Co-founder & CEOLeadership for Equity
Madhukar Banuri is the Co-founder & CEO of Leadership For Equity (LFE) and also the Director of the Centre for Learning Resources (CLR) - a set of leading education organizations based in Pune, India, that helps strengthen PreK-12 government school systems to deliver quality education at scale. With more than 15 years of experience in the education & corporate sector, Madhukar started his education journey as a Teach For India Fellow from the first cohort in 2009. He holds an engineering degree from BITS Pilani and started his career with, Larsen & Toubro, Mumbai. Madhukar is a 2019 Ashoka Fellow & 2015 Acumen Fellow. He has also been a part of national and state-level government committees and supports young education organizations in an advisory capacity. Madhukar's current focus is to strengthen CLR's caregiver program for the first 1000 days of children from underserved communities and to create LFE's centre of excellence focused on pre-service teacher education.