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Educational Experiences and each other’s experience during the program.
Akshita’s educational journey began at the J B Petit She looks back especially fondly on the school’s
High School for Girls. She remembers her time at public lecture series from real life practitioners as a
school fondly; especially because it nurtured very rewarding part of the program.
assertive young women who weren’t afraid to voice
their opinions. Professional Experiences
Her time at DAIS provided an enriching experience Akshita has always known she wanted to work in
with exposure to the IB curriculum and its focus on the international space, having been particularly
individual thought and analytical thinking. The fascinated by the UN from a young age. At DAIS,
she would go on to Chair the Security Council at
international education; her wonderful teachers and DAIMUN 2010; which she feels influenced her to go
peers; enabled her to sharpen the opinions she on to choose a degree in International Relations.
voiced and put the confidence she’d built to better
use. She also credits DAIS with rigorously preparing After graduating from LSE, she worked at a foreign
policy think tank in Mumbai (Gateway House) for
her for the challenges she would go on to face almost 2 years. She then moved on to Dasra, a
academically at the London School of Economics strategic philanthropy foundation, to gain more
(LSE) and the Kennedy School at Harvard (HKS). A visibility on India’s domestic issues as she felt this
special experience she looks back on fondly is would give her a deeper understanding of where
captaining Lion House; and watching the House Indian interests sat globally; and the issues in
come together to win the House Cup in her final Indian policy. Here, she worked with the knowledge
year. creation and dissemination team and created
reports on issues like access to the justice system
Her undergraduate education was a BSc in in India. This is where her interest in policy was
International Relations at LSE. This was a truly sparked; and what led her to pursue her
Akshita graduated from DAIS in 2012 completely new academic space for Akshita but Master in Public Policy at HKS.
driven by a multitude of things she was fascinated
and is currently a Partnerships Officer at by. She spent her time navigating the steep Her second year at HKS included a thesis or Policy
Analysis Exercise with a real world client.
AKSHITA the Afghanistan country office of the learning curve by taking classes focused on Previously, she had an internship at the Executive
Office of the UN Secretary General, where she had
different regions of the world to develop a more
United Nations World Food Programme
met someone who worked for the World Food
rounded understanding of the history of our
MEHRA (UN WFP). The WFP is the UN’s largest geopolitical landscape. Programme. She connected with this person to
write her thesis; and the development of that
humanitarian agency that provides food
Finally, her Master’s degree in Public Policy at HKS
relationship is what eventually led to her job with
assistance worldwide. Her role involves exposed her to wonderful teachers who invested a the World Food Programme today.
lot of time interacting with her and the rest of the
Class of 2012 working with international governments diverse student body. Her work experience She spent a year and half in Rome at WFP
headquarters; and is now based in Kabul as a
to advocate for support for the WFP’s between LSE and HKS really served to help her, and Partnerships officer, liaising with governments to
Afghanistan office. the other students, contribute more to their own garner support for the WFP’s efforts in the region.