Ravi Sreedharan has 24 years of experience in the corporate sector. He spent much of this time at HSBC where he served in multiple roles, the last of which was CEO and president director of Bank Ekonomi. He quit his corporate career and switched to the social sector in 2011, joining Azim Premji Foundation as the head of education leadership and management. In 2016, Ravi founded Indian School of Development Management (ISDM).