International Journal of Communications Law & Policy

Shalaka Joshi
E-mail: shalakajoshi (AT) gmail (DOT) com

Shalaka has lived and worked at the interstices of the academic, business and the development sectors in India, Germany and the UK, and holds multiple postgraduate degrees in gender and development studies, literature and journalism. She began her professional career as an academic in the University of Warwick, UK and also served as Faculty at the Xavier Institute of Communications, India. She has been associated with the German and British Governments, has been a British Chevening and DAAD Fellow, and continues to be part of the virtual International Women's University- a global consortium of academics, scientists and researchers.
Shalaka later worked with the United Nations Children's Fund, and a range of NGOs including GiveIndia Foundation where she advised business leaders on innovative strategic philanthropy models and ways of aligning social and economic goals, and Ashoka, a citizen sector group focused on social entrepreneurship. Shalaka has also worked with India's largest private sector bank- ICICI, where she led the process of integrating other private sector partners into the Bank's initiatives in health, education and micro finance. She also advised top management on private-nonprofit-public synergies and market based solutions to poverty. Most recently, Shalaka served as Vice President of the IFMR Trust, a for profit enterprise dedicated to ensuring complete access to financial services for rural India.
Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include international development, public culture, emerging markets and social enterprise.