Sundeep Waslekar is a thought leader on global future. He has worked with more than 70 countries, the United Nations and the European Council under the auspices of the Strategic Foresight Group, an international think tank he co-founded in 2002.

He is the author of A World without War published by HarperCollins India (2022) and published in French as Entre Guerre et Paix by CNRS Editions (2023), in Spanish as Un mundo sin guerra by Nola Editores (2025), and in Marathi as Yudhha Nakarnare Jag by Rajhans Prakashan (2025). He is the author of Eka Dishecha Shodh, a bestselling book in his native Marathi language, with 25 editions and translations in Hindi and Urdu.

He is a practitioner of Track Two diplomacy since the 1990s. He has mediated in geo-political conflicts in South Asia, those between Western and Islamic countries on deconstructing terror, trans-boundary water conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, and nuclear risk reduction between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Since the beginning of 2025, he is involved in Track Two processes to shape global extreme AI risks governance.

He was invited to address the United Nations Security Council session 7818 on water, peace, and security. His policy concepts have been discussed in the UN Alliance of Civilisations, World Economic Forum at Davos, Quai d’Orsay, European Parliament, Indian Parliament, UK House of Commons and House of Lords. 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.