Taking the Reins of Your Career: Graduate Advice from Chief Data & Analytics Officer at UNICC Anusha Dandapani

Interviews with Leaders in Fintech & Web3

Anusha Dandapani, Chief Data & Analytics Officer of UNICC joins Ying Cao to discuss her exciting career journey and how she has navigated herself toward her passions.
Anusha Dandapani has had a long career in data science inspired by her passion to use it to solve real-world problems. She was the Data Science lead at Barclays where she led several strategic initiatives related to electronic surveillance and financial crime compliance. She is currently the Chief Data & Analytics Officer at United Nations International Computing Centre where she advises and partners with other UN organizations, Industry, and Academia on solving business problems by leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Data Engineering, and Data Science offerings and capabilities. She's passionate about educating young students and recently led an ideation workshop for students to apply data science to tackle food waste in schools.
In this exclusive interview, Anusha imparts upon us the wisdom she's gained throughout her career path, from starting off as a software programmer and working in the financial services industry, to immersing herself in a career of data science and scaling her skills and experiences to work on initiatives involving using data science to solve real-world problems. She shares with us what mindset we should embrace, whether we're starting out or in the middle of our careers, to successfully pursue our passions and challenge ourselves.

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Chapters

1. Taking the Reins of Your Career: Graduate Advice from Chief Data & Analytics Officer at UNICC Anusha Dandapani (00:00:00)

2. Anusha's Introduction (00:00:59)

3. What advice would you give to younger people looking for opportunities to develop the skills necessary for their future career? (00:08:55)

4. How does passion affect the longevity of your career? (00:13:56)

5. Given the opportunity cost for making a career switch mid career, what opportunities made you take the risk? (00:18:42)

6. What does your typical day look like? What are some of the interesting use cases that you guys leverage to the extent that you can share? (00:24:03)

7. What is your definition of FinTech and what opportunities or challenges do you see in this broader sense of industry? (00:29:38)

8. What are the key skillsets and personality for a student or young professional considering a career at UNICC, especially the data science arena? (00:32:24)