Dr Sahadev Sharma is the Chief Executive Officer of the Vertex Group, developing carbon projects and measurement technologies. Until 2025, he was a scientific consultant to the International Program, US Forest Service, leading blue carbon monitoring projects in Indo-Pacific Countries. He holds a Doctor of Science in Marine and Environmental Sciences from the University of the Ryukyus in Japan and is an ISO 14064-certified GHG Lead Verifier. A forest ecologist, he studies mangrove ecology and blue carbon dynamics across Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions. Previously, he worked at Shell, Universiti Malaya, the University of Hawaii, the Tokyo Institute of Technology and ISRO.