Charudutta Panigrahi is an author, social advocate and a prominent Indian intellectual of current times. A TED Speaker and an author he is a polymath whose work takes him everywhere, the last mile in indigenous communities to the high table of global policy making. He has set up think tanks in India and outside. Charudutta works with rural women entrepreneurs, farmers and youths. He lives between Gurgaon, Odisha and Goa. His recent release “the Scent of Odisha’ has been received well by readers all over and is acclaimed as a unique Odisha chronicle of present times. As we speak, Charudutta is now engaged in Climate Change work and has set up a global action forum called Climatists in Berlin. He was a panelist at the World Health Summit last month, launching a global health consortium along with Dr Tedros, the Director General of WHO& extensively covered by the world media. Charudutta ushers in the Odisha wave and has often been described as the Odisha emissary to the world. He is the leading policy voice in Odisha in Climate Change, Mining, Urban management and mobility, CSR.

He may be contacted at charu.panigrahi@google.com