Education Leader Series | Mr. Yashveer Singh, Co-Founder & Global Director-Ashoka Young Changemakers
Yashveer founded the Ashoka Young Changemakers program at Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs & innovators. Ashoka Young Changemakers identifies, selects, and builds a global community of Teen Changemakers. Prior to this, he founded a youth non-profit to address talent inequity in the development sector and influence youth culture in India by inspiring and educating university students to pursue social innovation and entrepreneurship. Yashveer has co-authored a book #ChangeStartsYoung featuring inspiring stories of young changemakers from across India.
For his work, Yashveer has been recognized in the "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia" list in the year 2016. He was also awarded Youth Action Net 2012 Fellowship – as 1 of the 20 young social entrepreneurs representing 16 different countries by the International Youth Foundation. Yashveer earned his MBA at the University of Oxford, where he was the only MBA student to receive the Vice-Chancellor Social Impact Award 2014 for his initiatives as Co-Chair Social Impact, Oxford Business Network (OBN). As the President of Student’s Union BITS Pilani 2006-07, Yashveer co-founded the University VISION 2020 Plan.
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