Bio

Ravi Venkatesan is a Bangalore based business leader, writer and social entrepreneur. He is currently UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and serves on the boards of Hitachi Ltd and Rockefeller Foundation. Ravi was the chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda and Cummins India. He has a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ravi is the author of Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere. He was oted as one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and as Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020.