Ashish Dhawan

Founder
ISDM

Ashish Dhawan is the founder of the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM) and one of India's leading philanthropists and social entrepreneurs. He is also the founder-CEO of The Convergence Foundation, which focuses on accelerating India’s economic growth and development, and the founding chairperson of Ashoka University, India’s premier liberal arts institution. Before turning to philanthropy, Dhawan was a successful private equity investor and co-founder of ChrysCapital, one of India's largest private equity firms. He has dedicated himself to improving education and social equity in India through various initiatives such as the Central Square Foundation and ISDM. Ashish Dhawan holds degrees from Yale and Harvard and serves on the board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.