Ravi Venkatesan

Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet Board Chair

Ravi Venkatesan is the chairman of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) and founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME). He is also UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation and serves on the Boards of The Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd. Ravi has previously also served as the chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda and Cummins India and co-chairman of Infosys Limited. He has a B. Tech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.