Social entrepreneurship in developing countries
Ashok Khosla | 29 October 2025Interview with Ashok Khosla about the opportunities and challenges of social entrepreneurs in developing countries.
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Ashok Khosla
Ashok Khosla is former director of the United Nations Environment Programme, he was awarded the 2002 Sasakawa Environment Prize – "the Nobel Prize of the environment world" – and has been named in the UNEP’s Global 500 Roll of Honour. He became the founding director of the Indian government’s Office of Environmental Planning and Co-Ordination, the first such agency in a developing country. And he is founder of Development Alternatives, a Delhi-based Non-Governmental Organization devoted to promoting commercially viable, environmentally friendly technologies. He has been a board member of numerous global environmental organizations – including the Club of Rome, the World Conservation Union and the International Institute for Sustainable Development – and served as an adviser to, among others, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme and the Indian government.