Preethi Rao
Affiliate Director, LEAD at Krea College
Preethi Rao oversees the leveraging proof operate (collaborations, coaching, studying and communications, and improvements) and contributes to strategic decision-making at LEAD. Preethi has served the group in numerous capacities resembling Head – Innovation, Senior Operations Supervisor and Researcher (MSME).
As an Innovation Champion, she drives new initiatives and is accountable for conceptualizing new areas of curiosity for the group. Previous to heading the Innovation vertical, Preethi has overseen the complete discipline information assortment and digitization operations (spanning greater than 10 states) of LEAD in her capability as Senior Supervisor (Operations & Growth). Preethi was the Director of the Jaipur Digital Funds Lab at Catalyst, the place she oversaw the complete 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 girls’s financial empowerment, she serves because the Innovation Lead, helping in organising the hub, offering specific help when it comes to confirming insurance policies and procedures, and organising outreach protocols in coordination with the group.
Other than 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 initiatives 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 have 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.
