Meenakshi Ramesh brings over two decades of social sector leadership to her role as CEO Designate of Pratham, marking a meaningful return to the organization where she began her journey in development work. She first joined Pratham Mumbai as a volunteer in 2001, working closely with the founders during the organization’s formative years until 2009.
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Dr. Wilima Wadhwa has been Director of ASER Centre and, since July 2015, has taken over as Head of the Centre.
She has been associated with the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) since its inception in 2005. She is the architect of the ASER survey and other primary research studies currently undertaken by ASER Centre. ASER’s unique approach to measuring learning outcomes has been recognized nationally and internationally and has also been adapted by several other countries in Asia and Africa.
Dr. Madhav Chavan is Co-Founder of Pratham Education Foundation, an organization that reaches over 7 million children and youth in India every year. After obtaining a PhD in chemistry from Ohio State University and working as a visiting faculty at the University of Houston, Dr. Madhav Chavan returned to India in 1986 to research and teach Chemistry. But he was soon drawn into the National Literacy Mission.
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Rukmini Banerji is the Chief Executive Officer of Pratham Education Foundation.
She has extensive experience in design and delivery of education interventions and has played key roles in developing and implementing Pratham’s partnership programs with governments.
Farida Lambay is a pioneering educationist and social activist with over four decades of dedicated service to children and marginalized communities. A Master’s in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan and former Vice Principal of the college, she co-founded Pratham in 1995, transforming it from a Mumbai-based initiative into one of India’s largest education movements.
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