Position : director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development.
In her years at the Centre, she has worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development and at creating public consciousness about the need for sustainable development. Over the years, she has also developed the management and financial support systems needed for the institution, which has over 100 staff members and a dynamic program profile. She is currently in charge of the Centre's management and plays an active role in a number of research projects and public campaigns.
Her major publications are :

In 1989 Sunita co-authored the publication Towards Green Villages advocating local participatory democracy as the key to sustainable development.

In 1991 she co-authored the publication Global Warming in an Unequal World: A case of environmental colonialism.
In 1992 she co authored Towards a Green World: Should environmental management be built on legal conventions or human rights?

Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, she has worked on a number of articles and papers on issues related to flexibility mechanisms and the need for equity and entitlements in climate negotiations.

In 2000, she co-edited the publication Green Politics: Global Environmental Negotiations, which looks at the emerging ecological globalisation framework and puts forward an agenda for the South on global negotiations.

In 1997, pushing the concern for water harvesting, she co-edited the book Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Water Harvesting Systems.

Since then, she has worked on a number of articles on the policy interventions needed for ecoregeneration of India’s rural environment and poverty reduction.

In 1999, she co-edited the State of India’s Environment, The Citizens' Fifth Report
and in 2001, Making Water Everybody’s Business: the practice and policy of water harvesting.

Awards:
In 2005, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Calcutta in 2009.
Was conferred with the Raja-Lakshmi Award for the year 2009 from Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.