Medani P. Bhandari holds an M.A. in Anthropology (Tribhuwan University, Nepal), M.Sc. in Environmental System Monitoring and Analysis (ITC-The University of Twente, the Netherlands), an M.A. in Sustainable International Development (Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology (Syracuse University, NY, USA). Prof. Bhandari is a well-known humanitarian, author, editor, co-editor of several books, and author of hundreds of scholarly papers on social and environmental sciences: a poet, essayist, environment, and social activist, etc. Dr. Medani P. Bhandari has been serving as a Professor of inter-disciplinary Department of Natural Resource & Environment/Sustainability Studies, at the Akamai University, USA and Professor at the Department of Finance, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sumy State University (SSU), Ukraine. Dr. Bhandari is also serving as Editor in Chief of the international journal The Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment (SPEE). He is also serving as managing editor at the Asia Environment Daily (the largest environmental journal of the world). Dr. Bhandari has published several books, and scholarly papers in international scientific journals. His recent books are Green Web-II: Standards and Perspectives from the IUCN (2018); 2nd Edition 2020; Getting the Climate Science Facts Right: The Role of the IPCC; Reducing Inequalities Towards Sustainable Development Goals: Multilevel Approach; and Educational Transformation, Economic Inequality - Trends, Traps and Trade-offs; Social Inequality as a Global Challenge, Inequality - the Unbeatable Challenges, Perspectives on Sociological Theories, Methodological Debates and Organizational Sociology. Additionally, in creative writing, Prof. Bhandari has published 100s of poems, essays as well as published two volumes of poetry with Prajita Bhandari.
