Ashish Kothari
Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh (www.kalpavriksh.org), taught at Indian Institute of Public Administration, and guest faculty in several universities including at Bowdoin College, USA and National Law School & University, Bengaluru, India. Coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served (or serves) on boards of Greenpeace International and India, Indian Society of Ecological Economics, World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN Commission on Social, Economic and Environmental Policy, Bombay Natural History Society, and Centre for Pastoralism. Helped establish the IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, Communities, and Livelihoods (TILCEPA) and the ICCA Consortium (www.iccaconsortium.org). Founding member of Global Sustainability University (http://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/?page_id=597). Member of Global Working Group Beyond Development established by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.
Active in several peoples’ movements, and member of Indian government committees on National Wildlife Action Plan, Biological Diversity Act, Environmental Appraisal of River Valley Projects, and Implementation of Forest Rights Act. Initiated several networks and websites to connect radical alternatives, including: Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence, www.vikalpsangam.org) in India, Radical Ecological Democracy (www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org) and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org) more globally. Co-coordinator of ACKNOWL-EJ project on transformative knowledge (http://acknowlej.org).
Has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books, including Sharing Power, Churning the Earth, Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary, and two childrens’ books, and over 400 articles (http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in).
