Author: Pratham Education Foundation

Ramesh is a Senior Partner Emeritus at international consulting major McKinsey & Company, having served for 30 years at the firm, including as founding partner of McKinsey’s offices in Chennai and Bangalore. He co-led the firm’s industrials work in India and Asia and led social responsibility initiatives for Asia. Apart from Pratham Education Foundation, Ramesh is actively engaged…

Pramit Jhaveri presently acts as advisor and mentor to start ups, corporates and family offices. He is Senior Advisor to Premji Invest and PJT Partners and an Independent Director on the Boards of Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv and Larsen & Toubro. Prior to his current activities, Pramit was Vice Chairman – Banking, Asia Pacific Citi. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Citibank India from 2010…

Mr. Jain is the founder of the IIFL Group. He is a first-generation entrepreneur, who is credited with building one of the largest financial services groups in India in just about two decades. He holds a post graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a rank holder Chartered Accountant…

After obtaining a PhD in chemistry from Ohio State University and serving on the faculty at the University of Houston, Dr. Madhav Chavan returned to India where he worked in the slums of Mumbai as part of the National Literacy Mission. In 1995, he co-founded Pratham as a result of a UNICEF initiative to address…

Dinyar (Dinny) Devitre is an international business executive who has held leadership positions over a 45-year period in the consumer products and financial services industries in Asia, Australia, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. Mr. Devitre held several senior operating positions with Philip Morris Inc. and then with Altria Group Inc. where he had a 35-year…

Mr. Raj is founder and managing director of the New Jersey-based private investment firm Raj Associates that has investments in real estate and public and private securities. He is currently the chairman of Pratham USA. He is also a CFA and, with his wife Neera, the founder of the Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies…

Mr. Sanger founded Geosphere Capital, a global long-short fund manager investing in natural resources, industrial and Indian equities in 2007. Between 2002 and 2007, he was a Portfolio Manager at SAC Capital, investing in a similar fashion. Prior to his tenure at SAC, Mr. Sanger had a 15-year career as a top-ranked sell-side oil services…

Mr. Jalaj Dani is currently the Director of Reliance Foundation. He is also co-promoter of Asian Paints and has spent over two decades in leadership positions within the organization. Throughout his career, Mr. Dani has worked extensively in the areas of healthcare, education, rural transformation, sports, skilling and disaster management. He serves as Independent Director…