Manish Kumar is Director of the Sustainability Cluster at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. It is recognized for the generation of knowledge in the field of origin, destination, transport and remediation of emerging contaminants in water. He is one of the most recognized experts in his field in Asia. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, was awarded the Faculty Research Award by Careers 360 at India level, and obtained the Water Advanced Research and Innovation Fellowship for a stay at the University of Nebrasca-Lincoln, USA.