Rijo John provides technical consulting for esteemed organizations such as the World Bank, WHO, ADB, University of Illinois Chicago, and CTFK. He is also an adjunct professor at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi. Formerly, he served as an Assistant Professor at IIT Jodhpur. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from IGIDR, Mumbai, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. His research focuses on the regulation of tobacco, alcohol, SSBs, and HFSS.