Sayantani Gaddam currently leads the British Asian Trust, India as Head of Programmes, leading BAT’s programmes on Digital Skilling, Mental Health and Conservation, including the flagship CSR partnership with BT Group on empowering adolescent girls and women in safe digital skilling. She is a social sector practitioner with multi-sector experience leading strategy, operations and advocacy in not-for-profit and social development consulting organizations. Proven track record of 25+ years in guiding sizeable cross-functional teams across geographies in programme design, execution, monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder management. Her focus is mainstreaming community concerns, participation and their active role in public systems development. By education she is a geographer and regional planner and a certified educator.