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Ram Avtar is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. He got his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has worked at United Nations University, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) as a research fellow for four years. He developed methods for forest mapping using multi-sensor remote sensing techniques and scenario analysis for sustainable forest management. His research interest lies in applications of Geospatial techniques to monitor terrestrial ecosystems including forest, agriculture, urban and disasters and disseminating the results to policy-makers. Currently, he is working on the synergistic use of remote sensing and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) techniques to monitor the environment more precisely to solve environmental issues from global to local scale. He has worked as a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) expert group on Deliverable 3(c). He is a recipient of the prestigious Green Talents Award by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany. He has published numerous publications in several international peer-reviewed journal articles (110+), two books of international repute, and presented his work at various domestics and international conferences. He led different research projects as a Principal Investigator (PI) as well as a team member such as Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN-GCR), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Belmont Forum etc.