Rajiv Malhotra was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded several IT companies in over 20 countries.
He exited all for-profit activities in the early 1990s and founded a non-profit – Infinity Foundation (in Princeton, USA), through which he has , on a full-time basis, been researching civilizations from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective.