Former Professor of Geography, Utkal University.
Prof Panda has been the UGC Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, ICSSR.
He was also Visiting Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine of Liverpool University on the British Council Fellowship and visiting faculty to Minnesota State University.
He has won many prestigious prizes and received many honours for outstanding research in the field of environment.
He has worked for many national and international agencies like WHO, UNDP, DFID and public sector organisations like Odisha State Pollution Control Board and Odisha State Disaster Management Authority.
He has done noteworthy research and consultancy for Population Research Center, National Health Mission and population Survey the governments of Odisha and India.
