Pranav is a Project Leader at BCG in the Public Sector & Social Impact practice, with over a decade of experience shaping transformative models across digital agriculture, cooperative finance, and rural development. His work integrates policy innovation, technology adoption, and AI-enabled delivery to drive inclusive economic growth across India’s rural and agri ecosystems.
He has led strategy and implementation for India’s largest agriculture-focused development finance institution (DFI), anchoring national initiatives on PACS computerization, digital cooperative enablement, and financial inclusion. Pranav has pioneered breakthrough solutions such as an AI- and remote sensing-based alternative credit scoring model for shrimp farmers in Andhra Pradesh, and India’s first Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) purpose-bound lending framework for tenant farmers—advancing precision credit and traceable fund utilization.
His portfolio includes designing a shared digital services platform for rural cooperative banks to enable scale efficiencies, data integration, and AI-led monitoring; establishing a GenAI Centre of Excellence for a leading DFI to embed AI across governance, operations, and portfolio management; and contributing to India’s national digital rural transformation strategy, shaping scalable models for farmer collectives, agribusiness ecosystems, and blended finance partnerships.
He has completed the Climate & Sustainability Stewardship Program from Nanyang Technological University, holds a Post Graduate Program in Management (Finance & Strategy) from the Indian School of Business, and earned a B.E. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering along with an M.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics from BITS Pilani.
