Born on November 10, 1957 at Nasik in a middle-class family, Vinay had his schooling initially in Dhule, the native place of Sahasrabuddhes and later at Trimbak Vidya Mandir near Nasik and eventually at Nasik itself. While in Std 4, through a competitive examination, Vinay was selected for Govt Public School, Nasik (Shaskiya Vidya Niketan), an innovative chain of schools for grooming talented students from rural areas. From Std 5 to Std 11, Vinay study at this residential school. It is there he learnt the initial lessons of leadership and creativity. His innate talent and skills in activities like public speaking, theatre, writing and journalism...

Vinay Sahasrabuddhe had his college education in Garware College, Pune, S P College, Pune and later at Ramnarayan Ruia College, Mumbai. He started his career in public life with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). He became a member of ABVP in 1974 immediately after joining Degree College in Pune. Starting as Joint Office Secretary of Pune branch, he later served as Secretary of Mumbai ABVP (1980-81), Jt.Organising Secretary, Mumbai (1981-83), Organising Secretary of SEIL Project of ABVP (1983-85), National Secretary (1984-87) and later General Secretary of SEIL (1990-2000). He also shouldered the...

Later he joined Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini as its principal functionary in 1988 after brief stints in media (Sub-Editor of Mid-Day, Mumbai) as well as corporate sector (PRO of Camlin Ltd). He was elected as a Member of Senate of the University of Mumbai where he worked for over 18 long years. All his efforts were directed towards strengthening the institutional mechanism of the functioning of University of Mumbai.

University of Mumbai is one of India’s oldest universities. Established in 1857, this University has always remained a key centre of ...

In 1997, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe was appointed Member of the Board of Governors at YASHADA or Yashwantrao Chavan Academy for Development Administration and he worked on this position as till 1999. During these three years, he introduced the idea of conducting capacity building programmes for University Officials. He had worked on various bodies of University of Mumbai and this experience gave him an insight into the urgent need for some effective efforts for building the capacities of those who are administering Universities. The idea was immediately accepted and Vinay Sahasrabuddhe was...

1997 saw Vinay Sahasrabuddhe’s selection as Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar for 1998-99 to pursue supervised study at the University of Illinois (UIUC) at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Visiting Researcher at the UIUC for about ten months. Passionate about finding out various ways and means of making the democratic governance deliver, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe had long back started reading about political parties and their evolution as a key democratic institution. His scholarly meanderings into the much relevant thematic of “Political Parties as Victims of Populism and Electoral Compulsions; A Quest for Systemic...

"Vinay Sahasrabuddhe’s upbringing s a social activist evolved under the guidance of the leading lights of ABVP like Prof Yashwantrao Kelkar, Prof Bal Apte, Dr Ashok Modak and Shri Madan Das Ji. While in RMP, he was lucky to work with and seek guidance from Vasantrao Patwardhan and Pramod Mahajan. In so far as his journalistic writings are concerned, he is deeply influenced by senior editor and noted thinker S. G. Majgaoinkar and later Dr Aroon Tikekar. In BJP, Nitin Gadkari made him his Political Associate during his President-ship and finally he earned a place in Amit Shah-team as National Vice President...