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 varied capacities reminiscent of Head – Innovation, Senior Operations Supervisor and Researcher (MSME).
As an Innovation Champion, she drives new initiatives and is chargeable for conceptualizing new areas of curiosity for the group. Previous to heading the Innovation vertical, Preethi has overseen all the area information 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 all the on-ground execution, managed accomplice/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 ladies’s financial empowerment, she serves because the Innovation Lead, aiding in organising the hub, offering explicit help by way of confirming insurance policies and procedures, and organising outreach protocols in coordination with the staff.
Aside from donning a number of hats at LEAD, through the years 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 creating, designing and main analysis research and quick time period tasks in open information, monetary inclusion and MSMEs.
Preethi holds a Grasp’s Diploma in Administration from IFMR Graduate College of Enterprise the place her focus areas had been Finance and Advertising and marketing.
In her free time, Preethi likes to put in writing poetry, learn fiction and watch documentaries on Psychology or experimentation on human habits.
