Satish Jha
President and CEO of OLPC India

Satish Jha is the President and CEO of OLPC India with a mandate to reach out to 250 million children who are growing up without access to computing. In the first quarter of 2009 he signed up to reach a quarter million children and is targeting to reach 3 million children by the end of the year.
Satish has worked as a newspaper editor, a global corporate executive and founded James Martin & Co and META Group in India. He is also actively engaged with a number of social initiatives and founded, mentored and/or seeded a couple dozen projects and initiatives. He co-founded Tarahaat.com, DESI Power, Digital Partners, Baramati Initiatives, eHealth-Care Initiatives among them and has been associated with leading the social entrepreneurship initiatives across Africa and Asia.

Satish is also a former Editor of The Times of India Group and co-founded Janasatta, the first screen composed national daily in India, for the Indian Express Group.

He has lately been focusing at the intersection of technology, business strategies and public policy in the areas of universal access to education, healthcare and bridging the digital divide. He is also a member of United Nations' GAID, Special Advisor to Kofi Annan Center and Co-Chairs the World IT Forum (WITFOR).

Satish studied at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Kennedy School of Government, University of Maryland, EDHEC- Institute Theseus in France, the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague and earned an MA in economics and an MBA in Strategy, Innovation and Information Technologies. He has also been a National Scholar in India, a Hubert Humphrey Fellow, Ford Fellow, Netherlands Fellow and was granted scholarships for management education by France Telecom and BNP.

His co-edited work with Leon Strous on "ICTs for Development and Prosperity" was published by IFIP in late 2007.