Vivan is Co-Founder of Koan Advisory. Previously, Vivan served as the CEO of the Global Governance Program at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s largest multi-disciplinary think tank. Additionally, Vivan is Advisor to the Esya Centre, a technology policy think tank, and Board Member of several innovation-centric start-ups. He is the author of Wonked!: India in Search of an Economic Ideology, published by Bloomsbury in 2019.