Swetha Kolluri is Senior Program Officer, Digital at the Gates Foundation. A data scientist and rural development professional from India, her work spans sustainable agriculture, poverty alleviation, climate change, and digital technologies. She has worked with organizations ranging from village-level community institutions to national think-tanks and research labs in India and the United States, and was a founding member of a Hyderabad-based social enterprise that imparted job skills to rural youth in South and Central India. Previously, she served as Head of Experimentation at UNDP India, designing innovative development experiments for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP).
Swetha is a Fulbright-Nehru scholar with degrees from Yale University, JNTU Hyderabad (Electronics Engineering), and the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).
