Dr. Vasanti Rao currently serves as the CEC Nature Education for Sustainability Co-Chair & South and Southeastern Asia Regional Vice Chair. Vasanti is the Director General of CMS (Centre for Media Studies) - a research-based think tank in India and also directs CMS VATAVARAN, Asia's largest international film festival and forum on environment & wildlife. Vasanti has her PhD in Media Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has double Masters degrees in Psychology and Management. She specializes in strategy development, designing, researching and evaluating development programs communication initiatives. Vasanti also advocates, advises, studies, and writes on: communication media and regulatory issues; mass and new media trends and consumption patterns; strategies for development programs & social issues in popular media (entertainment & NEWS); Communication & Media Research; Behaviour & Social Change Communication & Entertainment Education Strategies. Conservation, Gender and Children are three key areas of her concern and passion. Vasanti has to her credit numerous policy inputs, program evaluations, designing and organizing multi stakeholder events and research-based publications.