Reuben Abraham is founding CEO at IDFC Institute, a Mumbai based think/do tank focused on state capacity and political economy. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Marron Institute at New York University, and a senior fellow at the Milken Institute. Before IDFC, he was faculty and Executive Director of the Centre for Emerging Markets Solutions (CEMS) at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He was also selected as a Young Global Leader for 2009 by the World Economic Forum, where he serves on the Global Futures Council on The Future of Cities and Urbanisation. He is a member of the international advisory board of Unicredit Bank of Italy; the boards of India’s Centre for Civil Society; Advocata, a Sri Lankan think tank; THNK, The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership; FHRS, an affordable housing firm; Climate Policy Foundation; the steering committee of GSM Association's (GSMA) Interact Group; and on the investment committee of Endiya Partners, an Indian deep-tech venture fund. He completed his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. from Columbia University. During his time at Columbia, he was an Associate Fellow in Global Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Fellow of the Public Policy Consortium and a Sloan Foundation/CITI Telecommunications Fellow.