Rikin Gandhi is Chief Executive Officer of Digital Green. His interests include sustainable agriculture and technology for socioeconomic development. Rikin received a master’s in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT and a bachelor’s in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Rikin is a licensed private pilot and received patents for linguistic search algorithms that he helped develop at Oracle.
Born and raised in the U.S., Rikin ventured to rural India to start up a social enterprise to develop biofuels. He then joined Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India as a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets team that incubated Digital Green. Digital Green is now an independent, not-for-profit organization with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Google, and others.
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