Institute: University of Oxford

Prarthana Agrawal

Prarthana is currently pursuing DPhil in Theoretical Physics at University of Oxford. She completed her Master’s in Physics from Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER) Tirupati, hailing from Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh and aspires to become a leading scientist in the future. She has been a recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Gates Prarthana Agrawal

Nikita Garg

Nikita is currently pursuing LLM from the University of Cambridge. She holds a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, from where she graduated as a gold medallist. She has formerly served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of India and has over four years’ experience in civil Nikita Garg

Aaditya Gambhir

Aaditya was awarded the scholarship to pursue Bachelor of Civil Law. He is currently pursuing Master of Philosophy – MPhil, Law at University of Oxford. He holds a BA.LLB degree from National Law University, Delhi. Post his Master’s, he plans to return to litigation practice and academic writing in India. In the long run, he Aaditya Gambhir

Divya Punwani

A BSc in Life-Sciences graduate from St. Xavier’s college in Mumbai, Divya was awarded the scholarship to pursue MSc Immunology at the University of Oxford. Post her Masters, she then completed PhD in Immunology at the University of Oxford, UK in January 2010. She worked as a post-doctoral scholar and then as a Research Specialist Divya Punwani

Shreya Malik

Shreya Malik

Shreya is a Managing Director at KKR, a leading global investment firm. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Zenobe and was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Refresco. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. Malik spent over a decade at Partners Group, most recently as senior vice president of Partners Shreya Malik

Harshet Lunani

Harshet Lunani

An alumnus of the prestigious St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, Harshet graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters’ in Mathematics and Computers. He has worked with Merrill Lynch, Boston Consulting Group and Endeavor Global prior to joining Milvik (a Swedish startup involved in providing micro insurance in emerging markets through a mobile platform) Harshet Lunani

Akshat Rathi

Akshat Rathi was awarded the NSF scholarship to pursue research in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford. After completing his PhD, Akshat became a journalist and worked at The Economist and climate for Quartz. His work has won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press Club award and as a finalist twice for the prestigious Akshat Rathi

Tejas Yadav

Tejas Yadav was awarded the NSF Scholarship to pursue a MSc in Biology (Integrative Bioscience) from the University of Oxford, UK. He completed his PhD program in Molecular Biology from Weill Graduate School of Cornell University, New York, USA in 2016. He carried out his doctoral thesis research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York. Tejas Yadav

Deeksha Sharma

Deeksha was awarded the scholarship to pursue Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. She now works with the magic circle law firm as Associate at Slaughter and May, London. She completed her PhD in International Taxation from the University of Oxford and LLB (Hons) from Amity Law School, CGSIP University. She is Deeksha Sharma

Chintan Dhananjaya Chandrachud

Chintan Chandrachud is currently working as Barrister at Brick Court Chambers. He was an Associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, London. He holds a law degree from the Government Law College (Mumbai), graduate degrees from Oxford and Yale and a PhD from Cambridge. He is the author of “Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures Chintan Dhananjaya Chandrachud

Nikita Khosla

Nikita was part of the founding senior leadership of two fast paced, entrepreneurial INGOs – STIR Education and The Luminos Fund. She oversaw all aspects of organisation growth including strategy, fundraising, program design and delivery and finance and operations. She is currently working as Director of Growth at American India Foundation. Nikita holds a degree Nikita Khosla

Srujana Katta

Srujana was awarded the scholarship to pursue Mphil in Development Studies from University of Oxford. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in Information Communication and Social Sciences from University of Oxford. Alongside her PhD, she also works as Research Co-Lead there since 2022. She has also completed her BA (Honours) Economics at Lady Shri Ram Srujana Katta

Karishma Tiwari

Karishma Tiwari

Karishma completed the Mphil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2015 and her Bachelors’ in Economics from the School of Economics, NMIMS University (Mumbai) in 2013. She went on to work as an economic consultant with FTI Consulting and Deloitte where she advised both public and private sector clients on economic issues. She Karishma Tiwari

Aishwarya Kanakath

Aishwarya is currently working as a partner in the law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and holds a postgraduate degree in Law and Finance from Oxford University. She completed her undergraduate Law degree from National Law School University of India, Bangalore. Her areas of specialization include mergers and acquisition and corporate law.

Akshina Mehta

Akshina Mehta has a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology with excellent grades from Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She has also undergone training in renowned organizations like the National Facility of Biopharmaceuticals, the R&D Department of Bharat Serums and Vaccines, Jaslok Hospital and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. After her Master’s in Integrated Immunology at Oxford University, she Akshina Mehta

Amrutanshu Dash

Amrutanshu Dash

Amrutanshu is a dual-qualified lawyer, qualified as a Solicitor of England and Wales as well as an Advocate in India. He is currently a member of a global law firm’s (Allen & Overy) International Arbitration group, and is based in the firm’s Singapore office. He advises and represents clients in international commercial arbitrations, investor state Amrutanshu Dash

Unnati Akhouri

Unnati was awarded the scholarship to pursued an MSc in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from Oxford University. After graduating, she briefly worked as a science communicator at Cactus Communications where she pursued her desire to decipher current research and share them with the world in creative and curious ways. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. Unnati Akhouri

Ritika Mazumdar

Ritika Mazumdar

Ritika is currently working as Senior Associate Consultant with Bain & Company in London. She has completed her MPhil in Economics at Oxford University and her Bachelors’ in Economics (B.A) from the University of Delhi. At Oxford, her research looked at innovations in the field of micro finance. She is a keen badminton player, loves Ritika Mazumdar

Madhav Malhotra

Madhav was awarded the scholarship to pursue MPhil degree in Economics from University of Oxford. Currently he is a PhD student in Economics at Columbia University. He has previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and with the International Growth Centre (Myanmar Office). Prior to Madhav Malhotra

Shreshtha Mishra

Shreshtha Mishra

Shreshtha graduated from the University of Oxford with an MPhil in Economics in 2020 (Merit). Prior to this, she completed a Bachelor’s in Economics from Miranda House, University of Delhi (Distinction). She is now working at McKinsey & Company as a Climate Specialist. Previously, she worked with Vivid Economics, an environmental economics consulting firm in Shreshtha Mishra

Daattavya Aggarwal

Daattavya was awarded the scholarship to pursue MSc. in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford where his dissertation was on Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Mirror Symmetry. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. His research interests are at the intersection of mathematical physics Daattavya Aggarwal

Siddhant Dhingra

Siddhant Dhingra

Siddhant is a BSc (Hons) Chemistry graduate from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He is currently a fully-funded doctoral student in Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Affiliated to the Ineos Oxford institute of antimicrobial research, he’s working with 2OG oxygenases in the Schofield group laying special emphasis on secondary metabolite production via Siddhant Dhingra

Niharika Satish

Niharika recently graduated from the University of Oxford pursuing an MSc in Economics for Development. She is currently working at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Office of the Chief Economist. In 2021 she graduated with high distinction from Shiv Nadar University having completed a BSc (Research) in Economics with a minor Niharika Satish