Ashoka-Lemelson Fellows

Joseph Adelegan
Nigeria
Environment

Developing a commercially viable system that uses a fixed filter anaerobic biogas converter to clean air and water from slaughterhouse effluence

Juan Carlos Aguilar Macizo
Peru
Economic Development

Encouraging aspiring young inventors to use local materials and their own creative talent to improve living conditions among the poor

Hamzah Harun Al'Rasyid
Indonesia
Health

Introducing technologies that improve water and sanitation in Indonesia

Anna Alisjahbana
Indonesia
Health

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Fellow photo placeholder image Bernard Amadei
USA

(Profile coming soon)

Collins Apuoyo
Kenya
Environment

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Salah Arafa
Egypt
Civic Engagement

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Fellow photo placeholder image Ana Luisa Arocena
Uruguay
Environment

(Profile coming soon)

Sanjeev Arora
USA
Health

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Fellow photo placeholder image Francisco Javier Arroyo y Galván Duque
Mexico
Health/Economic Development

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Mohammed Bah Abba
Nigeria
Economic Development

Creating economic opportunities for Nigerian farmers through a system that naturally refrigerates fruits and vegetables

Related articles: A fridge for the developing world

Abhijit Bardhan
India
Learning/Education

Launching a grassroots movement to train teachers to change the way science is taught in government-run schools

Paul Basil
India
Economic Development

Developing promising rural technological innovations into successful commercial enterprises

Maher Bushra
Egypt
Human Rights

(click above to view Maher's Ashoka Fellow profile)

Juan Carlos Calizaya Luna
Peru
Environment

Installing environmentally friendly sanitation systems at the household and community level and building the social infrastructure needed to support them

Luis Orlando Castro
Colombia
Environment

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Anil Chitrakar
Nepal
Environment

Bringing together financing, simple and sustainable technologies, and marketing to support a range of socially-useful technologies, including water purification and solar tukis

Omar Azad Chowdhury
Bangladesh
Learning/Education

Advancing a new model of science and invention learning in Bangladesh

Mathias Craig
Nicaragua
Environment/Economic Development

Developing a community-based clean energy model dependent on local manufacture and maintenance of a specially designed hybrid solar/wind turbine along the impoverished Caribbean coast of Nicaragua

Fellow photo placeholder image Lazaro Cunha
Brazil

(Profile coming soon)

Fellow photo placeholder image Jose Diaz
Brazil
Appropriate Technology

José Dias is empowering small farmers in Northeastern Brazil to collectively manage and appropriate resources for drought-resistant technologies

Isaac Durojaiye
Nigeria
Health

Creating Nigeria’s first mobile toilet initiative to remedy rampant urban unemployment and poor sanitation conditions

Hany El Miniawy
Egypt
Civic Engagement/Environment/Appropriate Technologies

Developing eco-friendly methods of home construction that use local materials and create jobs

Joachim Ezeji
Nigeria
Economic Development

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Iftekhar Enayetullah
Bangladesh
Environment

Together with A.H. Md. Maqsood Sinha, Iftekhar is developing community-based, high-tech, low-cost composting plants to convert organic waste into income-generating fertilizers

María Ferro
Argentina
Appropriate Technology

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Willy Foote
United States
Economic Development

Financing developing-world rural business entrepreneurs and technologies that boost agriculture production and protect the environment

Lynn Freiji
Egypt
Learning/Education

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Patrick Gathitu
Kenya
Economic Development

Empowering Kenyans to make good choices about what technologies to buy and how best to use them on their farms and micro-enterprises

Enrique Gustavo Gennuso
Argentina
Learning/Education

Designing and distributing appropriate technologies for low-income communities, including a manual rope pump for water extraction; Gustavo is also battling unemployment among Argentina's young people by growing and inspiring inventors and entrepreneurs

Bir Bahadur Ghale
Nepal
Economic Development

Constructing micro-hydropower plants and linking them to industrial and commercial ventures to manage the system

Related articles: Microhydropower in Nepal

Sameh Ghali
Egypt
Civic Engagement

Disseminating a new community-based latrine system and producing a water byproduct clean enough to use for irrigation

Amol Goje
India
Economic Development

Developing user-friendly and low-cost IT tools for farmers to increase productivity and stimulate economic growth

David Green
USA
Health

Producing and disseminating socially-useful products, including affordable hearing aids and intraocular lenses, using a tiered pricing structure

Prema Gopalan
India
Civic Engagement

Training rural women to identify community needs and design, build and operate water and sanitation systems

Agus Gunarto
Indonesia
Environment

Creating the technical design for the construction and operation of community-financed and managed mini-sewage treatment plants

Related articles: A community-owned sewer

Vibha Gupta
India
Learning/Education

Training rural women to use scientific skills and technologies to create economically productive enterprises

Victoria Hale
Global Fellow
Health

Building the first non-profit pharmaceutical company to work with the mainstream pharmaceutical industry in bringing new drugs to the world’s poor

Related articles: Where does innovation come from?

Harish Hande
India
Environment

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Fellow photo placeholder image Elizabeth Hausler
USA
Appropriate Technology

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Sonam Jorgyes
India
Economic Development

Empowering the Ladakh agricultural community to use outside technological innovations and local resources in a sustainable manner to foster rural economic development and expand rural farmers’ market reach

Fellow photo placeholder image Kongkiat Kespechara
Thailand
Health

(profile coming soon)

David Kuria
Kenya
Health

Designing technology-enabled sanitation "kiosks" that halt environmental degradation and promote health and social cohesion in Kenyan slum areas

Hamzah M.
Indonesia

Economic Development

Raising agricultural productivity through new farm products and a drip irrigation implement he invented, to benefit farmer cooperatives and markets

Dipendra Manocha
India
Civic Engagement

Using an open source approach to creating screen reading software for Hindi and other local languages and low-cost playback devices for disabled persons, particularly the blind

Maxwell Marshall
Nigeria
Economic Development

Widening access to housing for Nigeria’s urban and rural poor through the introduction of a new building technology that is low-cost, sustainable, and attractive

Fellow photo placeholder image Andres Martinez Fernandez
Spain
Health

Designing and testing technologies – video microscopes, long-distance stethoscopes, and other diagnostic and treatment tools – to save lives and increase efficiency of rural health centers in Colombia, Peru, and Nicaragua

François Marty
France
Environment

Inventing construction tools that enable the building of ecologically-sound, energy-saving public housing on a large scale and in ways that mobilize and employ France's poorest residents

Douglas McMeekin
Ecuador
Learning/Education

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Fellow photo placeholder image Satyan Mishra
India
Economic Development

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Leonora Mol
Brazil
Economic Development

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Jose Raúl Moreno
Columbia
Appropriate Technology

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Tri Mumpuni
Indonesia
Economic Development

Tackling challenges of rural electrification and economic development by creating community-owned, micro-hydropower systems throughout Indonesia

Moses Musaazi
Uganda
Economic Development

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Ingrid Munro
Kenya
Economic Development

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Kovin Naidoo
South Africa
Appropriate Technology

Providing access to eye care through technological innovations that reduce lens costs to $1.50

Fellow photo placeholder image Nawee Nakwatchara
Thailand
Environment

(Profile coming soon)

Sergio Oceransky
Mexico
Environment

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Fellow photo placeholder image Cosmas Okoli
Nigeria
Human Rights

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Fellow photo placeholder image Juan José Oña
Uruguay
Environment

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Fellow photo placeholder image Simón Parisca
Venezuela
Learning/Education

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Bindeshwar Pathak
India
Health/Environment

Introducing an eco-friendly, twin-pit, compost, pour-flush toilet technology for households — an alternative to the cost-prohibitive sewerage or septic tank based systems of waste disposal

Fellow photo placeholder image Narong Patibatsarakich
Thailand
Health

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Kalyan Paul
India
Environment

Providing local communities in the central and western Himalayas with the organizational, technical, and managerial skills to effect ecological restoration of their area

Wilson Passeto
Brazil
Environment

Helping to design and market technological innovations aimed at improving efficiency and reducing water waste

Fellow photo placeholder image Willy Pessoa
Brazil
Economic Development

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Mahabir Pun
Nepal
Learning/Education

Using solar power, tree-based relay systems and adapted technologies to create wireless networks that are suitable for the remote mountainous regions of Nepal

Onno Purbo
Indonesia
Economic Development

Building Indonesia into a knowledge-based society by bringing low-cost Wi-Fi Internet access to communities and schools throughout the country

Hilmi Quraishi
India
Health

Using mobile telephony to bring important public health messages to the masses

Douglas Racionzer
South Africa
Financial Services/Markets

Transforming existing, small, technology-focused businesses into successful enterprises that deliver community services

Ramji Raghavan
India
Learning/Education

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Vineet Rai
India
Economic Development

Providing venture capital financing and management support to socially conscious and environmentally friendly ventures with limited access to capital

Andres Randazzo
Mexico
Economic Development

Incorporating appropriate technologies — cisterns, ovens and houses — into the existing health infrastructure of Mexico’s poorest rural areas to better basic living conditions

Madan Mohan Rao
India
Economic Development

Refining a nearly extinct technology — the party line system — to provide connectivity to villagers living in rural areas unable to attract mobile phone service providers

Ravindranath
India
Environment

Mitigating flood disasters by introducing—through an active citizen network—such life-saving technologies as modified tube-wells to keep drinking water safe, quick-assemble toilets for use in floods, and stilt designs to elevate homes

Abhishek Ray
India
Human Rights

Drawing on the emerging field of Universal Design to create affordable, barrier-free environments that are highly functional for all people — regardless of age, ability or situation

Fellow photo placeholder image Juan Rivera
Peru
Environment

(profile coming soon)

Fabio Luiz de Oliveira Rosa
Brazil
Economic Development

Bringing electricity to the rural poor through low-cost electrification technology

Albina Ruiz
Peru
Environment

Working with Lima's waste management workforce to design products that improve their work flow — custom tricycles and a variety of trash collection and composting tools

Balaji Sampath
India
Learning/Education

Revolutionizing the way science is taught in India through low-cost materials that promote hands-on learning and creative dissemination techniques

Related articles: Modernizing education using technology

Pradip Sarmah
India
Economic Development

Distributing safer rickshaws with improved ergonomic design through Rickshaw Bank loans geared towards ownership; Pradip was originally elected as an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 because of his work in rural development

Fellow photo placeholder image Souleymane Sarr
Mali
Economic Development

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Heike Schettler
Germany
Learning/Education

Spreading bottom-up, child-centered Science Labs and curricula throughout primary schools in Germany

Joseph Sekiku
Tanzania
Economic Development

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Lalith Seneviratne
Sri Lanka
Economic Development

Bringing sustainable electricity to rural Sri Lanka, and building the components that allow community members to maintain and finance small-scale biomass generation

Pedro Serrano
Chile
Environment

Employing a holistic approach that combines energy-saving technology, education and political action, Pedro Serrano is introducing new energy technologies that will reduce pressure on Chile's scarce firewood resources

Fellow photo placeholder image Jyoti Sharma
India
Environment

(profile coming soon)

Babu Raja Shrestha
Nepal
Environment

Replacing traditional kerosene lighting sources with solar-powered tukis, assembled and serviced by local people

José Roberto da Fonseca e Silva
Brazil
Economic Development

Enhancing small-scale farming with a solar-powered micro-irrigation system of production, marketing, and commercialization that makes farming profitable for poor farmers in Brazil's Northeast

Jack Sim
Global Fellow
Health

Revamping the field of sanitation worldwide by bringing technical, financial, organizational, and market-related strategies to citizen organizations working on sanitation

Carlos Simão
Brazil
Economic Development

Adapting new shallow tube wells for Brazil’s semiarid regions

Related articles: Shallow wells are cheaper

Bright Simons
Ghana
Health/Appropriate Technology

Combatting fraud in the pharmaceutical industry by creating a SMS-telecom solution that allows consumers to verify pharmaceuticals at the point of purchase

Vijay Pratap Singh
India
Economic Development

Creating new access platforms—software and manual—to benefit rural Indians

A.H. Md. Maqsood Sinha
Bangladesh
Environment

Together with Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow Iftekhar Enayetullah, Maqsood is developing community-based, high-tech, low-cost composting plants to convert organic waste into income-generating fertilizers

Willie Smits
Indonesia
Environment

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S. Srinivasan
India
Health

Promoting the production and distribution of essential drugs at affordable rates to the poor

Toto Sugito
Indonesia
Environment

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Yohanes Surya
Asia
Learning/Education

Transforming the way children are introduced to, and engage with, science and math learning by creating new materials, science comics, and national and international competitions

Greg Van Kirk
Guatemala
Civic Engagement

Engaging rural entrepreneurs in distributing essential products through a "micro-consignment" approach

N. Muthu Velayutham
India
Economic Development

Pairing rural farmers with engineers to design products and distribute them through rural citizen networks

Rebeca Villalobos Vargas
Costa Rica
Health

Developing a participatory system of eye care that enables Costa Ricans of all classes to access affordable medical services

Narcís Vives Ylla
Spain
Learning/Education

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Randolph Wang
India
Learning/Education

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Howard Weinstein
Brazil
Health

Manufacturing and distributing low-cost hearing aids with extended battery-life options allowed by solar-powered batteries

Augustin Woelz
Brazil
Environment

Reducing the inefficient use of electricity for hot water heating through a do-it-yourself system disseminated by young people

Roshaneh Zafar
Pakistan
Microenterprise

Introducing solar technology to Pakistani homeowners through the national financial tools network she has built

Stan Zlotkin
Canada
Health/Child Care

Manufacturing and distributing affordable iron and nutrient supplements to combat "hidden hunger," the debilitating vitamin and mineral deficiency experienced by millions of women and children in developing countries

Related articles: Combating malnutrition with Sprinkles

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