Meet the Team

Devesh Gupta is an educator, author, and facilitator working at the intersection of consciousness, education, and governance. He is the founder of Emerge, a space for rethinking learning, leadership, and public policy from the root by observing how fragmentation begins in the mind and how action can arise from awareness rather than identity.

He also works very closely at The Dais, an organization advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through youth engagement, systems change, and global collaboration. While The Dais focuses on the outer architecture of education, governance, and development, Emerge explores the inner dimension of transformation by inviting insight into perception, self, and wholeness. Increasingly, both initiatives complement one another. The Dais integrates deeper inquiry into its outreach, and Emerge engages with systems from the lens of inner clarity.

Through Emerge, Devesh has conducted workshops and learning spaces with universities and government institutions in India and abroad. He has worked with OP Jindal Global University, the University of Toronto, Queen’s University of Charlotte, the University of Malaya, and the University of South Pacific. He has led sessions for senior officials in the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, and professors under the Government of Haryana, and has conducted training programs with the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA). These engagements focus on awareness, ethics, conflict resolution, and the inner foundations of leadership and policy.

As part of his vision to bridge inner transformation with public systems, Devesh also founded the Spirituality, Science, and Public Policy Network, a collaboration between Emerge and the Centre for Complexity Economics, Applied Spirituality and Public Policy and (CEASP) at OP Jindal Global University’s School of Government and Public Policy, to explore how consciousness, ethics, and spiritual insight can inform education, governance, and systemic change.

Through The Dais, Devesh has contributed to national and international programs on youth leadership, civic engagement, and education for sustainability. He has worked on initiatives supported by the U.S. Embassy focused on youth civic participation and democratic values, and has collaborated on policy engagement and public awareness campaigns with the Governments of Delhi, Haryana, and Uttarakhand. His international partnerships through The Dais include work with Stanford University, UNESCO, UNDP, UNICEF, Fridays for Future, EarthDay.org, CIVICS (South Africa), the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS), and the University of South Africa (UNISA). Across these platforms, he has facilitated dialogues, campaigns, and workshops involving young people, educators, and policymakers from Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran, France, South Africa, the United States, and India, centered on shared humanity, nonviolence, and meaningful action.

Devesh has presented his work at global forums including UNCCD COP14, the Turning Point Summit, the 6th Psycho-Social Support Forum in South Africa, and the International Civil Society Week in Fiji. His sessions have addressed themes such as climate change, disarmament, mental health, inner transformation, and the roots of human conflict.

Through The Dais, he also works closely with students in leading Indian schools including Welham Boys’ School, Mayo College, Mayo College Girls’ School, and The Daly College. He facilitates sessions on debate, public speaking, critical thinking, self-inquiry, and responsibility. Rather than offering fixed methods or techniques, he creates shared learning spaces grounded in observation, allowing students to explore intelligence, relationship, and action beyond conditioning.

He is the author of two books:

• Eternal Movement (2024), an inquiry into consciousness, suffering, and the illusion of the self. It is currently used by educators, psychologists, spiritual practitioners, and students across disciplines, and is part of the curriculum in the course Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy at OP Jindal Global University.

• Governance Without the Self: Consciousness and the End of Fragmentation, Systems, and Complexity(2025), a radical examination of governance and reform. The book critiques systems thinking, agility models, and institutional solutions that preserve the self at the center, and invites a deeper transformation rooted in perception and wholeness.

Devesh holds a background in international law, with specialization in refugee and humanitarian law, and brings legal, psychological, and philosophical insight into his work. He is contributing to edited academic volumes with Routledge and Edward Elgar Publishing, and has an upcoming book with Emerald Publishing in 2026. His work is being applied across fields including education, leadership, peacebuilding, and public policy.

Devesh does not distinguish between the personal and the professional. His life and work arise from the same ground, a movement of inquiry, relationship, and awareness. He seeks alignment between being and action, allowing clarity to guide both his everyday living and his engagement with the world. He finds joy in music by Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Tool, and The Beatles, draws deep insight from the teachings of J. Krishnamurti, and admires the creativity and grace of Lionel Messi. He enjoys traveling to the mountains, values stillness, and cherishes time with his family. For him, transformation is not an idea but a way of living, where love, perception, and responsibility are one.