Ashok Khosla

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Ashok Khosla
Ashok Khosla, c. 2014
Born	31 March 1940 Lahore, Punjab province, British India
Alma mater	Harvard University

Ashok Khosla is an Indian environmentalist currently based in Delhi. He received his PhD in experimental physics from Harvard University with a doctoral dissertation in the hyperfine structure of hydrogen halide isotopes. He is the co-chair of United Nations Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel (UNEP-IRP) and is internationally known for pioneering and contributing to sustainable development. He is recognized for popularizing the word and concept of "sustainability" in international forums. He was actively involved in various projects that defined the environmental views and activities of institutions such as UNEP, UNESCO, UNU, the U.S. Academy of Sciences, IUCN, and the ICSU/SCOPE.^[1] He was also the President of IUCN (2008 to 2012) and Club of Rome (2005 to 2012).^[2] Ashok Khosla is member of the World Future Council.