Leadership
Rajat Kathuria
Chair of the Board
Rajat Kathuria is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Professor of Economics at Shiv Nadar University. He previously served as the Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Rajat played a pivotal role in the formative years of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and co-chaired the T20 Digital Task Force under India’s G20 Presidency in 2023.
Rajat is a founding member of the Broadband Society for Universal Access and has held board positions with the Delhi Management Association and the MicroFinance Institutional Network of India.
With over 20 years of teaching experience and 25 years in economic policy, Rajat’s expertise spans a broad spectrum of issues, and has consulted for the World Bank in Washington DC, and undertaken research projects for numerous international organisations, including the ILO, UNCTAD, LIRNEasia, and ADB.
Ratna Viswanathan
Chief Executive Officer
Ratna is a former civil servant from the 1987 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, where she worked across various departments such as audit, defence and Prasar Bharati. She gave up a highly coveted career in the Civil Services to join the development sector. Prior to joining Reach to Teach, she has held leadership roles at Oxfam India, VSO, MFIN, UNEP and UNDP. She also serves as an Independent Woman Director on Boards of several companies and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Reach to Teach.
Deeply passionate about making learning a joyful experience for students by fostering teacher-agency, Ratna believes in learning out of curiosity and competing with oneself to achieve one’s own potential. She seeks to work from within the existing education system to create an environment that enthuses key stakeholders in a child’s life. Ratna believes learning happens when it is supported by an enabling environment.
Amit Gupta
Independent Director
Amit is a Chartered Accountant with over two and a half decades of professional experience, specialising in financial processes, business risk consulting, and corporate governance. He is also a Certified Green Belt from Genpact.
Currently, as a partner at a Big 4 firm, Amit leads the delivery of risk consulting solutions in North India, serving clients across diverse sectors. In addition, Amit contributes to academia as a member of the Board of Studies at the School of Management and the Academic Committee of the University School of Fire & Industrial Safety at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. He shares his expertise in risk management and corporate governance with the academic community.
Amit has been a Special Invitee to the Board of Internal Audit and Management Accounting (formerly IASB) in 2024 and in several years between 2010 and 2020. He has also served as a member of the Corporate Law and Corporate Governance Committee of ICAI from 2012 to 2014.
