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Gopi Gopalakrishnan

Founder & PresidentWorld Health Partners

Skoll Awardee

Biography

Gopi Gopalakrishnan has long experience in implementing large-scale service-delivery programs. WHP initially delivered primary health care to rural communities in India and Kenya and is now expanding its scope to primary education and livelihoods. The approach is to enhance with technology and management systems the utility of whatever available resources in the community.
Gopi has been a member of India’s Population Commission and has advised numerous national and international organizations on cost-effective service delivery. He has served as a global technical advisor of the International Finance Corporation and is currently an advisor of the National Health Mission.
Gopi has worked as the Director of International Programs of DKT International based in Washington DC overseeing 14 programs and as Country Director in Vietnam. Besides Skoll, he has been awarded by Schwab and Ashoka Foundations and the Government of Vietnam. He holds a masters degree and has been trained at Harvard.