Varshini Sridhar

Varshini Sridhar graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Political Science and Sociology from Christ University. She aspires to a career in international affairs and as a step towards the same, she completed the Summer School Program in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics. After valuable internship stints at NITI Aayog, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Greenpeace she is currently at Janaagraha.

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