Aarathi Krishnan,
RAKSHA’s Founder & CEO

I founded RAKSHA because I was tired of watching powerful institutions pretend they didn't see the rupture coming.

Too often, risk is treated as technical. Something to model, monitor, or manage. But risk is also relational. It's about power, silence, and what we choose not to see.

With over two decades of experience, I've advised UN agencies, multilateral bodies, philanthropic foundations, and international NGOs on crisis anticipation, systemic risk, and strategic transformation. She's built global intelligence systems, designed foresight strategies for billion-dollar portfolios, and guided senior leadership through disruption across some of the world's most politically sensitive environments.

Born in Malaysia, raised in Australia, and now based in Brooklyn, she's lived in 17 countries and spent her life working across borders—professional and personal. She knows what it means to navigate uncertainty in real time.

She's spoken on global stages including TED and the United Nations, and her work bridges deep geopolitical analysis with systems-level design, cultural insight, and radical imagination.

RAKSHA is the result of that journey. A refusal to accept extractive consulting or glossy inaction. A wager that we can — and must — do intelligence differently.

This is where relational intelligence meets real-world stakes. Where rigor, care, and courage are non-negotiable.