Bio
Anjali Sarker is the Senior Fellow for Program Development at the Educating Character Initiative. She is also Programme Manager at the Oxford Character Project (OCP), where she leads its portfolio of leadership and character development programmes for a diverse, global audience of students and professionals. Over the past five years, she has designed and developed award-winning student programs in Oxford and spearheaded new partnership initiatives with organizations around the world. Her work in higher education centers on leadership, innovation, and human development, with a strong commitment to making character education accessible to all. She believes that everyone has the potential to lead, and that character is essential to humanizing leadership. Trained as an international development practitioner, she previously worked at BRAC, one of the world’s largest NGOs, where she helped bring digital financial services to one million women in Bangladesh. She is a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the London School of Economics, a Dalai Lama Fellow, a New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and a former Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum. She holds an MBA from Saïd Business School and an MSc in Inequalities from LSE.