Avantika Shrivastava has extensive experience in the development sector. She has worked as a strategic communication professional with Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders in Delhi. Before making a transition to the development sector, she was a journalist at the news agency Press Trust of India.

Avantika holds an MSc in International Development from the University of Edinburgh where she was a Global Development Academy Master’s Scholar, a PG Diploma from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Delhi. She has also been a Global Thinkers Forum mentee.