Team

Manjali works as a Senior Program Manager with C-LOP on building state capacity. She comes with a deep understanding of implementing competency frameworks and aligning them within the capacity building model. Before C-LOP, Manjali was associated with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, leading the capacity building unit at CIDCO under the Smart City project.

She has a background in knowledge management, change management, organisational restructuring, competency assessments, benchmarks and content curation. She's an advocate of leveraging technology to create learning opportunities. Manjali holds a post graduation in Human Resources from XLRI.

Simi is a Senior Manager at C-LOP, and works closely on the conceptualisation of instructional design modules. She is an IBM-certified learning professional and comes with two decades of experience in talent transformation and organisation effectiveness.

Using her consulting, learning and design skills she has driven multi-shore projects with clients in the US, UK, Europe, and South Asia across a variety of industries including automotive, logistics, healthcare, pharma and renewable energy. She started her professional journey as a content designer with NIIT, and has since worked in L&D projects, product management and consulting roles with IBM, Accenture and Thomson Reuters. In recent years, she has become an advocate of using human-centred design thinking for solving complex problems in the social and development sector. Her previous experience in the social sector has focused on enabling India's youth to become change makers and localise Sustainable Development Goals in their own communities.

Alok is Senior Program Manager at CLOP. Alok brings the unique perspective of grassroot and scale in his approach towards development, governance and public policy. 

Prior to CLOP, he has worked with the Government of Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh at the district and state level for flagship missions such as Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin, Aspirational Districts Program and Sewapuri Vikas Abhiyan respectively. He developed strong partnerships with several Civil Society Organizations while leading the education and community sports vertical at Parivartan, Bihar. 

He holds B.Tech and M.Tech in Design Engineering from IIT-Madras, PGP Certificate in Liberal Arts and Leadership (Young India Fellowship) from Ashoka University (YIF) and most recently PGP Certificate in Public Policy from Indian School of Public Policy. He envisions using technology and data to address organizational capacity constraints within government and impact space.

Shashwata Nova is a Senior Designer at C-LOP. She has extensive experience of more than 17 years in the social development sector as well as with reputed FMCG brands. She is skilled in corporate communication, advertising, branding and identity design, event management, packaging design, fashion marketing and production. 

Prior to C-LOP she was working with Breakthrough India, an organisation working to create a cultural shift and make discrimination and violence against girls and women unacceptable. She was leading the designing of the campaigns, events, photo shoots and was taking care of all the in house production requirements. 

She has completed an MBA in Design Management with specialisation in Fashion Retailing and Visual Merchandising from INIFD and a Master’s degree in Social Work.

Anima is a Senior Programme Associate at C-LOP. Prior to this, she worked for Kudumbashree National Resource Organisation, an institution recognised by the Ministry of Rural Development, (Government of India) in the domain of Poverty Eradication, Institution Building and Livelihoods through Entrepreneurship among rural community women. For a year she worked in Jharkhand for implementing state projects at the grassroots level after which for three years she worked on the capacity building of stakeholders for 18 states. She has completed her graduation in the subject of Sociology and postgraduation in Social work in Livelihoods and Social Entrepreneurship from Asutosh College (Calcutta University) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai respectively.

Tipu Sultan is an Associate Video Producer for J-PAL South Asia at IFMR in India. He works in the video strategy and production team for Creating Learning Opportunities for Public Officials (CLOP) initiative. Prior to joining J-PAL, Tipu worked in advertising and journalism. Besides working in both broadcast and digital news media, he has also directed and executed numerous brand campaigns, digital films, and television commercials for national and international clients. Tipu holds a Master's degree in Mass Communication from AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, and he did his Engineering in Computer Science.

He is a passionate youth worker and volunteer who believes in a human-centric and experiential learning approach to system elevation. He has contributed to the development sector for the past 19 years while exploring diverse domains, regions, and thematic areas to influence local and national issues, and state of practices. He has been part of learning journeys for youth groups, early entrepreneurs, Community Based Organization leaders, trainers from government departments, educators, and network anchors.

As a field practitioner, he has worked in conflict-infested regions with adolescents and youth facilitators from indigenous groups of Baiga, Gond, and Santhal communities of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. He previously worked with CINI, ASK, Pravah, and Quest Alliance.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Hindi (Hons) from Calcutta University and Masters in Social Work from Vidyasagar University.

Beyond work, he loves traveling, and exploring local cuisine and folklore

Tanaya joins us as Senior Program Manager - Personnel Management in Tamil Nadu. She worked in the Urban Development amd Governance sector for about 14 years. She has worked as a short term consultant to the World Bank and Mc. Larty Associates -BSAG. Prior to this, she worked with the German Development Corporation in India , 'Die Detsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmBH. Prior to that she worked in multinational consulting group and research organisation. Her work encompassed key areas of formulating policies, preparing manuals, institutional and organisationaldevelopment plans, integrated spatial plans, and capacity building at various administrative levels engaging strategic participatory approaches involving multistakeholder groups. She is an Architect having graduated from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) and pursued a Master of Planning with specialisation in Environmental Planningfrom CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She is certified Neuro-Linguistic practitioner and pursuing Master in Psychology with specilisation in Organisational Development. In her spare time, she loves exploring new places, cultures and participating in various performing arts.

Diksha works as a Program Manager in Personnel Management in CEGIS. She started her career as an Oceanographer (Climate Change Research) in National Institute of Oceanography and later transitioned to the Development sector. Capacity building, women empowerment and sustainability are her areas of interest.
Her journey in the development sector began as a fellow at Teach For India, followed by collaboration with United Nations Environment Program and the Government of Andhra Pradesh, focusing on enhancing the sustainability of rural enterprises among minority communities.
Prior to CEGIS, she worked in execution of state-level capacity-building initiatives for the dissemination of Natural Farming practices in the National Resource Organization for Natural Farming. She also was part of the Participatory Video Research team of University of Reading, UK. Furthermore, she has worked in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ.
Beyond work she has interest in trekking, badminton, painting and holds a silver medal at national championships Tao Lu.

Shivani works as a Program Associate in the personnel management vertical at CEGIS. She has previously worked with India Health Action Trust (Uttar Pradesh Technical Support Unit) as a state associate whereby she has supported the Government of Uttar Pradesh by developing and implementing large-scale Human Resources for Health strategies and policies for strengthening the healthcare and allied health professionals’ workforce for optimization of clinical care for the state. She has supported the curation and implementation of competency- based pathways for upskilling the nurses of Uttar Pradesh.
She has studied nursing and midwifery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, and believes that this training has been instrumental in transforming her personally and professionally. As a student nurse for 4 years, she has provided clinical care to several patients and recalls this experience as a practical learning for understanding systemic and institutional challenges of India’s development sector.
Driven by this curiosity, she pursued Masters of Public Health, from the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Exploring the various dimensions of global health and developmental challenges, she has interned with Oxfam India, Piramal Foundation, NITI Aayog, and SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association), Ahmedabad. She has also had a chance to support the World Health Organisation, during the global pandemic of COVID-19 and for the Pulse Polio Immunisation efforts in Southern Gujarat. As a first-generation learner, she is driven by the ethos of equity, empowerment, and discernible communication.
When not working, Shivani takes great interest in learning Western philosophy and human psychology, reading Urdu poetry, and watching French cinema. Occasionally, she writes poetry.

Meenakshi Ruhela joins us as Program Manager in the Personnel Management team in Delhi. She has a unique educational background of HR & Psychology and finds the people aspect at work extremely interesting and intriguing. She has spent about 4 years of her career at Mercer Mettl gaining expertise in psychometric and behavioural assessments. She then moved on to explore the world of performance management and employee engagement at her time with Mesh. In her free time, she loves reading, travelling, swimming, doing yoga, attending art workshops and spending time with friends and family.

Priyank Nagpal is a Program Associate in the Personnel Management team at CEGIS, bringing a year of experience in legislative affairs, policy analysis, and research. He has served as a Research Consultant at the Leader of Opposition's office in the Rajya Sabha and as a LAMP Fellow, where he contributed to parliamentary reports, debates, and policy formation. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Economics from CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR. He has presented research at national and international conferences on topics such as economic development, social welfare, and gender disparities. He is passionate about driving policy reforms and fostering positive governance.