Rucha Pande is co-leader of the Punjab Education Collective and Chief Operating Officer at Mantra4Change, a non-profit driving systemic transformation within the Indian public school system. Mantra operates in Andra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, and its goal is to ensure that every child receives an enriching learning experience. Previously, she headed the design team at Mantra since 2017, and she was awarded the Genpact Social Impact Fellowship in 2019. A graduate of M.A. in Education from the Azim Premji University, Rucha specializes in designing programmes for scale.