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Sourav Banerjee

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Vice President - Learning & Innovation at Room to Read
📍 Delhi, India

Sourav Banerjee serves as the Vice President of Learning & Innovation at Room to Read, a global nonprofit focused on education. With over 25 years of experience, including a significant tenure at USAID, he specializes in elementary education, early-grade literacy, and girls education, aiming to create systemic change through government collaboration.

He is deeply committed to gender equality and ensuring children can complete their education with the skills needed for lifes key decisions. Sourav champions using life skills-based approaches and local language materials to overcome barriers to education for girls and promote a habit of reading among all children.

By training, Sourav is an architect and practiced architecture before dedicating his career to the education sector.

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Current Role
Vice President - Learning & Innovation
Location
Delhi, India
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Priorities

Topics Sourav cares about

Girls' Education
Champions life skills-based programs to help adolescent girls stay in school and negotiate key life decisions, addressing systemic barriers to their education.
Childhood Literacy
Focuses on developing foundational literacy in early grades by creating child-friendly learning environments and providing age-appropriate, local-language reading materials.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Vice President - Learning & Innovation
Room to Read
6-2023 - 10-2024
Senior Advisor
Room to Read
6-2015 - 5-2023
Country Director
Room to Read
5-2012 - 5-2015
Literacy Director
Room to Read India
1-2006 - 5-2012
Senior Education Specialist
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
In the press

Media appearances

EI Dialogues with Sourav Banerjee, Room to Read (S1E3). Featured in YouTube
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Mr. Sourav Banerjee, Country Director – Room to Read India. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2017 - 2017
Executive Education
Harvard Business School
1992 - 1994
Masters in Building Engineering and Management
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
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