Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on the global future. He has worked with sixty-five countries under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he founded in 2002.

He is the author of A World without War published by HarperCollins India (2022).

He is a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s and has mediated in conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts, and is

currently facilitating a nuclear risk reduction dialogue between permanent members of the UN Security Council.

He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace and security. He has been quoted in more than 3,000 media articles from eighty countries.

Waslekar read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University from 1981 to 1983.

He was conferred D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) of Symbiosis International University by the President of India in 2011.