Ranga Bodavala
DM06 Winner
Hailing from an agricultural family from a village in India, Ranga is interested in simple technologies in water treatment, pumping, communication and home lighting to make the life of women and children better, safer and more productive. Ranga won the 2006 Development Marketplace with a project for the development of portable LED home lights in India. Ranga is the founder president of THRIVE and has 16 years experience as a consultant in Public health systems in World Bank funded health projects in India, JICA funded projects in Uzbekistan, Malawi, and UNICEF in Afghanistan. Ranga has an MBA and Ph.D in information systems and he worked as post doctoral Takemi fellow in Harvard School of Public Health.
