Aakash Sethi

QUEST Alliance

Aakash Sethi is the Executive Director of Quest Alliance, a non-profit leveraging technology to enhance the education, employability and entrepreneurship skills of youth from low-income communities across 25 states of India. Quest Alliance designs scalable solutions that enable educators to address critical gaps for quality education and skills training. Aakash has over 10 years of experience in youth development programs, having served in leadership roles at organizations such as AIESEC, Ambuja Cements, and Microsoft and International Youth Foundation where he designed, implemented and monitored multi-stakeholder processes for youth employability, school education and leadership development. As Executive Director, Aakash leads Quest Alliance’s research-led innovation and implementation of large-scale, multi-state education and skilling projects. Under his leadership, Quest Alliance has enhanced school engagement levels of more than 300,000 students and developed employability skills and increased access to career opportunities of over 140,000 youth.