Anish is part of the management leadership at Transform Rural India Foundation. Prior to this, he was on the leadership team at the nonprofit PRADAN, working on rural transformation.
Anish oversaw overall organization strategy and institution-building. He integrated the finance function, involving raising resources, statutory compliance, and building and managing linkages with stakeholders.
His areas of expertise include creating business organizations run by poor communities and facilitating participation of small-holder farmers in modern value chains. Anish developed and piloted the small-holder poultry prototype, was the CEO of the first poultry co-operative, and then scaled up the model across new geographies. He is a board member of the National Smallholder Poultry Development Trust, an advisory and policy advocacy body.
Anish has been a member of the government think tank’s working group on disadvantaged farmers and has been involved in designing policies on producer collectives.
Anish has a postgraduate degree in forest management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal.