The Team
Founder & CEO
Harshvardhan Sharma
After completing his schooling from Tokyo, Japan and graduating from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Harshvardhan started his career with Ernst & Young's research & advisory wing.
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He decided to plunge into the rural development sector full-time after a volunteering stint. Sharma spent few years working in villages of Tamil Nadu with AID INDIA, an NGO improving learning outcomes of children studying in government schools.
He then joined Mr. Jithender Reddy, a two-time Member of Parliament in Telangana, as part of a Tata Trusts-funded fellowship. Sharma implemented several projects in Mr. Reddy's constituency, funded largely by corporates, improving lives of more than 50,000 people.
After spending almost a decade on the field, working on the grassroots level with the most marginalised communities, Sharma founded Social Footprint to channelise funds from the corporate sector to the civil society organisations. He believes that together, CSOs, corporates, philanthropists, governments and like-minded individuals can bring a large and sustainable change in people's lives.
Our Consultants
Ayush Patel
Ayush is an economist working on the intersection of data, public policy and development.
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He is also associated with OPHI, University of Oxford, where he works on creating data visualization outputs and dashboards related to Multidimensional Poverty Indices (MPI). He also works on creating a guide for coding MPI using R.
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His previous work involves research on rights-based laws in India and working with elected representatives and state governments for the implementation and monitoring of welfare programmes in Maharashtra, India.
Eswar Nalamuru
Pursuing his MBA + MS Design Innovation at Kellogg School of Management, Eswar is passionate about innovation and creating impact by challenging the status quo.
He brings a strong engineering mindset and experience with a history of successfully solving complex analytical problems, especially on the grassroots level.
His professional journey spans 5-years in the aerospace, construction, medical devices, and non-profit sectors. He excels in product strategy, design thinking, and new product launches.
Eraj Hassan
Eraj is a researcher, currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is studying how CSR can lead to greater social impact.
Eraj brings his prior social sector experience with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, where he led Data & Systems. In this role, he helped non-profits build monitoring systems to track their programs and help achieve their goals. He has previously worked with SocialCops, where he was assigned to data projects with the Government of India and the United Nations.
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Eraj is a graduate of Indian Institute of Management, Indore and has worked with multinational companies like Citigroup in the past.
Neha Tomar
Neha is a lawyer, currently working as Business & Human Rights Consultant with the United Nations Development Programme. She is deployed at the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, to provide technical support on responsible business.
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Neha has previously worked as a CSR Consultant with a talc mining company in Rajasthan and implemented projects in livelihood and waste management sectors. Neha has been part of multi-stakeholder projects with Office of Member of Parliament of Ladakh, and Government Departments in the Philippines, Ghana and India.
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Neha completed her Masters in International Law & Legal Studies from University of Bristol.
Sudarshana Srinivasan
Sudarshana Srinivasan is the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Reach to Teach, partnering with state governments to improve teaching and learning outcomes in government schools.
From 2013 to 2015, she was a Teach for India Fellow in a Delhi municipal school followed by a stint as Research Assistant to a Lok Sabha MP for Sikkim. From 2018 to 2021, she taught high school English and history at Yellow Train School in Coimbatore.
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She holds a BA in History from Lady Shri Ram College and an MA in Contemporary India from King’s College London as a Chevening Scholar.​
Namrata Rawat
Namrata Rawat leads the Research & Communication at Social Footprint, while simultaneously managing her volunteering and consulting roles with several NGOs and social enterprises.
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She has previously worked with Dalberg in New Delhi and Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Germany, and has supervised and managed research and public policy advocacy projects at Integrated Mountain Initiative and Tata Steel Foundation.
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Currently pursuing her PhD in Development Studies from the University of Bonn, Namrata has a Master's degree in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.