Dr. Divya Rajeswari Swaminathan works extensively in the natural resources management sector and especially with indigenous people studying about their livelihood conditions in different regions in India. She worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India until 2019. She was engaged as a research fellow at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland in the field of Geotourism under the umbrella of UNESCO- Poland Fellowship program from 2017-18. In the LICCI project she aims to understand the interrelationship between indigenous forest dwellers and climate change scenario in montane areas of Southern India.