AARATHI KRISHNAN
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Geopolitical Intelligence
Aarathi Krishnan has operated in some of the world's most contested environments, advising governments, sovereign wealth funds & multilateral agencies on where crises are forming before they break. She founded RAKSHA Intelligence Futures on a single proposition: that structural breaks in the global order are detectable six to eighteen months before they become visible, if you know what signals to track.
Aarathi Krishnan is the founder of RAKSHA Intelligence Futures - the first woman of color owned and led Advanced Risk Intelligence Firm
She is an experienced international aid expert, with almost two decades working directly in fragile, crisis contexts, as well as working with senior decision makers across governments, the UN system and international organizations on all aspects of risk intelligence, foresight, strategy, and governance. Her work has always pushed the boundaries of what is possible, and her published work is known to be standard setting - and incorporated in the pedagogy of the United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), International Committee of the Red Cross Red Crescent (ICRC), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Brandeis University and Cornell Tech.
Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Aarathi is widely known, and trusted in the multilateral, humanitarian and academic space. She has been published widely, and is a sought after expert public speaker. Her TED talk has been viewed more than 1.6 million times by TED viewers and translated into five different languages beyond English. She has been featured by Fast Company, The Saturday Paper Australia, ABC Radio Australia, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies amongst many others. Aarathi has advised governments from Bhutan, Maldives, Cambodia, Botswana, and many more. She is a trusted advisor for philanthropic organizations and think tanks, including the World Economic Forum.
In addition, she is currently an Affiliate with the Cambridge Centre of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and has previously been a dual Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University as well as a 2020-21 and 2021-22 Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Carr Centre for Technology and Human Rights.
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Where the Next Crisis Already Lives: Anticipatory Geopolitical Intelligence
Where the Next Crisis Already Lives: Anticipatory Geopolitical Intelligence
The crises reshaping the global order did not arrive without warning. They arrived without the right people paying attention to the right signals at the right time. Aarathi Krishnan has spent nearly two decades building the analytical infrastructure to close that gap - tracking structural fractures in geopolitics, capital, and governance six to eighteen months before they become visible crises.
This talk gives decision-makers a practitioner's map of where the next ruptures are already forming, what signals reveal whether an institution is positioned to navigate them, and what anticipatory intelligence actually looks like when it is built from inside contested, high-stakes environments. It is designed for audiences who need to act on what is coming, not react to what has already arrived.
Strategy, Futures and Institutional Transformation
Strategy, Futures and Institutional Transformation
Our complex futures in the 21st century require 21st century strategies. How do you design inclusive strategies that can drive transformations that are fit for the complexities of our upcoming century? How do you do it in ways that take into account the plurality of vision, planetary boundaries, social good, and inclusion and goes beyond just a singular narrative? How might utilising futures and strategic foresight help build flourishing communities and institutions?
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