Ajith Vennyioor is a post-graduate in Sociology and Gandhian Philosophy and a P G diploma holder in Mass Communication.

Ajith is a keen student of Gandhian model of development, environmental issues and decentralised governance. He is former Member Secretary of Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, the State counterpart of Gandhi Memorial National Trust based in Rajghat, New Delhi.

He started his career as a journalist and worked with two leading news papers, television channels and headed publication division of Kerala Gandhi Smarak Nidhi for about two decades. Ajith bagged three prestigious awards for development journalism in 1990s.

He also worked with State Government as public relations officer of the State Literacy Mission for two years. He was in charge of establishing and coordinating continuing education centres as part of post literacy programme throughout the state and preparing reading materials, training modules, propaganda, publicity and training programs. The continuing education centres emphasize sustainable eco-friendly development. He has also promoted organic farming, appropriate technology and eco-friendly development through the preparation of related information and publicity materials and by facilitating training programs. He has participated in several training programmes in India and abroad.

He is also a development / environment writer and author of eleven books out of which five are on environmental issues.

He worked as consulting editor and extension faculty with Kerala Institute of Local Administration [KILA], Thrissur, a State Government institution dedicated for capacity development of elected representatives and officials of local governments, during 2004-2007. He edited four journals/news letters and 32 books.

Ajith is presently State Public Relations Officer, Kerala State Poverty Eradication Mission- Kudumbashree, Department of Local Self Government, Government of Kerala (www.kudumbashree.org)

He is also a faculty member in the areas of Journalism and Public Relations in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan College of Communication and Management, Thiruvananthapuram