Santosh is a founder-trustee at Crosslinks Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in Bangalore, India with a mission to tackle inter-disciplinary developmental challenges in critical areas such as livelihood generation, social protection, and environmental sustainability. Having started his career as a scientist in a systems analysis laboratory of the Government of India, Santosh has close to twenty years of professional experience in applied research, marketing and public policy work, both in the government and private sector.
Santosh holds an ME in Electrical Communications engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and an MBA from Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Santosh was a Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science at Harvard Kennedy School from 2012-2014.