Manas Nanda
India
Master of Business Administration (MBA), 2014
Green Templeton College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus
With a background in social enterprise and rural development, Manas graduated with an MBA in 2014. He also holds a first class honours degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, US).
Rural and tribal communities in India are some of the poorest and most affected by climate change and food insecurity. Through his involvement with the Art of Living, a social enterprise in India, Manas has direct experience working with some of these communities on issues such as sustainable agriculture, health and hygiene, renewable energy and livelihood generation.
He was a manager at Intellecap, working towards building sustainable enterprises dedicated to social and environmental change.
Manas is the co-founder of BubbleNut Wash, a sustainable brand of home-care products that manufactures and markets organic and eco-friendly laundry detergents, dishwash liquids, floor cleaners and handwash liquids. The USP of these products is that they are all derived using wild soapnuts that are harvested by rural communities in some of the remotest parts of India.
