IIFL Foundation

Ms. Madhu Jain, is a social sector leader and philanthropist. Ms Jain oversees the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives at the diversified financial services conglomerate, IIFL Group. Ms Jain has led the CSR function at IIFL with strong emphasis on impact-based social intervention in the fields of education, health, financial literacy, water conservation and livelihood.

Under her leadership, ‘Sakhiyon Ki Badi’ initiative, one of India’s largest girl child literacy programs and has brought about 36,000 out of school girls into education fold in the state of Rajasthan through a network of 1,218 community schools. Sakhiyon Ki Badi community schools have also been a source of livelihood for about 1,220 women, mostly from the economically underprivileged and scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities. The program takes special care to preserve indigenous languages of the communities by using it during teaching. The foundation has helped mainstreaming of over 5000 students into higher government schools.

A financial journalist turned integrated communications professional with about seventeen-years of experience in communications, journalism, and micro-finance domains. Besides IIFL Foundation, Sourav manages reputation for IIFL group companies. He has earlier worked with Wall Street Journal, Reuters News, The Economic Times and Reliance Group and PRADAN.

Rajiv holds a Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) and a Bachelors in Mass Media (BMM – Advertising), along with 10+ years of work experience that spans across different sectors – Advertising, Retail, Marketing, Branding, Hospitality – QSR, IT and Social Work (NGOs). He’s inclined towards working for issues related to development in rural areas, eradication of hunger & poverty, quality education, and climate change. He also conducted quantitative research on ‘Stress among constabulary of Mumbai Police’. For a brief period of time, he worked for the revival of millets with the Konda Reddy tribes of Andhra.

Experienced human resources and recruitment leader with experience in financial services and IT industry. Geetha is also the chairperson of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) committee at IIFL. She spearheads the human resources aspect at IIFL Foundation and assists the leadership in the strategy and operations of the Foundation.

Sahil is a Post Graduate in Management from RIMT & has been working with IIFL since 2016. Hailing from Kashmir, he got onboard through IIFL's CSR project Udaan – an initiative by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. He is a valuable asset for the foundation and carries activities pan India. Currently, he's serving at ground zero – Rajasthan, actively overseeing operations of our Flagship program 'Sakhiyon ki Baadi'.