Piyush Prakash

Piyush Prakash is an experienced public policy specialist and a strategy consultant with over 12 years of experience working with city, state, and federal governments in India and the U.S. His expertise lies in enhancing the efficiency of public systems by leveraging leadership development, strategic planning, behavioral science (gamification), and monitoring and evaluation systems for data-driven decision-making. His interests also extend to strategy consulting and growth strategy. He has helped establish multi-million-dollar centers of excellence in cybersecurity as a management consultant and provides growth strategy advice to various ed-tech (pre-K to higher) and health start-ups.

An engineer by training, he holds a Master’s in Public Policy (Data Analytics Specialisation) from the University of Chicago and another Master’s in Education from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He previously served as a Senior Research Officer (Deputy Director) at the Government of India's apex public policy think tank, where he contributed to the formulation and implementation of India's National Education Policy 2020. He has also worked on improving the UN Sustainable Development Framework’s (2023-2027) educational key performance indicators for India and assessed the World Bank-funded TEQIP program aimed at improving the quality and employability outcomes of engineering colleges. Most recently, he worked on the formulation of Illinois’s No Wrong Door Policy to facilitate the seamless administration of human services such as CCAP, Head Start, and Early Head Start across government agencies. He is a regular contributor to government reports, book chapters, national dailies, and journals, and he appears as a policy expert on national and parliamentary TV in India.