 Mr. Saurabh Johri
Program Advisor
Joined ORF
October 2011
Expertise and Areas of Interest
Program Management, Public Policy Formulation and Evaluation, Capacity Building and Performance Management within Government Functionaries, Feasibility Analysis, Financial Modeling and PPP Transactions, Program Monitoring & Evaluation, Institutional Development.
Background
Saurabh is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and is an expert in Public and Social Sector Strategy & Management. He has over 12 years of sector exposure through work at Mckinsey, PwC and NGOs like APF & Pratham.
Saurabh began his career by implementing large scale education programs at Pratham (1999-2004) followed by Azim Premji Foundation (2004-2007). During this period he gained considerable expertise in operations, community mobilization and working closely with government at municipal, state and national level. He was nominated in many government committees in planning education programs and invited as a resource person in multiple training programs of the government. In 2004, Saurabh was invited to co-author the education chapter of the Human Development Report of Delhi.
After completing his post-graduation in Public Management and Policy at IIM Ahmedabad, Saurabh worked with PwC and Mckinsey, consulting in the domains of public education, healthcare, rural development and public finance. He led consulting teams in PPP transactions, monitoring and evaluation studies, feasibility studies, financial modeling, institutional development and transformation studies. He also served the Joint Review Mission for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan as a World Bank representative.
Saurabh holds post graduate degrees from Center for Management Education, AIMA, Delhi and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Saurabh has received special trainings at Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Presently
As a Program Advisor to ORF, Saurabh leads research in the areas of governance, public policy and economic reforms. He is currently authoring and co-authoring position papers on reforms in Uttar Pradesh, sectoral reforms in education, skill development and rural development in India. He has authored a book on Governance Reforms in Uttar Pradesh which was launched in November 2011. He is also a guest columnist in national newspapers and television channels.
E-mail ID: saurabhjohri@orfonline.org
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