Sunpreet Kaur
Forestry and Land Use Manager
India
Sunpreet Kaur Forestry and Land Use Manager © TNC
Areas of Expertise
Natural resource management, forestry & rural livelihoods, action research, policy reviews, M&E
Biography
Sunpreet is an applied researcher, with over 12 years of experience in forestry, natural resource, rural livelihoods, climate adaptation and renewable energy projects. She has worked extensively with multi-disciplinary teams on M&E for a variety of cross-cutting projects, and with local institutions, rural communities, local & national NGOs, and central & state governments.
At TNC, Sunpreet currently works as the Forestry & Land Use Manager in the Lands Program, managing the landscape restoration and agroforestry portfolio.
Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy, she dabbled in nurturing a start-up Nuvo Environmental and Rural Development Solutions (India) Private Limited, where she handled project delivery and operations. Her pre-entrepreneurial experience comprises leading the NRM team at InsPIRE Network for Environment (formerly Winrock International India), and working in the Performance Team at Global Environment Facility/The World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Office. She started her career with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, coordinating India’s submission under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. She has a few publications on forestry and applied research to her credit.
Sunpreet has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Zoology and is a silver-medallist in her Masters in Environmental Management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal. She is also a recipient of the IIFM’s inaugural Budding Researcher’s Award 2009.
Sunpreet commenced working at TNC in 2019 and works from our office in New Delhi.
Blog
Money does indeed grow on trees!
TNC supports and welcomes a bold decision by the 15th Finance Commission to enable better forest conservation across India.