Independent scholar, innovation and leadership advisor, and bestselling author based in New York (French-American dual citizen, born in Pondicherry, India). He is a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School and as Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, where he studied global innovation networks.

He co-authored the international bestsellers Jugaad Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2012) and Frugal Innovation: How to Do More With Less (The Economist, 2015, with a foreword by Paul Polman). His other works include From Smart to Wise (2013) and The Frugal Economy (Wiley/Thinkers50, 2024). He received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2013 and has been ranked among the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers (Thinkers50) in 2021, 2023, and 2025. His TED Global talk on frugal innovation has been viewed over 2 million times. He writes for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and strategy+business.