Vinay Nair
Business Development
Vinay has extensive experience in finance and social enterprise and development. Vinay spent several years at J.P. Morgan London, latterly as Executive Director and head of a fixed-income marketing team. He took a sabbatical to work on microfinance and social enterprise, primarily in India. He has also worked for the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Mozambique, including a secondment with the Ministry of Health coordinating work on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has launched two social enterprises: one in rural Mozambique, working with HIV-positive women to make and sell jam, and one in the U.K., focusing on out-of-hours primary health care, for which he received a level one award from UnLtd.
He sits on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Talented Youth of Ireland. Vinay received his B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and an M.P.A. from the London School of Economics. At LSE, he conducted a group capstone project on Indian rural electrification with Acumen Fund and its investee, Husk Power Systems.
- CONTACT VINAY
- M: +44 7900 554 689
- E: vnair@acumenfund.org
- Twitter: @vinaynair
- ACUMEN FUND TEAMS
- Europe