Sharad   Sagar   is   a   senior   at   Tufts   University   majoring   in   International   Relations.  

Sagar  serves  as  the  Founder  and  CEO  of  Dexterity  Global  and  is  recognized  globally  

for  his  work  in  the  field  of  education.  Sagar  is  a  “Forbes  30  under  30”  honoree.  He  

was  the   first  Tufts  undergraduate  ever  to  make  the  Forbes   list.  Sagar  has  received  

multiple  UN  awards  and  remains  the  highest  ranked  Indian  on  the  List  of  100  Most  

Powerful  Young  Entrepreneurs.  

 

At  Tufts  University,  Sharad  Sagar  was  the  first  (and  remains  the  only)  freshman  ever  

to  win  the  University’s  prestigious  $100k  New  Ventures  Competition.  He  made  the  

Rockefeller  Foundation’s  Centennial  List  of  100  Next  Century  Innovators  as  a  Tufts  

freshman  and  was  awarded  with   the  University’s  Paul   and  Elizabeth  Montle  Prize  

for  Entrepreneurial  Achievement  as  a  sophomore.  Sagar  was  the  first  international  

student  ever  to  manage  the  Varsity  Hockey  team  and  saw  consecutive  NESCAC  Final  

Four  appearances  as  the  Team  Manager.  In  his  senior  year,  he  was  awarded  with  the  

Tufts  Alumni  Association’s  Senior  Award,  the  Presidential  Award  for  Citizenship  and  

Public  Service,  the  Wendell  Phillips  Memorial  Prize  and  was  inducted  into  the  Honos  

Civicus  Society.  

 

Sagar   is  quoted  globally  by   influential   leaders,  major  universities,  newspapers  and  

media  houses.  In  2015,  Sharad  found  a  place  in  the  Entrepreneurship  Syllabus  of  the  

Michigan  State  University.  Later  that  year,  he  found  a  mention  in  Govt.  of  Taiwan’s  

Social  Impact  Agenda  at  the  Social  Enterprise  World  Forum  in  Milan,  Italy  alongside  

Bill   Drayton     (the   father   of   Social   Entrepreneurship)   and   was   included   in  

Development  Bank  of  Singapore’s  (DBS)  Annual  Report  in  2014.  Sharad  is  a  widely  

followed  youth   icon  and  has  over  100,000   followers  on  his   social  media  accounts.  

He   was   one   of   the   first   and   youngest   CEOs   to   be   awarded   a   verified   badge   by  

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