Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati, PhD, is a renowned spiritual leader, author and motivational speaker. Sadhviji has been ordained into the sacred order of sanyas by her guru H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and has been living at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India for the past 25 years. She is secretary-general of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance, president of Divine Shakti Foundation, and director of the world-famous International Yoga Festival (covered by CNN, Time, The New York Times and other widely-read publications.)

Sadhvi serves on the United Nations Advisory Council on Religion, the steering committees of the International Partnership for Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD,) and the Moral Imperative to End Extreme Poverty (a campaign by the United Nations and World Bank.) She was also managing editor of the monumental project compiling the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Hinduism. She oversees a variety of humanitarian projects, teaches meditation, lectures, writes, counsels individuals and families, and serves as a unique female voice of spiritual leadership throughout India and the world.