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Ashwini Rajkumar

Founder, Pravaah Insights

Analytical rigor, grounded field experience, and reflective leadership — brought to every engagement.

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Portrait of Ashwini Rajkumar, founder of Pravaah Insights

Background

A decade across research, strategy, and the field.

Her work spans impact consulting, philanthropy, academia, government, and grassroots NGOs — including engagements with global funders such as BMGF, J.P. Morgan, and USAID, through her employment with Sattva Consulting and Tata Trusts, among others.

That range is the point: capability is built where evidence meets people, and where systems meet the day-to-day of delivery.

  • SP Jain Institute of Management
  • Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
  • Barefoot College

Experience

From field to boardroom.

A path shaped by research at scale, sectoral leadership, and partnerships that move between communities and institutions.

  1. Current engagement

    Ongoing systemic-change work

    Currently engaged in a systemic-change program with an established social-sector partner. Details available on request.

  2. Data science for social impact · 2024–present

    Sectoral leadership

    Leading a flagship open-source technology fellowship for NGOs and funders, and curating national sectoral dialogues with 35+ CXOs and 1,100+ participants on data quality and impact measurement.

  3. Impact consulting & research · 2020–2023

    Research at scale

    Directed large-scale mixed-method research — pan-India surveys, cross-country studies — for global funders including BMGF, J.P. Morgan, USAID, and Norwegian DFIs, across climate, livelihoods, WASH, and future-of-work themes.

  4. Government & grassroots partnerships

    Field to boardroom

    A career that began at a grassroots NGO and grew into advising funders — spanning livelihoods programs with state governments, corporate partners, and rural communities across Andhra Pradesh.

Perspective

Sustainable impact arises from the fusion of inner work
and systemic understanding.

Shaped by a decade of field and research experience alongside reflective practice — yoga, structured dialogue, and an immersive governance-reform program. Clarity, conviction, and compassion in how programs are designed, partnerships are built, and teams are led.

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