Sruthi Ashokan

Years of Experience: 4+ years (2.5 years in Development). Nationality: Indian.

Consultant - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

(2025-08)

Consultant, Project Management Unit — Revenue & Finance. Advisory support to GCC's Revenue & Finance unit on municipal fiscal management, capital market access, and revenue augmentation, aimed at strengthening the institutional and financial sustainability of one of India's largest urban local bodies.

• Facilitated end-to-end structuring and issuance of a Rs. 200 crore Green Municipal Bond for GCC's Kodungaiyur Bio-Mining Project, achieving a record 7.95% interest rate with an AA+ credit rating.
• Drafted a memorandum to the Tamil Nadu State Finance Commission with 8 recommendations, including a revision to the grant devolution methodology projected to increase GCC's own-source revenue allocation by ~Rs. 150 crore/month.
• Drafted a white paper assessing GCC’s financial position analysing 5 years of data across 10 parameters, flagging key issues such as rising O&M costs and deficit drivers, with a diagnostic assessment and recommendations to strengthen fiscal sustainability.
• Developed a property tax assessment model using Basic Street Rate (BSR) rationalisation, covering 14 lakh properties and estimated to increase property tax demand by 34%.
• Initiated revenue augmentation efforts across 4 tax and 3 non-tax revenue streams, estimated to increase overall revenue by 55%.
• Built a financial monitoring dashboard prototype integrating 50+ data points, used by senior bureaucrats for real-time financial visibility and predictive analysis.
• Developed a Municipal Finance Assessment Framework and Fiscal Scorecard for 4 ULBs using 30+ indicators to assess fiscal capacity and inform the suitability of different climate finance pathways and instruments for financing identified climate projects.
• Facilitated Climate Budget preparation for GCC, collating 100+ climate-relevant expenditure data points across 10+ departments, finding that climate-related items account for ~42% of capex in the budget.

Consultant - mByom Consulting and Management Services LLP

(2024-04 - 2025-07)

Consultant, Project Management Unit — Policy, Data & Sustainability. Institutional and policy support to FaMeTN's Project Management Unit, supporting the design of state-level policy frameworks, monitoring systems, and multi-stakeholder governance mechanisms for MSME development.

• Drafted the Tamil Nadu Circular Economy Policy in partnership with JICA, identifying 10+ waste valorisation opportunities across industries.
• Designed a Management Information System (MIS) in collaboration with 10 state and central departments to analyse MSME performance data across 30+ parameters for targeted policy interventions.
• Contributed to World Bank-supported RAMP (Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance) Programme, preparing State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for Tamil Nadu across policy, marketing, and sustainability verticals, covering organisational design, value chain mapping, and competency frameworks.
• Drafted Tamil Nadu MSME's $1 Trillion Vision 2030 document, outlining strategic recommendations for 3x sectoral growth.
• Conducted 'MSME Connect 2023', a buyer-seller meet bringing together 43 Government of India PSUs, government departments, regulatory bodies, and banks, with participation from 1,200 MSMEs.

Civil Services Examination Preparation - UPSC Civil Services Examination Preparation

(2018-04 - 2022-03)

• Reached the Mains stage twice.

Product Development Engineer - Ford Motor Company - India

(2016-07 - 2018-04)

• Contributed to the development and implementation of Ford India’s supplier ecosystem partnership strategy, strengthening relationships and collaboration with 15+ domestic parts suppliers.
• Coordinated with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams to identify and address operational gaps and implement manufacturing innovations, contributing to a 12% reduction in costs and an 18% increase in manufacturing line uptime.

Research/Policy Analyst Intern - OLA Mobility Institute - Delhi

(2023 - 2023)

• Analysed policy and regulatory factors affecting last-mile connectivity across 40 cities (8 parameters); contributed to a national regulatory framework report presented to the State Government.

Intern - Centre for Civil Society (CCS) - Delhi

(2022 - 2022)

• Analysed innovation performance across 42 higher education institutions (25+ parameters) using Atal Innovation Rankings; identified top 10 best practices, published in CCS's weekly column.

Master of Arts (M.A) - Public Policy & Governance - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2022 - 2024)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Production Engineering - Madras Institute of Technology (2012 - 2016)

Exchange Semester - KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2014 - 2015)