Gurudas Nulkar is the Professor and Director of Centre for Sustainable Development, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. His research focuses on sustainable development and alternative economic models for sustainable development. He was the Endeavour Fellows of the Government of Australia and has received the Maharashtra State Literature awards for two of his books on these subjects.

Gurudas Nulkar has published five books, several research papers, monographs and articles. He is on the board of the Ecological Society, Pune and is a Senior Fellow at the Pune International Centre.