Aradhana Roy

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About Aradhana Roy

Aradhana leads all product strategy, design, development, and delivery initiatives at 3Si. She also works directly with 3Si clients on their early childhood data strategy, research, and data projects to inform evidence-based policy and decision-making. Her experience includes consulting, research, and analysis to help shape strategy development, decision‐making, investments, and performance evaluation for organizations in the government, non‐profit, philanthropic, and private sectors. In prior roles at 3Si, Aradhana led the planning, design, and end-to-end implementation of a range of ECIDS implementations and other early learning projects for several state and local agencies. She provided strategy consulting, in-depth data analysis and modeling of early childhood data to inform policy-making and strategic and operational planning related to large-scale improvements in the quality of early learning, kindergarten preparedness, and professional development incentives. As a consultant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Aradhana has worked on several agricultural development grants focused on knowledge exchange, agricultural input delivery, market access, and the use of information and communications technology to improve productivity and livelihoods, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She is also an adviser on the BMGF Technology Partner Network, a private social network created to solicit the input of recognized technology industry leaders to assist the foundation in identifying and accelerating solutions to its technology challenges. Aradhana holds a PhD in Strategy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude with high honors) from Mount Holyoke College, and was a visiting student at the University of Oxford. Prior to receiving her PhD, she worked in product management and business development roles at eGain. She has also worked as a financial analyst in the investment banking division of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc, New York.