Address: Dr H Harish Hande
#742, 15
th
Cross, 6
th
Phase
J P Nagar
Bangalore 560 078
India
Telephone: +91 80 266 545 09
Email: harish@selco-india.com
Website:
www.selco-india.com
Harish Hande was born in
Bangalore
,
Karnataka
and raised in
Rourkela
,
Orissa
,
India
. After
completing his basic schooling in Orissa, he went to
IIT
Kharagpur for his undergraduate studies
in Energy Engineering. He then went to the U.S. to do his Master’s and later PhD. in Energy
Engineering at the
University of Massachusetts
,
Lowell
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Harish Hande co-founded SELCO INDIA. , a social venture to promote sustainable technologies
in rural India. With its headquarters in
Bangalore
,
SELCO
has 25 branches in
Karnataka
and
Gujarat
. Today SELCO INDIA has installed solar lighting systems in over 85,000 households in
the rural areas of these states.
Harish Hande has won the
Ashden Award
for Sustainable Energy 2005 and
Tech Museum
Award 2005
. Harish has also received the world’s leading green energy award from
Prince
Charles
in 2005. In 2007 SELCO INDIA won the
Outstanding Achievement Award from
Ashden Awards
. The award was presented by
Al Gore
, former Vice President of the United
States of America. Harish Hande was named the
Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007
by the
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
and the
Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation
.
He was also the featured attendee and speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative 2007.
In 2008, Harish Hande was chosen by
Business Today as one of the 21 young leaders for India’s
21st century
. In mid 2008,
India Today
named him one of the 50 pioneers of change in India
Dr. H Harish Hande,
Managing Director, SELCO-India, which he co-founded with Neville
Williams in 1995. Dr. Hande earned his Doctorate in energy engineering (solar specialty) at the
University of Massachusetts (Lowell). He has an undergraduate degree in Energy Engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. Dr. Hande serves on the boards of
many organizations, both national and international.