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Tarun Varma

Initiatives Manager / Curator, Early InsightsLego Foundation

Biography

Initiatives Manager in the Learning through Play in Early Childhood team at the LEGO Foundation. Manages partnerships in Latin America, East Africa and Denmark. Leads the technology work in the early childhood team and supports how trends are considered in the early childhood portfolio. Before LEGO consulted clients across India, South Africa, Armenia and the UK related to learning and investment in early childhood. 2011 Teach for India Fellow. Co-founded and ran Gaboli, a firm that builds software services for higher educational institutions. Started career with Tech Mahindra in their junior management cadre running programs across India and the UK.

2016 1+1 MBA with an MSc in Child Development and Education, Pershing Square Scholar. Likes to trek, climb and ski.

Curates, Early Insights, a community on early childhood www.earlyinsights.org

Regional Focus

Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Europe, South America