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SCAR Executive Officer

Renuka Badhe in AntarcticaDr Renuka Badhe has a PhD in Marine Environmental Biology with the British Antarctic Survey and an MPhil in Land Economy with specialisation in Public and Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge. She also has a BSc and an MSc in Environmental Science from the Institute of Science, India.

Prior to joining the SCAR Secreteriat, Renuka was working with the IUCN Climate Change and Species programme in Cambridge. She was also the Co-ordinator of the Student Conference on Conservation Science (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) for the year 2007. Her other experience in the UK includes Project Management of Carbon footprinting projects and teaching in the fields of Geography and Environmental Sciences. In India, she was a Research Fellow with the Naval Materials Research Laboratory, where she developed a modified diesel fuel which reduced the pollution load of the exhaust using micro-emulsion technology, amongst other projects.

She has a range of publications, with the latest one she co-authored while at the IUCN making news all over the world, including on National Geographic and the BBC.

Her interests include photography, travelling and skating.