Dr Hari Narain Srivastava ,MSc, PhD took his doctorate in Microwave Physics from Lucknow University in 1963. He joined India Meteorological Department in 1959 and rose to the post of Additional Director General ( Research). He was also deputed to the Indian Air Force and later to the Ministry of Science and Technology as Director, Earth Sciences. He published more than 210 research papers in Microwave Physics, Seismology and Meteorology. He is the author of 12 books on the above subjects by reputed publishers like National Book Trust, New Age International, Raj kamal Prakashan , Ministry of Earth Sciences, Department of Science and Technology and Indian Meteorological Society. He won several national and International awards from the Ministry of Steel and Mines, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Environment and Forests ( now climate change also), Uttar Pradesh Government, International Symposium on Natural Hazards at Italy and Bulletin of Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Roorkee. He served in several International and National Committees like International Association f Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior, International Lithosphere Program, World Meteorological Organisation, United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change, Bureau of Indian Standards and many others. He was deputed to several International Seminars and meetings in Seismology, Meteorology including Climate Change.