Urvashi Sahni is the founding president and CEO of the Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF) in Lucknow, India. In this capacity, she has established three K-12 schools. Through its schools and outreach initiatives, SHEF has trained 24,000 teachers and impacted more than 5 lakh children, most of whom are girls from disadvantaged communities. Urvashi is a leading expert in school governance, curriculum reform and teacher training with a special focus on girls' education. A prolific social entrepreneur, she also founded DiDi's, a social enterprise generating sustainable livelihoods for women and Suraksha, a women rights organization. Urvashi is an Ashoka Fellow, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, USA and is currently a member of the Rajasthan's Chief Minister's Advisory Council. She was recently declared the Social Entrepreneur of the Year India, 2017 by the Schwab-Jubilant Bhartiya Foundation. Urvashi holds a M.Ed. and a Ph.D. in education from the Graduate School of Education in UC Berkeley, USA.