Parag Gupta, Founder, Waste Ventures
Parag Gupta is the founder and CEO of Waste Capital Partners, a company that employs the poor to operate transparent environmentally friendly solid waste management. Previously, he founded Waste Ventures, a 501(c)3, which uses a Minimum Viable Product approach to develop and disseminate sustainable waste management practices to waste enterprises, governments, multilaterals, and investors. Together they build a progressive new waste industry.
Previously, Mr. Gupta was an Associate Director at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was responsible for the search and selection of social entrepreneurs across South Asia and Eastern Europe and forming the inaugural Global Agenda Councils on Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was a management consultant at a Bain & Co. affiliate, the Bridgespan Group, and has worked broadly across the US, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. Parag received his Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School and his Bachelors from the University of Chicago. He is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow. He has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Inc. Magazine, The Hindustan Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Huffington Post and has presented at TEDx, Congress of Brilliant Minds, and the United Nations General Assembly.
Previously, Mr. Gupta was an Associate Director at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he was responsible for the search and selection of social entrepreneurs across South Asia and Eastern Europe and forming the inaugural Global Agenda Councils on Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship. Previously, he was a management consultant at a Bain & Co. affiliate, the Bridgespan Group, and has worked broadly across the US, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. Parag received his Masters from the Harvard Kennedy School and his Bachelors from the University of Chicago. He is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow. He has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Inc. Magazine, The Hindustan Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and the Huffington Post and has presented at TEDx, Congress of Brilliant Minds, and the United Nations General Assembly.