Hardeep Desai

Hardeep Desai is a Senior Director of Farm Innovations at CottonConnect, a socially driven organization formed through collaboration between C&A, Textile Exchange, and SHELL FOUNDATION (UK), since 2012. Prior experience includes serving as Senior Manager for a UN Agency, focusing on Child Rights protection and community mobilization from April 2010 to March 2012, and as Senior Manager at Water And Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO) from September 2004 to April 2010, where responsibilities encompassed project planning, budgeting, community mobilization, and capacity building. Earlier career experience includes a role as Program Officer for Monitoring & Evaluation at DHRUVA (BAIF) from August 2003 to September 2004, overseeing integrated tribal development projects. Hardeep holds two Master of Communication Studies degrees from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from South Gujarat University.