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Dr. M. G. Sreekumar
UNESCO Coordinator,
Greenstone Support for South Asia
Head, Learning Resources & Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL)
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
(mgsree@iimk.ac.in; +91-495-2809140, +919447654066)

Dr. Sreekumar heads the Learning Resources Center and the Center for Development of Digital Libraries (CDDL) at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK). During 2007-2008, he served on sabbatical as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (Information Science and Technology) at the University of Maryland and at the NIH, Bethesda. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calicut. He is a gold medalist of the University of Kerala for his Bachelor's Degree and obtained his Masters Degree from the University of Madras, and later he qualified the UGC Lectureship. He has received several awards and honours and prominent among them include the Best Research Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization (ICDK) 2011, American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), Salzburg, Hewlett-Packard (HP), SATKAL and MANLIBNET. At IIMK Dr. Sreekumar leads several national and international projects and programmes. He has been a consultant to WHO, UNESCO, NSF Colombo, Coir Board, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and several other Universities and Institutions. Dr. Sreekumar sits in the editorial boards of several national and international journals on digital libraries and information science. He is also a peer-reviewer and referee to some of the reputed and indexed journals. He is a research guide in the Bharatiar University. Dr. Sreekumar is the UNESCO Coordinator of the Greenstone Software for the South Asia Region. A widely traveled professional, Dr. Sreekumar has conducted courses, seminars and workshops in the USA, UK, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Austria, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
         
       
  Programme Director: Dr. M.G. Sreekumar