Judging Panel

MIKE PANDEY

Chairman

India’s most well known nature film maker, TV presenter, conservationist and environmental advocate with a string of Green Oscars to his name. Voted Time Magazine Earth Hero 2009.

BITTU SAHGAL

Author, Editor and Conservationist, he is one of India’s most outspoken conservationists who has been raising awareness in India through his environment and wildlife magazine, Sanctuary Asia for over 25 years.He is also instigator of the huge Kids for Tigers programme.

KK SINGH

The father of wildlife tourism, he started in Bandhavgarh in the early 1980’s. He is a respected naturalist and has been on Madhya Pradesh’s Wildlife Board for many years, as well as being a long term member of its Legislative Assembly till 2008.

JULIAN MATTHEWS

Coordinator

Founder Chairman of Travel Operators for Tigers, he was until recently the Managing Director of an award winning Wildlife Travel company called Discovery Initiatives (now Steppes Discovery). His role is to coordinate the event and the awards themselves.

PRAMOD GUPTA

Pramod has over 15 years of experience of Environmental Auditing and Assessment, Product Certification, Standard Development and Training. He has worked with various active Certification Bodies including Forest Stewardship

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Council, Climate Change and Organic certification, as well as being a founder participant in the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. He is Director of Wood Cert, a representative certifier for the Rainforest Alliance. He is an advisor to the PUG Eco rating certification programme.

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BINA KAK

Politician, ex Rajasthan Minister of Forest and Tourism, a well known actor, renowned social activist and passionate wildlifer and photographer, she even wrote the first guide to all the tigers of Ranthambhore in 2013.