Dr. Sharma is the member of Board of Director at SIAS. He has his PhD in political ecology from Reading University (UK), and has been working in Nepal and in the region for over two decades. He has gained rich insights of research and development experiences on forest tenure, environmental governance, participatory resources management and rural livelihoods. In recent years he is increasingly involved in studying political economy of climate change, REDD+ and forest governance. He has over two decades of experiences on policy and practice of nature conservation, protected area governance, community based natural resources management, climate justice and poverty.