Anish is Managing Director at Transforming Rural India Foundation (www.trif.in). Foundation seeks to bring about paradigm change in key metrics of rural life. It has created collaborative platform of NGOs, government and businesses together striving to make villages places of equal lifelong opportunities - emerging as places worth living in with dignity, belongingness, prosperity, and opportunity. Anish was part of the senior management team at PRADAN (www.pradan.net), India’s leading rural development NGO, leading resource mobilisation efforts and linkages with stakeholders. His areas of expertise include creating business organizations run by poor communities and facilitating participation of small-holder farmers in modern value chains. Anish developed and grounded small-holder poultry model, run by poor women this has emerged as the largest family poultry network in India with turnover of US $ 56 million. Anish has been a member of the Planning Commission Working Group on disadvantaged farmers, and has been involved in designing of policies on producer collectives.
