Senior Advisor

Reuben Abraham

Reuben Abraham is a Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Emerging Markets Solutions, a center at the Indian School of Business (ISB) with a focus on developing and implementing market-based solutions to promote economic development. Reuben was selected as a Young Global Leader for 2009 by the World Economic Forum. In addition, he serves on the global board of directors of George Soros’ Economic Development Fund (SEDF). Under the aegis of SEDF, he helped set up a unique India-focused SME early stage fund with Google and Omidyar Network as co-investors. He serves as an adviser to several companies, including several start-up companies. A TED Global Fellow in 2007, he now serves on the TED Fellows selection committee, and is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Before ISB, he finished his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from from Columbia University. For his doctoral research, he looked at the relationship between telecommunications (especially mobile telephony) and economic development. During his time at Columbia, he was an Associate Fellow in Global Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the Public Policy Consortium and a Sloan Foundation/CITI Telecommunications Fellow. He also served as a consultant at the World Bank and conducted research at three Columbia University research labs. Before Columbia, he was involved in co-founding two start-up companies in the media/telecom space.