Before that, he was distinguished professor and director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University.

He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

[2] He was distinguished professor and director of the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Concordia University, Montreal.

In February 2015 Shrivastava was appointed Executive Director of Future Earth, an international research programme for sustainability and global environmental change.

He also holds the International Research Chair in Art and Sustainable Enterprise at ICN Business School, Nancy, France.

In these roles he combines scientific and artistic approaches to sustainable development, exemplified in the conference Balance unBalance 2011,[3] and his book Learning from the Financial Crisis (edited with Matt Statler) published by Stanford University Press[4] He has published 17 books and over 100 articles.

Having grown up in the small town of Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh in the 1950s and 60s, he was enchanted by the promise of technology to improve the lives of people.

He has also created academic organizations such as the ONE Division of the Academy of Management, the David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, the World Business School Council for Sustainable Business[10] and non-profit organizations (Industrial Crisis Institute).

[15] His work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer,[16] The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, and The Montreal Gazette, and on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour Partial List of Publications: Link