Shailaja D Sharma took her Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Bombay in 1990, and subsequently worked at the World Bank and Royal Dutch Shell in technical and managerial positions. A chance encounter with the works of Indian scholars on Indian mathematical traditions drew her back into the field of mathematics and since 2015 she has been freelancing as an educator, teaching Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research and studying the history and philosophy of math. She is an Adjunct Faculty at NIAS, Bangalore, where she is helping develop Math curricula for gifted learners.
