We are pleased to invite you to the lecture “Environmental Issues” by Dr. Hersh Chadha

October 20, 2016

We are pleased to invite you to the lecture “Environmental Issues” by Dr. Hersh Chadha  

Date: October 24, 2016

Time: 11.00-13.00

Place: AUCA Forum

      Dr. Hersh Chadha is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS), awarded for exhibiting a high degree of proficiency and demonstrating technical and visual competence in photography. He has also been actively involved with World Press Photo. He is a man of many facets. He resides in Dubai, UAE, where he runs a global network of business activities, and is an avid reader, keen economist and collector of objects d’art. 

     His uncompromising concern for the environment and the way man ravages it has made him focus on critical issues such as the preservation of wildlife, the protection of rain forests, the ozone layer and pollution. He has worked with a number of wildlife agencies concerned with conservation of Arabian wildlife – including The Arabian Leopard Trust and the Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA) – and has made significant photographic contributions to these agencies.

     Feeling for people in need, Dr. Hersh Chadha considers philanthropy as a necessary tool in contributing towards human development. Education is one of the focal points in the framework of his philanthropic activity. His Internship Program in Dubai provides opportunities for professional training, to students from all round the world, in the field of Digital Photography and Photographic Modelling. Dr. Chadha has interned over 95 students in photography and modelling from various countries. The Hersh Chadha foundation has sponsored the education of over 200 students worldwide across multiple universities, by providing them with scholarship grants.

     Dr. Chadha has provided crucial support for the establishment of infrastructure for the students of the Journalism and Mass Communications program at the media lab of the new campus of American University of Central Asia.

      In 2015, Dr. Chadha in association with the Department of Journalism at the American University Central Asia organized a photography competition among the students and nominated the winner Talgat Subanaliev for the photography expedition to Antarctica. In February 2016, Talgat undertook a 10 days voyage across Antarctica along with researchers and photographers from all over the world; the trip was organized and fully sponsored by Dr. Hersh Chadha.

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