Vidyadhar Prabhudesai was born and bought up in Thane, outskirts of Mumbai city, he considers himself to be lucky to have parents who gave me good education and supported him throughout. Vidyadhar completed his graduation in commerce in 2002. Immediately after his graduation he joined Coca Cola as Management trainee and subsequently secured job in Hewlett Packard as Analyst in Bangalore. He quit his job in 2007 to purse MBA
Vidyadhar Prabhudesai is managing trustee of LeadCap Trust, a non-profit organization which is striving to empower a millions of ambitious youth, so that they could realize their true potential through “LeadLab – an industry student skill development platform created using public-private partnership.” He established world’s first “Leadership Village” in Waynad district of Kerala along with partner Anne Frank Research – where he transformed a village inflicted with abysmally low opportunities for a person to live, grow and sustain into world first “Leadership Democracy”.
Vidyadhar is also management consultant and engages with Governments from various nations in Africa and Asia, institutions like UN, World Bank, ADB, World Economic Forum and Fortune 500 corporations like Microsoft, Intel, Unilever and Coca Cola. He was among first 20 people from India to be nominated as Global Shaper by World Economic Forum in 2011. His essay on “Youth Jobs Innovation Challenge” received recognition from International Finance Corporation in the year 2012. He also received the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award and honorary listing in “Who’s Who in the World” in the year 2013. He received Rex Fellowship instituted by UN in 2014.
Vidyadhar has published research articles and writes regularly for many Bennett & Coleman publications in India including The Times of India, The Economic Times, and Mirror. He also contributed articles for two books “Tribal Development and Human Rights” and “Generation Jobless? Turning the Youth Unemployment Crisis into Opportunity” which would be published in early 2015. He has completed his Masters education in Commerce and Management from University of Mumbai and Diploma in leadership from Thunderbird Institute of Global Management, USA. He also holds a Certificate in Public Policy in Telecom from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.