Personal Profile
Abhilash Puljal is a trained social scientist, a trade strategy and private sector development specialist and a certified management consultant (CMC?). He has over two decades of experience advising public and private sectors, multilaterals and industry associations in conceptualising and implementing sustainable ventures, developing business strategies, interpreting, and advising on policy and regulatory matters across agriculture, renewable energy, healthcare and education verticals. He is passionate about developmental issues affecting the Global South and is working actively on South-South and Trilateral development Cooperation by connecting sustainable technologies and building efficient capacities in middle and low-income economies of Africa and Asia.
Abhilash is currently advising the UN World Food Programme in New Delhi for mapping the demands on a needs-based assessment for countries in Asia and Africa in the millet value-chain. He is also conducting capacity building, through his firm, exercises for the Afreximbank, Cairo on Export Trading Companies (ETC) across countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Moreover, his practice has been contracted by the Government of Zambia, funded by the African Development bank, to advise on the Lobito Corridor Trade Facilitation Project. Furthermore, he is also, individually and through his firm is advising private enterprises on their cross-border investment strategies especially into countries in Sub Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
He has a multidisciplinary educational background with two postgraduate degrees in Development Management and International Business from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, and the University of Sydney, Sydney respectively. His undergraduate degree is in Management with a minor in Politics from DePaul University, Chicago. He also read briefly as an exchange student at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, Moscow. Furthermore, he completed a course on Markets System Development approach by The Springfield Centre, United Kingdom.
Company Profile
Abhilash Puljal is a boutique advisory firm based in New Delhi with project presence in Asia and Africa. We advise public and private sectors alongside multi-laterals and industry associations in conceptualising and implementing sustainable ventures, developing business strategies, interpreting and advising on policy and regulatory matters. It was founded as a proprietary concern by Mr. Abhilash Puljal who is a trained social scientist, a trade strategy and private sector development specialist. The firm advises public and private sectors alongside multilaterals and industry associations in conceptualising and implementing sustainable ventures, developing business strategies, interpreting and advising on policy and regulatory matters across agriculture & agro processing, education & skill development, electronics, energy (renewables particularly), financial services, healthcare textiles and hospitality & tourism verticals. The firm also advises on cross-border investment strategy alongside assists on raising capital for greenfield and brownfield projects world over.
The firm has over 450 years of combined experience with economists, strategists, political scientists, lawyers, chartered accountants, company secretaries, trade experts, M&E consultants and financial advisors on-board. The firm has actively been working on developmental issues affecting the global South and is focussed on the South-South development concept by connecting sustainable technologies and building efficient capacities for businesses of middle and low-income economies of Africa and Asia. The Managing Partner and the Lead Consultant of the firm, Abhilash Puljal with his team have been successful in advising and implementing projects the world over especially in Africa and Asia.