Indian Administrative Fellowship is an 18-month long impact fellowship that provides a platform for spirited senior professionals to partner with visionary civil servants in strategizing and implementing large-scale government programs that can transform public systems and impact millions.
The first cohort of IAF was launched in 2021 in partnership with the Government of Karnataka with a focus on accelerating pace of technology adoption and innovation in public systems, and creating conducive policy to scale livelihood programs. Hear what the Fellows have to say about their Fellowship journey:
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As India continues on its growth trajectory to become a $5 trillion economy, it is imperative that synergistic alliances between the public and private sectors play a catalytic role in augmenting thought leadership essential to making this vision a reality.
The Indian Administrative Fellowship (IAF) by The/Nudge Institute is a unique model that fosters public-private collaborations required to spur innovation and enhance the efficiency of strategic government programs. The intellectual caliber and passion of senior private sector professionals in conjunction with the vision and commitment of senior civil servants can be the impetus to achieve the kind of innovation, excellence & efficiency that New India needs.
Shri Amitabh Kant
Former CEO, NITI Aayog
The Government of Punjab is committed to a modern & prosperous Punjab. We are glad to partner with The/Nudge Institute as part of this mission to launch The/Nudge IAF Punjab 2022, a program fostering public-private collaborations at scale to deliver needle-moving impact.
Shri Bhagwant Mann
Honorable Chief Minister, Punjab
The/Nudge Institute is relentlessly working towards the goal of a 'poverty-free India'. I congratulate them on undertaking this challenging mission, in tandem with the government, markets and civil society. There's no better time than now to dream of a more equitable and empowered nation, collaboratively charting out the path towards sustainable development. The Government of Karnataka is already associated with The/Nudge on the Indian Administrative Fellowship program as part of a larger collaborative effort to make this dream a reality.
Shri Basavaraj Bommai
Former Honorable Chief Minister, Karnataka
The State Rural Livelihoods Mission connects directly with 30L SHG women in the state. We tried to identify opportunities for these women both internally as well as externally, and also train them to access these. I leveraged my experience of financial services and used this opportunity to improve bank linkages and enable credit flow for SHG women. I thought ‘what would we do outside?’ and what learnings from the private sector can I bring here?
The last 18 months have been a number of things - diverse, interesting, challenging. The most impactful experience has been our work on restructuring the BBMP workload - how do we metricise a work scope this vast - road networks, drain networks, etc. of a city with a 1.4 billion population?
Overall, I feel satisfied that I was able to give my 2 cents about a problem facing the city I have lived in for over 4 decades.
It's been a rollercoaster ride!My biggest contribution through the Fellowship has been to bring in a market-first thinking, with a farmer-first approach in the department of Horticulture and its allied departments.
It has been a privilege to work with the government and witness the extraordinary self-motivation of the bureaucracy to move the nation forward. The education department, in particular, has been an outstanding experience.
We owe a huge amount of gratitude to Shalini ma'am for guiding team IAF through its maiden flight. This journey has been an invaluable learning experience.
I believe the Government really is looking for evidence-based policy design. That is where I could make a contribution - analyzing data and presenting it in a way that decision-making becomes easy.
My mandate was to bring innovations which were happening in Agri-tech to the farmers’ field. To that effect I was able to conceptualize an innovation cell, and take 2 pilots to 8000 farmers.
Most Government infrastructure projects lack the focus on operations and maintenance - which is why we don’t see our govt assets last their normal life of 30-35 years. Our biggest sense of achievement in the last 18-months was to create a massive credo around an OnM ecosystem for the Jal Jeevan Mission in Karnataka.
The Fellowship provided a transformative experience, with inspiring leadership from Smt. Uma Mahadevan and excellent support from officers like Smt. Priyanka Mary Francis and Smt. Shilpa Nag. We were able to collaborate with different stakeholders, explore new ideas, and make meaningful social interventions. It was an enriching journey towards participatory governance.
One of my biggest contributions has been Improving the data ecosystem with the Planning Department. The data which is used to devise policy, programmes, schemes, to plan and implement them - we were able to use the right analytics and visualization and now that is driving the reviews happening at the highest level in the State.
The past 16 months have been an exhilarating journey of exploring new territories in the development sector. It was an incredibly rewarding experience to work on Asset Monetisation for the State where I had the privilege of collaborating with officers who valued my contribution.
An 18-month program towards accelerating the pace of technology adoption and innovation in public
systems by bringing in executive talent to work alongside visionary civil servants to steer large-scale govt programs of strategic relevance.
Generalists high achievers with experience in leading large-scale transformations with a tech-first approach
Secretary or above in Government institutions
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accelerate the pace of technology adoption and innovation in public systems
foster conducive policy to scale livelihood program
amplify impact through focused and collaborativegovernance
Augmented reach and efficiency of livelihood centric interventions anchored in technology
Enhanced departmental synergies
Strengthened policy landscape to deliver impact interventions at scale
Fellow’s onboarding | Context setting on administrative landscape & conduct, program design & execution framework | Department specific orientation | Engagement planning | Engagement review & sign off by the Steering Committee
Execution with quarterly reviews with Steering Committee | On-ground visits for a multifaceted understanding of the problem & implementable solutions | Phase based development workshops & mentorship sessions
Consolidating engagement outcomes & learnings | Strongly integrating the program into the department | Impact showcase across channels | Transition to leadership positions in the development sector
Dr Krishnan leads a group focused on research and policy outreach in the broad area of regulatory and public economics, including concerns about investor protection and financial sector reforms, land policy and records, public finance and public administration, and law, economics, and justice. He Joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983 and has served in various field and secretariat positions in India. Trained in economics, finance, and law, Dr Krishnan has chaired or served as a member of several GoI committees. He has taught as a visiting professor at the ISB, at Ashoka University, etc. & he regularly lectures at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie. He has published on a range of public policy issues in books, journals, and the mainstream media. Dr Krishnan holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics from St Stephen’s College and an LL.B. degree from the University of Delhi, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Mysore, and a FPM/Ph.D. in Economics & Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Electronics engineer from IIT Kanpur, MBA from IIM Calcutta and PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University USA, Dr Rajesh Tandon founded Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) in 1982 as a global research and training centre in promoting participatory research & development and accountable governance. Globally recognised civil society leader, Dr Tandon co-founded CIVICUS, Citizens & Governance Programme (Commonwealth), International Forum for Capacity Building of Civil Society. Under his leadership, PRIA conducted first ever studies of the non-profit sector, governance and management of civil society and civil society state relations. He has authored more than 100 books and articles on these themes. Since 2012, Dr Tandon is UNESCO Co-Chair on Social Responsibility in Higher Education, and has served on UGC, UNDP, World Bank and other expert committees of the government. He currently serves as Chairperson of Forum for India’s Development Cooperation, a partnership platform with Ministry of External Affairs, GOI.
Dr. S. S. Meenakshisundaram is a Post Graduate in Mathematics from Loyola College, Madras and holds a Ph.D. in Development Economics from Jamia Milia Islamia National University, New Delhi. During his career in the Karnataka cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) he had held a number of assignments including Deputy Commissioner of Tumkur and Bangalore districts, Director of Sericulture, Managing Director of Karnataka Milk Federation and Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom for one year. Besides several articles and papers on Governance, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, he has also published a book on "Decentralization in Developing Countries" during 1994. His second book on Empowerment of rural women was published in 2017. After working as Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Karnataka and Joint Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India, he served as an Adviser in the Planning Commission and Secretary in the Ministries of Rural Development and Disinvestment Govt. of India. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board, Karnataka during 2007-08. Currently he is the Chairman of MYRADA, a voluntary organization in the field of building people's institutions for development and a Visiting Professor at Institute of Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Gandhigram Rural University and National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore. He is also the Chairman of the India Wash Forum and a member of the Karnataka State Policy and Planning Commission and the Academic Council for the Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, Gadag.
Ms. Jayashree Raghunandan is a 1987 batch IAS officer (retd) of the Tamil Nadu Cadre who has led diverse interventions at the State level, prominent being in Planning & Development Department, Women's Development, Rural Development & Panchayat Raj (Training), Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and National Rural Health Mission. She also served as the Chair of the Expert Group on Localising SDGs in PRIs, a Ministry of Panchayati Raj initiative. She is also the Chair of the Committee for developing a Panchayat Development Index of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj. She holds a Bachelor's in Commerce and a Master's in Business Administration.
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