Rakesh Kapoor

Rakesh Kapoor is a writer, researcher and editor who works on the interface of science, technology, society and the future and on issues of sustainable lifestyles and development. Rakesh is Founder and Managing Trustee of Alternative Futures ? a research group working on social, policy and technological innovations and viable alternatives for development and social transformation (www.alternativefutures.org.in). He is currently foresight consultant with Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) India and Associate Editor of Futures: the journal of policy, planning and futures studies (www.elsevier.com/locate/futures). Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and its Director during 2008-14, he has also been Visiting Faculty at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He coauthored Charting a New Course: A Strategy for Sustainable Management of India?s Water Resources in the 21st Century (2006). He has edited some special issues of Futures including ?India@2050? (2014), ?Global Mindset Change? (2010), ?Transformative Initiatives? (2007) and ?Indian Futures? (2004).