Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), launched at COP26 with USD 10 billion of committed capital to accelerate investment in green energy transitions and renewable energy solutions.

He is also UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation and the Founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME). He serves on the Boards of Rockefeller Foundation and Hitachi Ltd. Ravi was earlier the Chairman of Microsoft India, Bank of Baroda, and Cummins India. He also served as a co-chairman of Infosys Ltd.

Ravi is a recipient of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and Purdue University’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. He was voted one of India’s best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and Microsoft’s Alumni Hero 2020.

Ravi has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

He is the author of “Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere,” published by Harvard Business Review.