Geetika Bhandari

Senior Project Lead, Government Partnerships at Central Square Foundation

Geetika works as Senior Program Manager designing and implementing the assessments for different stakeholders in the school education system for the IPEL-USAID consortium of which CSF is a member. She had been working in the education sector for more than a decade now. In her previous instinct also, she has worked for designing and implementing large-scale assessments for different geographies to understand the impact of various programs. She has worked with teachers for their professional development and with policy makers to implement educational initiatives across geographies. Geetika is an IIM Lucknow alumnus, PhD in Economics, trained in business and data analytics and master’s in business administration. At heart she is a teacher and always tries to make things simpler for people to understand and implement. She likes to blend creativity and simplicity in the teaching, training by weaving story around work. She hails from royal blue city of Jodhpur, married to a finance professional- professor and both loves cooking and exploring food. In the free time she can be seen playing mathematical games and doing creative work. She is associated with Robin Hood Army which is a NGO works for providing free meal to the needy.

Timeline

  • Senior Project Lead, Government Partnerships

    Current role

  • Senior Project Manager, IPEL

  • Senior Program Manager, IPEL