Vandana Shiva

Environmental Activist, Radical Scientist & Eco Feminist

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. She is a councillor of the World Future Council. She has served as an adviser to governments in India and abroad as well as non-governmental organisations, including the International Forum on Globalization, the Women’s Environment & Development Organization and the Third World Network.

"One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization"

Topics

Women's Rights
Alternatives to Globalization and War
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Water Wars: Pollution, Profits & Privatization
My Earthly Journey

Languages

She presents in English.

How she presents

In her trademark style, Vandana is inspiring, gripping, compassionate and unflinching with a fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner. She is a truly compelling and powerful speaker who has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India and who draws solutions to our world’s most pressing problems.

Publications

2008
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
2005
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

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In Detail

Vandana Shiva has assisted grassroots organizations of the Green movement in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Ireland, Switzerland and Austria with campaigns against genetic engineering. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists. The founder of Navdanya "nine seeds", a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India.

What she offers you

Vandana Shiva has been recognised by Time magazine as an environmental hero, and Asia Week called her one of the five most powerful communicators in Asia. Vandana illustrates to audiences the undeniable connection between industrial agriculture and climate change, acting as your bridge to understanding how we can feed the planet in a socially just, environmentally sound way.