Madhav Datt started Green the Gene as a student environmental club in 2004 - when he was 8 years old - after learning that India's water table, or water level underneath the soil, was falling by almost two feet every year. Now Green the Gene is an environmental nonprofit with more than 7,000 student volunteers who have developed and deployed 8,000 low-cost water-filtration devices to 62 countries.
He served as the Global Representative for Children & Youth to the UNEP, where Madhav worked closely with permanent missions of UN member states to facilitate youth involvement at policy levels.
He also worked as Advisory Mentor at the Queen’s Young Leaders Programme (an initiative by HM Queen Elizabeth, University of Cambridge, and Comic Relief).
He studied computer science as an undergraduate at Harvard University and IIT Kharagpur and is deeply passionate about working at the intersection of applied AI and sustainability.
He has interned in software engineering, and machine learning roles at Google and IBM Research and is presently a software engineer at Google and has also been represented in Forbes 30-under-30 and won the Diana Award.
