Prof. Ashis NANDY
	Member of the Global Scientific Committee

Country: India Current position: Director, the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India Academic discipline: Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Gujarat University, Calcutta, India Published in areas of: At the edge of psychology: essays on politics and culture; The intimate enemy: loss and recovery of self under colonialism; Traditions, tyranny and utopias: essays in the politics of awareness; Science hegemony and violence: a requiem for modernity; science in utopia: equity, plurality and openness; development and authoritarianism: an epithet on social engineering; culture, voice and development; the politics of culture of the Indian State; politics of indigenous knowledge and contending ideals of the university; development and violence; the future of cultures: an Asian perspective; the future of dissent: globalisation, cultural identities and the new despotism of our times. Chair, the Cultural Choices and Global Futures, Delhi; Member, Executive Council of the World Future Studies Federation; member, Executive Committee Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative; former director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; former member, World Future Studies Federation.