Prof. Anil Gupta, Professor, IIM Ahmedabad is set to revolutionize the world with his strong sense of ethics and life’s mission to bring smile on the faces of the knowledge rich but economically poor grassroots innovators and communities.

He established Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), two NGOs, respectively to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products. Has also helped set up the NIF (National Innovation Foundation) by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to help India become an inventive and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies. Has been requested to carry out a performance review of Commonwealth Knowledge Network of Commonwealth Science Council,He was adjudged as one of the Star Personalities of Asia among the fifty leaders at the forefront of change by Business Week, New York.- Business Week, Asian Edition, July 2, 2001.