Over the last 16 years, Ravi has worked with and advised Fortune 500 companies, multilateral and bilateral organizations, universities, government agencies and startups on strategy and social-impact in Asia, Europe and Africa. He has held various positions at UBS Investment Bank, World Intellectual Property Organisation, One Acre Fund, Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency and the Economic Policy Analysis Unit of the PM’s Office in Ethiopia.

He has significant strategic and operational expertise in technology, smallholder agriculture, education and capacity building and investment promotion in light-manufacturing and clean technology. Ravi launched and scaled Accelerated into an award-winning edtech startup that has impacted over 65,000 learners in East Africa.

He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering and an MBA from Université de Genève and IIM-A