Ria Bhandarkar

Ria Bhandarkar is an Associate at L.E.K. Consulting since August 2024, following a role as a Summer Analyst at FTI Delta in the Corporate Finance & Restructuring Segment from June to August 2023. Ria's academic experience includes tutoring Data 8: Intro to Data Science at UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society from August 2021 to December 2022, and working as a Business Analyst Intern for NBCUniversal's Film IT group during the MediaTech internship program in the summer of 2022. Additional roles include serving as a Research Assistant with the SSPI team under Professor Clair Brown at Berkeley Economics and assisting in programming structures for CS61A at UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department. Prior experience includes a Business Development Internship at Higher Rewards from January to September 2021. Ria Bhandarkar holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Data Science from UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science and UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, respectively, and completed a certificate in Social Sciences and Humanities at Sciences Po in Spring 2023.