Mr. Tushar Garg’s career journey has given him a unique perspective and insight into the
dynamics and challenges of both the private and the public sector. With an overall
experience of 17 years, he considers himself fortunate to serve two different ends of the
universe altogether. On one side, he has served the highest level of capitalism manifested at
the Stock Exchanges in US, UK, Japan, China, HK, Singapore, Mumbai etc. and also the
beginning levels of social systems i.e. serving the grassroots section of our population on the
premise of Innovations stemming from them and eventually getting them on-boarded to a
development journey, something critical for the world to claim and not just target
Inclusivity. He has been actively involved in building and strengthening the collaboration and
cooperation between India and various international stakeholders, such as governments,
industry, academia, and civil society on the premise of Science, Technology and Innovation
(STI), an instrument deployed by nations and often referred as “Science Diplomacy”.
He works towards facilitating the recognition and integration of grassroots and student
innovations into the national and international development agenda. He has been involved
in various Incubation initiatives viz. Business Development, Market Research,
commercialization and Investment aspects of Innovation based enterprises and also focus
on building Technology Infrastructure and Knowledge Systems required to enable the same.
His work touches about a million lives annually by way of serving various functions at NIF.
He also holds additional responsibilities of the Vigilance Officer and Public Information
Officer (PIO) for the organization.
A Management graduate from Symbiosis, Pune (2007) and a Computer Engineer in terms of
qualification, prior to serving National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF) where he has
completed 8 years already, Mr. Tushar Garg has also served Goldman Sachs & Co. for nearly
8.5 years across three different divisions viz. Asset Management, Operations and
Technology and positioned himself as one of the most versatile professionals at the said
international firm. During his tenure, he had opportunities to serve large Financial
Institutions, Corporations, and Governments also including the Bretton Woods Institutions
in matters related to Asset Management. He is well versed with Socially Responsible
Investing (SRI) and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) aspects of Investments.
