Smith is a Young India Fellow with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Mesra.

Content Creator & Copywriter; Freelance writer.

Writing Preception for the course Writing in the discipline.

Saumya works as an independent consultant for education companies, institutions, and venture capital funds. She specializes in Business Strategy, Curriculum Development, and Product Management. Writing is the common thread across all her professional endeavors. She is obsessed with making ideas come alive through the written word. After authoring multiple courses and ghostwriting a book, she is keen on sharing insights about writing to help others improve. Saumya is a graduate of Lady Shri Ram College for Women and a Young India Fellow.

Writing Preception for the course Writing in the discipline.

Head, Capacity Building Programs.
She is involved in research, writing of modules and other content required under various programmes of We, The People. She has completed her LL.M. and has been working as a Legal Consultant since 2003.

Course - Introduction to Development Management (The session will
engage the student in understanding the constitution of India and its importance in
setting the context of development and development management)

As a Doctoral Scholar in English, Pia is working on her dissertation on the ethics of remembrance concerned with a colonial past. Alongside, she runs PhilARThropy, an artist collective committed to taking art education to underserved spaces. Her first work of fiction,
Read/Read, came out as a book in July 2018.  She has taught writing seminars at Ashoka University and Panjab University. In addition, she is also the resident scriptwriter for the theatre production firm, The Idea Box.

Writing Preception for the course Writing in the discipline

Prof. Kapoor is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland in College Park, USA, and an MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
His research interests are in development economics, gender and political economy. His current work includes working on data and analytics in healthcare with a mission to “Convert Data into Information for Optimal Decision Making. He has partnered with large public and private health institutions to help improve performance in terms of resource utilization, antimicrobial stewardship, etc.  He has also collaborated with a research think tank to democratize health-related information by creating a health monitor index – a tool to assess government performance at the level of a district.   He has also done research (with Prof. Antoinette Schoar) on chit funds as an innovative access for finance for low income households. His academic papers have been published in several international journals.

Course - State, Market and Society

Ashish Agarwal is the founder of Bridge4Change Foundation which aims at addressing the systemic challenges using mindful consumption as a tool. Prior to this, post his MBA from IRMA, he established Paryavaran Mitr a social enterprise based in Gandhi Ashram working towards the holistic upliftment of the rag picking community using Solid Waste Management as a tool. He has conducted Workshops and seminars in India, USA and UK on Social entrepreneurship, Mindfulness and Sustainability.

Workshop - Song Writing

Currently he is an advisor to Login Asia. More recently, he was a consultant with the UNDP in Timor Leste and to the World Bank on centrally sponsored scheme reforms.

Course - Understanding State Capabilities

Yamini Aiyar is the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research. In 2008, she founded the Accountability Initiative at CPR, which is credited with pioneering one of India’s largest expenditure-tracking surveys for elementary education.

Guest Lecture Series - State, Market and Society

Sowmyaa has over fifteen experience in the development sector with expertise and interest in poverty, water, sanitation and hygiene, gender, urban development and rights. An experienced facilitator and a practitioner of participatory approaches, she has been involved in various trainings and capacity building initiatives with a range of communities and groups as well as been part of several participatory research studies, monitoring designs, assessments and evaluations.

Workshop - Participatory Approaches and Processes