Shashi is a scientist and serial social innovator working on a range of areas including health, energy, water & food security. He is the Founder of the Institute for Transformative Technologies (ITT), which launched India’s largest infrastructures for off-grid power and natural sanitation, serving hundreds of thousands of the country’s poorest citizens. In response to COVID, Shashi also led ITT’s launch of Oxygen Hub, Africa’s largest medical oxygen franchise. In 2021-22, Shashi was the founding CEO of GHLabs, created by Bill Gates to develop technology breakthroughs in global health. Earlier in his career, Shashi was a Partner at Dalberg Advisors and an Associate Partner at McKinsey. Shashi spent a decade on the Indian rowing team, and made an acclaimed documentary film about the India-Pakistan conflict. He holds a PhD from the Univ of Massachusetts in Artificial Intelligence, an MBA from Northwestern Univ. Shashi also teaches at the UC-Berkeley. He was born and raised in India.