Come meet Anuradha Das Mathur, Founding Dean of Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, on Thursday, September 15 at World Fellows Night.
Anuradha Das Mathur is the founding dean of The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, an 18-month residential program in management practice for young women. She is committed to bringing more women into the workplace and ensuring their dignity through financial independence. Anuradha is also a senior advisor to the Albright Stonebridge Group, where she works at the intersection of government, business and civil society to help international organizations with their India strategies. She is a founder director at 9.9 Media, India’s fastest growing niche media company, where she leads a number of professional communities including CFOs and entrepreneurs; the research, advisory and custom services; as well as India’s first Speaker Bureau in association with the London Speaker Bureau. Before co-founding 9.9 Media, Anuradha led India’s most widely read business weekly magazine, Businessworld, and worked for 12 years with the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Indian affiliate. She is passionate about professional women’s issues and set up the Foundation for Working Women in 2014. In December 2015, she was recognized as one of 100 Women Achievers by the Government of India. Anuradha holds a BA (Honors) degree in economics from Lady Shriram College, Delhi University, and an MA in economics from Cambridge University, England.