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New Delhi, Delhi, India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Led the G20 Empower initiative under India’s G20 presidency, driving collaboration between businesses and governments to promote gender justice and accelerate women's leadership in the public and private sector across G20 nations. Recommendations influenced the New Delhi Declaration. • Conceptualized and launched TechEquity - an aggregator Platform to bridge the digital gender divide with over 90+ gender-sensitive courses from G20 and guest nations. Aiming to reach 1 million users globally within two years.• Delivered Best Practices Playbook with 151 best practices from 19 nations focusing on: Measuring to Improve, Building and Nourishing an Efficient and Sustainable Women Talent Pipeline, Enabling Women to Lead the Future, and Supporting Women Entrepreneurs & Leaders at the Local Level.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Policy Note & advocacy for a FCDO funded project conceptualizing global public goods in education & an innovative funding and networking model like GAVI to fund them, led by Global South.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Managed and led a team of 24 in three states - Rajasthan, Uttarakhand & West Bengal to deliver the intersectional gender justice focused project 'Digital Beti' aimed at cultivating entrepreneurship and bridging digital gender divide impacting close to 1500 women artisans, weavers and farmers.• Fostered social enterprises Sarthak & Ekta to mitigate impact of climate change and financial asymmetry by physically reaching 22,000 + individuals in more than 400 villages in Uttarakhand. Sarthak enabled financial transactions of over INR 55 crores ($ 7.5 million) and Ekta enabled women to grow climate-resistant organic crops in Uttarakhand and advocate with the government for climate change adaptation. • Created youth-led social enterprise ‘Anubandh’ to enhance livelihood opportunities and limit the impact of COVID-19 on women artisans, weavers and farmers resulting in more than INR 2.5 lakhs ($ 3400) worth of income for the women workers in a quarter of a year.Designed advocacy measures for women in the informal sector ranging from conferences SEWA Samvaad to podcast series SEWA Anubhuti impacting key stakeholders in government, academic and private sector.

New Delhi Area, India

New Delhi Area, India

• Recommended CSR Strategy to a public sector company with an annual budget of over Rs.100crore. Recommendations including refining mission/vision, setting focused investment strategies, and altering governance structures for greater efficiency and impact. • Assisted NITI Aayog with Women’s Entrepreneurship Platform by organizing information distribution and conceptualizing user access for the site’s knowledge bank, developed partnerships with women’s professional networks to moderate the site’s forums.

Jaipur Area, India

• Program based at the University of Chicago which sends top talent to work with government organizations to implement innovative solutions to important development problems.• Strategizing and implementing an Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) initiative aimed at integrating 30,000+ Anganwadis with government schools in Rajasthan for improved ECCE delivery and supervision. Designing mentorship and training plans for Anganwadi Karyakartas, defining quality benchmarks for Anganwadis and increasing parental engagement.

New Delhi Area, India

• Led 16 Teach for India fellows across 4 under-resourced government schools in New Delhi achieving holistic growth of 600+ secondary school students.• Built leadership capabilities of 15+ Teach for India fellows to enable them in making a transformational social impact through scalable projects across low-income communities in Delhi. • Researched on and developed Logic Model & Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for different projects in Teach for India, Delhi under the tutelage of Teach for All.• Developed entrepreneurial strategies focusing on community centres as a unit of change resulting in the sustainability and development of 7 community centres in different communities of Delhi.

New Delhi Area, India

• Led 240 students across 6th, 7th and 8th grade classrooms in a senior secondary girls’ government school in Sangam Vihar, New Delhi achieving an average growth of 2.5 years in English Reading Comprehension.• Researched on and executed advanced secondary pedagogical approaches like Project-based and Problem-based teaching, imparting skills of student leadership, critical thinking and design thinking in students leading to multiple projects by them in their community including Pehla Kadam and an invitation to students to share their experience at TEDx TughlaqRd as speakers.• Nominated as one of the most transformational classrooms in Transformational Impact Journey, ‘16.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Led the offshore team in optimizing and transforming broadband services in Western Europe for British Telecom.• Streamlined relationships and collaborated with third-party vendors like Cisco, Amdocs, etc. amongst others to mobilize tasks through efficient management of hardware and software migration processes.• Reduced man-hours by up to 33% by identifying key levers and delivering automation.• Awarded Accenture Stellar award as well as Accenture Spot Award.

Pune Area, India

Piloting my team to strive towards excellence in OSS Testing with emphasis to E2E test scenarios preparation and execution for my client.

Pune Area, India

I work on OSS Testing with functional E2E Test Preparation and Execution for my Client.

Master Of Public Policy - Mpp, Public Policy

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, First Division

Activities and Societies: Founded Student Organization LiteratiCompleted B.Tech degree at Graphic Era Institute of Technology under.

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