Journey from Blackstone boardrooms to human potential breakthroughs with Akhil Gupta, founder of Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing and author of “Bridges Across Humanity.”

Akhil Gupta, founder of Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing and author of Bridges Across Humanity, on The Covert Code Podcast sharing his journey from Blackstone boardrooms to human potential breakthroughsMeet Akhil Gupta

Akhil Gupta is the founder and director of the Universal Enlightenment Forum. He has been associated with Harvard University since 2015, first as a fellow at Advanced Leadership Initiative and as an Impact Leader in residence in 2023

From 2005 until 2014, he was the chairman of Blackstone India. From 1992 until 2005, he worked with Reliance Industries Limited as CEO of corporate development. Other significant professional involvements were at Hindustan Unilever in India and ICF Inc. in Washington, DC.

Akhil has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology. Akhil currently serves on the Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard Divinity School, on the Advisory Board of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, and on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Chan Initiative on Health and Homelessness. He served on the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 2014 to 2021.