Viswanathan Shankar
Viswanathan Shankar is Group Executive Director and CEO for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas at Standard Chartered Bank.
Viswanathan Shankar is Group Executive Director and CEO for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas at Standard Chartered Bank.
In Africa, large-scale investment in education has enabled significant gains in literacy, school attendance, and university enrollment in recent years. But the continent still has a long way to go.
Euphoria abounds in much of Africa nowadays, and rightly so, as seven of the world’s ten fastest-growing countries are there. But, amid all the good news, there is a risk of overlooking the bad: Growt… read more
The Millennium Development Goals, which expire in two years, established a successful framework for the world to address poverty, health, hunger, and education. As discussions commence on the post-201… read more
