Sujatha Byravan

Sujatha Byravan works on science, technology and development policy and is a writer and expert in bioethics and genetic discrimination.

Byravan, originally from India, received a PhD in molecular biology in 1989 from the University of South Carolina. She completed post-doctoral work from 1993 to 1995 at UCLA. She then returned to India and began working as a science writer and freelance journalist. Topics she has written on include science policy, gender issues, and Indian environmental and political topics. During that time, Byravan also became a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation's Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Program (1995 to 1997). She later served as the LEAD Fellows Program director in New York and then in London from 1999 to 2003.

Sujatha served as President and Executive Director of Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG) from 2002 to 2007. Byravan is also a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar on Biotechnology: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues. She received a Rockefeller Foundation Residential Fellowship at Bellagio in 2007. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Development Finance in IFMR.

Select Publications

• "Before the Flood". New York Times. May 9, 2005.
• "Ensuring privacy in genetic testing". Boston Globe. Byravan & Matlaw. November 2, 2005.
• "DNA Typing - A Technology of Fear". Sujatha Byravan. Development, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 28-32, 2006
• "Louise Brown will turn 28 this year. The Indian Express. March 17, 2006.
• "Gender and Innovation in South Asia (PDF)". Innovation, Policy and Science. February 2008.
• "The Climate Exile Alarm"" The Hindu. July 15, 2009.
• "Where's the science in GM crops?". IndiaTogether. November 6, 2009.
• "Warming up to Immigrants: An Option for US Climate Policy" Sujatha Byravan and Sudhir Chella Rajan, Economic and Political Weekly, November 7, 2009.

External links

• "LEAD page on Byravan"