Brief Bio-Data

Mr. Ajay S Mehta is the Executive Director of the National Foundation for India (NFI), a philanthropic trust that supports civic action for promoting democracy and social justice. Before joining NFI in 2001, Ajay Mehta was General Secretary of the Association of Voluntary Agencies for Rural Development (AVARD), a national association of voluntary organizations in India. Between 1985 and 1999 as Chief Executive for Seva Mandir, an NGO that works with poor peasants on issues connected to health, education, livelihood and building their own community organizations. Currently he is the President of the board of trustees, Seva Mandir. He graduated from Yale University, and did his M.Phil (Economics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University