About

Nitin Rao os a former Staff Writer for NextBillion.net and currently MBA Candidate at the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Nitin is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology - Karnataka - Surathkal, (2008) and the StartingBloc Fellowship (London Business School, 2007). He has deferred an MBA admit at the MIT Sloan School of Management to join the business development team at SKS Microfinance in Hyderabad, India.

Nitin's interests lie at the intersection of economics, business and development. He is passionate about education for low-income communities. He has been involved in strategy for The Spark Group, an MIT/Yale education startup. He has written papers on sustainable investments in Indian education accepted by MIT International Review and the Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations Harvard On-Campus Conference, and been recently selected to participate in the 38th St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland.

Nitin is the founder of Engineers for Social Impact, a unique fellowship program to connect top engineering talent to the most credible social enterprises that drive market-based solutions to development. He is also the founder of Let Me Know, an innovative portal for youth opportunities in India.