Vinay is the Executive Director of Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR/Krea University. He leads the overall administration of our rapidly growing initiative based in New Delhi with program activities in several states. He oversees the core teams and helps manage the research programs by providing strategic leadership alongside our partners at Yale University. Vinay has about two decades of international professional experience in leadership and strategic management roles.

Prior to joining Inclusion Economics at IFMR, he was a Quantitative Methods Instructor, at Harvard Kennedy School, Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a Democracy Governance Fellow at Harvard’s Ash Center. He is a Visiting Professor and on the Academic Board at the African Development University.

Vinay graduated from Harvard Kennedy School’s Mid-Career MPA as an Edward S. Mason Fellow (2017). He holds an MBA from University of Oxford (2009) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Bangalore University (2001). He is a StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow (2007).