Dr Dipayan Dey is an environmental biotechnologist with thirty years of comprehensive experience in locally-led adaptation and sustainable climate initiatives in South Asian ecoregion. He has successfully led collaborative action-research with several UN Organizations, World Bank, GIZ, IUCN, USAID etc. towards conservation planning and responsible resource management at community-ecosystem interface in the climate milieu. Presently, he is working as Chair in South Asian Forum for Environment [SAFE], a major stakeholder in UN Environment and he holds joint positions of Senior Scientific Consultant in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras India pioneering climate resilient agro-technology and as well he serves Global Food Alliance for Future of Food as international facilitator for cohort members. He is a member to International Committee of ISO standards on Climate Change and GHG emissions and also several other organizations worldwide. He has more than 50 publications and a number of international awards to his credential.