Apoorva Baheti

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT APOORVA BAHETI

Apoorva Baheti is a joint MPP-MBA candidate at Yale with 4 years of experience in nonprofit strategy, evaluation, and funding. Before Yale, as a Manager at Pratham International, she led monitoring and evaluation teams for large-scale primary education programs in Nigeria and Zambia. Prior to that, she managed field research at J-PAL South Asia to evaluate the impact of social welfare programs in rural India through randomized controlled trials. In both roles, she supported local partners to generate and use data to strengthen implementation. At grad school, she has explored how donors shape incentives and behaviors in the impact space, and how venture philanthropy can shift power by prioritizing lived experience and communities\' needs. In her internships with Lever for Change and the American India Foundation, she has worked on fundraising strategy and organizational positioning to connect donors with purpose and direct funds towards what matters most. Apoorva holds a BSc in Economics from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and is an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of India. Her training gives her analytical rigor, but she is guided by empathy and listening. She is interested in building teams that can navigate complexity, and she approaches impact as a product: designed with intention, for people, and sustainably creating value.