Ramakant has also served as a senior advisor to a UN and World Bank backed entity, building a multimillion dollar social impact investment portfolio in the Middle East and North Africa. This work included the set-up of Somalia’s first bank, Yemen’s first youth microfinance fund, and the world’s first sharia-compliant micro-giving platform, and has twice won the Thomson-Reuters Ethical Finance award.

Earlier, Ramakant was a management consultant with Booz & Co in London, where he won client & professional excellence awards for his public sector transformation work. Prior to this, he was with the leadership cadre of the $100B Tata Group (TAS) in India, where he held roles at the Group’s venture incubator and started up India’s largest data services firm.