“My mission is to enable impact investors and social enterprises to measure, manage and communicate their impact… with confidence.”
“My mission is to enable impact investors and social enterprises to measure, manage and communicate their impact… with confidence.”
My Story
I work with investors and impact-led ventures towards deepening their work of enabling entrepreneurship and investments. I aim at facilitating access to resources and opportunities for the under-served population, through greater private investment, entrepreneurship and innovation.
I have 15+ years of full-time work experience in Investment Research, Strategy Consulting, Policy-making and Project Feasibility Assessment. This is spread across diverse sets of industries in the impact-driven domains. Most of my work has revolved around solving clients’ problems through creating knowledge and frameworks. This includes public finance, financial inclusion, water, waste management, sanitation etc. My work has been acknowledged with several awards and recognition across my stints.
My work has taken me to the smallest Indian cities, fancy corporate offices, oldest slums, government schools and powerful government offices. I have interacted with growing SMEs, committed bureaucrats, knowledgeable economists and financing experts to relentless development sector leaders (including politicians).
I believe that it is this variety of experiences that help me learn about my client’s context meaningfully and bring relevant expertise and frameworks to the table…
Full Time Assignments in Impact-Driven
Organizations
Impact and ESG
Aavishkaar Group
Aavishkaar Group is India’s pioneer impact investing platform with an AUM of USD 1.2 Billion, 7000+ employees and presence across India, Africa and South-East Asia.
Drafted Aavishkaar’s first-ever ESG Management Policy and and Impact Management Policy.
Set up systems for impact measurement and reporting centre for the Group and 70+ portfolio companies.
Liaised with LPs and Board of Directors towards ESMS and Impact Reporting.
Led setting up of Aavishkaar Foundation’s evaluation, monitoring and reporting process.
Engaged with global institutions such as GIIN, UN-SDG, IIC around IMM for Asset Managers.
Represented Aavishkaar at various national and international events on IMM.
Middle Office Capital Markets
Northern Arc Capital
Northern Arc Capital is a leading NBFC, building a crucial link between mainstream capital markets investors and high-quality last-mile lending institutions and businesses including microfinance institutions, affordable housing finance companies, agri-finance and education financing companies.
Set up and led the middle office team, responsible for providing end-to-end support on deal execution
Ideated and implemented a tech-based system for deal tracking bringing substantial process improvement and higher efficiency.
FundRaising and Donor Engagement
Teach For India
Teach For India is India’s one of the most regarded non-profit in education and leadership. It is building a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity in India. Today, the Teach For India Alumni community is 3400+ members strong, impacting 1 million children directly and reaching 33 million children indirectly.
Built a strong funding pipeline through end-to-end donor engagement targeting more than Rs 5 crores per annum.
Urban Infrastructure Advisory
CRISIL
CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory is a leading advisor to governments, multilateral agencies, investors, large public and private sector firms. Its focus areas include policy and regulatory advisory, PPP frameworks, capacity enhancement and institutional strengthening for government and infrastructure agencies, implementation support to large infrastructure programmes, among others.
Led and executed some of the most innovative and pioneering consulting projects in the urban planning, municipal finance, water, and waste management sectors.
Clients included those from Government (State government and urban local bodies in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat), ULBs in Mauritius, DFIs (ADB, World Bank, USAID, JICA), Investors, CXOs, Nonprofits and civic society.
Full time experiences in impact-driven organizations and roles
Director,
Impact and ESG |
Aavishkaar Group |
Aavishkaar Group is India’s pioneer impact investing platform with AUM of USD 1.2 Billion, 7000+ employees and presence across India, Africa and South-East Asia
Drafted Aavishkaar’s first-ever ESG Management Policy and and Impact Management Policy
Set up systems for impact measurement and reporting center for the Group and 70+ portfolio companies
Liaised with LPs and Board of Directors towards ESMS and Impact Reporting
Led setting up of Aavishkaar Foundation’s evaluation, monitoring and reporting process.
Engaged with global institutions such as GIIN, UN-SDG, IIC around IMM for Asset Managers
Represented Aavishkaar at various national and international events on IMM
Head,
Middle Office
Capital Markets |
Northern Arc Capital |
Northern Arc Capital is a leading NBFC, building a crucial link between mainstream capital markets investors and high-quality last mile lending institutions and businesses including micro finance institutions, affordable housing finance companies, agri-finance and education financing companies.
Set up and led the middle office team, responsible for providing end-to-end support on deal execution
Ideated and implemented tech-based system for deal tracking bringing substantial process improvement and higher efficiency.
Manager,
FundRaising and
Donor Engagement,
Teach For India
Teach For India is India’s one of the most regarded non-profit in education and leadership. It is building a movement of leaders who will eliminate educational inequity in India. Today, the Teach For India Alumni community is 3400+ members strong, impacting 1 million children directly and reaching 33 million children indirectly.
Built a strong funding pipeline through end-to-end donor engagement targeting more than Rs 5 crores per annum.
Associate Director,
CRISIL
Infrastructure Advisory |
CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory is a leading advisor to governments, multilateral agencies, investors, large public and private sector firms. Its focus areas include policy and regulatory advisory, PPP frameworks, capacity enhancement and institutional strengthening for government and infrastructure agencies, implementation support to large infrastructure programmes, among others.
Led and executed some of most innovative and pioneering consulting projects in the urban planning, municipal finance, water, and waste management sectors.
Clients included those from Government (State government and urban local bodies in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat), ULBs in Mauritius, DFIs (ADB, World Bank, USAID, JICA), Investors, CXOs, Nonprofits and civic society.
Testimonial
Swati’s best qualities as a professional are her diligent and meticulous nature and the positive energy she brings to her assignments. Swati worked closely with me at Northern Arc Capital and in a short span of time she brought in several new ideas to streamline and improve existing processes to suit the needs of a rapidly scaling business. She can think from first principles and has strong execution capabilities
Nandita Ganapathy, Partner at Kaizenvest
Education and
Certifications
Studying Urban Planning was my introduction to the development sector, its challenges and complex equations between policy, public finance, private investments and their impact on stakeholder’s living conditions and experiences. Thereafter, completing an MBA with the brightest minds from across the country helped me gain diverse perspectives and business skills.
I am a passionate learner...
In 2019, joining a 10-month Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, opened my eyes to social entrepreneurship, impact investing and impact measurement. I continued building my skills during the pandemic by completing my certificate program in Foundations in Responsible Investment by UN-PRI Academy UK and short online courses in Measuring Sustainable Development by UN-SDSN and Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs by Duke University, USA. I have recently joined the first graduate cohort of Women on Boards program by ISDM, Dasra and Governance Matters.
I bring all of this learning to each of my projects and training courses to keep them relevant.
Independent Consulting Assignments and Pro-bono Work
I look forward to working with high-energy teams, offering my time and skills as an extended team member while seeing every project as an immense opportunity to learn and make friends…
I am currently working as an Independent Consultant with highly regarded national and international institutions, offering consulting services. My focus is in the areas of Impact Measurement and Management for Funds and Impact Entrepreneurship platforms. I regularly have rapid discussion sessions with upcoming impact-focused funds towards building their IMM policies and measurement systems.
I work actively in private sector investments research space for select sectors, including water, wastewater and faecal sludge management.
On weekends, I work as a mentor for social Incubators and entrepreneurs and teach Impact Measurement and Management as a guest faculty.
Testimonial
Swati, is involved as a mentor and faculty with ‘Shakti – The Empathy Project (STEP)’. She is very deeply involved in the process of mentoring. Her empathetic attitude towards the mentee makes the whole experience very unique. Given her background in impact investment, she also led capacity building sessions on designing and implementing impact measurement frameworks for the entrepreneurs. Her insights were practical and valuable.
Renu Shah, Founder at Shakti - The Empathy Project
