Board Members

A Chartered Accountant by professional education, she worked as a Financial Analyst with Central Bank of India. She has been part of the non-government financial sector to work with a clear focus on the financial inclusion and economic empowerment of socio-economically disadvantaged women for more than two decades. She has been leading Shree Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank, Ahmedabad (since 1986) , a pioneer in providing access to financial services for working class women. The financial literacy programme, which has been snowballing as a major component of the larger financial inclusion agenda, was first initiated by Sewa Bank under her guidance in 2001. She was also instrumental in introducing the Micro Pension Scheme for women workers in the unorganized sector. A recipient of the ‘ Outstanding Women Entrepreneur’ award by FICCI in 1993-94, she has been a member of the board in the Gujarat Urban Cooperative Bank Federation, Central Depository Services Limited, a member of Advisory Committee of SEBI, and the Executive Director in Indian School of Micro Finance for Women, to mention a few.

A PhD in Finance from University of California, Berkeley, USA, Prof. Sinha taught for about five years in University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has been teaching in IIM Ahmedabad since 1992. He has significantly contributed to the knowledge domain in the areas like corporate finance, corporate governance and risk management. He was member of the committee on Power Sector Reform Review, set up by the Government of Odisha. He has several publications at the national and international level to his credit.

An MBA in Finance and Marketing she has over three decades of experience as a Banker, Banking technology specialist and a Professor of Finance. She started her career in Reserve Bank of India where she was involved in currency management, making policy and supervision of Urban Co-operative Banks as well as Foreign Exchange operations of Commercial banks. She then moved to TATAs (erstwhile Tata Infotech) as the Banking Domain expert and helped them develop/ sell enterprise systems to the banking and Insurance industry. She has also been a CFO of a foreign bank - Bank Internasional Indonesia where she set up Accounting and Management Information Systems in addition to her other responsibilities. She has been a Professor of Finance in various Business Schools teaching International Finance. She has also been involved in Corporate training where she conducted programs like Finance for non Finance professionals, Retirement planning etc.