Pritha Dutt

Director and co-founder of Empower Foundation, Pritha heads the Operations, Innovation and Public Relationship functions for the organization. She is also a Director at Empower Pragati, a social enterprise working to provide employment linked vocational skill training. Along with these two roles she is also a Governing Board Member Alliance of Skill Training Providers (ASTP) which works with policy makers, corporate and youth in pushing the skill agenda for meaningful employment.

An MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, she has worked extensively in both the corporate and social sectors and has held leadership positions in organizations such as Bharti Airtel, Oberoi Hotels, ICI Paints, Airtel, and Feedback Ventures.

Pritha is a Board Member of Sampradan – Indian Centre for Philanthropy. She also co-founded Beyond Business while she was a Vice President of National HRD Network (Delhi). Beyond Business was a volunteering initiative for corporate to build capacity for the NGO sector.

A recipient of Chevening Scholarship for Best Young Manager (1998), Pritha enjoys theatre and reading in her free time.

Pritha Dutt