TRI | India Rural Colloquy 2023

Mr. Siddharth Chaturvedi

Mr. Siddharth Chaturvedi

Executive VIce-President- AISECT Group, Co-Chair-CII Western Regional Panel for Skill Development, Chair- CII MP Panel for Startups

Siddharth Chaturvedi is presently working as EVP, AISECT Group and handles the entire Strategy and Operations for the Group’s various activities. AISECT Group is India’s leading Social Enterprise working in areas of Higher Education, Skills Training, Financial Inclusion in rural areas, Aadhaar based services, online services and Pre-schools. Siddharth has been instrumental in Group’s growth on pan-India basis in various verticals, as well as strengthening of Group’s various initiatives in association with key Govt. of India priorities such as Skill India Mission, Digital India Mission and Startup India Mission.

Siddharth handles the functioning of the 23,000 strong AISECT center network, strategy for expansion and business diversification at AISECT. Besides this, Siddharth also sits on the Board of three Private Universities promoted by AISECT Group.

As part of the CII – Young Indians Network, Siddharth headed the Entrepreneurship and Innovation vertical of Bhopal Chapter, wherein he took active interest in mentoring young entrepreneurs and initiated other activities which contributed to fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation amongst technical students and entrepreneurs. Siddharth has also been working as Convenor of the CII MP Panel on Skills, HR and IR.

Previous to joining AISECT, Siddharth has done his Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering from MANIT, Bhopal and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai. Siddharth joined ITC after that, where he was a part of the team expanding e-choupals and later on was responsible for setting up its Cash and Carry Retail Operations in North India. Thereafter, he moved on to IBM and worked on various Business Consulting engagements in the Consumer Products and Retail space.

Siddharth is a subject matter expert on Skill Development, Livelihoods, Employability, TVET systems, National Skills Qualification Framework; their implementation as well as policy advocacy with various stakeholders.