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School Choice Team
| Parth J Shah, Chief Mentor |
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Dr Parth J Shah is President of the Centre for Civil Society, a think tank for public policy solutions within the framework of rule of law, subsidiarity, and competitive markets. Parth's research and advocacy work centres on the themes of economic freedom (law, liberty and livelihood campaign), choice and competition in education (fund students, not schools), property right approach for the environment (terracotta vision of stewardship), and good governance (new public management and the duty to publish). He has conceptualised and organised liberal educational programs for the Indian youth including Liberty & Society Seminars, Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition, and Researching Reality Internship Program. He has edited Morality of Markets, Friedman on India, Profiles in Courage: Dissent on Indian Socialism, Do Corporations Have Social Responsibility? and co-edited Law, Liberty & Livelihood: Making a Living on the Street; Terracotta Reader: A Market Approach to the Environment; BR Shenoy: Theoretical Vision and BR Shenoy: Economic Prophecies and Agenda for Change. Parth is on the editorial board of EducationWorld, Vishleshan, and Khoj, and is informal advisor to many non-profits. He has taken liberal ideas to numerous national and international workshops and conferences and writes regularly in the popular media. He is the youngest Indian member of the Mont Pelerin Society. |
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Sujatha Muthayya, Associate Director, School Choice Campaign |
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Sujatha was one of the first students to attend Centre for Civil Society's liberty and society seminar and was also one of CCS's earliest employees. After her teaching stint at Madras Christian college and her master's at LSE, her work has spanned rural business incubation at IIT Madras, a platform for impact investment at intellecap and helping professor James Tooley build his chain of low cost schools in Hyderabad. She is now back with CCS to head the school choice campaign. In her spare time, she enjoys experimenting with global cuisine and exploring old cities on foot. |
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Shantanu Gupta, Senior Coordinator, Advocacy |
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Shantanu has led large scale education programs (remedial education, SMCs, Early childhood education, school excellence program) for Naandi Foundation and worked for strengthening governance structures for child rights with UNICEF. He is an engineer by training, and has a MBA from from XLRI and MA in Development & Governance from University of Sussex. Before moving to the development sector, Shantanu worked as a process consulting expert in the private sector. At CCS, Shantanu manages state-level advocacy in education. |
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Bibhuti Bhardwaj, Field Coordinator |
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Bibhuti manages field level research and coordination for the School Choice Campaign. He is a graduate of Delhi University and has a Master's in Political Science and Rural Development with over nine years of experience in research, training, education, livelihood & e-governance. He previously managed operations for the World Bank funded Multipurpose Household Survey - Smart card project for Government of Uttarakhand. He has coordinated various projects on education, health and livelihood funded by Aga Khan, CIF, OXFAM and NABARD. |
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Sana Kazi, Research Associate |
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Sana joined CCS after completing her Master's in Public Administration at LSE. During her degree, her research was focused on the relationship between education finance and educational outcomes and the effectiveness of Public Private Partnerships in the provision of education. She is currently studying government expenditure in education and analysing data from the pilot projects of the School Choice Campaign. |
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Kartik Misra, Campaign Associate |
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Kartik completed an MSc in Development Studies from the LSE and a Bachelor's degree in Economics (Honours) from the University of Delhi. He has worked on a variety of socio-economic issues like education, political risk analysis and Corporate Social Responsibility with organizations like Blackwell Strategic Research, MIT-JPAL and Oxfam. His work with the School Choice Campaign involves research and state level advocacy. |
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