Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is a founder of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, and served on Greenpeace International and Greenpeace India boards. He is active in such people’s movements as Vikalp Sangam, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and Radical Ecological Democracy. He is co-author of Churning the Earth: Making of Global India and co-editor of Alternative Futures: India Unshackled and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary.