Leo Saldanha is the Executive Director of Environment Support Group (ESG), a research and advocacy initiative based in Bangalore, India. Leo has guided several initiatives that promote progressive environmental laws, and decentralisation and devolution of governance across India. The advancement of Public Interest Litigation initiatives in the High Court of Karnataka, National Green Tribunal and Supreme Court of India, have led to many path breaking judgements across environmental and social sectors.
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Leo Saldanha is the Executive Director of Environment Support Group (ESG), a research and advocacy initiative based in Bangalore, India.
Leo has guided several initiatives that promote progressive environmental laws, and decentralisation and devolution of governance across India. The advancement of Public Interest Litigation initiatives in the High Court of Karnataka, National Green Tribunal and Supreme Court of India, have led to many path breaking judgements across environmental and social sectors.
With experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights and Development related issues for about three decades, he engages with critical environmental and social justice concerns across India, and various global research and advocacy networks.
Among the many international project collaborations that he is part of, Leo is a key researcher in an ongoing multi country research project on COVID controversies entitled "Comparative Covid Response: Crisis, Knowledge and Politics".
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