Sumit Joshi

 

Sumit Joshi

Sumit is a social impact advisor, committed to driving thought leadership and action on diverse socio-economic issues. He traversed various roles in his career from running his own social enterprise and working with the UN to consulting in the development sector.

Currently, as Global Director at Lorinet foundation, Sumit leads the foundation’s vision to support sustainable initiatives on early childhood education and youth employment for vulnerable communities in Mongolia and SE Asia.

Previously, as part of Leadership at Sattva Consulting, Sumit worked with global foundations, corporate, govt., multilaterals, and social-purpose organisations in designing and scaling their social impact initiatives. Sumit has also been a successful entrepreneur, co-founding APART Education to improve employability skills of Indian youth and providing livelihoods to thousands of young graduates. He has extensive experience across wide ranging themes such as social inclusion, education, life-skills, employability, livelihoods, and organisational development.

When Sumit is not working, he is out climbing mountains, paragliding, or preparing for his next long-distance run.