Ojaswini Bansal is from Indore and has about 7 years of experience turning good ideas into things that actually get delivered on the ground, mostly within complex, multi-stakeholder government systems.

She started my career as an architect, working with a private firm on government projects and this experience showed her that the real bottleneck was rarely design – it was the system around it: why good projects stalled, why implementation lagged behind intent. That realisation pulled her into urban policy. She has spent a year and a half at NIUA under the Smart Cities Mission, moving from designing spaces to designing delivery scoping close to a hundred project proposals for Mission Directors and working directly with local government and civil society to implement projects on the ground.

For the last two and a half years, she has led digital health use cases on ABDM at the National Health Authority, taking projects from pilot to national scale, which is the most technically complex, multi-stakeholder environment she has worked in yet.

She keeps getting dropped into ambiguous environments where she tries to build the structure that turns intent into impact. Outside work, she is an avid reader, loves coffee, and enjoys making art and creative things across different mediums