Ravi SharmaFounder, Institute of Goodness Goodness Score
Ravi Sharma

Founder & Chairman, Institute of Goodness

Ravi
Sharma

Former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent South Asia, Videocon Telecom and Adani Power, and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Roorkee. Today he is building the Institute of Goodness — to make goodness measurable, teachable and part of how a nation grows.

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Formerly chief executive of
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Videocon
  • Adani Power
01In numbers

What forty years added up to

  • 40years of work — 25+ of them as CEO, Chairman or Director on the boards of large telecom and power companies
  • 30×revenue growth in four years at Alcatel-Lucent South Asia
  • 10000 MWcapacity as Adani Power became India’s largest power producer, with $10B+ invested
  • 48500manufacturers in TEMA and CMAI, with cooperation agreements in 50 countries
  • 70+NGOs incubated, nurtured and mentored through Mission Chetna
  • 1 crore+people reached across 11 Indian states
02Three lives

One throughline

The full journey
Ravi Sharma
A quarter-century in industry

The builder

  • One of India’s youngest telecom MNC CEOs
  • CEO, Alcatel-Lucent South Asia · Videocon Telecom · Adani Power
  • Co-Chairman, FICCI Power Committee
IIIT Nagpur, Fourth Convocation Ceremony, November 2024
Service, by appointment

The institution-builder

  • Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIIT Una and IIIT Nagpur (2023)
  • Founder President, IIT Alumni Council (2019)
  • Executive Chairman, TEMA (2020)
At the Chetna Awards
A life given to one question

The reformer

  • Founder & Chairman, Institute of Goodness — his work today
  • Goodness Index and Personal Social Responsibility
  • Mission Chetna: 70+ NGOs, 1 crore+ people
In full flow
GDP may determine the size of a nation, but character determines its soul.

Ravi Sharma · Founder, Institute of Goodness · Spreading goodness
The road to Viksit Bharat 2047, Business India

All 45 quotes
03Ideas

Eight ideas, one argument

Explore the ideas
  1. The cycle of valueWhat is not counted slowly disappears.
  2. Goodness, definedIntent, action and impact, aligned toward the well-being of others.
  3. The emergency contact paradoxThe name on that form is a barometer of human trust.
  4. The character dividendCharacter is an economic asset.
  5. Respect is allocationalWe give time and attention to what we truly respect.
  6. The Pentad of LifeLife unfolds in five dimensions at once.
  7. The Seven Pillars of LearningThe purpose of education is the ability to learn.
  8. Character infrastructureA developed nation is defined by quality, not only by size.
04The work today

What he is building

Make goodness visible, measurable and teachable.

Institute of Goodness

The Goodness Index

A new compass beside GDP: a framework to measure trust, integrity, compassion and responsibility in people, organisations and nations.

Personal Social Responsibility

PSR: learning frameworks that build character from kindergarten through graduation.

Mission Chetna

Recognising the changemakers and NGOs who already live goodness. 70+ NGOs supported, 10+ million lives touched.

The Goodness Score

Twenty-five honest questions, five to seven minutes, free and private. What is yours?

05Writing

His column in Business India

All 9 columns
23 September 2026 · 11 min read

Building the Character Infrastructure of India

Physical infrastructure can transform an economy. Character Infrastructure can transform the quality of life.

Business India
16 September 2026 · 10 min read

Viksit Bharat: Beyond economics

A developed nation must be measured not only by the wealth it creates, but by the quality of life, institutions and society it builds.

Read the edition Business India
06Talks

Watch and listen

Convocation addresses and talks, in English and Hindi.

All talks
84th Convocation Address, TISS MumbaiConvocation address · English
World Economic Forum — India Economic Summit 2010Panel on energy infrastructure · from 27:50 · English
A speech that can change everythingTalk · Hindi
07In the news

Coverage, 2008 to today

All coverage
  1. 2023ELE Times · 29 August 2023Ravi Sharma, Chairman TEMA, appointed Chairperson of IIIT Una, Himachal PradeshReports his appointment to chair the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una.
  2. 2020KNS Kashmir · 25 July 2020Ravi Sharma appointed Executive Chairman of the Telecom Equipment Manufacturers AssociationCovers his appointment to lead TEMA, the industry body for India’s telecom equipment makers.
  3. 2020Amar Ujala · 24 July 2020IIT Roorkee alumnus Ravi Sharma becomes Chairman of TEMAHindi-language report on the TEMA appointment and its link to the Make in India agenda.
  4. 2014Business Today · 29 October 2014Adani Group’s power venture yet to fire upCover story on the Adani Group in which he is quoted as a former CEO of its power business.
  5. 2012Business Standard · 12 June 2012Adani Power leadership changeReports that he stepped down as Executive Director and CEO of Adani Power with effect from 30 June 2012, citing personal reasons.
  6. 2008tele.net · 15 June 2008Ravi Sharma, CEO, DatacomInterview from his time leading Datacom, the Videocon-backed telecom licensee, ahead of its 2008 service launch.

Also in the news

World Economic ForumHis profile on the Forum’s site

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