Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi is the Director of Research, Lecturer in Global Business, and Doctoral Research Fellow for Innovation and Change at Fletcher’s Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), where he leads the Digital Planet research program and teaches International Strategy and Innovation in the Master of Global Business Administration (GBA) program.
Chaturvedi is a founding member and Co-investigator of Digital Planet – an interdisciplinary research initiative dedicated to understanding the impact of digital innovation on the world and providing actionable insights for policymakers, businesses, investors, and innovators – and has written several widely cited and influential articles in business and international affairs publications. Digital Planet research is widely cited around the world with mentions in hundreds of mainstream media articles, citations in academic journals, and references in more than 30 global languages. Chaturvedi has provided commentary to the media – e.g. CNN, Atlantic Media, Nikkei Asia Review, Institutional Investor, American Public Media’s Marketplace, among several others – on issues such as digital competitiveness of nations, digital financial inclusion, digital innovations and related investments, and technology enabled inclusive economic growth.
He has extensive experience in emerging markets, strategy and business management, and the payments industry. Chaturvedi served as a member of the Advisory Group for the Estonian Government’s e-Residency program. Prior to Fletcher, he was the head of Portfolio and Products for the Middle East and North Africa region at American Express. He also worked in various capacities in parts of Asia for a decade with organizations such as Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Hewlett Packard. Chaturvedi holds a Master of International Business degree from Fletcher, where he was an Emerging Markets Enterprise Scholar, and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines, where he was on the Dean’s List.
Recent Publications:
- “How Digital Trust Varies Around the World”, Harvard Business Review. February 2021 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “Which Economies Showed the Most Digital Progress in 2020?”, Harvard Business Review. December 2020 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “Which Countries Were (And Weren’t) Ready for Remote Work?“, Harvard Business Review. April 2019 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “How Technology Could Promote Growth in 6 African Countries“, Harvard Business Review. December 2019 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “Ranking 42 Countries by Ease of Doing Digital Business“, Harvard Business Review. September 2019 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “How Effective Is India’s Government, Compared with Those in Other Emerging Markets?“, Harvard Business Review. May 2010 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “Which Countries Are Leading the Data Economy?“ Harvard Business Review. January 2019 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Ajay Bhalla)
- “The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries.” Harvard Business Review. February 2018 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Ajay Bhalla)
- “The ‘Smart Society’ of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction.” Harvard Business Review. October 2017 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed.” Harvard Business Review. July 2017 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Ajay Bhalla)
- “The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World.” Harvard Business Review. May 2016 (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Benjamin Mazzotta)
- “How Benchmarking Can Help Countries Become More Digital.” Harvard Business Review. March 2016. (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti)
- “Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession.” Harvard Business Review. October 2015.
- “Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination.” Harvard Business Review. August 2015.
- “The Way to Estonia: How to Reach Digital Nirvana.” Foreign Affairs. March 2015. (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Christopher Tunnard)
- “Where the Digital Economy is Moving the Fastest.” Harvard Business Review. February 2015. (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Christopher Tunnard)
- “Digital Planet: Readying for the Rise of the e-Consumer.” The Fletcher School. September 2014. (w/ Bhaskar Chakravorti & Christopher Tunnard)
- “Mumtalakat and Bahrain’s National Economic Strategy: Straddling Performance and Liquidity.” SovereigNET. November 2013.
Recent Media Mentions:
- “Bridging the digital divide for an inclusive digital economy.” Ericsson. May 2021.
- “Mukesh Ambani goes back to the future with his latest investment in a pod taxi tech company”, Quartz. March 2021.
- “He may hold the winning ticket in tech and Silicon Valley knows it”, CNN Business. February 2021.
- “Why Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are investing billions in India.” CNN Business. July 2020.
- “Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi: on data and leapfrogging Estonia“, E-Estonia. July 2019
- “New Zealand leads digital race.” Newsroom New Zealand. February 2018.
- “Nordic countries top digital nations ranking, but risk stalling.” ComputerWeekly. August 2017.
- “Businesses are saving time and money by getting rid of cash.” Marketplace. July 2017.
- “Inside Bahrain’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Mumtalakat.” Institutional Investor. January 2016.
- “Bahrain: Between Iran and Saudi Arabia in More Ways Than One.” Institutional Investor. January 2016.
- “AIM Hosts a Fireside Chat on the Rise of the ASEAN E-Consumer.” AIM. May 2015.
- “Government Stokes Entrepreneurial Fires.” Nikkei Asian Review. March 2015.
- “How Temasek has driven Singapore’s development.” East Asia Forum. February 2015.
- “The Rise of the E-Consumer.” Jakarta Globe. November 2014.
Email Address: Ravi.Chaturvedi@tufts.edu