01
Fellowship
Founders Track
A twelve-month studio for founders building AI-native ventures with a measurable social floor. Fellows leave with a registered company, a revenue or grant pipeline, and a board of mentors.
Signal24 founders / cohort
Est. Bharat · A leadership institution
Building the leaders
India deserves.
The Indian Institute of Leadership runs three residential fellowships — for founders, researchers and public servants — plus capstone studios and a policy lab, all in service of an AI-native republic.
3M+
Lives touched
24
Ventures per cohort
40+
Policy briefs
9
Research workstreams
About the Institute
A leadership school for an AI-native India.
The Indian Institute of Leadership is the education wing of AI Social Impact Foundation. We prepare founders, researchers and public servants to lead institutions in a decade where intelligence is abundant and judgement is scarce.
Teaching is residential and cohort-based. Faculty are practitioners — operators, scientists and administrators — and every participant leaves with work that has shipped: a venture, a model, or a policy instrument in the hands of someone who needed it.
- Type
- Not-for-profit institute (Section 8)
- Founded
- 2026 · founding cohort
- Format
- Residential cohorts, 12 months
- Campus
- India, with field placements
- Part of
- AI Social Impact Foundation
Learn
Residencies, fellowships and operator-led studios — seminars and fieldwork instead of lecture halls.
Build
Applied capstones: every participant ships a venture, a model or a public-service tool.
Govern
Briefings, casework and research that shape how India regulates AI, data and institutions.
The IIL Ecosystem
Three fellowships.
One institute.
IIL is not a business school. It is an operating system for public leadership — where founders, researchers and public servants learn, build and govern together.
02
Fellowship
Researchers Track
For scientists, engineers and scholars turning frontier research into public tools. Access to labs, datasets, compute, and the foundation’s innovation network.
Signal9 active workstreams
03
Fellowship
Public Service Track
For public servants and policy leaders who must govern an AI-native republic. Seminars, casework and briefings that shape regulation, procurement and delivery.
Signal40+ policy briefs
04
Studio
Capstone Studios
Every fellow ships work that is used in the real world: a venture, a model, a public-service tool, or a policy instrument adopted by an institution.
Signal100% shipped
05
Lab
Policy & Governance Lab
The institute’s research engine — rigorous inquiry into how India governs AI, data, platforms and the institutions of the digital republic.
Signal3M+ lives touched