Ashok Khosla 
Biography
Environmental Expert, Consultant from India
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 left UNEP to found Development Alternatives, a Delhi-based NGO devoted to promoting commercially viable, environmentally benign technologies. He has served as an adviser to the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Indian government.
Videos
Ashok Khosla
What’s wrong with economics?
Ashok Khosla believes that many of the assumptions that form the basis of modern economic thought are wrong. The problem is two-fold. First, economic thought fails to factor in…
Recorded: 13 May 2007
Ashok Khosla
What might a sustainable economics look like?
Ashok Khosla suggests that a system that defines development in terms of material consumption is one that is doomed for failure. In a world of finite resources, we cannot afford…
Recorded: 13 May 2007
Ashok Khosla
What changes does society need?
Ashok Khosla thinks that the main areas for positive change concern technology, production systems and democracy. Technology could mimic and work with nature more than it has. This…
Recorded: 13 May 2007
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