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Ashish Dhawan

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Founder and CEO at The Convergence Foundation
📍 Delhi, India

Ashish is the Founder-CEO of The Convergence Foundation, applying his background as co-founder of private equity firm ChrysCapital to the social sector. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, he focuses on building scalable institutions to accelerate India’s economic growth and solve complex developmental challenges.

Outside of work, Ashish is an avid reader who believes in distancing himself from noise to generate unique insights. Colleagues describe him as embodying a "work hard, play hard" attitude, being both intensely focused and the energetic center of social gatherings. He intentionally avoids social media.

At the peak of his investing career, he left his firm at age 43 to begin a "second career" dedicated entirely to philanthropy and institution building in India.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Founder and CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Delhi, India
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Priorities

Topics Ashish cares about

Institution Building
His core philosophy is creating self-sustaining institutions, like Ashoka University, that will continue to create impact long after he is gone, rather than simply funding projects.
Systemic Philanthropy
He applies a strategic, venture capital-like mindset to philanthropy, aiming to address the root causes of India's challenges to create scalable, nationwide impact.
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Career

Work history

5-2021
Founder and CEO
The Convergence Foundation
2012
Founder and Chairperson
Central Square Foundation
2010
Founder and Chairperson
Ashoka University
1999 - 7-2012
Founder, Senior Managing Director
ChrysCapital
7-1997 - 3-1999
Associate
Goldman Sachs
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Education
1995 - 1997
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Harvard Business School
1988 - 1992
Bachelor's degree
Yale University
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