School Choice Team

Parth J Shah, Chief Mentor

Dr Parth J Shah is President of the Centre for Civil Society, a think tank for public policy solutions within the framework of rule of law, subsidiarity, and competitive markets.
Parth's research and advocacy work centres on the themes of economic freedom (law, liberty and livelihood campaign), choice and competition in education (fund students, not schools), property right approach for the environment (terracotta vision of stewardship), and good governance (new public management and the duty to publish).
He has conceptualised and organised liberal educational programs for the Indian youth including Liberty & Society Seminars, Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition, and Researching Reality Internship Program. He has edited Morality of Markets, Friedman on India, Profiles in Courage: Dissent on Indian Socialism, Do Corporations Have Social Responsibility? and co-edited Law, Liberty & Livelihood: Making a Living on the Street; Terracotta Reader: A Market Approach to the Environment; BR Shenoy: Theoretical Vision and BR Shenoy: Economic Prophecies and Agenda for Change.
Parth is on the editorial board of EducationWorld, Vishleshan, and Khoj, and is informal advisor to many non-profits. He has taken liberal ideas to numerous national and international workshops and conferences and writes regularly in the popular media. He is the youngest Indian member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Jan Sjunnesson Rao, Associate Director, School Choice Campaign

Jan manages the campaign together with the dedicated team members. Born in Sweden and married to an Indian from whom he aquired his second last name, he has worked as a teacher in adult liberal education in Sweden, as school manager of primary and secondary schools and as teacher trainer at Uppsala and Stockholm universities. He has also worked as a journalist at Swedish newspapers and free lance writing, inclugin a stint in India 1987/88.

He holds a M.A. in philosophy from Södertörn University College, an M.Ed. from Uppsala university and has done post-graduate studies at universities in Switzerland and USA.

Baishali Bomjan, Manager, PR and Communication

Baishali Bomjan joined the Centre for Civil Society as Manager- PR and Communication in April 08. She holds a Masters Degree in Zoology and has over six years of rich experience in Strategic Planning & Management, Editorial Operations, Corporate Communication, Content Development, PR Functions and Team Management.

Baishali holds distinction of functioning as “Director” of a reputed NGO “Nuns Welfare Foundation of Nepal” and has worked in various editorial capacities for some of Nepal’s leading business and lifestyle magazines like ‘the boss’, ‘Voice of Women’, ‘ECS’ and ‘Spark’.

Kush Verma, Senior Campaign Associate

Kush Verma is a Campaign Associate with the School Choice Campaign at Centre for Civil Society. A strong believer in the supremacy of the human brain and that the virtue to reason, of all things among men, is innate and certainly the most equally distributed.

A graduate in Chemistry from Delhi University, he diverged from pure sciences to work as a marketing and communication planner. A self taught musician he likes to experiment with string instruments. A photographer by choice – mixes his love for travelling with capturing what he sees.

Mathematical in his approach, he understands the importance of variable change or ‘choice’ in context to the various permutations and combinations that life can lead one into: thus his present engagement with 'School Choice'.

Jaya Jha, Campaign Associate

Jaya Jha works as a campaign associate with the School Choice Campaign at Centre for Civil Society. She is a law graduate from NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad and has done her Masters of Law in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She was previously associated with a legal resource group working on the rights of the marginalized.

Shreya Agarwal, Research Associate

Shreya is currently working as a Research Associate with Centre for Civil Society. With a Masters in Development Studies from the prestigious Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and a Bachelors in Mathematics from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi she is able to apply a mix of quantitative and qualitative skill along with an understanding of development theories and concepts in her research. Having worked as a research assistant at IDS and conducted a number of field-based research projects with NGOs such as PRADAN, SIDH and PLAN she hopes to contribute good research practice and objective analysis to the School Choice Campaign.

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