Mr.Ravi Venkatesan
Social Entrepreneur. Business Leader. Writer. Former Chairman of Cummins India, Microsoft India, and Bank of Baroda

Ravi Venkatesan is a business leader, social entrepreneur and author who has spent 30 years leading organizations and engineering large-scale transformations across multiple industries. He has served as Chairman of Microsoft India, Cummins India and Bank of Baroda and as a board member and cochair of Infosys. Ravi currently serves on the Board of Hitachi Ltd and the Global Advisory Board of ServiceNow. After an illustrious corporate career, Ravi is now a social entrepreneur. He is a founder and Chairman of the Global Energy Alliance which aims to accelerate the energy transition in the global south. He is also the founder of the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Social Venture Partners a pan-India network of philanthropists. He is a Venture Partner at impact investor Capria Ventures and was UNICEF’s Special Representative for Young People and Innovation and a Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha, the world’s largest computer literacy program and also helped establish the Cummins College of Engineering, India’s first engineering college for women, in Pune.
Ravi has a BTech from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is a recipient of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and Purdue University's Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award.
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.