About the Speaker:


Ashish Kothari is one of the founders of the environmental group- Kalpavriksh. He has coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served 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, and Bombay Natural History Society. Ashish has also served as co-chair of the IUCN Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, Communities, and Livelihoods (TILCEPA), which, along with the ICCA Consortium, he helped establish. He has been a member of government committees on National Wildlife Action Plan, Biological Diversity Act, Environmental Appraisal of River Valley Projects, and Implementation of Forest Rights Act. He initiated the Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) process to bring together people working on development alternatives in India, and a global dialogue process on Radical Ecological Democracy. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books, includingSharing Power, and Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, and over 300 articles.