Ashok Alexander,
IIM Ahmedabad,
Director: India AIDS Initiative
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ASHOK ALEXANDER, Director, India AIDS Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ashok Alexander took charge as the Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India AIDS Initiative in April 2003. Mr. Alexander leads the development of strategy for the initiative, conceives high impact cross-sectoral programmes and provides oversight to grant making. In the process he liaises closely with central and state governments, NGOs in the field and with corporate partners. Mr. Alexander came to the Foundation with 24 years of experience in the private sector working in Hong Kong, the United States and in India. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a Director and Head of McKinsey and Company’s New Delhi office. He joined McKinsey in 1986 in New York and was part of a small group of McKinsey consultants who moved to India in 1992 to establish its highly successful India practice. He was elected partner at McKinsey in 1993 and Director in 1999. He has developed competitive strategies and developed change management programmes for clients across a broad spectrum of industries. Mr. Alexander was part of the leadership team that created the American India Foundation (AIF), and serves on the India Board of Advisors of AIF. He has been involved with the Ashoka Foundation, the National Centre for Employment of Disabled People and with Mobile Creches. Mr. Alexander is a graduate of St Stephens College in New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Married with two sons, his primary passions outside work are Indian contemporary art and chess in which he is internationally rated. He serves on the Board of Directors of Osians, an organisation committed to the promotion of Indian art heritage.
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