To Promote Conditions For Sustainable Peace.
The NOBLE INSTITUTION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PEACE (NIEP)is composed of professionals who will use their academic and life skills to further the understanding of environmental processes and the relationship between human behavior and the environment.
Professor Biswajit (“Bob”) Ganguly is a great thinker, philosopher and a humanitarian who has created the concept of “Environmental Peace” with his colleague, Professor Roger Hansell.
Professor Ganguly has Doctoral and Postdoctoral degrees in Applied Science and Engineering. He is an inventor with creative engineering talents covering a wide range of environmentally friendly projects. As an international expert in this field, he has visited and lectured widely around the world in many Universities including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and Imperial College (University of London).
Professor Ganguly was brought up in a family of consulting engineers in Calcutta, India, and furthered his education and training in Europe and North America.
He has professional fellowships and memberships in various academic and engineering branches. At the University of Toronto, he is a Director of International Innovation Projects (IIP) and founder and well as Editor of the Journal of Environmental Peace. He is a Research Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Colombia.
Professor Ganguly also founded the Noble Institution for Environmental Peace (NIEP) with Professor Hansell to carry out and support education and research in environment, sustainable development, and peace processes throughout the world.
Professor Ganguly has extensive experience in organizing and directing public and professional meetings with the International Innovation Projects. He is also a professional-level magician, artist and singer who delights in entertaining and teaching. He currently lives in Toronto.
Professor Bob Ganguly
Professor Roger I. C. Hansell:
Professor Roger I. C. Hansell has been involved in environmental projects since the 1950s. He is jointly a professor in the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Professor Hansell is a director of International Innovation Projects and co-editor of the scholarly Journal of Environmental Peace. He has been Associate Director, Research, and Acting Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, and served six years as Director of the Graduate Program of Toxicology. In 2002 he became Executive Director of the Noble Institution for Environmental Peace, and along with Professor Biswajit Ganguly, is a founder of the Noble Foundation for Environmental Peace in Calcutta, India.
Professor Hansell’s research extends from the problems of integrating ecology with economics, the theory of stability in complex systems, and practical measures to adapt cities for climate change with rooftop and vertical wall gardens.
Professor Hansell has served as visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium; University of Leicester, and University of Sussex, U.K., and has lectured at Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
He is an avid Morris folk dancer and musician, sketches, and writes Haiku. He currently lives in Toronto.
Professor Roger Hansell
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