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Chiropriya (Priya) Dasgupta is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Enterprise for a Sustainable World. She has over seven years of experience in technology, management consulting and business development for the corporate sector and for social enterprises working with the rural and urban poor. She joined ESW from the World Bank where she served as a private sector development specialist.

Priya’s experience at the BoP includes fund management and advisory services for microfinance in Africa, enterprise creation for the informal waste sector in the Philippines, Brazil and Peru, design and implementation of a pilot Ultra Poor Initiative with the largest tribal group in India, design and implementation of a Ranking System for Indigenous Groups in the Latin America and Caribbean region among others.

Priya is also the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Emergent Institute which was formed in 2011 as an ecosystem to increase the success of “green leap” ventures. She holds an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from University of Pune and an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.