Rajesh Anandan
Rajesh Anandan is Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Partnerships at the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, a position he has held since joining the organization in April 2009. Previously, Mr. Anandan served as Head of Private Sector Partnerships for the Global Fund in Geneva, where he led a full spectrum of collaborations with corporations and foundations, as well as resource mobilization initiatives like (PRODUCT)RED. Prior to that, he was the Director of the New York Office at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Mr. Anandan has also had a broad range of roles in the private sector, including product development and marketing at the Microsoft Corporation, corporate strategy and private equity consulting at Bain & Company, and senior management engagements in technology-related start-up ventures. He is the founder of üba, an innovative cause-related brand platform which promotes peace and human security, and WeCare, a grass roots service organization focused on children affected by conflict in Sri Lanka, his home country.
Mr. Anandan moved to the U.S. to pursue higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he obtained Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and has since lived and worked in North America, Western Europe and Southern Africa.
Related links
- Mr. Anandan wrote an article for Added Value—Closing the half a billion dollar gap for UNICEF.
- Mr. Anandan has contributed to the Fieldnotes blog for Uganda.
July 2010
