Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, and a tireless crusader for economic, food, and gender justice. She is a leader of the Slow Food Movement, Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’ and women’s rights. Vandana Shiva is the author and editor of many influential books, including Staying Alive, Soil Not Oil, Making Peace with the Earth, Oneness vs the 1% (with Kartikey Shiva) and editor of Seed Sovereignty, Food Security. Dr Shiva is the recipient of more than twenty international awards, among them the Right Livelihood Award (1993); the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Grant for Peace (2008); The Sydney Peace Prize (2010); and the Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, 2011), The Thomas Merton Award (2011) and was the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate in 2012. In addition, she is a board member of the World Future Council and one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization (whose other members include Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, and Jeremy Rifkin). She travels frequently to speak at conferences around the world.

Shiva ... has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of the ordinary people of India ... Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world. 
— Ms. Magazine

One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.
—The Guardian

A leading thinker who has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality, and women’s rights into a powerful philosophy.
— Utne Reader