Kamaljit Bawa

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Kamal Bawa
Kamaljit Singh Bawa at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2015
Born	Kamaljit Singh Bawa (1939-04-07) 7 April 1939 (age 85)
Alma mater	Panjab University, Chandigarh
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2015) MIDORI Prize (2014)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Ecology
Website	kbawa.com

Kamaljit Singh Bawa, FRS (born 7 April 1939 in Punjab, India) is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist and a distinguished professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also the founder of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE). In 2012, Bawa received the first Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's major international award for work on sustainability. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[2] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.