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Management Board

Vinod Daniel, President, CEE Australia Inc.
Vinod Daniel is the Head, Cultural Heritage and Science Initiatives Branch at the Australian Museum. He is also the Chairman of AusHeritage (Australia’s International Cultural Heritage Network), Board Member of the Australia India Council (Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade), Board Member of the International Council for Museums (Committee for Conservation) and an Advisory Committee Member for the International Council for Biodeterioration of Cultural Property.
Vinod has published over 50 papers in leading journals and conference proceedings on various aspects of cultural heritage. He has a very strong interest in Australia India relations and has extensively communicated cultural heritage issues through many media articles and key note addresses in international forums especially in the Asia Pacific region.

Prithi Nambiar, Executive Director of CEE Australia Inc.
Educated at Dalhousie University,Canada (Masters in Development Economics) and Osmania University, India (Masters in Economics), Prithi was a consultant at FAO's Bay of Bengal Project in Chennai before joining CEE's Ahmedabad office in 1993. She established CEE offices in Bangalore and in Kannur, Kerala.Moving to Australia in 1999, she set up CEE Australia in Sydney in 2001.She has initiated and managed a wide range of projects and programs in the area of education and communication for sustainable development and has scripted and produced several documentaries including two films commissioned by UNESCO on DESD. Prithi has written extensively on conservation and development issues and has managed a media campaign to conserve one of India's unique sanctuaries.She is a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).

Kartikeya Sarabhai, Founder and Director, CEE.
CEE, Managing Trustee, Nehru Foundation for Development, Ahmedabad, and Chairman of Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprises is also Asian Regional Chair of IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. Educated at Cambridge University, UK, and MIT, USA, Kartikeya Sarabhai received the "Tree of Learning " award from IUCN (The World Conservation Union) in 1988. He also serves on several national and international committees, boards and trusts.

Syd Smith
Syd Smith is the former manager of the Environmental Education Unit (NSW Department of Education and Training) and chair of the committee to develop the 2001 Environmental Education Policy for Schools. He was recently the chair of CEE Australia and is a board member of Keep Australia Beautiful (NSW), the Gould League of NSW and a vice president of the Australian Association for Environmental Education. He currently works as a consultant in Environmental Education to government, local councils and universities.He represented Australia on the Environment and School Initiative group (ENSI) and was part of the steering committee to develop the Australian National Environmental Education Statement (NEES). He introduced the Sustainable Schools Program in NSW and worked on CEE's Global Communities for Sustainability Project (GCS). Syd’s main background is in curriculum with experience in presenting to groups in Thailand, China, Denmark, India and Austria.

Raka Garg
Raka Garg has a doctorate in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India, and the ESSEC Graduate School of Management, France. She is currently Research Manager with Amgen Pharmaceuticals, Australia. She has also worked as Strategic Research & Planning Manager with Energy Australia, contributing to the formulation of appropriate corporate initiatives consistent with corporate policy, government directives and customer perspectives on environment and energy.