Tek Sapkota

President

Tek Sapkota leads the Climate Change Group in CIMMYT and is a member of the Climate Investment Committee of CGIAR. He is particularly involved in cutting-edge research to accelerate adaptation & low-emission actions across food, land, and water systems. These efforts aim to sustainably nourish a growing global population while enhancing food, nutrition, and water security as well as livelihoods of small-scale producers. He consistently contributes to publications on these topics, garnering 7288 citations to date, showing high impact and productivity (h-index 40 and i10-index 66) of his research work.

He served in IPCC as Lead author as well as Review editor currently working as lead author for Global Environmental Outlook (GEO7) of UNEP.  He is an agricultural expert in the India GHG platform. He is an associate Editor of “Nature Scientific Report” and “Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems” journals. He holds a PhD in Agriculture, Environment & Landscape  from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy. 

Youth in Action is very proud to have Tek to lead the all the unique initiatives of Youth in Action as the President and most importantly, guiding the Task Force Team to steer and enable Youth in Action to achieve its strategic Vision 2030, the YIA to be one of the lead youth-serving organizations in the Region of Waterloo.

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Tek Sapkota

President