Akshara Sivakumar

Akshara Sivakumar holds a BSc in Visual Communications from Loyola College (Chennai). Her profile combines operational expertise in digital marketing, a creative sensibility shaped by film and art direction, and an analytical capacity developed in high-level academic research environments. With over three years of experience in influencer campaign management and social media, she has led activations with leading content creators — over 25,000 Instagram followers — for internationally recognised brands across diverse sectors: food and beverage with Starbucks India, L'Oréal Paris, Wellbeing Nutrition and Naked Coffee; beauty with Maybelline India, Kérastase India, Biodance India, Sulwhasoo India and The Face Shop India; fashion and lifestyle with Adidas India, Levi's India, Decathlon India, Mokobara and Lenskart India; FMCG with Dove India, Garnier India and Oral-B India; and SaaS with Canva India. Prior to specialising in marketing, she worked as a research assistant at IIT Gandhinagar under Dr Malavika Subramanyam, and alongside Dr Nikar Gaikwad, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University — an experience that sharpened her analytical rigour and her ability to structure complex thinking. She also worked as an assistant director at Black Box Films, on the feature film GDN and on an IPL advertising campaign with Arun Ice Creams, featuring Sunrisers Hyderabad players Pat Cummins, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Abishek Sharma. As ESIP's Social Media Manager, she leads the school's digital presence and content strategy across all social channels — LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Google Business — ensuring editorial consistency, visual quality and the impact of every publication in service of the institution's international reach.