Sandeep Pandey
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Sandeep Pandey is a social activist from India. He co-founded Asha for Education with Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivatsoy while working on his Ph.D in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1991.
His years of dedication brought him the Ramon Magsaysay Award - the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was selected in the 'Emergent Leadership Category,' and is among five others to have won the coveted award this year. At 37, he is also the youngest Indian to have been conferred with the award.