# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kamaljit-s-bawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:06:20.450Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kamaljit-s-bawa"
name: "Kamaljit S. Bawa"
slug: "kamaljit-s-bawa"
description: "Kamaljit Singh Bawa, FRS is an evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist and a distinguished professor of Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is also the founder of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment. In 2012, Bawa received the first Gunnerus Sustainability Award, the world's major international award for work on sustainability. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019."
tagline: "Indian evolutionary ecologist and conservation biologist (1939 -)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kamaljit_Singh_Bawa_FRS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.85
  momentum:             1.095890410958904
  historical:           4.205832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "കമൽജിത്ത് സിംഗ് ബാവ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kamal Bawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਕਮਲਜੀਤ ਬਾਵਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "கமல்சித் எஸ் பாவா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump