Aarathi Krishnan specialises in strategic and applied foresight for the humanitarian and development sector. A seasoned expert with over 15 years experience globally, she works at the intersection of humanitarian and development futures, strategic foresight, and anticipatory institutional transformation.

Krishnan is currently the Strategic Foresight Advisor for United Nations Development Programme, where she is designing the integration of a systems approach to foresight across the Asia Pacific Bureau to build anticipatory capacities, decision making and programmatic offers to see, manage and respond to short and long term risk signals, policies and investments so that development futures can be flourishing for all.