Parag Jalan

Director, Government Relations at Teach For India

Parag leads their partnership and collaboration efforts with city and state governments across the country. Prior to this role, Parag worked at a private foundation where he was in charge of identifying bold ideas that are ready to scale and apt for private philanthropy. He also spent two years as a management consultant at McKinsey&Company in New York and two years at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Cambodia and Swaziland, where he helped governments bridge budgetary gaps in their health portfolio, scale healthcare-related pilot programs nationally, and improve access to life-saving drugs. He started his career in finance working for BlackRock for the firm’s risk management division. Parag is a chemical engineer by training and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management.


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