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Ashvin Dayal

Senior Vice PresidentPower, The Rockefeller Foundation

Ashvin Dayal leads The Rockefeller Foundation’s Power program, focused on scaling clean energy access to improve the lives and livelihoods of people in the United States and around the world. He oversees our largest investment in this space, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, a collaboration of more than 20 philanthropies, development investors, and technical organizations. Before joining the Foundation in 2008, he held several senior roles at the global development NGO, Oxfam, where he led its largest-ever relief and recovery effort in the aftermath of the 2004 Asian Tsunami. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economic Geography from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a master’s degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Authored Content

  • Oct 23 2025
    Perspective Mission 300: Measuring Progress and Opportunities The World Bank’s new Mission 300 Progress Portal shows accelerating progress toward connecting 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030 through collective action. Andrew Herscowitz, Ashvin Dayal