Global Access to Talent from India (GATI) Foundation was launched on Tuesday by S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister and Jayant Chaudhary, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Minister of State for Education, with an eye on facilitating mobility of Indian work force abroad.
Incubated by The Convergence Foundation, Manish Sabharwal, and Godrej Foundation, GATI is a non-prot Foundation dedicated to building structured, ethical, and circular pathways for global talent mobility. This mission gains urgency amid projections that high-income economies will face a labour shortage of 45–50 million skilled and semi-skilled workers by 2030.
With a vision to position India as a global hub for skilled talent, GATI Foundation aims to foster collaboration between governments, businesses, and nonprots to unlock opportunities for Indian workers in international labour markets. The launch event brought together foreign ambassadors, senior government ocials, leading industry representatives, and think tanks to deliberate on key themes such as government-to-government partnerships, ethical recruitment practices, and industry-led solutions for global skills mobility.
Speaking at the launch, lJaishankar emphasised the critical role of skill development and international mobility in strengthening India’s global presence. “It is crucial to nurture, expand, deploy, and upgrade talent. Also to identify the opportunities within and beyond our borders. There is a demand in the world, an availability in India and the basic groundwork done to enable Indian talent to gain global access. Wishing GATI Foundation all the best as it seeks to promote and facilitate this global access to talent from India.”
Chaudhary said, “In an age of rapid adoption of new disruptive technologies across industries, the skill ecosystem and regulators must be agile, inclusive, and global in their response to the dynamic demands of the job market. With the right partnerships, like the one we have with GATI Foundation, we can align our interventions appropriately to enhance India’s global talent footprint.”
Ashish Dhawan, Founder-CEO of The Convergence Foundation, said, “Today, nearly 700,000 Indians migrate to work overseas each year. However, 60% of this workforce is concentrated in GCC countries. We have a real opportunity to expand our annual migrant ows to 2-2.5 million, by diversifying across geographies and job.”
Doing this can not only create more job opportunities, but also help India increase remittances to $300 billion. Since remittances go directly into households—enhancing consumption, education, and health spending—there is also a signicant impact on poverty reduction.
Manish Sabharwal, Vice-Chairman, TeamLease Services, added, “GATI is an idea whose time has come for India. The noise is high, but economics will trump politics if it is able to move the debate on migration from illegal to legal, migration to mobility, and citizenship to work. The notion that rich countries can avoid ination or do care-work without migration is impossible. The challenge for countries is to make migration orderly, temporary, and safe. GATI Foundation proposes to ght the battle for ideas that well designed guest worker programs are an important solution to global prosperity in the next two decades.”
Omar Momin, CEO, Godrej Foundation, noted, “In a world where the same person can earn up to ten times more by simply crossing a border, promoting global labour mobility is not just smart economics—it’s transformative development. With high-income countries facing a shortfall of nearly 50 million workers by 2030, GATI can look to build ethical, circular, and well-regulated migration pathways that unlock a triple win: lling critical skill gaps, fueling prosperity at home, and oering individuals a dignied path to opportunity.”
GATI Foundation’s work is supported by an esteemed group of Industry Champions and Advisory Board members, including Arti Ahuja (Former Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment), Nihal Chauhan (CEO, Indo-Pacic Advisory), representatives from Godrej Foundation, and Shriya Sethi (Operating Partner, The Convergence Foundation).
Incubated by The Convergence Foundation, Manish Sabharwal, and Godrej Foundation, GATI is a non-prot Foundation dedicated to building structured, ethical, and circular pathways for global talent mobility. This mission gains urgency amid projections that high-income economies will face a labour shortage of 45–50 million skilled and semi-skilled workers by 2030.
With a vision to position India as a global hub for skilled talent, GATI Foundation aims to foster collaboration between governments, businesses, and nonprots to unlock opportunities for Indian workers in international labour markets. The launch event brought together foreign ambassadors, senior government ocials, leading industry representatives, and think tanks to deliberate on key themes such as government-to-government partnerships, ethical recruitment practices, and industry-led solutions for global skills mobility.
Speaking at the launch, lJaishankar emphasised the critical role of skill development and international mobility in strengthening India’s global presence. “It is crucial to nurture, expand, deploy, and upgrade talent. Also to identify the opportunities within and beyond our borders. There is a demand in the world, an availability in India and the basic groundwork done to enable Indian talent to gain global access. Wishing GATI Foundation all the best as it seeks to promote and facilitate this global access to talent from India.”
Chaudhary said, “In an age of rapid adoption of new disruptive technologies across industries, the skill ecosystem and regulators must be agile, inclusive, and global in their response to the dynamic demands of the job market. With the right partnerships, like the one we have with GATI Foundation, we can align our interventions appropriately to enhance India’s global talent footprint.”
Ashish Dhawan, Founder-CEO of The Convergence Foundation, said, “Today, nearly 700,000 Indians migrate to work overseas each year. However, 60% of this workforce is concentrated in GCC countries. We have a real opportunity to expand our annual migrant ows to 2-2.5 million, by diversifying across geographies and job.”
Doing this can not only create more job opportunities, but also help India increase remittances to $300 billion. Since remittances go directly into households—enhancing consumption, education, and health spending—there is also a signicant impact on poverty reduction.
Manish Sabharwal, Vice-Chairman, TeamLease Services, added, “GATI is an idea whose time has come for India. The noise is high, but economics will trump politics if it is able to move the debate on migration from illegal to legal, migration to mobility, and citizenship to work. The notion that rich countries can avoid ination or do care-work without migration is impossible. The challenge for countries is to make migration orderly, temporary, and safe. GATI Foundation proposes to ght the battle for ideas that well designed guest worker programs are an important solution to global prosperity in the next two decades.”
Omar Momin, CEO, Godrej Foundation, noted, “In a world where the same person can earn up to ten times more by simply crossing a border, promoting global labour mobility is not just smart economics—it’s transformative development. With high-income countries facing a shortfall of nearly 50 million workers by 2030, GATI can look to build ethical, circular, and well-regulated migration pathways that unlock a triple win: lling critical skill gaps, fueling prosperity at home, and oering individuals a dignied path to opportunity.”
GATI Foundation’s work is supported by an esteemed group of Industry Champions and Advisory Board members, including Arti Ahuja (Former Secretary, Ministry of Labour & Employment), Nihal Chauhan (CEO, Indo-Pacic Advisory), representatives from Godrej Foundation, and Shriya Sethi (Operating Partner, The Convergence Foundation).
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