Vinod Raina
Chair ARENA Council of Fellows
E1/193, Arera Colony,
Bhopal 462 016, India
Tel: 91 11 2656 9943/ 2656 9773
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E-mail: vinod.raina@vsnl.com
A physicist by profession, Vinod is one of the pioneers of the People’s Science Movement in India, having helped set up the All-India People’s Science Network (AIPSN) and the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS). He is a founding member of Eklavya, an organization advocating alternative education for more than two decades, and the only NGO whose curriculum was adopted in the state school educational system.
He resigned from his job in Delhi University to devote full time to grassroots work. He has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Science Writers Association.
Vinod was the Asia Leadership Fellow (Japan) in 2002. Vinod has researched and written extensively on the interphase of Science, Environment and Development. He is also the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), and an International Council member of the World Social Forum.
His involvement with ARENA began after the Bhopal Gas Disaster and the anti-Narmada dams campaign. As a Board member, he helped conceptualise the Victims of Development project and co-edited the subsequent volume The Dispossessed. He is the convener of the ARENA programme on Environmental Security.
A member of the ARENA Executive Boards 1994-2000, Vinod was re-elected as Chair of the ARENA Council of Fellows for the term 2003-2006.