Dilip Sankarreddy

Dilip Sankarreddy

Dilip Sankarreddy is a business professional, public problem solver, environmentalist and poet. He is the founder and CEO of QuietGrowth. He is a winner of the World Bank India Development Marketplace Award in 2007 for innovating and providing a human-power based lighting solution to nomadic and tribal people in India.[1] In 2014, he ran the notable electoral campaign as an M.L.A. candidate from the Malkajgiri Assembly constituency in the Hyderabad city on behalf of the Lok Satta Party, with a broader goal to strengthen clean politics.

Professional work

Dilip Sankarreddy is the founder and CEO of QuietGrowth, an automated investment management service in Australia.

He has worked in finance, marketing, product management, and general management in the fin-tech, education, and telecommunications industries across the world. In 2009, he founded EterLive, an Internet start up that provided perpetual maintenance of online digital assets of subscribers.[2]

Social work

He is a winner of World Bank India Development Marketplace Award in 2007 for innovating and providing a human-power based lighting solution "Swavalamban Mono Wheel Generator" to nomadic and tribal people in more than 120 rural locations in India from 2007 to 2009. The award grant was $20,000 and most of the installations were in tribal residential schools.[3] In 2013, the initiative was improved by one of the team members, based on the success and past learning, to again win the World Bank India Development Marketplace Award 2013 with an award grant of $100,000.[4][5]

He has taken up various issues concerning urban development since 2004 and has given talks about environment and sustainable development in international conferences and forums.[6][7] His work has been recognised by various universities and governments.[8] He has been awarded sponsorships from the City of Geneva, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Dilip has also served as the Vice-President of Save Bombay Committee and Prakruti, nonprofits in India.[9]

'Voter India' Initiative

Since mid-2013, Dilip Sankarreddy started the 'Voter India' initiative with the belief that the healthy voter lists is one of the prerequisites for a vibrant democracy. Daily door-to-door voter verification, new voter enrolment and online submission of new voters' registration forms are the key activities of the initiative. A pilot project was executed in the Malkajgiri Assembly constituency between 2013 and 2014 where thousands of new voters are being enrolled by the daily door-to-door activity by the 'Voter India' team.

Politics

In 2012, Dilip quit his professional job in the US to work for the people in India.[10] In 2014, he contested as an M.L.A. candidate from the Malkajgiri Assembly constituency in the Hyderabad city on behalf of the Lok Satta Party, with a broader goal to strengthen clean politics.

Logo of 'Dilip for Malkajgiri' campaign

His sustained electoral campaign from 2012 towards 2014 Assembly elections transformed into a notable event, against the backdrop of the splitting of Andhra Pradesh state. He believed that the greatest tragedy of the current Indian politics is the lack of public participation in political donations, and he attempted a formidable electoral campaign that was funded by the people.[11] In March 2013, he was invited to speak about his campaign at the Harvard India Conference 2013 which is organised by the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School at Boston, United States.[12] But in the final days before the polling date in April 2014, his progressive agenda was overwhelmed by the heavy polarisation of the electorate on regional basis over the Telangana issue that had already led to the division of the state of Andhra Pradesh the previous year. Still, he could get 5.2% vote share to become the second-most successful candidate of the party in the state elections.

He is the member of the first National Steering Committee of the Lok Satta Party. He also led People For Lok Satta, the international political organisation based out of the US, as a member of the founding Executive Board and as the Vice-President – Finance in its first elected Executive Board from 2009 to 2012.[13] He was instrumental in building the organisation and driving various fund-raising activities.[14]

Poetry

He has written two poetry collections, Song of a Bard and Other Poems (2005) and Wanderings with Poetry (2007).[15]

Education

He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore and a Full-Time MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

References

  1. ↑ Anuradha Mane (25 June 2007). "Nomads, tribals can plug in to pedal power". India: Indian Express. Retrieved September 2011.
  2. ↑ Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (28 May 2009). "13th Annual Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge Business Plan Competition, Finals Competition and Awards Reception" (PDF). Chicago, IL, U.S.A. p. 25. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Save Bombay Committee (September 2009). "Swavalamban Mono Wheel Generator – Final Report to World Bank" (PDF). India. p. 22. Retrieved September 2011.
  4. ↑ The World Bank (1 May 2013). "World Bank Group Awards $2 Million to Social Enterprises in the States of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand". Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Parvathi Menon (1 May 2013). "Overview of the India DM 2013 Finalists". India. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Economic Globalization and Environmental Policy". Emerging Cities in India and China: Creation of New Environmental Hotspots due to Globalization. Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. 25 May 2006.
  7. ↑ http://savebombaycommittee.org/database/IDM/Swavalamban_102709.pdf
  8. ↑ http://savebombaycommittee.org/people/dilipSankarreddy.htm
  9. ↑ http://savebombaycommittee.org/people/index.html
  10. ↑ "Two NRIs join LSP". Hyderabad: The Hindu. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  11. ↑ "Youth Should Be Supported To Enter Politics". Great Andhra. March 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  12. ↑ "Ajay Maken, Sam Pitroda to address at Harvard India conference". India: The Indian Express. March 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "People for Lok Satta elects its First Executive Board". Lok Satta News (Hyderabad). 25 April 2011.
  14. ↑ http://peopleforloksatta.org/profiles/dilip-sankarreddy
  15. ↑ Joshi, Manju (December 2007). "Words of wisdom". India: The Tribune. Retrieved 1 January 2009.

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