Building Fintech Proficiency for Financial and Digital Inclusion

GIFT IFI Campus & Villages

GIFT IFI Certificate

This ongoing program, conducted in collaboration with Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), is designed as a continuous capacity-building and innovation initiative to strengthen financial inclusion and digital empowerment among grassroots women workers across India. Leveraging SEWA’s network of over 3.5 million members across 128 trades, 18 states, and nearly 1,000 villages, the program adopts a long-term, iterative approach rather than a one-time intervention.

Structured around two core pillars—capacity building through fintech and digital literacy, and solution development through pilot projects such as M-Bachat and BETI—the program is delivered in cyclical modules that evolve based on on-ground learning and participant feedback. Each cycle includes orientation and problem identification, hands-on training in digital tools and financial applications, field immersions to understand real-world systems and constraints, and feedback-led refresher sessions.

A key feature of the program is its continuous engagement model, where insights from each phase inform subsequent interventions, pilot refinements, and scaling strategies. This ensures that learning is not only sustained but also translated into practical, context-driven solutions that enhance livelihood security and financial resilience.

Academic Faculty

Abhilasha Srivastava

Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Skalix AI

Amit Singh

Assistant Professor

Ahmedabad University

PhD, IIT Kharagpur

Anand Krishnamoorthi

Senior Global Markets & Treasury Banker

HSBC

Aparajita Srivastava

Equity Partner

Ikigai Law

Arun Gupta

Associate Professor

Ahmedabad University

PhD (Yale University)

Ashok Haldia

Former Secretary

ICAI

CA,CS ,CMA and Phd

Basant Prabhat Gupta

principal Consultant

AiVidya

B. Tech in Comp Science from IIT-BHU and MBA from IIMB

Deboleena Majumder

Associate Director of Sales

Element Technologies

Gaurav Gupta

Founder

Blockverse

MBA, MDI Gurgaon

Himadri Bhattacharya

Former CGM

RBI(Reserve Bank of India)

Jasmin Gupta

Founder

MEIT Money

Jatin Bhagat

Product Leader

Lenskart

Jayatu Sen

Professor

Great Lakes Institute of Management

PhD, IGIDR

Jeremy Fritzhand

CEO, VentureStudio

Ahmedabad University

Juhilata S. Puntambekar

Founder

Glomopay

LLM, Georgetown Law

K G Karmakar

Independent Director

Indian Postal Payments Bank

K. Chelva kumar

K. Chelva kumar

Visiting Professor IITGN, Executive Vice President (GIFT IFI)

IIT Gandhinagar

PhD, California Institute of Technology

Kinshuk Saurabh

Associate Professor

Ahmedabad University

PhD, IIM Ahmedabad

Kuntal Patel

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University.

Mit Gandhi

Compliance

OneCase

C.A., The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Mithun Radhakrishna

Associate Professor

IIT Gandhingar

PhD, Columbia University

Niraj Athavle

Professor of Practice

Ahmedabad University

Nivid Desai

Writing and Communication

IITGN-X

Paddy Raghavan

Founder

Multipl

MTech, IIIT Bangalore

Parag Patel

Dean of the Undergraduate College

Ahmedabad University

PhD, Gujarat University

Pranjal Upadhyay

Assistant Professor

Rashtriya Raksha University, India

Praveen Gupta

Advisor, Incubation Growth

IIT Gandhinagar Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center (IIEC)

Puneet Gupta

Professor

GIFT ifi

Phd - IIT Delhi, MBA - Northwestern University

Sameer Kulkarni

Sameer Kulkarni

Assistant Professor

IIT Gandhinagar

PhD, University of Göttingen

Sanjay Chaudhary

Professor and Associate Dean

Ahmedabad University

PhD (Gujarat Vidhyapith)

Sankarshan Basu

Professor

IIM Bangalore

PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science

Saumil Shah

Saumil Shah

Senior Lecturer

Ahmedabad University

MBA from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Srinivas V. Maddala

Client Engagement Director

TCS

MSc, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology

Sudhir Pandey

Programme Chair, MBA Faculty, Communication Area

Ahmedabad University

PhD, Amrut Mody School of Management

Tana Trivedi

Coordinator, Communication Area Amrut Mody School of Management

Ahmedabad University

PhD

Vinodh Madhavan

Professor

Ahmedabad University

PhD, Golden Gate University

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