Yashveer Singh

The power and inclusivity of Ashoka’s vision of “Everyone A Changemaker” is something which inspires me to contribute to be part of this community!

Yashveer has played various roles across geographies at Ashoka. After his initial efforts to lead programs on youth years in South Asia – Yashveer founded the Ashoka Young Changemakers community to support and partner with young changemakers across different countries and continents. Ashoka Young Changemakers identifies, selects and builds a global community of Teen Changemakers. Yashveer has also led Ashoka’s pan-Africa efforts as the Co-Diamond Leader of Ashoka’s presence on the Continent.

Prior to this, he founded a youth non-profit to address talent inequity in the development sector and influence youth culture in India by inspiring, and educating university students to pursue social innovation and entrepreneurship. Yashveer has co-authored a book #ChangeStartsYoung featuring inspiring stories of young changemakers from across India.

For his work, Yashveer has been recognized in “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia” list in the year 2016. He was also awarded prestigious Youth Action Net 2012 Fellowship – as 1 of the 20 young social entrepreneurs representing 16 different countries by International Youth Foundation. Yashveer earned his MBA at University of Oxford, where he was the only MBA student to receive Vice-Chancellor Social Impact Award 2014 for his initiatives as Co-Chair Social Impact, Oxford Business Network (OBN). As the President of Student’s Union BITS Pilani 2006-07, Yashveer co-founded the University VISION 2020 Plan.