Nitin draws on over 10 years of experience working across the spectrum of public and private institutions to advise governments and development agencies on improving outcomes in the water, sanitation, and agriculture interventions in fragile and post conflict states. The trajectory of Nitin’s career was inspired by a journey through Afghanistan in 2005 where, in between copious cups of tea, he saw the resilience and power of private enterprise from the vast informal network of hawalas, to kids selling top-up cards for cell-phones, to the proliferation of gyms and corner shops. Since then, he has worked in over 20 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and sub-Saharan Africa where he explored how private enterprise operates in emerging markets and the obstacles stunt its growth.
Most recently, he has focused on how state and non-state actors can use the resilience of private enterprise to help deliver basic services and to break the cyclical nature of endemic violence and weak institutions in fragile and post-conflict countries. Nitin has a degree in Economics from Carleton College and an MBA from Oxford University.