the executive chairman and founder of digital investing, consulting and skills platform 5F World
and Global Talent Track and Board chair of Honeywell Automation India Limited and Lighthouse
Communities Foundation. He led APTECH for 10 years and Zensar Technologies as vice chairman
and CEO till early 2016. He is a former chairman of NASSCOM and SVP India and was president
of the HBS Club of India. He has a PhD from IIT Bombay and AMP from Harvard Business School
and has co-authored 12 previous books on technology, leadership and economic growth.
Ejaz Ghani is currently senior fellow at the Pune International Centre. Previously lead economist at
the World Bank, he worked on Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Corporate Strategy, and Independent
Evaluation Unit. He contributes economic opinion columns to a number of prominent publications
and has edited several books, including Reshaping Tomorrow: Is South Asia Ready for the Big Leap?
(2011) and The Poor Half Billion in South Asia: What is Holding Back Lagging Regions? (2010). Prior
to joining the World Bank, he taught economics at St. Anne’s College (Oxford University) and Shri
Ram College of Commerce (Delhi University). He is an Inlaks scholar."