Nish Acharya leads Equal Innovation, an organization that collaborates with leading universities, governments, foundations and companies to assist them to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship with their impact-focused strategies. Mr. Acharya is also a Senior Fellow with the Clinton Foundation, a contributor to Forbes and the author of the “The India-US Partnership: $1 Trillion By 2030” by Oxford University Press.

Nish previously served as Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Commerce for the Obama Administration, and as Executive Director of the Deshpande Foundation, a prominent American philanthropy focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and also served in the Administration of President Bill Clinton. He has been quoted prominently worldwide in the New York times, Economist, Newsweek, Economic Times, India Today, BBC, Bloomberg and NDTV.