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