Ruwan Salgado is the Director of World Links, an organization which promotes the use of ICT in Education and new approaches to learning to build skills and expand horizons among disadvantaged youth in developing countries. Mr. Salgado has significant international development experience having spent many years working as a management consultant in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Immediately prior to joining World Links, he spent seven years in management and financial roles helping to manage a venture-capital funded private company that provided teacher professional development for American primary and secondary schools and a non-profit organization that focused on U.S. primary and secondary educational reform. Mr. Salgado has experience in privatizations and public-private partnerships and was a consultant to a venture capital firm. As a management consultant, he has also worked with senior corporate executives and government officials in a wide range of industries including oil, mining, healthcare, capital markets, and agribusiness.
Mr. Salgado joined the staff of World Links in March 2007 and became its Director on October 1st, 2007.
Mr. Salgado is a member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and was formerly a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Mr. Salgado has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Chicago and an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University. He received both a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College in the USA.