Vijay Mahajan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indian social entrepreneur and chairman
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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Vijay Mahajan
- Vijay Mahajan, born October 1954, is the Chief Exexutive Officer (CEO) of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies.Mahajan founded PRADAN, a well-known Indian non-government organization (NGO), in 1982, and worked at PRADAN till the end of 1990.
- He established VikaSoko Development Exchange in 1991 jointly with his Woodrow Wilson School/Princeton classmates, Thomas Fisher, a Britisher and Geoffey Onegi-Obel, a Ugandan, worked on social enterprises in India and East Africa.
- They ran VikaSoko till 1996, when Vijay established the first three entities of what later became the BASIX Social Enterprise Group. Mahajan was the founder of the BASIX Social Enterprise Group which is engaged in livelihood promotion and supported the livelihoods of over three million low income households in over 20 states in India and six developing countries.
- He is also Co-Founder, India Agriculture and Senior Social Impact Advisor at AVC Global Inc.
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