Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on global future. He has worked with sixty-five countries under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he founded in 2002. He is the author of A World without War published by HarperCollins India (2022) and published in French as... Read more
Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on global future. He has worked with sixty-five countries under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he founded in 2002.
He is the author of A World without War published by HarperCollins India (2022) and published in French as Entre Guerre et Paix by CNRS Editions (2023). It will be published in Spanish as Un mundo sin guerra by Nola Editores (2025) and in Marathi as Yudhha Nakarnare Jag by Rajhans Prakashan (2025). He is the author of Eka Dishecha Shodh, a bestselling book in his native Marathi language, with 25 editions and translations in Hindi and Urdu.
He is a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s and has mediated in conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts, and nuclear risk reduction between permanent members of the UN Security Council.
He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace, and security. His policy concepts have been discussed in the UN Alliance of Civilisations, World Economic Forum at Davos, Quai d’Orsay, European Parliament, Indian Parliament, UK House of Commons and House of Lords. He has been quoted in more than 3,000 media articles from eighty countries.
Waslekar read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University from 1981 to 1983. He was conferred D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) of Symbiosis International University by the President of India in 2011.