Ben Ramalingam photographed at the Red Cross Headquarters in Central London. Ben Ramalingam is the author of "Upshift:Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity" Ben Ramalingam is the Director of Strategy at the British Red Cross. Ben Ramalingam is a British researcher, strategist, innovator and author, currently Executive Director of the United Kingdom Humanitarian Innovation Hub, senior research associate at the Overseas Development Institute Politics and Governance programme and advisor to the OECD Development Assistance Committee on innovation investments for development, humanitarian and human rights issues.

Ramalingam serves as a board member of the UK Global Grand Challenges Research Fund, a £1.5 billion fund to support cutting-edge research to address the challenges faced by low and middle-income countries. As well as his work at the Overseas Development Institute and the Institute of Development Studies, Ramalingam has advised the Red Cross, United Nations, and many national governments and NGOs.