Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria is a pioneering social entrepreneur and the founder of several awardwinning international NGOs. Her innovative approach to managing social ventures and bringing them to global scale has earned her fellowships with Ashoka Innovators for the Public, the Skoll Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Additionally, her work has been featured in Business Week, The Economist and several books. Her most recent initiatives include Aflatoun , Childline India Foundation and Child Helpline International. Currently, she serves as the founder and managing director of Child and Youth Finance International .

Jeroo Billimoria was born in Mumbai, India to an accountant and a social worker. Raised in a family strongly committed to social service, her fathers early death caused her to dedicate herself to social causes. Billimoria received a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai in 1986, an M.A.in Social Work from Indias Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1988 and an M.S. in NonProfit Management from the New School for Social Research University in New York in 1992. From 1991 to 1999, she was a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

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