Short Third Person Bio
Gaurav Mishra builds and nurtures online communities as CEO of Social Business Strategy firm 2020 Social. In his previous avatars, he has studied at IIM Bangalore, held senior marketing roles at the Tata Group, taught social media at Georgetown University as the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow, and co-founded crowd-sourced election monitoring platform Vote Report India.
Third Person Bio
Gaurav Mishra builds and nurtures online communities as CEO of Social Business Strategy firm 2020 Social. In his previous avatars, he has studied at IIM Bangalore, held senior marketing roles at the Tata Group, taught social media at Georgetown University as the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow, and co-founded crowd-sourced election monitoring platform Vote Report India.
2020 Social is a Social Business Strategy firm based in India, serving Indian and international clients. We add value with our unique understanding of the intersection of business, communities and social technologies.
Vote Report India is a citizen-driven election monitoring platform powered by Ushahidi.
Previously, Gaurav was a part of Tata Administrative Service (TAS), which is Tata Group’s fast track program to groom recruits for senior management roles by providing cross-company and cross-functional exposure. Gaurav’s last role at the Tata Group was as Assistant General Manager (Brand Head Indica) at Tata Motors, where his responsibilities included managing national level sales and marketing, and developing traditional and digital marketing programs for Indica, one of India’s leading automobile brands.
Gaurav led research on social media and mobile use in the BRIC countries, with a focus on digital activism in India and China, as the 2008-09 Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University and a 2009 Society for New Communications Research Fellow. At Georgetown University, Gaurav also taught a graduate course on “Social Media in Business, Civil Society and Government”.
Gaurav is frequently quoted in Indian and international media on topics related to social media, online communities, digital activism and citizen journalism and is a regular speaker at conferences.
Gaurav has contributed chapters to three books on social media and a book on digital activism.
Gaurav writes a popular blog on social media and social change at Gauravonomics Blog, which is amongst the 150 most popular marketing and PR blogs internationally, as per the AdAge Power 150 rankings. Gaurav also contributes to several well-known international group blogs like Global Voices.
Gaurav graduated in the top 20% of his PGDM (MBA) batch of 2002 at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, one of the most reputed business schools in India.
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