Meet the Team

Abhishek Jain leads 180 Degrees Consulting (180DC) as its Global CEO, guiding the world's largest youth-led consultancy dedicated to supporting non-profits, governments and socially-conscious organisations. His journey with 180DC began during his undergraduate years in 2020, and since then has played an instrumental role in shaping our global organisation and scaling its impact. Through leadership across countless roles and portfolios, he has strengthened our global network and helped transform socially conscious people within our global leadership team and branches worldwide, and organisations (partners and clients) into the best versions of themselves.

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Beyond 180DC, Abhishek has built a career at the intersection of policy, strategy, and social impact. He holds an integrated dual degree in Arts and Law from National Law University, Delhi, India, and began his career as a corporate lawyer before transitioning full‑time into the policy and social impact space.

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Under Abhi’s leadership, 180DC continues to expand its global impact, develop emerging leaders, and provide critical support to organisations addressing the world's most pressing challenges.

Charles Imperore joined 180DC in 2023 as a financial analyst for the Global Leadership Team (GLT). He holds a Master in Management from EM Lyon and a Master in Finance from Dauphine, and brought experience from both finance and consulting.

Charles joined the GLT to provide 180DC the means to its ambition. He supports the organization by providing the necessary financial insights for sound decision-making. He believes finance should drive meaningful actions, not just focus on the numbers themselves.

As Finance Team Lead, Charles oversees the research for alternative funding sources, monitors expenses, and ensures process compliance. His leadership is key to helping 180DC make strategic, well-informed financial decisions.

Cori first started her journey with 180DC as a consultant at the University of Melbourne branch, leading to her tenure as President in 2025. Motivated to share her learnings on a wider scale and strengthen branch excellence world-wide, Cori joined the GLT as part of the Learning & Development team, where she now spearheads training and resource delivery to the global network. Outside of 180DC, Cori is completing her Honours in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, examining how Eastern philosophy can be applied to strengthen sustainability across consumer supply chains. She has previous experience across strategy consulting, venture capital and policy reform.

Dennis Balgheim is currently serving as the Global Team Lead for Business Development at 180 Degrees Consulting. He oversees the client project allocation to branches as well as strategic partnerships with 180DC's client impact organisations. Dennis’s commitment to the 180DC mission began as a consultant, where he enjoyed the great value students can bring to social challenges, when applying their skills and knowledge to the field. He afterwards served as HR Director and ultimately as President of the 180 Degrees Consulting Stockholm branch during his Master Studies in Business and Innovation. Beyond his work in the social impact sector, Dennis brings a wealth of experience from the corporate and tech world. He began his career as an Executive Trainee at the BMW Group. Most recently, he held senior leadership roles at Microshare, a tech scale-up in the data and IoT world, progressing from Business Development Manager to Head of Partnerships.

Divyam started his journey with 180  as a consultant at the Delhi Technological University (DTU) branch in 2019, moving to a Project Lead role and eventually the Branch President role in 2020. He joined the GLT as an Operations Specialist in the programs team, before transitioning to the BSC team and eventually becoming the Senior BSC Lead - APAC in the Operations portfolio.

Divyam is currently working as a Senior Associate at Bain & Company, and is aligned to the Energy & Resources sector.

Eva began her 180 Degrees Consulting journey in 2023 as an Executive Committee member at the Imperial College London branch while completing her MBA. During her time at the branch, she contributed both as a Project Consultant and Project Leader, supporting multiple social impact consulting projects over the academic year.
Following her graduation, Eva joined the Global Leadership Team (GLT) as a Strategic Partnerships Specialist. She is currently serving as a Global Team Lead for Strategic Partnerships, where she focuses on streamlining partnership processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness, while supporting the team’s continued growth and success.
In parallel, Eva works as a Sustainability Coordinator at Mitsubishi Electric Europe, where she supports the company’s transition towards a more sustainable, competitive, and future‑ready business.

Gabriela began her journey in social impact and leadership at Esade, where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Transformational Leadership and Social Impact. At Esade, she's led international entrepreneurship programs and partnerships and coordinated gender equity initiatives in collaboration with global organizations such as UN Women.
Beyond campus, Gabriela joined 180 Degrees Consulting’s Global Leadership Team as a People & Culture Specialist in 2024, later becoming Team Lead and overseeing recruitment, team development, and taking part in the first edition of the Future Leaders Program. She is also part of the Funding Strategy & Business Development team at Dots for, a social enterprise focused on expanding inclusive internet access across rural Africa.
Gabriela is passionate about using business as a tool for sustainable and inclusive change, with a focus on organizational development, inclusive tech, and innovation ecosystems.

João Pires Coelho, born and raised in Portugal has joined 180DC in 2022 as the Consulting Director for the Lisbon branch, later being recognised by his talent and chosen to be the President of said branch. His journey with the GLT began in the summer of 2023, where he joined as an Ops specialist in charge of the Latin cluster in EMEA. His progression and contribution to the organisation saw him rise in degrees of responsibility, adding the Benelux cluster to his set of responsibilities later on and recently it culminated in his choice for the new EMEA Team Leader for 2025.

João is a kind selfless soul, always trying to empower and help others achieve their full potential, trying to enable the most collaboration and cooperation within everything that he touches. He is the perfect mix of a fun character when the time calls for it and seriousness and professionalism when required, bringing a good environment to all his teams.

His experience comes from a varied and diverse academic and professional background, having done a double degree in his bachelors in Business administration in Lisbon and International business & Supply chain management in California; as well as a double degree in his masters in Strategy & Consulting in Lisbon and Digital transformation in Paris. He has also been the founder and COO of a startup in his past as well as worked in a startup incubator, having acquired key operational knowledge of the fundamentals of managing agile and young organisations. His experiences abroad combined with various organisations he was part of throughout his life have sparked an interest in helping others succeed, in possessing a key strategic eye to problem solving and an overall interest in contributing to the various societies that have welcomed him with open arms as he moves around the world.

Kaila began her 180DC journey in 2022 at the University of Michigan branch, progressing from consultant to Project Manager to Branch President by 2025. A focus on cross-branch collaboration during her presidency reinforced her passion for the 180DC community—and her belief that 180DC's global network is one of its strongest assets.

As the AMER Branch Support & Collaboration Lead, she works with branches across North and South America to foster collaboration and ensure they get the most out of the 180DC network. This includes organizing regional summits, supporting cluster-level collaboration, and ensuring branches have the resources they need to grow.

Outside of 180DC, Kaila studies Business Administration and Sustainability at the University of Michigan and works in the Corporate Sustainability sector.

Mrudula, based in Bangalore, India, joined 180 Degrees Consulting in 2025 and currently leads the Global Programs Growth team. In this role, she focuses on designing and scaling globally rooted programs - ranging from flagship initiatives such as Global Awards and Case Competitions to new collaborative formats - that create value for 180DC branches, the wider community, and partners worldwide. Her work centers on strengthening student skill development, fostering cross-continental collaboration, and amplifying social impact to help nurture the next generation of impact leaders.

In parallel, Mrudula works at the intersection of technology and inclusive growth in India’s fintech ecosystem. She drives go-to-market strategy and sales at Pine Labs, where she works on powering digital payments and identity verification solutions across the country. Her professional interests are deeply aligned with advancing financial inclusion and enabling equitable access to digital financial infrastructure.

Nihaan Mohammed serves as the IT and Digital Team Lead within the Global Leadership Team (GLT) – IT & Digital at 180 Degrees Consulting.

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He began his journey with 180 Degrees Consulting in 2020 as part of the founding team of the Sri Venkateshwara College (University of Delhi) branch, before transitioning into the Global Leadership Team as an IT and Digital Specialist, and subsequently into his current leadership role.

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Beyond 180 Degrees Consulting, Nihaan works in the Tech for Good sector as a Product Manager at an India-based technology startup, collaborating with NGOs, philanthropies, and foundations to build digital products for fund management, grant management, and monitoring & evaluation (M&E), with a focus on making impact legible through well-designed systems.
Nihaan approaches technology and leadership through a rationalist, first-principles lens, drawing on ideas around systems thinking, epistemic humility, and survivorship bias—the World War II aircraft problem being a recurring reference point in how he thinks about incentives, feedback loops, and unseen failure modes.

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Within the Global Leadership Team, Nihaan brings this mindset to strengthen digital infrastructure, reduce coordination costs, and ensure that tools and processes remain aligned with real-world outcomes rather than surface-level proxies.

Nilay started his journey with 180DC as a consultant at the University of Texas, Austin branch, moving through the Project Lead, Projects Director, and finally Branch President role by 2023. Nilay joined the GLT as a Global Growth Specialist, and is now the Global Growth Team lead, driven by a passion for spreading 180's impact across the world.

Outside of the GLT, Nilay is a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and enjoys diverse food scenes, running, and writing a blog.

Sophie first joined 180 Degrees Consulting as a consultant in the Berlin branch in 2020. She continued her journey by joining the Global Leadership Team as a specialist in the Learning and Development team in 2022, before moving to the People and Culture team in 2023. In her time with the GLT, Sophie created learning materials on process mapping and presentation design, as well as spearheaded internal systems clean up. She was also instrumental in creating and running the Future Leaders Program, and drove organisational resilience through workshops and training for leaders at the GLT. As Chief People and Learning Officer, Sophie is focused on creating sustainability and excellence in the GLT experience and the learning experience for branches and consultants. Sophie is passionate about fostering community and supporting people to thrive through learning and collaboration. She holds a master’s in education from Oxford and a dual MPP in social policy and social innovation from Sciences Po Paris and the Hertie School in Berlin. She brings experience in facilitation, learning design, and community building across corporate, startup, and nonprofit contexts. She also volunteers as a peer facilitator and community moderator at Rethink Wellbeing.

With a diverse academic background, including a BA (Hons) in International Economics from Franklin University Switzerland and an MSc in Psychology Applied to Business and Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Varaidzo bridges the realms of economics and psychology. She has co-authored a text on “Evidence-based educational interventions to boost 21st Century Skills”, for the Inter-American Developmental Bank.

Trained in data analytics and behavioural economics, she honed her leadership skills as a team lead at 180DC Católica Lisbon before elevating her impact within the organisation as a Global Growth Specialist, where she led the formation of the first 180DC branch in the Caucasus region (180DC Azerbaijan) and the first 180DC branch in sub-Saharan Africa (180DC ALU). She then moved onto the Chief of Staff position, where among driving internal initiatives and cross cultural collaboration, she ran the pilot program for the newly launched Global Learning Management System in Sana.ai. Now leading the IT and Digital portfolio, she has driven initiatives focused on operational efficiency and standardisation, such as the refinement of cybersecurity compliance measures for all branches.