Bio

Namya Mahajan is the former Managing Director, SEWA Cooperative Federation, which serves 106 cooperatives of women workers in India, all part of the informal economy, comprising over 200,000 women. The Federation is now committed to bringing more visibility to women’s cooperatives, helping them grow and scale sustainably, and connecting them to the digital economy. Namya led SEWA’s work on a platform co-op for beauty workers in Ahmedabad, which was a pilot group of the Platform Co-op Development Kit.