An Economist and Business Leader with deep experience in solving for impact at scale, institution building, digital transformation, corporate and development finance. Life member of the Institute of Directors. Works as a trusted partner to CXOs and institutions keen on rigour, long-term impact & last mile delivery. Enjoys action + advisory. Is well published in her field, with her recent book 'Regional Economic Diversity' drawing critical acclaim. Considered an expert on Social Finance & Tech4Good. Teaches at prestigious management & technical institutes. Recognised as one of the Top 100 Analytics Leaders in South Asia. Strengths: Proven track record of developing new areas from ground up, setting up high performing teams, measuring impact and anchoring multi actor partnerships across companies, government, civil society & academia. Private sector thought leadership and financing for digital public goods, data for development, migration, skilling, while also designing special institutional programs on sme financing and job creation. Experience: As part of the flagship program TAS, she worked across Tata group companies and sectors, most recently as Director - Analytics, Insights & Impact at the Tata Trusts. Notably credited for building the 'Data Driven Governance' practice - providing advisory and digital platforms to government leaders and tech start-ups on SDG mapping, planning and service delivery across regions. She has been on the senior leadership team at the emerging markets VC Fund Elevar Equity. Set up the Structured Finance vertical at Tata Capital, anchoring landmark equity & mezzanine debt investments across sectors like auto, IT, pharma, insurance etc and was part of the start-up core team building the Commercial and Infrastructure Finance businesses. Serves on select Boards and Ministerial Committees: eGovernments Foundation, IIHMR, SEEDS, World Economic Forum's - AI for Cities, CII's Aspirational Districts of India, and Govt of India's Datasmart Cities, to name a few. She has a PhD. in Economics from IIT Bombay with an interest in regional growth and industry drivers, and access to skills, finance and markets. An XLRI Gold Medalist, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and is a Principal's Award holder from Lady Shri Ram College. Interests: A trained carnatic classical vocalist, she also loves hard rock. She has been the drummer of BodhiTree, a band from the early 2000s with some memorable cult hits to their credit. Her other interests include travel and reading - a fuel as important as coffee and good company.