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Meet Ashish Dhawan

Ashish Dhawan

Ashish Dhawan is the Founder of Ashoka University and the Founder of Central Square Foundation (CSF), a philanthropic organization focused on systemic reform in K-12 education in India.

He has an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual Bachelor's (BS/BA) from Yale University. Ashish is on the India Advisory Board of Harvard and a member of Yale's Development Council, and worked for twenty years in investment management, running one of India's leading private equity funds, ChrysCapital. In June 2012, he left his full-time role at ChrysCapital to work on education reform in India.

Founder The Convergence Foundation, Ashoka University, Central Square Foundation (CSF).

BA, Economics and Applied Math, Yale University; MBA, Harvard Business School.