Category: SI alumni stories

Indian architect, director and founder of Needlab, Sameera Chukkapalli shares her experience of the Swedish Institute Management Programme Asia (SIMP) and how it helped the organisation develop its work. Needlab is a non-profit research organisation that solves sustainability issues with the motto “For the people, by the people, of the people”.

Portrait photo of Sameera Chukkapalli. — Sameera Chukkapalli, SI alumni, former participant of Swedish Institute Management Programme Asia 2019. Photo: Private

Leadership programmes, SI alumni stories

“The programme really helped me to make my intitative more holistic, to combine different aspects and to take key decisions”

SI alumni stories

Alumni networks adapting to a new situation

It is challenging times for all of us. Most of the SI alumni activities planned for spring 2020 have been postponed. While clothes swaps, ploggings and SDG events are put…

SI alumni stories

Guy Talk in Kenya – reflections from the embassy

SI Alumni Network Kenya recently organised the event Guy Talk, based on the Swedish Institute toolkit created by the organization Make Equal. At a Guy Talk event, participants are encouraged…

SI alumni stories

Alumni leaders from all over the world connected in Gothenburg

This week a delegation of SI and Sweden alumni – previous scholarship holders and participants of SI leadership programmes from all over the world – met up in Gothenburg for…

SI alumni stories

The power of ideas is only realized when you follow it up with a realistic plan

Jayanthi A. Pushkaran is the president of Sweden Alumni Network India Delhi Chapter. She attended the Swedish Institute’s Young Connectors of the Future programme in 2013. Today, she works at…