Raja Karthikeya works in international affairs. A firm advocate of the principle of Equality of Opportunity, he started and supported various citizen-led initiatives to solve policy challenges. In a bid to raise awareness about climate change adaptation in India, in 2017-2018, he crossed the Arctic and Antarctic circles in under a year. In 2005, he was named one of the Indians of the year by a leading newsmagazine for his rescue work in the Andaman and Nicobar islands following the Asian tsunami. His research and policy publications have traversed nuclear disarmament and anti-terrorism. He is an alumnus of the Indian IT industry.