Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based autonomous think tank, and was previously a Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International Affairs at Yale University.

He has been invited to be Senior International Associate with the Rising Powers in International Development programme, based at IDS.

He works on issues related to development cooperation policies and South-South cooperation, and has also worked on trade and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO. Dr. Chaturvedi has served as a Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and has also worked as consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, World Bank, UN-ESCAP, UNESCO, OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, IUCN, and to the Government of India’s Department of Biotechnology and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, among other organizations.