Councillor Biographies
Ashok Khosla, Director, Centre for Development Alternatives
Ashok Khosla is one of world's leading experts on the environment and sustainable development. A former director of the United Nations Environment Programme, he was awarded the 2002 "Sasakawa Environment" Prize and has been named in the UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour. He was the founding director of the Indian government's Office of Environmental Planning and Co-Ordination, the first such agency in a developing country. He left United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to found Development Alternatives, a Delhi-based NGO devoted to promoting commercially viable, environmentally friendly technologies. He has been a board member of numerous global environmental organizations - including the Club of Rome, the World Conservation Union and the International Institute for Sustainable Development - and served as an adviser to, among others, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Indian government.
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