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Gaborone, Botswana

/ Leading the Climate Smart Cities Challenge/ Coordinating UN-Habitat's on-ground efforts in Botswana / Researching the Young Gamechangers Initiative

Gaborone, Botswana

/ Served as a member of a 20+ cohort of community grant makers for ClimateKIC’s Systems Innovation Learning Partnership (SILP) Experimentation Fund, awarding €664,500 to seven selected organizations / Conceptualized and spoke at the Redefining Funding Paradigms event hosted by ClimateKIC and the Center for Public Impact on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly 2023 in New York

Basel, Basel-Town, Switzerland

Bengaluru Area, India

/ Established user research processes in service of design and business decision making / Strengthened a nascent user research practice through capacity building, process improvements and expansion of the research methodology toolkit

Bangalore

/ Conducted quantitative and qualitative research for Uber's Global Rider Access products impacting the next billion users in emerging markets/ Lead research to inform the launch of the Uber Bus app, the redesign of Uber's web booking platform, and the strategy of Uber's voice enabled interfaces / Initiated and mentored intern research projects relating to shared rides, women's employment and affordable mobility / First researcher on Uber's Global & Scalable Research program, supporting product development sensitive to local contexts and global scale

Sonipat

/ Conceptualized, developed and executed a communications strategy for the Chief Minister's Good Governance Associates programme / Mentored 23 young professionals through the documentation of their work, monitoring and implementing state run development programmes, for the Government of Haryana / Conceptualized, curated and edited content for online publications, newsletters and public events showcasing the work of the Associates and the programme

Panchkula

/ A year long consulting engagement with the Chief Minister's Office, Haryana to oversee the monitoring, implementation and documentation of the flagship schemes related to water & sanitation, women’s empowerment, rural electrification and service delivery centers/ Led the redesign of the Chief Minister’s grievances redressal portal and reengineering of registration and licensing processes/ Piloted mobile applications for discovering eligibility to government schemes (Haqdarshak) and detecting severe malnutrition (SwaasthMaap)

New Delhi Area, India

/ Provided overall assistance and advisory relating to business development, program management, partnerships & organisational development for members of the Vihara Innovation Network/ Spearhead digital prototyping at the Bihar Innovation Lab / Recruitments and monitoring, learning & evaluation for the READ Alliance/ Mentorship for incubatees of the Startup Tunnel/ Conceptualised and managed the sixth edition of the Design Public Conclave bringing over 200 participates around “Citizen Participation and the Business of Governance”, towards building a Civic Innovation Lab.

New Delhi Area, India

/ Led projects and teams bringing innovation approaches rooted in ethnographic research, design analysis, product design and systems thinking in a range of sectors critical in emerging economies. / End-to-end project management including proposal writing, budgeting, recruitment, team building, and execution/ Managed relationships for a range of clients in the private corporations, policy think tanks and development agencies. / Business development, communications and event management to represent and promote the organisation on various platforms.

/ Led projects and teams bringing innovation approaches rooted in ethnographic research, design analysis, product design and systems thinking in a range of sectors critical in emerging economies / End-to-end project management including proposal writing, budgeting, recruitment, team building, and execution/ Managed client relationships for private corporations, policy think tanks and development agencies / Business development, communications and event management to represent and promote the organisation on various platforms.

New Delhi

/ Conducted ethnographic research and usability testing, as part of an interdisciplinary team, to improve product design and development for telemedicine centers, portable ultrasound devices and mobile financial services

New Delhi

/ Collaborated on the design and development of a participatory community based enquiry into changing ecologies in the millennium city of Gurgraon/ Contributions to the collaboration included project planning, user research, community mobilization, network building, conceptualization and building public art, writing, video editing and exhibition design.

New Delhi

/ Collaborated on building a participatory art experience as a commentary on changing social ecologies in India / Contributed to user research, product design and fabrication, video editing and exhibition design

Bangalore

/ Built digital (Action Script 3 / FLASH) and analog user interfaces for serious games and simulations for policy research in agricultural supply chains and urban transportation / Conducted research and created visualizations for digitizing rural postal life insurance

Mumbai

/ Conducted a market survey on the perception of Art India Magazine amongst its readership / Catalogued and archived the in-house library, focusing on submissions for the Most Promising Artist

Msc., Public Policy & Management

Advanced Diploma, Experimental Media Arts

B.A., Sociology

Urban Climate Leadership Certificate