A Brief Biography of Atanu Dey

Atanu Dey is a Senior VP at Netcore Solutions, Mumbai. His primary focus in on the use of information and communications technology tools in secondary and post-secondary education. He has worked in product marketing at Hewlett Packard in California for several years. He received his PhD in economics from University of California at Berkeley. He holds masters degrees in computer science from IIT Kanpur and Rutgers University, and a mechanical engineering degree from Nagpur University. While a Reuters Fellow at Stanford University (2001-02), he coauthored a model for rural development called RISC with Vinod Khosla. In his spare time (about 90% of his total time) he listens to classical music, practices Vipassana meditation, reads physics, gives lectures on Buddhism, maintains a sporadic blog, and occassionally makes sense. He plans to become a philosopher when he grows up. He would also like all to know that he is a published poet.

Check out Atanu’s blog on development issues.

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