Pushpam Kumar

1. Thought leader in interdisciplinary environmental and development policies, Management and Dissemination of new knowledge in Natural Capital Inclusive Wealth, New Financial Structure, Biodiversity Finance, Integration of triple planetary crisis into finance. 2. Natural Capital and macroeconomic policies include budgetary impact for the countries. 3. Acknowledged leader in accounting and valuation of Nature into economic decisions in Cost Benefit setting, Payment for Ecosystems Services, Loss and Damage Finance. 4. Acknowledged expert on Rate of Return on Investment (RoI) in One Health intervention and response to Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR). 5. Accomplished Programme Manager, Evaluator and Capacity Development Practitioner 6. Team Leader, Communicator and interlocutor of science and policy interface 7. Consensus builder around new and innovative response policies for ecosystems management, planetary crisis and economics of biodiversity 8. Interlocutor with the science community and developing bridge across the scales and epistemologies of knowledge for sustainable solutions. 9. Reviewer, editor and interdisciplinary advocate for new knowledge for practicing managers and scientist 10. Proven track record of fund raising with bilateral and multi trust donors

• Number of Children: 1
• Date of Birth: 1968-01-03
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married

• Coordination of international processes of climate change and biodiversity
• Leading UNEP in COPs (UNFCCC, CBD and UNCCD)
• Fostering linkages across the IMF, World Bank and UNEP
• Coordination of new finance structure of the UN SG
• Integration of Climate and biodiversity into finance and economics
• Research and Policy Engagement especially in implementing actions and policies to tackle Climate Change (Mitigation and Adaptation)
• Global thought leadership in Nature, Climate and Macroeconomy (Nature Based Solutions, Natural Capital, Wealth Accounting, Climate and Biodiversity Finance)
• Programme Development, supervision, quality control and strategic direction to integrate environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainable development including SDGs.
• Mainstreaming of Climate, Pollution and Natural Capital into development decisions
• Environmental Burden of Disease and Human Capital, implementation science, Capacity building, South -South Transfer of Knowledge for adaptation and mitigation

• Leadership in Science Policy Interface, advisory Services to Senior Decision Makers (Executive Director of UNEP, National Government at Minister / Secretary Level)
• Project Management (GEF, GCF), Coordination and Consensus Building in environmental economics amongst academics and practitioners.
• Management and Coordination of Staff
• Networking to strengthen Institutional Relationships especially UN Agencies and Conventions
• Development of new approaches, tools and analytics in multi-disciplinary framework
• Networking and Fund Raising
• Capacity development, South -South cooperation
• Coordination and networking, Oversight, technical backstopping, team building, project management
• Communication & outreach within and beyond the Organisation
• Identifying emerging issues in science policy interface

• Working Group Leader for Multi Million Initiative on Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative by the EU and BMZ
• Research Consortium Director for Strengthening Capacity in Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems under ESPA supported by DFID, NERC and the ESRC, 2009-2010.
• Head, Technical Support Unit (TSU), Responses Working Group, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2000-2005)
• Member Secretary, World Bank Aided Capacity Building in Environmental Economics in South Asia (1998-2001)
• Lead Author, IPCC, FAR (WGIII)
• Lead Author, Sub Global Assessment, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
• Co-Chair of the Policy and Technical Committee of the Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services, led by the World Bank
• Member of the National Ecosystem Assessment, UK
• Member of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Study Board and Leader for the Conceptual Foundation of TEEB
• Advisory Member of the Gulbenkian Ocean Initiative, Lisbon.

• Part of IPCC as Lead Author, 2007, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
• Part of the Responses Working Group Millennium Ecosystems Assessment, 2005, awarded Zayed Prize
• Board Member of National Ecosystem Assessment, UK, 2006
• Member of the Working Group on Beyond GDO constituted by the UN SG, 2025
• Bennett Scholar, University of Sussex, 2026
• Distinguished Service Award by the UN Secretary General, 2025
• International Research Fellow, Boston College, USA, 2026
• Extra Ordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2012, 2018
• Hony Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA

• Sustainable matrix Beyond GDP: investment for inclusive growth, Managi, S, Chen, S, Pushpam Kumar, Partha Dasgupta, Humanities and Social Science Communications, 2024
• The inclusive wealth index and sustainable development goals, Partha Dasgupta, Shunsuke Managi, Pushpam Kumar, Sustainability Science, 2021
• Shaping the Mega Trends of Our Time, Pushpam Kumar and others, UNDESA, 2020
• Resolving trade-offs between food and ecological security in Punjab, India, H Sandhu, Pushpam Kumar, The Solutions Journal, 2020
• The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits, Harpinder Sandhu, Alexander Müller, Pavan Sukhdev, Kathleen Merrigan, Abdou Tenkouano, Pushpam Kumar, Salman Hussain, Wei Zhang, Walter Pengue, Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Michael W Hamm, Maria Cristina Tirado von der Pahlen, Carl Obst, Kavita Sharma, Haripriya Gundimeda, Anil Markandya, Peter May, Gunars Platais, Jes Weigelt, The Anthropocene Review, 2019
• Get the science right when paying for nature's services, Pushpam Kumar, Nayeem, S et al, Science, 2015
• The Economics of Ecosystem Services: From Local Analysis to National Policies, Pushpam Kumar, E Brondizio, Thomas Elmqvist, Franz Gatzweiler, John Gowdy, Dolf de Groot, Roldan Muradian, Unai Pascual, Belinda Reyers, Pavan Sukhdev, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2013
• Linking Ecosystem Services to Strategic Environmental Assessment in Development Policies, Pushpam Kumar, Ersin Esen, Makiko Yashiro, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2013
• A Brief History of Natural Capital, Pavan Sukhdev, H. Gundimeda, Pushpam Kumar, Corporate Knights, 2013
• Measuring Natural Capital: Accounting of Inland Wetland Ecosystems from Selected States of India, Pushpam Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly, 2012
• Impact of economic drivers on mangroves of Indian Sundarbans: an exploration of missing links, Pushpam Kumar, Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2012