Neil Ghosh is a seasoned executive whose experience and expertise span the nonprofit, government, philanthropic, and private sectors. Throughout his career, he has successfully launched and grown several nonprofit and for-profit operations from the ground up and has built teams, business models, partnerships, and strategies to reach organizational goals and support vulnerable populations in more than 50 countries. Neil has helped shapepublic-private partnerships to catalyze trade, education, youth development, social justice, and employability and to harness the skills of vulnerable populations. He continues to influence corporate executives, government decision-makers, and world leaders to shape their agendas on youth and children, education, trade, impact investing, and inclusive business.

Currently, Neil serves as president of MGR Professional Services, Inc. and is a senior advisor to the Ousri Foundation and Healthy Climate Initiative. Earlier he was chief executive officer of SOS Children’s Villages USA, executive vice president of Global Fund for Children, and chief executive officer of SNV USA. Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for vulnerable populations. He also focuses on advancing nimble cross-sector collaboration systems to foster sustainable development.

Neil is a certified managementconsultant with an MBA in international business and an MS in management information systems. He has been featured in print, broadcast, and online media in the United States and abroad, including CNN, Devex, the Washington Post, Economic Times, Voice of America, the Australian, the Huffington Post, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

At the age of 14, Neil started a grassroots organization to empower local children and youth in his hometown of Kolkata, India. This experience spurred his involvement in the international development field after spending more than a decade in the private sector and government agencies.