GATI Foundation

Global Access to Talent from India (GATI) Foundation is a nonprofit focused on building an enabling ecosystem for overseas employment from India. It works through research, policy engagement, ecosystem partnerships, and on ground interventions to improve worker preparedness, reduce informality in overseas recruitment, and support safe, ethical, and productive cross border labour mobility. GATI's long term goal is to help make India the global skills mobility capital of the world and support the safe, legal overseas mobility of 50 million Indian workers by 2047. The organisation is backed by founders including TeamLease Services Vice-Chairman Manish Sabharwal, The Convergence Foundation, and the Godrej Foundation, and is guided by a board of advisors drawn from Bain & Company, the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Boston Consulting Group, Delhivery, and other public and private sector institutions.

Major Areas of Work

• Research: Studying India's talent mobility landscape, global labour gaps, and migration corridors to inform policy and programme design.
• Policy Engagement: Working with government bodies on legal frameworks and systems for safe overseas employment.
• Ecosystem Partnerships: Collaborating with the private sector, government, and other institutions to build mobility pathways.
• On Ground Interventions: Running state level programmes to improve worker preparedness and reduce informality in overseas recruitment.
• Government Affairs and Communications: Building public understanding of overseas mobility and engaging with government stakeholders on policy.

Major Initiatives & Programmes

• Global Skills Mobility Ecosystem Building: A core initiative to build mobility infrastructure in partnership with private sector and government actors, aiming to make circular migration a desired career path for Indian youth.
• State Level Programmes: Active state teams, including in Maharashtra and Odisha, running on ground worker preparedness and mobility interventions.
• Research and Resource Center: Publishing research and analysis on India's talent mobility potential, worker demographics, and global labour demand trends.
• 50 Million Workers by 2047 Goal: A long term target guiding GATI's programme design and policy advocacy work.

Impact

• GATI's stated long term target is to support the safe, legal overseas mobility of 50 million Indian workers by 2047.
• India's demographic base for this work includes 600 million youth aged 18 to 35, representing 30 to 35 percent of the global share in that age group.
• India has a diaspora of 343 million people across 207 countries, and a 266 million strong English speaking population, the second largest globally.
• GATI's analysis projects a global worker shortage of 200 to 250 million by 2047, driven by 20 countries, positioning India's talent pool as a significant part of the solution.
• Backed by a board of advisors spanning consulting (Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group), government (Ministry of Labour & Employment), and private sector logistics (Delhivery), reflecting a cross sector approach to policy and programme design.

GATI Foundation suits people interested in policy research, labour economics, and building new systems rather than direct service delivery, since its model centres on research, government engagement, and ecosystem design rather than frontline case work. It appeals to people motivated by large scale, long horizon national goals (a 50 million worker mobility target by 2047), and to those who want exposure to both government and private sector actors on an emerging and high visibility policy area, migration and workforce mobility, within a relatively young and growing organisation.