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

Vishnu Swaminathan is Ashoka’s Director for Housing For All in India, responsible for scaling up the program in India and surrounding countries in the region. He joined Ashoka with more than 14 years of experience as entrepreneur and innovator. He started two IT based companies in Singapore in the areas of financial transactions and animation technology. He moved to India to head a leadership school based in Pune, and worked on large government projects with an aim to donate the surplus for funding citizen sector organizations. Most recently he ran an assignment with National Innovation Foundation, a government sponsored organization working on grassroots Innovation at national level in India. He holds a MBA from University of Southern Queensland.