Chandran Nair (environmentalist)
Chandran Nair is an environmental writer and the Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), an independent social venture think tank based in Asia.
Background
Born in Malaysia to Indian parents, Chandran Nair has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and Africa, and currently lives in Hong Kong. For more than a decade, Mr Nair has strongly advocated a more sustainable approach to development in Asia, and has helped governments and corporations instil these principles into their key decision-making process. He was Chairman of in the Asia Pacific until March 2004. He established the company as Asia’s leader in environmental consulting. Clients included many Fortune 500 companies, multilateral agencies such as the
He has spoken at forums around the world, from topics ranging from leadership development and corporate social responsibility to ethics, sustainability and globalisation. He writes for many international publications and his first book Consumptionomics: Asia’s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet was published in January 2011. Chandran Nair is also the co-founder and Chairman of Avantage Ventures, an Asian-based social investment company that supports entrepreneurship and local economic development as key drivers of poverty alleviation in the region.
In Consumptionomics, Chandran Nair argues that consumption as been for many years the fuel that drives the engine of global capitalism. If Asians were to achieve consumption levels taken for granted in the West, the results would be environmentally catastrophic across the globe. Needless to say, it would also have significant geopolitical impacts as nations scrambled for diminishing resources. Asian governments and leaders therefore find themselves with a dilemma. The solutions will entail making sensitive political choices and adopting certain forms of government to affect a fundamental change of direction."
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