Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva was born in Dehradun, India. She trained as a physicist at the University of the Punjab and completed her PhD at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Shiva is a co-founder of the Women's Environment and Development Organisation – a global women's advocacy organisation that promotes human rights, gender equality and the environment – and the founder of Navdanya, a movement that works to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources in India; she is a board member of the International Forum on Globalisation. Shiva's published works include Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest, Water Wars and The Violence of the Green Revolution.