Ravi Venkatesan

Ravi Venkatesan is a business leader, social entrepreneur and author. He is the chairman of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and serves on the Boards of Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd.

Ravi has previously served as the chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda and Cummins India and co-chairman of Infosys Limited. He was also UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation.

He has a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. Ravi 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 has been voted as one of India's best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020.