Purushottam Kaushik is the Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, India. He joined the World Economic Forum in March 2020 and has twenty-six years of experience in Telecom and IT in sales leadership and management consulting roles. Purushottam started his career in 1995 and has worked in various Telecom companies including Alcatel Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Network till 2009. From 2009 to 2016, he was at Cisco Systems, India as Managing Director of Sales.