Bio

Vidya is ISEAL’s Director for Policy and Engagement. In this role, she oversees ISEAL’s external policy, outreach and engagement efforts with governments, policymakers, business convenors and other key stakeholders. A key part of this is understanding and leveraging the role that credible standards and voluntary tools can play to advance sustainability in supply chains. She also provides strategic oversight to ISEAL’s impacts evidence work on understanding the difference that market-based tools make on the ground. Vidya is a development researcher and economist by training having completed her Masters in India and an M Phil from the University of Oxford, UK. She is based in Bangalore, India.