Vikram Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He has developed and teaches a new course, Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. He also teaches FIELD Foundations and FIELD Global Immersion in the Required Curriculum of the MBA  Program and teaches in various Executive Education Programs. In addition, Vikram is a faculty member of the Impact Co-Laboratory focusing on research in the area of Impact Investing.Vikram is the Founder of Asha Impact, an impact investing platform and is a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 1997 and has been a  part of the New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai chapters.  He has spent 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School (Class of 1989) where he was designated a Baker Scholar, and a B.Com with high distinction from the University of Mumbai. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant. 

Vikram was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Global Head of the Financial Institutions Business for Credit Suisse, in New York and Hong Kong. He was a member of Credit Suisse's Global Investment Banking Management Committee and the Fixed Income Operating Committee. Prior to his tenure at Credit Suisse, Vikram worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was Co-Head of Global FIG in New York; his prior work at Morgan Stanley included heading the Firm's institutional strategy area, its Global E-commerce Committee, and as Country Head and President of Morgan Stanley India. Asha Impact, a platform set up by socially-conscious individuals led by Vikram leverages their combined capital, networks and expertise to address the critical development challenges facing India and other emerging economies through impact investing, venture philanthropy and policy advocacy. Asha Impact is focused on providing equity and grant capital to social enterprises as well as engaging with government, business and civil society on key policy issues. Vikram has been involved with various developmental activities in India and globally. He is a Board Member and Chairman of the Asian Regional Committee of Grameen Foundation, a Board Member of Jana Small Finance Bank, and a member of the Investment Committee at Gawa Capital. Vikram is a Founding Member of Harvard University’s South Asia Initiative,  a Founder of Ashoka University, the first liberal arts college established in India, and a Founding Board Member of Social Finance India.

Neera Nundy is the co-founder of Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation that for 20 years has supported non-profits to achieve scale and impact lives. She leads Dasra’s ecosystem-building initiatives in the areas of adolescents, urban sanitation and democracy and governance. She is responsible for initiating the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business Publishing, a first-of-its-kind executive education program for social sector leaders in India. She also launched the $50 MM Dasra Adolescent Collaborative, a high-impact collaborative funding platform that unites funders, technical experts, government stakeholders and social organizations to focus on key outcomes for adolescent empowerment. She has been critical to establishing partnerships with global leaders that include Harvard University, Stanford University, USAID, Omidyar Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is on global board of The Hunger Project, SNEHA and Disha Seema Centre; strategic and investment committees of Mann Deshi, Educate Girls and the Education Alliance.

She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, is an Indian Leadership Initiative Fellow with Aspen Institute. She is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Medallion for her dedication to addressing India’s critical development challenges, and has been awarded the Forbes Philanthropy Award in the Crossover Leaders category for 2014. She lives in Mumbai and is married to Dasra cofounder Deval Sanghavi with three boys Ayush, Laxman and Akbar.