Chief Innovation Officer, ideas42
Piyush Tantia is Chief Innovation Officer at ideas42, a social enterprise that uses insights from behavioral science to invent fresh solutions to tough social problems. As ideas42’s founding CEO, he built the organization from a research initiative at Harvard University to an independent non-profit running 100+ innovation projects across 30+ countries. Piyush has been focusing a bulk of his time on charitable giving for the last 8 years, partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, National Center for Family Philanthropy, and dozens of other organizations.
Prior to ideas42, Piyush was a Partner at Oliver Wyman. He frequently lectures on behavioral science at Harvard, Wharton, Yale, and other universities. Piyush was a 2021-22 Causal Inference Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He holds degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and Wharton School.
