Harish Hande
Indian social entrepreneur
Harish Hande (born Handerto Harish Hande) is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995.2
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Born Mar 1, 1967.1
About
He was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011 for "his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCO India".
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Companies
- SELCO IndiaFounder9
Early life and education
- Date not recordedIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur3
- Date not recordedUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell3
He was born in Handattu, Udupi District, Karnataka, and raised in Rourkela, Orissa, India.
After completing his basic schooling in Orissa in Ispat English Medium School, he went to IIT Kharagpur for his undergraduate studies in energy engineering and graduated in 1990.
He then went to the United States to do his master's degree and later PhD in energy engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur.5
- Date not recordedFounded SELCO India4
Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA (in 1995), a social enterprise, to eradicate poverty by promoting sustainable technologies in rural India.
SELCO India is a social enterprise that provides sustainable energy services to the poor in India. Hande left the active management of SELCO India in 2014 and became the CEO of SELCO Foundation.
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Personal life
Awards
- 2011Ramon Magsaysay Award8
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataHarish Hande on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaHarish Hande on Wikipedia
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- 8WikidataHarish Hande: award, on Wikidata
- 9WikidataSELCO India, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsHarish Hande photo by World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0