Our Team

 

High quality experts with rich experience in their respective fields covering all aspects of the social & development sector. Several of these experts have international experience, especially in Asia and Africa, bringing valuable international experience to their work situations

Core Team

Beautey Kumarri (FOUNDER)

Beautey is a seasoned development professional with over 6 years of working experience with NGOs across India. She has worked in the health and nutrition, child rights and livelihood promotion in rural, tribal and urban slums. Beautey is a Microbiolgy graduate from the University of Delhi and was awarded the gold medal during her post-graduate diploma in Rural Management from Xavier Institute of Social Service. Additionally, she was awarded a scholarship to attend a 3-month Anubhav Lecture Series in New Delhi being conducted by Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago.

Her passion for strengthening the healthcare system by designing evidence-based policies in India took her to one of the leading school in policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, from where she completed her Master's in Global Health Policy. To pursue her master's she was awarded Commonwealth Shared Scholarship, which is a fully-funded and one of the most prestigious scholarships to study in the UK.

With the intention to help others who cannot afford expensive education abroad or for that matter cannot complete their secondary or tertiary education in India she has started a youtube channel named rolled away! https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCk3qr1H6n0HE7eAc5vOVRjQ/ where she shares about various international and national scholarships and the process of getting through it. She is a strong believer in quality education towards changing not only one's life but overall mentally of a society.


Pratyush Gaurav (CO-FOUNDER)

Pratyush is a seasoned development professional with over 8 years of dedicated experience towards the upliftment of marginalized sections of the society. He is a voracious change agent and a post-graduate in Rural Management, from XISS, Ranchi. Desirous of upgrading his skills he later pursued a PGCBM from XLRI and ECP in Operations management and a green belt in Six Sigma from IIM Raipur. He has been dabbled in development of the diaspora of Bihar through association with BRLPS, Government of Bihar. Pratyush has extensively operationalized development indicators through social mobilization, capacity building and livelihood promotion. Back in the state capital Patna for more than 5 years, he has been actively involved at the state level for partnership actions through knowledge management, advocacy, governance, consulting and multi- stakeholder management. Moreover, working with Women Development Corporation he has expertise of women status, domestic violence, human rights, child protection and their rights-based approach towards a better Bihar. He is a strong believer in dispersing knowledge and experience in bringing change and with the intention he has written papers which were published in many esteemed journals like World Bank, FAO, IFAD and others. Pratyush has been instrumental in designing research tools, formulating strategies and building campaigns. He has sound Political knowledge and has keen interest to work in democratic processes


Dr Ajeet Kumar Yadav

PhD, MA Applied Psychology (Gold Medal), MA Journalism & Mass Communication, MA Social Work. He is Indian School of Democracy TGP Fellow- 2021-2022. He has served as the Former Project Head- of UP, The Aangan Trust Mumbai. He has presented a total of 31 papers and has 39 articles published. He has several awards to his name, including Frontline Defender to ending human trafficking Awardee 2020, Nehru Youth Awardee -2010, and National Youth Icon Awardee -2021. He has conducted seven research projects so far. He is currently helping in strategy and outreach programs in Uttar Pradesh. He has also been the treasurer of the AADER Foundation since January 2022.


Advisors

Jurugo Roberts Ali Duku

A medical doctor and a public Health Specialist with over seven years of experience in clinical and public health settings ranging from Humanitarian to Health Systems development programs.

A graduate of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he has developed a keen passion for Economic Health Policy. He is a proponent of Universal Health Coverage.

Over the last seven years in Health Programs, he harnessed an excellent working relationship with donors, government, and cluster agencies through a vast knowledge in Emergency preparedness and response, Epidemiology, Project Management and Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation.

His previous positions helped in garnering invaluable experience in program management, Routine Immunizations, Health systems in LMICS, emergency Health and Nutrition (Primary Health, NCD/NTDs, Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, Gender-Based Violence Management, Communicable Diseases), program management and extensive working knowledge of International Health Regulation, IHR (2005) within the context of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR).

He prides himself on extensive working knowledge of the Minimal Initial Service Pack (MISP) of Emergency Reproductive Health, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Immunisations, and Health systems strengthening in the developing world.


Rajesh Ranjan

An engineering graduate from NIT Patna, having 22 years of industry experience as communication and documentation expert. He has produced and edited over 500 documentaries, tele films, short films, training films, serials, game show for clients like UNICEF, JEEViKA, Government of Bihar, Zee Tv, DD Etc.


Jagriti Jaisawal

Jagriti comes with a diverse experience in Science & Technology, Banking and Finance. An alumna from Banaras Hindu University and Delhi University, she served in State Bank Group in India before moving to Mexico. Later, she earned her MBA from IPADE Business School, Mexico City and is currently working with a pharma company in its Venture Capital Department. Coming from an academic family background, she understands the nuances of education sector in India. An avid reader, her areas of interest include education, environment and finance


Ritumoni Sonowal:

A city planner with 7 years of experience in urban mobility planning in the public sector, Ritunoni has worked on developing policy, guidelines, strategic plans, and detailed projects at various scales; implementation; funding; and advocacy. She has actively worked on development projects funded by international donor organizations such as the World Bank and JICA, and practiced collaborative planning through engagement of urban experts, government agencies, and civil society for co-creating solutions and consensus building. She has working knowledge of developing and implementing state level mobility norms and evaluation toolkits; strategic City Development Framework (CDF) comprising multiple key sectors such as governance, housing and community Development, environment and climate resilience, land use and transportation, energy, green infrastructure and services, socio-economic development, heritage preservation etc; Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP); Land use Master Plan and Development Control Regulations (DCR); Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Plan; mobility infrastructure & service plan for BRTS, metro, public bicycle sharing, and electric vehicles; Open Streets initiatives with civic communities for creating sustainable mobility awareness; implementing funding programmes; Smart Cities; urban governance & planning laws.
She holds three graduate degrees - from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as a British Chevening Scholar, CEPT University, and University of Delhi. She is passionate about Sustainable Urban Development and an ardent proponent of climate smart cities, green growth, and pro-poor urban policies.


Kaushik Basu, PhD

Kaushik has 18+ years of experience in rural finance, commodity finance and livelihoods/ agribusiness advisory and has a research experience in agri economics.He is a doctorate in Dairy economics from NDRI,Karnal and has a degree from MANAGE,Hyderabad. He has worked in Yes Bank in the advisory team manging several zones. He has also worked in GIZ, CWT.NBHC,NCMSL in Mumbai. He has worked on large scale projects as National consultant in Tripura and several agribusiness projects across India. He has specialisation in Government and private sector relations. commodity finance, agribusiness consulting and investment summits.


Sudity Jha

Sudity has a very strong academic background backed by 7 years of work experience. She has worked with different organization in the field of Livelihoods, women empowerment, grants management, conducting research and writing proposals. She is an alumni of Delhi University and TISS, Mumbai.


Dr Sumeet K Sharma

Dr Sumeet has more than 9 years of experience in microbiological, enzyme technology, proteomics and molecular biology. He is actively involved in taking seminars, laboratory training and experimental demonstration to M.D., M.Sc and JRF students at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has a Doctoral research on In vitro studies on molecular mechanisms of metabolic syndrome and understanding its pathophysiology at Dept. of Pathology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.


Dr Chandan

Dr Chandan has strong analytical and interpersonal skills and has undergone rigorous training and acquired professional skills while working with multiple organizations in different aspects of public health. His interest areas are health policy and system research, public health in disaster, public health emergency, monitoring, evaluation and research. He has PhD and MPhil from JNU, New Delhi backed by MA in Social work from TISS Mumbai.


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