Biography:Ramji Raghavan

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Ramji Raghavan
EducationMBA
Alma materLondon Business School International Institute of Social Studies
University of Delhi
OccupationFounder and Chairperson,
Agastya International Foundation
Known forAgastya International Foundation
Websitewww.agastya.org

Ramji Raghavan is a social innovator and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairperson of Agastya International Foundation[1] Non Profit Organizations. Ramji served as a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education, Government of India. He is member of the Governing Council of the Marico Innovation Foundation . He has also served as a board member of Vigyan Prasar[2] and as a member of the Working Group on Attracting Children to Science and Math of the Prime Minister's National Knowledge Commission.[3] Ramji has spoken at Stanford, the Education World Forum,[4] the annual INK Conference in association with TED,[5] the Clinton Global Initiative, MIT Media Lab,[6] Peking University, Indian Institute of Science,[7] the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research[8] the PanIIT Conference,[9] the Confederation of Indian Industry, Deshpande Development Dialogue, the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore,[10] the WISE Summit 2014, Qatar[11] and RAFT- Resource Area For Teaching, Bay Area, USA. In March 2021 Agastya announced the creation of Navam Innovation Foundation in partnership with the Pravaha Foundation of Hyderabad.

Recognitions

In 2009, Ramji was elected as a senior fellow by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.[12] In 2011, Ramji was featured on Indian TV channel Times Now[13] in its program Amazing Indians and honoured with the People's Hero award by the Coimbatore unit of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at its silver jubilee celebrations.[14] In 2012, Ramji was featured on CNBC Awaaz's program "Bharat Bhagya Vidhata".[15] Under Ramji's chairmanship Agastya International Foundation won the Google Global Impact Award 2013 and was ranked by The Rockefeller Foundation NextCentury Awards among the top 100 global innovators. In 2016 Ramji received the Deshpande Foundation's Sandbox Catalyst Award and the Innovation for India award from the Marico Innovation Foundation[16] Ramji and Rakesh Jhunjhunwala were also featured on CNBC TV's Daan Utsav programme.[17] In 2017 Ramji was awarded The Rotary Club of Madras East Vocational Skilling Excellence Award.[18] He was also featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.[19] In 2019 Agastya received an Andhra Pradesh State Green Award for its work in regenerating the ecosystem of its 172-acre campus, documented in a book, 'The Roots of Creativity'.[20] In 2020 Ramji and Agastya International Foundation were featured in the book, 7 Sutras of Innovation by Nikhil Inamdar,[21] which tracks the journeys of eight organizations that have scaled up to become top players in their own fields and are transforming India. In 2022 he was felicitated by Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Meet in New York for Agastya’s commitment to reach 37 million children by 2027. In 2024, LID Publishing (UK) published The Moving of Mountains by Adhirath Sethi, (https://www.amazon.in/Moving-Mountains-Agastya-International-Foundation/dp/1911687441) which narrates the story of the Agastya Foundation's journey since inception. In October, 2024 Ramji was felicitated at the [22] Gala in New York with the Making a Difference Award, and was presented a Citation by the County of Nassau.

References

  1. ↑ "The Art Of Giving - Forbes India" (in en-US). http://forbesindia.com/article/web-special/the-art-of-giving/27402/1. 
  2. ↑ Vigyan Prasar Member: http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/annualreport/Vigyan_Prasar_Annual_Report_Eng.pdf
  3. ↑ Prime Minister NKC Working Group Member http://www.knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/report2009/eng/report09.pdf
  4. ↑ (in en) Ramji Raghavan talks at the Education World Forum, London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u-odJKprvU, retrieved 2023-05-19 
  5. ↑ "Ramji Raghavan" (in en-US). https://inktalks.com/people/ramji-raghavan/. 
  6. ↑ "Ramji Raghavan on Science Education in Rural India | MIT Media Lab". 2013-05-28. http://www.media.mit.edu/node/3417. 
  7. ↑ IISc : http://www.iisc.ernet.in/centenary-conf/ramji.html
  8. ↑ "talk061110". https://www.tifr.res.in/~aset/article_Ramji_Raghavan_blog.html. 
  9. ↑ "Jacksonville Waste Management" (in en). http://paniit2008.org/program/education.htm. 
  10. ↑ "IIMB 41st Foundation Day Lecture: October 28, 2014". IIM Bangalore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnpigyj3ODw. 
  11. ↑ "Mr. Ramji Raghavan". WISE. http://www.wise-qatar.org/ramji-raghavan. 
  12. ↑ Senior Ashoka Fellow: "http://www.ashoka.org/node/5893/ "
  13. ↑ Amazing Indians Times Now:"http://www.timesnow.tv/Amazing-Indians-Global-Indian/videoshow/4383265.cms "
  14. ↑ People's Hero Award
  15. ↑ (in en) BHARAT BHAGYA VIDHATA (EP-18), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112MtTiWzyA, retrieved 2023-05-19 
  16. ↑ "Aha moments". https://www.chinadailyhk.com/articles/20/214/244/1525749307767.html. 
  17. ↑ CNBC-TV18 (2016-10-04), Daan Utsav with Rakesh Jhunjhunwala - 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxsBUN7covc, retrieved 2017-09-28 
  18. ↑ "Vocational excellence award presented" (in en-IN). The Hindu. 2017-02-03. ISSN 0971-751X. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/Vocational-excellence-award-presented/article17156530.ece. 
  19. ↑ "Why Indian Nonprofits Are Experts at Scaling Up (SSIR)" (in en-us). https://ssir.org/articles/entry/why_indian_nonprofits_are_experts_at_scaling_up. 
  20. ↑ "The Roots of Creativity- Ecology at Agastya" (in en). 9 August 2017. https://issuu.com/agastyasparks/docs/final_ecology_book. 
  21. ↑ "Nikhil Inamdar - Penguin India" (in en). https://penguin.co.in/author/nikhil-inamdar/. 
  22. ↑ Children's Hope India

24. Indica News https://indicanews.com/bust-of-indian-math-genius-ramanujan-unveiled-at-stanford-university/



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