Biography
Harish Hande is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995. Birth place: Handattu, Udupi Taluk, Udupi District, Karnataka Alma mater: IIT Kharagpur University of Massachusetts Lowell }} Occupation: Social entrepreneur Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish_Hande Early life: He was born in Handattu, Udupi District, Karnataka, and raised in Rourkela, Orissa, India. After completing his basic schooling in Orissa in Ispat English Medium School, he went to IIT Kharagpur for his undergraduate studies in energy engineering and graduated in 1990. He then went to the United States to do his master's degree and later PhD in energy engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Career: Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA (in 1995), a social enterprise, to eradicate poverty by promoting sustainable technologies in rural India. SELCO India is a social enterprise that provides sustainable energy services to the poor in India. Hande left the active management of SELCO India in 2014 and became the CEO of SELCO Foundation.