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Sharmadha Srinivasan

Principal

Sharmadha Srinivasan is a Principal at Artha Global. Her work mainly focuses on a range of tech policy issues, from regulation of digital platforms and data governance to capacity building for digital public infrastructure. Sharmadha has previously worked at the IDFC Institute and at the Belgian Consulate in Mumbai as an Economic Affairs and Diplomacy Assistant to the Consul General.

She also worked at Gateway House, a foreign policy think tank, as a researcher covering geo-economic and international trade issues. She had earlier interned at Espirito Santo Securities in the capacity of an economist, and at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London as a researcher.

Sharmadha has a Bachelors degree in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and a Masters degree from the University of Warwick.

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