Rajesh Tandon is President of PRIA (Society for Participatory Research in Asia). He was co-founder of PRIA in 1982 following his tenure as Fellow, Public Enterprise Centre for Continuing Education, New Delhi.

Over the last 25 years, Dr. Tandon has been a practitioner of participatory research and development and become an internationally acclaimed leader in the area. His work has been over a wide variety of themes to strengthen the capacities and institutional mechanisms of voluntary development organisations in India and other developing nations. He specialises in development management; training of trainers in participatory monitoring; networking, coalition and alliance building; participation and governance.

He is chairperson on the board of many national and international Civil Society Organisations and part of the Founding Board of Directors of CIVICUS. He is also chairperson of  Montreal International Forum (FIM). He has authored many books and articles on Civil Society and governance.

He was recently awarded a Social Justice medal by Institute of Gender Justice and NALSA, Department of Law & Justice, Government of India, on the International Women's Day, 2007.