect the pulse of the planet through my focus on crop monitoring and food security assessment in the region.
What is your favorite part of the work you do at ICIMOD?
The diversity we have in ICIMOD and the environment we share. I also enjoy working with the many different experts both within ICIMOD and among our partners.
What are you passionate about?
Learning new ideas and sharing them. Apart from that, I love adventure sports, music, traveling to new places and interacting with new people.
My qualifications
I hold an MSc in Geo-information Science and Earth observation from University of Twente, Netherlands and a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Kathmandu University, Nepal. My previous work experience also includes roles as an Affiliate MS Research Associate with the International Rice Research Institue in the Phillipines and as a Research Associate on the project – Strengthening the Nepal Food Security Monitoring System for Informed Climate Change Planning and Policies – with the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition, Nepal in collaboration with the UN World Food Programme.
