Raja is the founder-member of a volunteer group of academics and practitioners that sees the Global Flourishing Goals as a means to bring Flourishing into policy debates. He founded a non-profit project that helped create India's first COVID-resilient village in 2021. In a bid to raise awareness about climate change, he crossed the Arctic and Antarctic circles in 2018. In 2022, he received Georgetown University's "MS in Foreign Service Centennial Award". A former Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he participates in our team in a personal capacity.