Biography
Rajul Pandya
Executive Director, Global Futures Education Lab and Fulton Presidential Professor of Practice
Arizona State University
300 E Lemon St
Tempe, AZ 85281
Rajul.Pandya@asu.edu
Committee term end date: October 1, 2027
Rajul Pandya works at Arizona State University as the Fulton Presidential Professor of Practice in Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and executive director of the Global Futures Education Alliance, associated with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He previously served as the vice-president of community science and founding director of the Thriving Earth Exchange at the American Geophysical Union. Pandya invites everyone — especially people from communities who have been historically excluded — to imagine and build a sustainable future where people and nature thrive together. His work focuses on how science and science education can be more participatory, how community participation contributes to scientific discovery and application and how the sciences and universities can be allies in advancing community priorities and shared sustainability. He started his career as an atmospheric scientist, exploring how large thunderstorms grow and persist, taught meteorology and astronomy at West Chester University and worked in education, outreach and engagement at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research.