Ms. Karuna Gopal is the President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities. FFC is into Urban Advisory Services in the areas of City Visioning, City Branding Institutional Reforms, E- Governance Implementation, Stakeholder alignment for driving the reform agenda.

She contributed to the City Development & Renewal Strategies of five JNNURM Mission cities in India. She worked on city reform projects of DFID (UK) , USAID & World Bank . Based on the theme "Globalizing Indian Cities " developed knowledge products & policy guidance documents to accelerate urban transformation

Believing that instruments aimed at cosmetic changes rarely rectify the systemic problems of Indian Cities and questioning the very paradigm on which they rely, her organisation is developing Knowledge Products and a Knowledge Management Framework for accelerating Urban Transformation   CITIZENS for CITY being one such innovation in India with an objective to incorporate EXTERNAL WISDOM into City development Strategies   
She addressed and chaired seminars organized by, CII, FICCI, GOI , World Bank Institute (WBI), Centre for Good Governance  , ASCI , ISRO ,  IIM (A) , Indian School of Business ( ISB)

She is a sought after speaker on Leadership & Governance Reforms , programs meant for Policy Makers . She was invited to speak on Leadership to the newly elected members of AP Legislature - 2009 General Elections.
Prior to urban foray, she was the Founder President of Confluence Consulting , a Strategy Consulting firm with a portfolio of clients ranging from Multinationals to homegrown Indian firms cutting across IT , Telecom , Manufacturing , Biotech/ Informatics, Pharma and Knowledge sectors.