Derek Mitchell is an expert on India and director of the Unitarian Universalist Holdeen India Program (UUHIP), which supports humanitarian relief projects, education and social enterprises across the country. As an ICWA Phillips Talbot Fellow in 2007–2009 in India, he became deeply immersed in rural communities researching the impact of global trade and economic growth on people living in poverty. Derek has a degree in religion from Columbia University and was a Fulbright scholar in India at the Gandhi Peace Foundation.