Raghav Rajagopalan is the author of Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis (Springer 2020: Contemporary Systems Thinking). He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Systems Studies, Hull University; a Fellow of the European School of Governance, Berlin; and a Fellow of the Sumedhas Academy for Human Context, India. Raghav has a postgraduate specialization in Rural Management, followed by a doctorate in Systems Science.

He was awarded the Margaret Mead Memorial Prize for an outstanding paper from his doctoral thesis at the 2014 International Society for the Systems Sciences Annual Conference in Washington DC. Raghav practices as a consultant in organisational and social development in India. He has experience in the diverse ways of knowing that the subcontinent has been famed for over centuries, involving practices such as yoga, meditation, various classical arts and handicrafts.

Early in his career, his rural development practice required him to unlearn much of his formal professional training and relearn significantly from diverse marginalized communities such as artisanal fisherfolk, tribal farmers and artisanal craftspersons, resulting in a discovery of the profound value of multiple ways of knowing.