Sudipto Chatterjee, presently works as Associate Director (Programs), The Nature Conservancy.  Prior joining NCIS he was  Associate Professor  at, TER School of Advanced Studies where he teaches Biodiversity and conservation  and implements national and regional conservation projects. He has been working  for conservation of forests and  biodiversity since 1992. At TERI SAS he has been the Head of Dept of Natural Resources and presently heading the Coca Cola Dept of Regional Water Studies and has supervised Doctoral students. His research work has been published in international and national journals.  He has worked  as  Heads of Forests Conservation Programme of WWF-India and Biodiversity and Conservation programme of Winrock International India.

He served as Team Member Biodiversity in the Technical Facilitation Organization for the Sustainable Ecosystem and Land Management Country Partnership Project at the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Govt. of India. He worked as Heads the Communities and Biodiversity Division and Forests and Carbon Division  of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). He worked as Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Specialist in Sikkim Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Management Project, Govt. of Sikkim for the Louis and Berger Inc. He received  the Whitley Associate Award, 2009 from Whitley Fund for Nature, UK for conservation of Rhododendrons in Eastern Himalaya. For TERI SAS he received  the United Nations Global Compact Initiate (UNGCNI) Award for Forest Landscape Restoration  in reclaimed coal mines of Dhanbad with support of Ministry of Coal , Govt. of India in 2019.  He was the Co Lead in South Asia Nitrogen Hub (SANH), initiative studied   the  impacts of  pollution on forests of Himalaya (India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka). He was a team member for the terminal evaluation of Forest Plus project supported by USAID. He is a member of the National Academic Committee of Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt of India for the Children’s Science Congress.