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Conversations on philanthropy, leadership and society.

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India Development Review

Philanthropy practice, civil society, and the long arc of social change.

Since 2023

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Alliance Magazine

Global philanthropy practice and the questions the sector is grappling with.

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2010–2015

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Gautam John has spent twenty years in civil society leadership in India, most recently as CEO of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. He’s currently writing his first book, Unheroic: Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty. More →