Dr. Smriti Pahwa has a doctorate in Nutrition with degrees in Education as well as Management and a diverse experience of working across sectors and operating systems. Since 2001, Smriti has held diverse portfolios within Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Directorate of Education, IGNOU, ASER (Assessment Survey Evaluation Research) Centre of Pratham, Evidence Action, IntraHealth

International, Arogya World, World Bank as well as various MSME enterprises involved in CSR evaluations-MLE, Edu-tech and Health-tech socio tech systems.

During the course of these professional assignments, in addition to the learning’s from work at hand, the pearls of wisdom from experts from various institutes and organizations such as IFS-UK, Yale, SIPA-Columbia university NYC, U-Penn, Harvard, Dhaka-Bangladesh, Dubai Cares, BMGF, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Fore School of Management,

AMEX , IICA, HCL Foundation, IFPRI, IIT-GN, SNDT, JPAL, IFMR, 3ie, Nutrition International, Acumen, Lady Irwin College, Unicef and more have been embedded in the shape of Smriti’s book “Of Missed Opportunities…One Too Many!”.

In the course, Dr. Smriti brings diverse perspectives from the investment lens of a Researcher, Policy advocate and Practitioner and distills all this from investors perspective