Anupama Shekhar

Anu leads the Digital Skills team for Microsoft Philanthropies, working to provide digital skills and education access to people around the world. The team focuses on supporting and enabling skills outcomes for teachers, jobseekers, workers, entrepreneurs and students. This includes areas such as AI, Computer Science, Cybersecurity and Sustainability skills. Anu is part of the Microsoft Philanthropies leadership team that develops their overall organizational strategy around digital transformation of nonprofits, digital inclusion and community engagement. Prior to this role, Anu worked on the commercial side of Microsoft, in enterprise sales, and she has extensive leadership experience across the private sector and nonprofit industry, including roles in product management at Citibank and nonprofit management at Pratham Education Foundation.