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Ms. Janaka Pushpanathan currently leads British Council’s work in South India, and she has over 20 years of experience in the Arts, Education & Enterprise sectors. Prior to this, she has co-founded education, learning & development, and Ed tech start-ups, which have won the Red Herring Top 100 and the NASSCOM Top 50 awards in the innovation category. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore and Project Zero at Harvard University, She is among the top 100 most influential in building UK-India relations and she’s part of the India Inc. 2019 list, which is the first ever all women’s power list to celebrate the immense contribution of women from all walks of life driving a glorious future relationship between UK and India.
Ms. Janaka is a STEM major and is passionate about equality, girls’ education and the environment and is on the advisory board of women led non-profits, early to mid-stage education & ed tech start-ups, and the State of Tamil Nadu’s skills and education sectors. Janaka is also the UK lead for the G20 Education track under India’s presidency and is working closely with UK Government departments and MoE (Ministry of Education), Govt of India, on further strengthening bilateral connections between UK and India, in education, research, innovation and skills.
In her free time, Janaka is re-learning Indian classical music and is working towards her goal to sight 50 tigers in the wild, in India, by 2030.
