Archish Mittal
Archish Mittal
Archish Mittal is Vice-President at Iron Pilla, a growth equity fund backing technology companies across India. At Ashoka University, he is a Visiting Faculty in Entrepreneurship and Management, Co-Chair of the Iron Pillar Initiative in Global Learning and a Fellow at the Isaac Centre for Public Policy.
Archish serves on the Board of Directors of Global Dignity, a non-profit co-founded by His Majesty King Haakon VIII of Norway. He is also on the Board of the Coretta & Martin Luther King Institute for Peace, an organization that utilizes dialogue and non-violence to counter polarisation and racism. He serves on the Core Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Industry-Academia Partnership and as a special advisor to the Royal Family of Jaisalmer. He previously served on the board of LEO1, a QED-backed education fintech company.
Archish has served as a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Visiting Scholar at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and a Fellow of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance. He has been a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle and served as a Councilor at the Atlantic Council.
He holds an MBA from Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business, an MA in Law & Diplomacy from The Fletcher School, Tufts Universit, and a BSc (Hons) in Investment & Financial Risk Management from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City St George’s, University of London . He has also completed executive education at the University of Pennsylvani, the University of Cambridge and American University.
He is the author of Philosophers of Action: The Art of Thoughtful Leadership (Om BooksInternational, 2026), which draws on conversations with Nobel Laureates and global leaders. He writes regularly for Al Arabiya, Fair Observer, Moneycontrol and Cornell Business News.
