Balasubramanian (Balu) Iyer

Balasubramanian (Balu) Iyer, serves as the Regional Director for the International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific based in New Delhi, India. ICA, a member-based organization, advances the cooperative social enterprise model and provides a global voice and forum for cooperatives.

Balu has worked with the Asia Foundation, the International Development Exchange, ActionAid India, and the Aga Khan Rural Support Program; and served as Adjunct Faculty at Southern New Hampshire University.

He has a master’s degree in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley; Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India; and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from National Institute of Technology in Durgapur, India.

Balu serves as Administrator for the ICA Domus Trust, Advisor to the Institute for Development of Agricultural Cooperation in Asia, Japan and Council of Advisors the New School Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy, New York; Executive Council of the Tribhuvan Sahkari University, India.