Aditi Prasad

ADITI PRASAD Co-Founder of Indian Girls Code COO & CIO, Meritus Aditi Prasad has a B.S.L LL.B Law degree from the Indian Law Society, India, and a master’s in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore. Aditi is on a mission to inspire and educate young girls and boys to learn to code and develop real-world solutions for real-world challenges—by harnessing the power of robotics, coding, STEM & Maker-Spaces to make school education more interactive and immersive. In India, where technical degrees often lead to better jobs, Aditi is promoting educational pathways that lead to better careers and opportunities for girls. She is helping to make tech studies more approachable and fun and creating game-changers for girls in STEM. Aditi was invited to be the Keynote Speaker at UNESCO's Policy Forum, held in Bangkok in August 2017, where she presented “Cracking the Code: Girls' Education in STEM.” Aditi was also invited by TEDx Chennai India at its March 2018 and TEDx Gateway Mumbai in March 2019 event to talk about the Indian Girls Code initiative. Aditi was also honored by the government of Singapore in September 2017 to be one of 15 Young Societal leaders selected from around the world for a global leadership event held by Temasek and Government of Singapore.