Project Regeneration
President & Executive Director
New York, New York, USA
British
Rajiv Joshi is an activist, economist, and business leader serving as President & Executive Director of Project Regeneration. He helped to establish Columbia University’s Climate School as the inaugural Associate Dean for Climate Action and continues part-time as a Professor at Columbia’s School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), where he teaches Climate Technology & Regenerative Entrepreneurship. He helped to start and run The B Team, serving as its Managing Director, spearheading a not-for-profit initiative formed by Richard Branson and a group of the world’s most influential CEOs to redefine the role of business in society.
He founded a platform for radical collaboration called Bridging Ventures and served as a Founding Board Member of the We Mean Business coalition mobilizing companies to drive bold climate action. Prof. Joshi also served as Special Advisor to former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, where he was a Lead Author of the Decisive Decade Inquiry into the Future of Climate Action. Rajiv is a Visiting Fellow of the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship and has also been an Executive-in-Residence at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He previously directed the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, founded by Nelson Mandela, was a Trustee of Oxfam and CIVICUS, and was elected for two terms as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. He lives in New York with his son Avi and his wife Shalini.
Offer
I have written extensively on how to harness catalytic collaboration for systemic change. I have spent many years considering how we address complex problems by transforming how actors in an ecosystem work together. My theory of change is that when these actors increase their level of consciousness, it allows them to interact in ways that strengthen cooperation and drive impact based on greater awareness of good practice, orchestration and increased means of implementation. This requires efforts that operate at first at the level of self, then in relationship with others and the whole system.
NEED
Creating the conditions for the right balance of energies to come together, with some philanthropic support, to scale a global movement .
Call-to-Action
I’ve spent my entire life preparing to build a global movement of movements for life. I believe it’s time for all of us to “Be the Regeneration” I don’t have the money but I am linked to all of those who do and with the right support I would love To join and help spearhead a global effort in 2025 that connects the climate, nature and human development agendas through the spirit of Regeneration, for peace, uniting all people across all generations, geographies and worldviews, with art, music, organising, expression and faith at the center.
