Tanvi Sethi

Tanvi Sethi is a Policy Manager at J-PAL, specialising in programme management, partnerships, and grassroots teaching, with a focus on driving systemic impact in education to promote access and inclusion. 

As a recent ECDAN Knowledge Fellow, she published a global repository of parenting initiatives for early childhood development. At the LEGO Foundation in Denmark, Tanvi organised the international Playful Schools Conference, managed multi-stakeholder projects and grants, streamlined evidence commissioning, and advanced advocacy while fostering partnerships across Rwanda, Denmark, Canada, Kenya, Zambia, England, and the United States. She contributed to the Dalberg-Education Finance Network's working group on private sector support for public education systems. Previously, she worked with the World Bank on India’s National Education Policy 2020, influencing state outcomes through an EMIS and MEL framework. At UNICEF NYHQ, she supported ECD in Emergencies during COVID-19 through multi-stakeholder convenings, and at UNESCO MGIEP, she supported their special education initiatives. As a Teach For India Fellow, she taught 101 first-generation adolescent girls and led Project Vatsalya, empowering over 150 mothers across underserved communities.

Tanvi holds a bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, an MA in Psychology, and an MSc in Education (Child Development) from the University of Oxford as a Commonwealth Scholar.