Dr. Karki is the member of Board of Director at SIAS. He is the Expert member of the Govt. of Nepal’s Environment Protection Council. He has been recently elected as one of the 25 members of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem (IPBES) of the UN representing Asia region. He has also been serving as the Deputy Global Chair of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) in which capacity he is also a member of the IUCN Council. He just completed a highly challenging position of the Co-chair and Coordinating Lead Author of the Regional Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Asia Pacific Region (2015-18) commissioned by the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) – a UN agency. He also worked as the Deputy Director General (DDG) – Programs and Knowledge Management in the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu. He also worked as the Senior Program Office in IDRC, Canada’s Delhi office from 1995 to 2005.
Dr. Madhav Karki has over 40 years of professional experiences in Biodiversity Conservation, Natural Resources Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation and Sustainable Development across Hindu Kush Himalaya, South/Southeast Asian and Africa. He just completed serving as the Co-chair cum Coordinating Lead Author of the IPBES sponsored Regional Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Assessment in Asia Pacific regions which was approved by the IPBES Plenary-6 and released in March, 2018. Dr. Karki holds a Ph.D. and MSc in Forestry and Natural Resources Management and has +100 professional publications. He has been actively participating in the global Climate Change, Environment, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development discourses contributing his knowledge and insights in various forums He was the Team Leader of the GoN/ADB funded research study on Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Climate Change Adaptation that led high-level publication. He led and completed a Vulnerability Impact Assessment for the BMU/UNEP funded Eco-system Based Adaptation (EbA). He has served as the DDG, ICIMOD (2005-12); Team Leader of the ADB/MoSTE project: Indigenous and Local Knowledge in CCA (2013-14). He is currently working as the Team Leader; Watershed Management in the ADB/Govt. of Nepal supported Bagmati River Basin Improvement Project as well as of the DFID funded Adaptation at Scale prize project. He is also leading the Adaptation at Scale Prize Project supported by DFID under which innovative and most successful climate change adaptation practitioners will be awarded a substantial amount of cash prize. Dr. Karki has been Lead Evaluator and team member in a number of sustainable land management, landscape conservation, climate change and sustainable development projects and programmes in SE Asia and Nepal including Hariyoban Phase 1; GEF/GoN/WWF funded Sustainable Land Management in Churia Range, Nepal (SLMCRN) in Nepal and ASEAN-Swiss Social Forestry and Climate Change Programme in SE Asia. Madhav is also the global Task Force Member of the Indigenous and Local Knowledge set up by the IPBES/UN.
