Anita Sundari Akella

Anita Sundari Akella is Director for Impact at Scale at CARE USA, responsible for ensuring that CARE programs are designed for scale from the start, validating potential pathways to scale, and advising teams across CARE on realizing their potential for scale. Anita is a development and natural resource economist whose work has traversed the fields of conservation, livelihoods, business design and social enterprise. In her first career, Anita worked as an economics and enforcement expert in the biodiversity conservation sector. After expanding her focus to business design and social enterprise, she launched the first Business Design Master’s degree program in the United States at the Savannah College of Art and Design and served as Director of Product and Partner Development for social enterprise The Citizenry, working with artisan communities across the developing world to develop luxury home goods. Anita holds an M.S. in Natural Resource Economics, an M.A. in International Development Economics from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from Duke University.