Shreya Basu

Shreya worked at OGP from 2015 to 2026.

Shreya led on the Open Government Partnership’s engagement and support strategy for its national and local members. She also oversaw the development and implementation of OGP’s learning and accountability agenda. Her diverse team, spread across 15 locations, supported open government champions in government and civil society in using the platform offered by the Open Government Partnership to improve transparency, accountability and public participation in governance. Before assuming this role, Shreya led on OGP’s engagement in the Asia Pacific region, and on cross-organisational priorities such as the strategy for the expansion of the OGP Local program, OGP’s framework for parliamentary engagement, and the development of OGP’s 2023-2028 strategy. She served on the Board of People Powered – the global hub for participatory democracy.

Prior to OGP, she worked at Publish What You Fund where she led research and monitoring efforts, including the annual Aid Transparency Index, and successfully advocated for some of the world’s largest donor agencies to make their aid transparent. She has also worked with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, where she conducted research on anti-corruption and public sector reforms in South and Southeast Asia; and in the private sector, with Ernst & Young, implementing fraud investigation and anti-corruption compliance programs for multinational clients operating in India. She has a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai.