Ravi Venkatesan

Background

About Ravi Venkatesan

Ravi is a business leader, a social entrepreneur, and an author. Over the years, he has led several companies and has served as the Chairman of Cummins India, Microsoft India, and Bank of Baroda. Ravi founded the Global Alliance For Mass Entrepreneurship and currently chairs The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP). He studied Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay, completed his Master's in Engineering at Purdue University, and got his MBA from Harvard Business School. He has also served as UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation, where he started and led a global initiative called Generation Unlimited - a global mission to engage and skill the world’s 1.8 billion young people to equip them for a rapidly changing world. Ravi enjoys writing and is the author of two bestselling books, ‘What The Heck Do I Do With My Life: How To Flourish in Our Turbulent Times’ and ‘Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere.’ He was voted one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020. He also sits on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd.