Reuben Abraham is CEO of IDFC Foundation and IDFC Institute, a think/do tank focused on state capability and political economy issues. He is a non-resident scholar at the Marron Institute at New York University, a Senior Advisor to Swiss Re, and an Honorary Advisor to the New Zealand government at the New Zealand Asia Foundation. In 2012, he was named to Wired Magazine’s “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world.” In 2013 and 2016, he was a Fellow at the Legatum Institute. He was chosen as a Young Global Leader for 2009 by the World Economic Forum, where he serves on the Global Futures Council on Urbanisation. He is a member on the boards of India’s Centre for Civil Society; THNK, The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership; Climate Policy Foundation India; on the investment committee of Endiya Partners, a deep-tech venture fun and the steering committee of GSM Association's (GSMA) Interact Group. For a decade, he served on the board of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) in New York. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board of Unicredit Bank in Italy. He completed his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York.