Positions and Recognitions
Vijay has been listed in “60 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum, Davos, 2002; "India’s 50 Most Powerful People" by BusinessWeek, 2009 and among "he twenty people who will reform India during this decade", by the Indian Express, 2011
He was a keynote speaker at the OECD Foreign Aid Ministers in Paris in 2004, the Geneva Private Equity Conference on Microfinance, 2005 and the Goldman Sachs global forum on microfinance, 2006, Several panels in the World Economic Forum, Davos 2010
Awards conferred on him include:
- Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Delhi, 2003
- Member of the Ashoka Fellowship, 2008
- HSBC Access award for outstanding contribution to the microfinance sector, 2009
- Skoch Foundation Award for Financial Inclusion, 2010
- Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIM Ahmedabad, 2011
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