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Resource Persons
 Beg,
Ms. Huma
Mustafa
Managing Director,
Serendip Productions,
Pakistan
Huma Mustafa Beg has been connected to the electronic media
now for over two decades. She initiated her television
career as a producer and presenter for a morning programme
for children on Pakistan Television Network. Today her
company Serendip Productions has evolved as the only private
production house working on all issues pertaining to
development. Serendip has been ceaselessly working to create
awareness at various levels to audiences from
parliamentarians to women on the street. It has generated
programmes to inspire the youth towards leadership and
development, brought values and understanding to children,
raised profiles of activists to garner support to their work
and tackled many issues like terrorism, climate change and
democracy for this century.
Her
programmes have been screened at numerous international film
festivals and have won awards from the British Medical
Association in UK to the Sony awards in Japan. For her
services in media she was awarded the “Champion of Reform”
in her home country. Huma is Pakistan’s first female hot air
balloonist and is a member of many international
environmental groups. She is now working to establish
Pakistan’s first development channel to create a permanent
platform and space for all issues related to self and
societal development in relation to the new global
challenges for communities today.
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 Gupta,
Mr. Joydeep
Journalist, India
Joydeep Gupta is an associate editor of Indo-Asian News
Service (IANS); an independent and integrated media company
based in india. Mr Gupta
got interested in environmental reporting while covering the
story of Bhopal in 1984. It is since then he is working on
the promotion of green journalism. Some of his successful
stories in this reference are those on Bhopal gas leakage,
India’s worst drought in 1980s. He consistently writes on
the issues of sustainable development.
To his credit Mr Gupta, posses’ experience of writing on
wide range of issues related to environment and sustainable
development. He has participated in the international
summits for covering events like Rio Conference, Bali and
Copenhagen. He has earlier worked for a daily newspaper, the
Statesman, Sunday Observer and the Sunday Mail. He is a
general secretary of the Forum of Environmental Journalists
in India, a member of the Asian Forum of Environmental
Journalists. Mr Gupta had also edited books on biodiversity
conservation and co-authored books on pollution control. He
was also involved in developing the India’s National
Biodiversity Action Plan before returning to full-time
journalism. Mr Gupta has done masters in Environmental
Economics and Environmental Management from University of
York, UK.
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 Khan,
Ms. Rina Saeed
Freelance
Journalist,
Pakistan
Rina Saeed Khan is a Lahore based freelance journalist by
profession, with an MSc in Environment and Development from
the London School of Oriental and African Studies. She began
her career in journalism in 1992 when she joined The Friday
Times, Pakistan’s first independent English weekly
newspaper. She served as Features Editor until 1998 and
still contributes features on environment and development
issues. From 1998 onwards she began working as a consultant
in communications with the United Nations Development
Programme in Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan, writing reports and
scripts for documentaries. Rina is currently writing a
weekly column on the environment called ‘Earthly Matters’
for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest circulation English-language
national daily.
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 Kirby,
Mr. Alex
British
Journalist, United
Kingdom
Alex Kirby is a British journalist. He worked for nearly
twenty years for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
starting in the World Service newsroom and following this
with stints reporting from Algeria, Egypt and other parts of
the Islamic world. From 1987 to 1996, he was environment
correspondent for BBC News, working in both radio and
television. He then changed to cover religious affairs,
before leaving the BBC in 1998 to develop his freelance
career. This includes work as environment correspondent for
BBC News Online; providing training in media skills to
companies, universities and non-governmental organisations;
and lecturing, writing and broadcasting. He is presenter of
BBC Radio Four’s environment series, Costing the Earth. He
has no scientific education, and is convinced that the
widespread distrust and misunderstanding of scientists in
industrial societies is a threat to human development.
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 Mustafa,
Dr. Daanish
Professor of Geography, King’s College, London
Daanish
Mustafa obtained his BA in Geography from Middlebury College
in Vermont, USA. He worked for two years in Pakistan for the
non-profit sector on donor funded social development and
environmental preservation projects. He subsequently
obtained his MA in Geography from the University of Hawaii-Manoa
in 1995 and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado,
Boulder, USA in 2000. He was a visiting assistant professor
of geography at George Mason University, and then an
assistant professor of Geography, at the University of South
Florida, St. Petersburg, before joining the Department of
Geography at King’s College, London in 2006.
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 Sheikh,
Mr. Ali Tauqeer
CEO, LEAD
Pakistan
Ali Tauqeer Sheikh is the founding CEO of Leadership for
Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan since its
inception in 1996. He specializes in institutional
development, institutional reforms and in change management.
He has vast experience in leadership development for
sustainable development, training and facilitating
multi-disciplinary expert groups on policy planning, and
conflict management.
Mr.
Sheikh has written extensively on issues of environment
management in several professional journals, and has
contributed to leading newspapers in the US, UK and
Pakistan. He has contributed chapters to several books. Mr.
Sheikh has delivered lectures at a number of universities
and institutions including Oxford University, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), the Carnegie
Endowment, the Kennan Institute of Advanced Russian Studies
and the University of Michigan. He has lectured regularly at
Quaid-e-Azam University and the Foreign Service Training
Institute, Islamabad. He has been a consultant/advisor to
UNDP, UNESCO, UNEP, The Asia Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation, the Asian Development Bank, and the UN
Environment and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
He has been regularly interviewed by the national and
foreign media on a range of environment and sustainable
development issues.
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 Sana,
Ms Isma
Coordinator-Training unit
LEAD Pakistan
Isma Sana is working as Coordinator, Training unit at LEAD
Pakistan. She has an MSc. in environmental studies from one
of the renowned universities in Pakistan. At LEAD, her
responsibilities include coordinating training programs of
both Leadership Development Program as well as Management
Development Program.
In
addition she is responsible for developing training
materials such as training modules, training folders, case
studies, organizing training workshops and identifying
trainers and resources.
During
her six years career she has worked for international NGOs,
public and private sector organizations.
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 Shah,
Mr Imtiaz Ali
Young
Professional Officer, LEAD Pakistan
Imtiaz Ali Shah is working as a Young Professional Officer
at LEAD Pakistan. He has an MA in Educational Planning and
Management from National University of Modern Languages,
Islamabad and BS in Mass Communication (Journalism) from
Punjab University Lahore. At LEAD, his responsibilities
include assisting his coordinator for all the ongoing and
upcoming trainings.
Mr. Shah
has worked as a Research Assistant at Sustainable
Development Policy Institute and as an Intern Crime Reporter
at Daily ‘The News’.
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