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Sridhar Ganapathy

Principal

Sridhar is Principal, Technology and Innovation at Artha. He focuses on advisory and policy analysis for data privacy, artificial intelligence, open data ecosystems, and digital public infrastructure. His work includes consulting with governments and multilateral organisations on AI adoption, data governance and public service delivery. He leads Artha’s Knowledge Partnership for the UN Universal DPI Safeguards Initiative.

Prior to Artha, he has led program design, impact assessment and behavioural analytics for school transformation programmes. He worked on improvement of learning outcomes and nutrition in public education as part of the Teach For India Fellowship. He also led design, development and performance benchmarking of anti-money laundering solutions for financial institutions. Sridhar is an engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology.    ✉️

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