Ms. Amrita Patwardhan heads the Education and Sports portfolio of the Tata Trusts. She has been with the Trusts since 2003. She has led design and implementation of two strategic plans, set up and managed teams and programmes working on elementary education across multiple states. Ms Patwardhan has a Masters in child development from MS University, Baroda and MPhil in education from Delhi University. She was recipient of Edberg Foundation, Sweden’s fellowship in 2001 where she spent a year at the International Development Department of Clark University researching ‘Impact of displacement on children’. She also completed Harvard summer course on ‘Improving quality of education systems’, Harvard University in 2007. She has represented the Trusts on National Mission on Libraries, has been on various expert committees set up by the National Council for Education Research and Training, and Ministry of Human Resource Development to review national programmes on literacy, elementary education and children’s literature. Before joining the Trusts, Amrita taught in a primary school and college, and worked as a teacher educator.

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