Sushant Palakurthi Rao

• Senior Director, Head of Asia, World Economic Forum

BSc in Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Master's in International Affairs, Columbia University. Formerly: Management Consultant, Sony Europe, Berlin; with Accenture, Munich and Berlin. With World Economic Forum: heads Asia team with responsibility for developing relationships with industry, government and institutions in Korea, South Asia, South-East Asia and Japan; leads programme development, participant, co-chair engagement and marketing of regional events in East Asia and India.