Ashok Khosla
founder
social sciences
Development Alternatives
India
Biography
Ashok Khosla holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from Harvard University. He abandoned a scientific career to focus on issues of environment and development. After helping design and teach Harvard’s first course on the environment, he set up and directed the environmental policy unit for the government of India. Subsequently, he worked for the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Kenya before starting Development Alternatives in 1983. He has been a board member of many global environmental institutions, including the Club of Rome, IUCN, WWF, IISD, SEI and the Alliance for a New Humanity. He is also an advisor to UNEP, UNDP and the World Bank.
Research Interest
social sciences
