Samar leads the Education portfolio at the Dell Foundation’s India office. The focus of her work is on ensuring a high-quality learner experience from the early years all the way to economic participation. To enable this change, she works alongside mission-driven organizations to scale and sustain impact. Before joining the foundation, Samar spent over 10 years as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Ernst & Young (EY). She has worked across multiple sectors including media, consumer internet, consumer goods & retail. As a consultant, she focused extensively on researching & measuring consumer behavior and is now applying the same techniques to the most pressing social issues facing our world today. Samar studied Economics at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and holds a Dual MPA from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Sciences Po, Paris.