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to Change

Sanghamitra Bose has a Master’s degree in English and had started her career as a teacher in a Jesuit-run school in Jamshedpur. She had thereafter moved to Delhi and worked for the next 15 years in Export houses and multinational buying agencies for fashion garments. She spent a few years as a freelance writer and had several articles and fiction published in reputed papers and magazines. She founded Sshrishti in 2003 by teaching a few children in her home and since has led the organisation as its CEO.

Ramakrishnan is an active Angel Investor. In his earlier stint at Intello Labs, he has also raised capital for the start-up. He mentors start-ups on strategy and fundraising. M Ramakrishnan is currently working as VP – Financial Solutions at Gramophone, a VC-funded Agritech start-up. Earlier, he was heading the Agritech business at Tech Mahindra. Prior to joining Tech Mahindra, Ram was VP (Sales & Marketing) at Intello Labs, an Agtech start-up that digitized food quality assessment using AI and computer vision. In his previous life, he has incubated, scaled and managed large teams in analytics businesses. He has worked with large MNCs such as Accenture as well as SMEs (e.g. Evalueserve). He did his MBA from MDI, Gurgaon, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from DCE. In his spare time, he likes to read and blog.

Ms. Kamal Gaur is a development sector professional with M. Phil degree in social work from the University of Delhi. She is currently working as an Asia Regional Education Advisor for Save The Children International. Before this, she was the Chief of Programmes and Programme Director- Education in Save the Children India. She has 28 years of experience in Education, planning, management appraisal, evaluation and administration ranging from primary Education to the Higher Education sector. She has relevant experience of working with the international donors, private sector, academic institutions and other grassroots level organizations on large scale projects. In the past, she has worked with District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Technical Corporation Agency (DFID Funded) for both SSA and RMSA. She has also worked closely with international agencies such as European Union, world Bank, Asian Development Bank, JBIC, DFID, etc. She has been the part of the World Bank team for Education and has worked on Implementation Completion Report for UP Basic Education Program I-II, Secondary Education Technical Programme Maldives. With the India-EU Study Centre Programme (IESCP) on higher education project she facilitated the first ever Higher Education Policy Dialogue between India and EU in Brussels. She has worked closely with higher education institutions in Germany, France, Poland, Denmark, Netherlands and Italy. She has various reports on education to her credit. Her work with DFID for assessment of DFID’s global contribution to Gender Equality and Women Empowerment has been appreciated globally.