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Azeez Gupta is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Rocket Learning, an ed-tech non-profit impacting 3 million low-income children in India. He also serves on the Indian government’s Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Taskforce and on UNICEF's working groups. Rocket Learning partners with central and state governments at scale in India to support ECCE and foundational learning for 3-8 year olds. Their innovations have been profiled in Harvard Business School, UNESCO and Forbes case studies, studied by MIT-JPAL and Brookings, and awarded by MIT Solve, Mulago Foundation, Elevate Prize and the WEF. Azeez is a Draper Richard Kaplans Foundation Social Entrepreneur, Agency Fund Fellow and BusinessWorld’s 40 under 40 Disruptor. He started his career at McKinsey & Company, before a stint leading large-scale programs at Pratham. Azeez was a Goldsmith Fellow and Education Innovation Fellow during his MBA from Harvard, and completed his B.Tech from IIT Delhi.