Aditi Thorat is Director of Development at the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Aditi has worked in international development for twelve years and has strategic experience in the non-profit, philanthropy and leadership sectors. Previous roles were London Director for Common Purpose, UK Director of Leaders’ Quest Foundation, Chief Operating Officer of Indian venture philanthropy organisation EdelGive Foundation and Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan in India. Aditi sits on the UK board of EMPower – the Emerging Markets Foundation. Aditi has a Master’s degree in Philosophy Politics Economics from the University of Oxford where she was a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening scholar.