Peter Sutoris, born in Slovakia, is a scholar of development, a documentary filmmaker and an educator. He is the director and producer of The Undiscovered Country, a film about education, development and environmental degradation in the Marshall Islands. He has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans and South Africa. A History graduate of Dartmouth College, he is currently a PhD candidate and Gates Scholar at the Education Faculty of Cambridge University. His current research focuses on cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, with a focus on environmental education programs.

Visions of Development analyses both the continuities in and departures from colonial ideologies for development in India in 1948-75. Utilizing the novel methodology of film analysis of government-sponsored documentary films from the period, it focuses on economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education