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Dr. George is the founder and the principal benefactor of Shanti Bhavan. Born in Kerala, India, he migrated to the U.S. in 1968, and obtained an M.B.A in Economics, M.S. in Finance, and Ph.D. in International Finance and Banking from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
His professional career included: Chairman of Multinational Computer Models, Inc. (MCM), a financial software applications company he founded; a Vice Chairman at SunGard Data Systems, a New York Stock Exchange listed company that bought MCM; and a Managing Director at CS First Boston, a global investment bank.
After over 20 years of absence from India, Dr. George returned in 1995 to start several humanitarian projects. In order to have the freedom to carry out his ideas and concepts, and to demonstrate the obligation on the part of private individuals of financial means to make contributions to the needy segment of the society, he decided not to seek any external funding for his projects during the initial ten years of activities. Now that several of the projects he has started have made a good beginning, he is seeking much needed funds from donors to expand and maintain the humanitarian work.
George was a pioneer in the international finance arena, authoring several books on the topic:
International Finance Handbook (2 volumes), John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 0471098612)
Foreign exchange Management and the Multinational Corporation, Holt, Reinhart and Winston (ISBN 0030466415)
Protecting Shareholder Value: International Financial Risk Management, Prentice Hall (ISBN 0786304391)
Since becoming a full-time philanthropist, George has written several articles and has published two books:
India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty, Writer's Collective (ISBN 818866118X) - A describition of Dr. George's initial 10 years of social work in rural India.
Lead Poisoning Prevention and Treatment: Implementing a National Program in Developing Countries
George has also published over three dozen articles in international finance and on issues of global poverty.
NYU Stern School of Business’ Stewart Satter Social Entrepreneurship Award, USA
Spirit of India Award, America India Foundation, USA
Hind Ratna Award, Non-Resident Indian Association, Delhi
Millennium Awards, Indian American Kerala Cultural and Civic Center, USA
Friedman, Thomas (2006). The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374292795.
George, Abraham (2005). India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty. ISBN 1594111227.
Gross, Daniel (Fall/Winter 2006), “Return of the Native Son”, STERN Business,
13 April 2007
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Dr. Abraham M. George 
