leading environmentalist Dr Biswajit Mohanty has been appointed as the chairman of the executive committee of the Greenpeace India, whose headquarters is at Bengaluru.
He was already a member of the Executive Committee of the organisation for 10 years. Greenpeace operates on common global environment issues like climate change, oceans and air pollution control. Dr Mohanty has been actively working for wildlife and environment protection since 1994. He coordinated Operation Kachhapa launched in 1998 and has won several awards. He was a Governing Body member of Wildlife Institute of India for 2008-2014, was a member of Odisha State Audit Advisory Board and is a former Director, Orissa Forest Development Corporation ltd. He also served on the National Board for Wildlife during 2007-2013 and was a Board member of Transparency International India during 2010-2013.
Dr Mohanty is honorary secretary of the Wildlife Society of Orissa.