Aakash Mehrotra Email & Phone Number

New Delhi, Delhi, India

A novelist and a travel blogger - loves chasing stories, finding the human angle in both obvious and the obscure, lets mind work like cog-wheels churning out new ideas. Ranked among the top 10 travel bloggers by Holidify.com, interviewed by various travel focussed firms, consulted on responsible tourism projects, reviewed hotels for Yatra.com. Open to every stream of journalism. Follow me on https://handofcolors.me/

New Delhi Area, India

1) Build strategies and catalyse high quality research and evaluation projects focussed on digital finance, poverty and social protection, and public policy.2) Led a multi-country (10) long term market research project in Africa and Asia - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and China 3) Provide technical consulting to Digital Finance Service (DFS) providers on market assessment, product design, Go to market strategy, and scale up. 4) Lead business development and knowledge dissemination efforts of the team5) Engage with wider development sector community and represent MSC in conferences, meetings, round table dialogues etc.6) Build on people management practices, and organizational goals – mentoring team, build relations with internal and external stakeholders, establish new relationships for project execution and business development, effective project management, staff management etc.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Leading market and consumer research, projections and market estimations • Carving out strategies for business expansion and develop Go To Market strategies for clients attempting to initiate agency & digital banking business• Presently focusing on a Greenfield venture in Vietnam, in consultations with banks leading initial landscaping study and developing Financial Inclusion models

New Delhi Area, India

1) Led primary research on Digital Financial Landscape & Financial Inclusion in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India – virtual in Pakistan 2) Technical consultant to service providers on core business strategy and scale up 3) Market research for Mobile Financial Service providers like (Safaricom (Kenya), MTN (Uganda), Airtel (Africa) Easypaisa (Pakistan), Mobicash (Pakistan), bKash & mCash (Bangladesh), Save & Fino (India)

New Delhi Area, India

Partners in Change is a pioneer organization in India in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and Responsible Business. 1) CSR Monitoring and Evaluation studies 2) Assessed social returns (using the technique Social Returns On Investment) of CSR initiatives 3) Business assessment, strategic consulting and value chain analysis of small scale enterprises 4) Led stakeholder consultations, Policy dialogues and corporate training on issues relating creating shared value and CSR strategy mapping

New Delhi, India

Sambodhi leads Impact Evaluation studies in India and selected South Asian countries and reputes in working with some leading global Academic Institutions. 1) Led Evaluation studies 2) Worked on projects with International Academia (Tufts University, LHSTM, Oxford School of Public Policy) Donor organizations (Gates Foundation, UNICEF, IFC, DFID), Corporate CSRs (Cairn, Monsanto) and Development agencies3) Led quantitative research projects, M&E projects, Techno-financial feasibility and market scale up based researches4) Developed M&E framework for organizations5) Instrumental in establishing the Social Consulting domain and led several social consultancy projects (on agriculture, climate finance & energy)

Bhopal Area, India

Management studies

Harihar Area, India

• Conducted primary research to establish predictions of availability of Raw Material till the year 2017 in Karnataka• Developed a statistical model for the ensured supplies till 2017, analyzed strtegic areas of intervention for the company• Recommended changes in Supply Chain based on demand forecasts and predictions of availability of raw material