Formerly with the World Bank, environmentalist Dr Sudhirendar Sharma is an expert on water, a keen observer on climate change dynamics, a critic of the contemporary development processes, and is attached with the Ecological Foundation. Sharma is also a prolific science writer and was a senior correspondent with India's leading weekly, India Today, and the science editor for The Pioneer newspaper.

Following degrees in agriculture and environment science, Sharma set up the Energy Environment Group in the 1990s after being awarded the Ashoka Fellowship. Juggling his two, equally-demanding professions, he has been able to strike a balance between grassroots-level development work and his writing, which often targets questionable development efforts.

Some years ago, it dawned on him that `change' is a gradual process and can only be `sustained' if it's mainstreamed through existing `institutions,' and not by creating new institutions. Since then he has converged his energies as a quasi-academic researcher, a development skeptic, and a specialist consultant to create space for himself in mainstreaming `change' in a variety of institutions. For him, this is a form of `evolving entrepreneurship' that keeps pace with rapidly changing times. His colleagues consider him as one who has skeptical enquiring mind.