Adhirath Sethi is a businessman and author, based in Bangalore. He is also a trustee for the Agastya International Foundation. He is an alumnus of The Rishi Valley School, Eton College, and the London School of Economics. A former management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, he took an all too eager plunge into entrepreneurship in 2008. In 2019, to commemorate Agastya’s two decades since inception, a proposal was put forth to capture the story of the foundation’s remarkable journey. He spent the first half of 2022 interviewing anyone that might have insights into Agastya. Speaking with everyone from front-line workers to donors, to board members, and senior management, the inside story of Agastya began to emerge.

As a board member of the Agastya International Foundation, and as Chairman of the Navam Foundation, Adhirath’s involvement in the NGO space spans over ten years and includes contributions to fundraising, operations management and strategy.