Aapti Institute

Sarayu has a background in management consulting (McKinsey and Company), venture investing (Elevar Equity), program development and management (Gray Matters Capital), and academic research. She has a PhD in Political Science from King's College London, a Master's in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, and a arts and law degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU).

Astha has experience in research (Future State, SEWA), consulting (MicroSave, Dalberg), advisory (APPI), and government (Planning Commission). She has a Masters from the Institute of Social Studies (the Netherlands), and a bachelors in history from St. Stephens College. She is a two time TedX speaker, and Global Governance Future Fellow (2018-19).

Aditi graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with a degree in Economics/Mathematics. She has previously interned at Parthenon, and has worked extensively with non-profits and social enterprises in Los Angeles. Aditi was a 2018-2019 Fulbright fellow in Bangalore studying youth civic engagement in the Indian context. At Aapti, she hopes to continue this work, exploring the civic technology landscape in India.

Siddharth Manohar has been working on technology and media regulation since 2014, with a focus on models of economic and content regulation. On economic regulation he helped draft a submission to TRAI which was used by the telecom regulator in the final version of the Discriminatory Pricing for Data Service Regulations, 2016. He has worked with the IT Ministry for briefs and official submissions on Internet Governance issues, and looks at current policy questions in areas of e-commerce, data handling, and related regulatory issues.

Lakshmee has worked in the Indian development practice and policy space with a focus on climate change and agrarian livelihoods, labour migration, and land and urban informal housing. She has previously worked with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and Tata Centre for Development at UChicago. She served as an AIF Clinton Fellow (2016-17) with Gene Campaign, Uttarakhand. She holds a BA (Triple Major) in Psychology, Sociology, and English from Christ University and an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Kanimozhi has worked in the International Relations sector and geopolitical analysis space focusing on Indo-Pacific and the African continent. She has previously worked with Jane's by IHS Markit where she analysed the conflict situations in Africa. She has also worked on the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC) with the Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS). With a background in engineering, she hopes to utilise her analytical skills to understand more about the societal paradigm of technology at Aapti.