
Janani Sekhar
Head, Program - Children and Climate Action
Janani heads Aangan’s work on Children and Climate Action. She is working to build awareness on the impact of climate change on the safety and well-being of vulnerable children. Her efforts are geared towards placing vulnerable children at the center of climate action and encouraging multiple stakeholders to adopt a child-centric lens in their areas of work.
Janani is a graduate from ILS Law College, Pune and has over 15 years of work experience. She started her professional career in the year 2008 as a corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., New Delhi. Thereafter, she worked in the legal team of Bharti Enterprises Limited. Her desire to work in the field of child protection motivated her transition to the development sector in early 2024.