Utkarsh Amitabh

Utkarsh Amitabh is the founder of Network Capital, one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 7.5 million+ school students and 200,000+ young professionals to build meaningful careers. Network Capital received funding from Facebook (Meta) and a blockchain unicorn acquired a stake in the company in September 2022. He is a PhD Scholar at the University of Oxford, a writer at Harvard Business Review, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper who represented the community at the Annual Meeting in Davos. He is the co-author of two books published by Harvard Business Review Press and the author of two best-selling books published by Sage and Penguin: “The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work” and "Passion Economy and the Side Hustle Revolution". World Economic Forum founder Professor Klaus Schwab wrote the foreword for both his books. An engineer by training, Utkarsh graduated with a masters in moral philosophy at the University of Oxford and earned his MBA from INSEAD where he was recognized as the Andy Burgess Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship. He is also the Torchbearer of Ashoka University’s Young India Fellowship. Utkarsh worked at Microsoft for 7 years across the US, Europe, and India, leading business development for large-scale public sector projects. He is a TED speaker, Raisina Fellow, and the recipient of the INK Fellowship. He is also a trained actor and played “Major Metcalf” in one of the world's longest-running plays. He loves to travel and has been to more than 80 countries.