Preethi Rao
Affiliate Director, LEAD at Krea College
Preethi Rao oversees the leveraging proof perform (collaborations, coaching, studying and communications, and improvements) and contributes to strategic decision-making at LEAD. Preethi has served the group in numerous capacities reminiscent of Head – Innovation, Senior Operations Supervisor and Researcher (MSME).
As an Innovation Champion, she drives new initiatives and is liable for conceptualizing new areas of curiosity for the group. Previous to heading the Innovation vertical, Preethi has overseen your complete discipline knowledge assortment and digitization operations (spanning greater than 10 states) of LEAD in her capability as Senior Supervisor (Operations & Improvement). Preethi was the Director of the Jaipur Digital Funds Lab at Catalyst, the place she oversaw your complete on-ground execution, managed companion/stakeholder relations, managed donor liaison and expectations, anchored M&E and was concerned within the manufacturing of programmatic studying outputs. For IWWAGE, an initiative of LEAD conducting analysis on girls’s financial empowerment, she serves because the Innovation Lead, aiding in organising the hub, offering explicit help when it comes to confirming insurance policies and procedures, and organising outreach protocols in coordination with the group.
Aside from donning a number of hats at LEAD, over time Preethi has undertaken interdisciplinary research on entry to finance for small and medium scale enterprises and the affect of macroeconomic insurance policies on the low-income populations. She has additionally been concerned in growing, designing and main analysis research and quick time period tasks in open knowledge, monetary inclusion and MSMEs.
Preethi holds a Grasp’s Diploma in Administration from IFMR Graduate Faculty of Enterprise the place her focus areas had been Finance and Advertising and marketing.
In her free time, Preethi likes to write down poetry, learn fiction and watch documentaries on Psychology or experimentation on human habits.
