Ashok Panikkar
Mediator, teacher & consultant with over 30 years of experience in cross-cultural diversity & conflict management. Ashok holds a B.A in Visual Communication & M.A in Critical and Creative Thinking, University of Massachusetts.
Founder of MetaCulture in Bangalore, India, facilitating complex inter-faith & business-civil society dialogues & consensus building. After coming back to the USA, I founded the Village Idiot Studio (www.villageidiot.studio) helping people think through complex cultural and political issues of the 21st Century.
I teach the DemoSapiens (Wise Citizen) online courses on democracy, pluralism and critical thinking, create videos and write a weekly column on Substack: What, Me Think? - by Village Idiot - Village’s Substack.