Prabha Shastri Ranade holds a Master's degree in Geography and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Nagpur University. She has over 25 years of teaching and research experience. She is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Ahmedabad. She started her career as research Officer at National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization, (Government of India) Kolkata, and then moved to teaching of Geography at Nagpur University. Later, she was awarded UGC's Research Associate ship for post doctoral research projects, under which she worked at Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi for about 15 Years. She has presented research papers at various national and international conferences and seminars, held within the country and abroad in UK, USA, Korea and Netherlands. She was the recipient of 'Young Scientist' honour by the Indian Science Congress for her research contribution. Her areas of expertise and interests include geography, population, resources and environment.