Dr. A.K. Handa was born on 21.08.1967. Dr A K Handa is B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Forestry from Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. He has an experience af more than 23 years of research and development in the field of Agroforestry/ Forestry. He has been Principal Investigator of different research projects including externally funded projects. He has more than 80 research and technical publications to his name published in International and National journals. He was been awarded with Dr K G Tejwani Award for Agoforestry 2013. He is currently working as Principal Scientist (Agroforestry) at ICAR- Central Agoforeshy Research Instihte, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India.