- Harish Hande
Harish Hande was born in
Bangalore ,Karnataka and raised inOrissa ,India . After completing his basic schooling in Orissa, he went toIIT Kharagpur for his undergraduate studies in Energy Engineering. He then went to the U.S. to do his Master’s and later PhD. in Energy Engineering at theUniversity of Massachusetts ,Lowell [cite web |title=Social Entrepreneur:Harish Hande|url=http://sramanamitra.com/blog/913 ]Harish Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA. , a social venture to promote sustainable technologies in rural India. With its headquarters in
Bangalore , SELCO has 25 branches inKarnataka andGujarat . Today SELCO INDIA has installed solar lighting systems in over 85,000 households in the rural areas of these states.Harish Hande has won the
Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy 2005 and [http://www.techawards.org/laureates/stories/index.php?id=104 Tech Museum Award 2005] . Harish has also received the world’s leading green energy award fromPrince Charles in 2005. In 2007 SELCO INDIA won the [http://www.ashdenawards.org/finalists_2007 Outstanding Achievement Award from Ashden Awards] . The award was presented byAl Gore , former Vice President of the United States of America. Harish Hande was named the [http://www.khemkafoundation.org/awards/sey07/sey07_winner.php Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007] by the [http://www.schwabfound.org/ Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship] and the [http://www.khemkafoundation.org/ Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation] . He was also the featured attendee and speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007.In 2008, Harish Hande was chosen by [http://businesstoday.digitaltoday.in/young-leaders-who-form-india-inc.html Business Today as one of the 21 young leaders for India’s 21st century] . In mid 2008, [http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/index.php?option=com_content&issueid=60&task=view&id=10476&Itemid=1 India Today] named him one of the 50 pioneers of change in India.
External links
* [http://www.ashdenawards.org/finalists_2007 Ashden Awards]
* [http://www.s3idf.org/dynamic/about-people-directors-hande.htm Biography of Harish Hande]
* [http://www.selco-india.com SELCO INDIA]References
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