Devika Shekhawat

Devika Shekhawat is a Director at The Global Education and Leadership Foundation and is working on the Values 20 India initiative led by tGELF. She is committed to social upliftment and inclusion and has intensively worked with various organizations and led initiatives focused on inclusive and sustainable development for the past eight years. She also gained first-hand experience in relief work after the devastating earthquake in Nepal. Devika has been part of many global projects, which include working with the Government of Rajasthan and UNICEF on a rural education initiative in Rajasthan. She then went on to be a founding member of the Global Citizen India movement (a community of more than 500,000 individuals united to use their collective voices for social good), as well a founding member of Shuruaat Bus (a joint initiative with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission) and subsequently worked on the Entrepreneurship Sports Generation. She has a master's degree from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder of a grassroots NGO, Dhara Shakti Foundation, and a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum.