Tara Sharma

Tara Sharma is a cultural heritage specialist with over twenty years’ experience in working with communities of the trans Himalayan region of Ladakh for the conservation of cultural heritage. In 2018, she founded the non-profit organisation Jungwa Foundation, which has been engaging with pastoral nomadic communities in Eastern Ladakh to safeguard intangible cultural heritage and develop sustainable livelihoods based on traditional cultural and ecological knowledge. Tara has previously worked as a consultant with UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS, AKTC, WMF, INTACH and NIRLAC.