Ashish Karamchandani
Ashish Karamchandani
Overview
Ashish Karamchandani is a Partner at Monitor Group based in Mumbai. After seven years of leading Monitor’s consulting business in India, Ashish founded Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM) to catalyze market-based solutions to create social change. He has led MIM’s extensive efforts over five years to kick start the low-income ownership housing market representing untapped commercial potential of over $220 billion, working with entrepreneurs, developers, finance companies and major corporates. In 2008, Ashish coled a foundational study of inclusive business models in India, looking at over 300 enterprises cross sectors including healthcare, water, education and livelihoods, culminating in the groundbreaking Emerging Markets, Emerging Models report. Ashish has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, a M.S. from Berkeley and a PhD. from Stanford University. With his wife Vibha Krishnamurthy, Ashish also runs Ummeed, a nonprofit organization for children with developmental disabilities.