Dr Sudhanshu Sinha was amongst the top 10 Indian scholars selected in 1993 for the prestigious Cambridge Nehru Scholarship for doing a PhD at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, England. He is recipient of numerous awards and bursaries including a 'Cambridge Philosophical Society Award' for a promising piece of research work on the Ganga River. Dr Sinha has over 20 years of Environmental, Climate and CSR work experience in India and overseas with United National Development Programme (UNDP), Canadian and British High Commissions in India, Indian government, Corporates and also Indian and International NGOs. Currently, Dr Sinha is Regional Monitoring and Evaluation lead of British Council programmes in seven South Asian countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Iran.