Binayak Acharya

Founder and CEO, ThinkZone

Binayak Acharya is a World Bank & CEMEX-TEC(Mexico) awarded social entrepreneur. Acharya, a Laureate Global Fellow and MassChallenge Israel Alumnus, has worked extensively in emerging markets for more than 10 years in multiple domains including implementing large-scale ICT4D and skills development programs, education technology products development, and deployment and early-grade education pedagogy. His background also includes working in Global Education Practice (World Bank), Impact Investment (Unitus), and technology products development (L&T Infotech).

Itishree Behera

Program Lead, ThinkZone

Itishree Behera is an India Fellow Alumna with a Masters in Applied Psychology. Behera has multiple years of experience in pre-primary and primary educational content development, grassroots level training (Training of Trainers), community engagement modules development, and education program operations. She has also worked across domains like development communication, monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder and government communication and partnerships.