NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Chandrasekaran Jayaraman of Chennai, India, has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a post-graduate degree in plastics and has 25 years of industrial experience. He invented a BPA-free infanct bottle filter and named one of “12 hot young entrepreneurs of 2013” by Business World magazine. He is a serial innovator and has two patents, one for a modular toilet design and another for a trauma care spill sink. He founded Watsan Envirotech Private Limited to provide water and sanitation for rural India.