Durga D. Poudel, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Geosciences at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, served the University of Louisiana faculty for 25 years. He received his B.Sc. degree in Agriculture from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, M.Sc. in Natural Resource Development and Management from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, and Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Dr. Poudel’s professional experience consists of Research Fellow at Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, Taiwan; Graduate Research Assistant in Sustainable Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; and Visiting Research Scholar, University of California Davis, USA. Dr. Poudel joined the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, as an Assistant Professor of Soil Science in August 2000. As an Associate Editor, Dr. Poudel has been serving the Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment journal since 2020.
Professor Poudel is a Member At-Large of Lambda Alpha International (LAI) Land Economics Society and an Advisory Council Member of Earth Impact. He is the Founder of Asta-Ja Framework and Nepal Vision 2040. He is the Founding President of Asta-Ja Research and Development Center (Asta-Ja RDC) Kathmandu, Nepal, and Asta-Ja USA. He is the Initiator of Rastra Jagaran ra Utthan Abhiyan (National Awakening and Upliftment Movement), Nepal.