Rapid Fire
What could you give a 10-minute talk on with zero prep?
Coffee and Entrepreneurship.
What was your first job, and what’s the part you still remember?
I sold Newspaper “Times of India” door to door. I still remember the sales skills I learnt from the experience!
What did you do prior to joining NEIA that has nothing to do with education?
I built companies and non profits.
baldev@neiacademy.orgEDUCATION
B.S. in Electrical Engineering: G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering
MBA in Business Analytics and Machine Learning, Babson College
BACKGROUND
Mr. Baldev Singh Rawat is an entrepreneurship educator with 15 years of diverse experience starting companies, building teams, consulting, and facilitating learning across corporations, governments, nonprofits, schools, and universities. For over nine years, Mr. Rawat has built cutting-edge entrepreneurship programs and delivered them across continents, online and in person, reaching 50,000+ learners. His approach to entrepreneurship education focuses on play, experiential learning, trauma-informed practices, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and “city as a learning space,” with a particular interest in the intersection of social good and for-profit entrepreneurship.
Mr. Rawat is certified in Youth Entrepreneurship Education from Babson College. An electrical engineer by training, he began his career working with a Danish conglomerate before moving into entrepreneurship. He went on to found an award-winning organization and a marketing company, while building and leading teams across different sectors. His work has also been recognized with a Mayor’s Innovation Award.
Mr. Rawat serves as Director of Entrepreneurship Education at NEIA, and is an angel investor with TiE Boston Angels. His work brings together education, entrepreneurship, and the startup ecosystem to create authentic entrepreneurial experiences for young people.