Questions & answers
Questions & Answers
What the Group is most often asked, answered plainly: its companies, how to engage them, careers, the initiative, and how to recognise the Group’s official channels.
The Group
Ankem Group is a global conglomerate of strategic advisory, economic intelligence, technological infrastructure, education and advocacy. Its four enterprises, Kiwaro, Lakshatras, Ankem Infra and Edkem, each operate under their own name and serve a clientele based in more than 35 countries.
Kiwaro provides independent economic and market intelligence for foreign institutions, investors and policymakers, and publishes Kiwaro Notes. Lakshatras engineers proprietary intelligence systems licensed worldwide and is the home of Lastrological. Ankem Infra builds calculation engines, APIs and platforms to order. Edkem gives independent education counsel. Raya for Change is the Group’s impact initiative.
More than ten: strategic advisory and marketing, economic research, capital and private markets, policy and public affairs, industry and energy, consumer and healthcare, technology and infrastructure, education, spiritual intelligence, workplace psychology, research publishing, and social impact.
The Group is international by design. Its clients and audiences are based in more than 35 countries, and its Executive Board was educated and seasoned across the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and India.
Sri Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara set down the duties of a ruler in the Amuktamalyada: to encourage commerce, keep wise counsel, build the works that make a land prosper and honour the learned. The Group claims no crown, but holds itself to that standard, and each of its enterprises answers to one of those duties. Read more about the Group’s heritage.
Working with the Group
Send an inquiry through the contact page, naming the company your inquiry concerns, or write to info@ankemgroup.com. Corporate matters go to corporate@ankemgroup.com.
Every inquiry is answered personally, within two working days.
The Group corresponds in English, Hindi and French, and welcomes inquiries in other languages. State your preferred language of correspondence on the inquiry form.
Yes. Correspondence is read only by the Group and the company your inquiry concerns, is used only to answer you and conduct the engagement, and is never sold. The privacy notice sets this out in full.
Kiwaro Notes are published at kiwaro.in. Institutions seeking deeper access to Kiwaro’s desks write through the contact page, selecting Kiwaro.
Yes. Lakshatras licenses its proprietary calculation systems to practitioners and platforms. Licensing inquiries are made through the contact page, selecting Lakshatras.
Yes. Ankem Infra specifies and builds calculation engines to order, delivers them through APIs to run inside a client’s own products, and licenses the Group’s platforms to institutions.
No. Edkem was founded to end commissioned advice. It is beholden to no institution, and recommends universities, courses and scholarships solely on what will serve the student.
Careers
The Group recruits selectively, for the Group and for each of its companies. Candidates with distinguished experience and a strong academic record are invited to write to office@ankemgroup.com with a CV, a portfolio or published work where relevant, and a short note on the company they wish to join and what they would bring to it.
Rigour, discretion and an international outlook, the standard the Group holds itself to, together with depth in a field that serves one of its companies: economics and research, technology and engineering, education, marketing and strategy, or client experience.
Yes. Applications are reviewed in confidence, and the Group writes to candidates whose profile matches a present or forthcoming need.
Raya for Change
The Group’s impact initiative. It works in three domains: the teaching of India’s ancient knowledge systems, the rights and opportunities of women and children, and relief for communities in need, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
Write to info@ankemgroup.com with the subject “Raya for Change”. The initiative has worked with TERI, the Red Cross, Girl Up and WICCI.
Official channels
The Group’s only website is www.ankemgroup.com, and its correspondence comes only from addresses ending in @ankemgroup.com. Kiwaro publishes at kiwaro.in. If you receive a message claiming to represent the Group from any other address, write to info@ankemgroup.com before you respond.
Media inquiries go to info@ankemgroup.com with the subject “Media”, or through the contact page, selecting Media.