senior advisor, wash AND WASTE MANAGEMENT | CCDC & PHFI
Dr. Shyamala Mani, having a PhD & MPhil in Environmental Science from SES, JNU and an MPH from University of California, Berkeley is working as Sr. Advisor, WASH and Waste Management, Centre for Chronic Diseases Control (CCDC) and Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) since 2018. She retired as Professor from the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi in December 2017. As Team Leader Swachh Bharat Mission capacity building project, she continued at NIUA from 2018-2020 and spearheaded the capacity building and training of ULBs during SBM 1.0 until February 2020. She has implemented several integrated waste management projects in Karnataka and several programs towards setting up zero waste centres in different parts of India while working as Program Director of Waste and Resource Management group at Centre for Environment Education from 1987-2012. She has advised countries in South Asia on similar projects. She has been instrumental in research and policy and has been in the MoEFCC’s committees for the formulation of Biomedical Waste, Plastic Waste, Municipal Solid waste, E waste and Hazardous waste during the initial phase and their updating in 2016 and developed different educational materials for implementing them. Along with colleagues and experts in developing countries in South America, Africa and Asia, she wrote in and edited a book ‘Municipal Solid Waste Management Energy Conversion in Developing Countries – Technologies, Best Practices, Challenges and Policy’ published by Elsevier. She has also won several awards such as the UNCHS Global 100 award for community-based waste management projects in 1999, Plasticon India award for the most innovative plastic recycling technology in 2005 and Paryavaran Puraskar (institutional) for contribution to Biomedical waste management in India in 2001. She is also the recipient of the National Science Talent scholarship of NCERT, ICAR junior fellowship in Agricultural Microbiology and Fogarty International scholarship in Environmental Health during her studies in India and abroad. She has published widely, both popular and academic books & articles.