About

Ashish focuses on using market-based solutions to drive sustainable social change. This includes multi-year programs like low-income housing where he helped develop a market which now has 26 Housing finance companies who have given over USD 5 billion of mortgages to finance over 350,000 houses. He has co-authored seminal reports like "Blueprint to Scale" and "The Pioneer Gap". He founded Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM), and prior to that started Monitor Group's consulting business in India.

Ashish also co-founded Ummeed, a non-profit that works with children with or at the risk of developmental disabiliites. Ashish holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, an M.S. from University of California, Berkley and a PhD from Stanford University.