Ms. Shilpy Kochhar is heading the Strategic Partnerships and Entrepreneurship Development vertical at BIRAC, a Section 8 Public Sector Unit under the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. She holds more than 15 years of experience of leading large national level grant programmes, implementing policy initiatives focused at promoting startups and building strategic national and international relationships. During her tenure at BIRAC, she had led several new initiatives, scaled processes through gap identification and developed relationships with key stakeholders.

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She is a post graduate in biotechnology from IIT-Roorkee and has studied Public Policy from ISB. She is currently an Executive Fellow at IIM Lucknow in the area of Economics (Business Environment).

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