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Prof. L.R. Verma is a former Vice-Chancellor of Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, (H.P.). Earlier he was a senior professioinal staff member and project leader of Himalayan biodiversity regioinal project at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has also served as Dean and Head of the Biosciences Department in Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, and Scientific Advisor to Department off Horticulture, government of Himachal Pradesh. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1972 from the University of Guelph, Canada and was also Humboldt Research Fellow in Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. In India, he has been principal investigator and coordinator of several R&D projects. Prof. Verma has published more than 250 research papers in international scientific journals. Verma is the only Asian who is Honorary Member of APIMONDIA.

Prof. R.C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum,, Kolkata and finally, the Natioinal Museum, New Delhi as the Director-General and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director / Acharya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi. Beside authoring several books and editing journals and bulletins in the field of Early Indian Art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in the journals in India and abroad.