Nishant Lalwani is a founder and international development leader who has spent two decades launching and scaling global funds. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the International Fund for Public Interest Media. He co-founded the Fund and led its launch with a multilateral coalition of sixteen donors that include some of the world’s largest governments, corporates and philanthropies.
Nishant has twenty years of experience in international development, media development and strategy roles. Prior to joining the International Fund, he was Vice President of Global Programmes at Luminate, where he was also on the leadership team. In 2013, Nishant helped launch the non-profit Global Innovation Fund (GIF). As COO, he led GIF’s investment process and venture support team, making investments and grants across the world.
Prior to that Nishant was on the founding team of Monitor Inclusive Markets (MIM) in India, which sought to scale up social enterprises addressing economic inequality. Early in his career he worked at the UN Development Programme in Zambia and also at Marakon Associates, a strategy consulting firm in London.
Nishant has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He also has a Master’s in Aeronautical Engineering and a B.A. in General Engineering from Cambridge University.
