Vinod Raina : A physicist, resigned his job at Delhi University to work at
grass roots on issues of rural education and rural development in the
central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. With like minded colleagues, he
initiated the People’s Science Movement in India that attempts to combine
knowledge and science to craft alternate development models that improve the quality of life of the disadvantaged sections of society, within the regenerative capacity of the Earth. He works both at the level of theory and practice in the political, scientific and ecological economy of sustainability. He has been involved with the Bhopal Gas Disaster and the Narmada dam issues and edited the book, ‘The Dispossessed – Victims of Development in Asia’ published by ARENA (Hong Kong) and Manohar Publications (New Delhi). In recent years he has been involved in Rights based work in India, in particular, the Right to Education and the Right to Food.

He has been a Asia Leadership Fellow, Japan, Homi Bhabha Fellow and Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. He has taught a course on Science, Ecology and Culture at Lingnan University from time to time. He is a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum.