Achal Prabhala is a writer and researcher in Bangalore. He works on intellectual property and its application to medicine and knowledge, towards increasing access to both. Between 2004 and 2006, Prabhala coordinated the Access to Learning Materials project in South Africa; since that time, he has been a visiting researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town, and has worked with several non-profit organisations in India. He is on the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation, and is a member of the expert advisory group of the Medicines Patent Pool.