Ujjwal Pradhan

Ujjwal Pradhan is a Program Officer in Environment and Development with the Ford Foundation based in Jakarta. He is also a member of the International Steering Committee of Rewarding Upland  Poor  for Environmental Services (RUPES) for Souteast Asia. He earlier served as  Social  Scientist  and  Head  of  the  Nepal  Country  Program  of  the International  Irrigation  Management  Institute.  He holds a Ph.D.  in Development Sociology from Cornell University, USA. His doctoral dissertation dealt with property rights and relations and state intervention in water resources in Nepal.