Miniya Chatterji is Chief Sustainability Officer for the Jindal Steel and Power Group of Companies. She works closely with the group CEO to ensure long term, holistic, and strategic growth of the group of companies. She represents the changing face of global leaders who are young, distinctly authentic, and female. Miniya is currently on the Steering Group for Sustainability United Nations Global Compact India, the World Steel Association Sustainability Expert Group, jury of the Million Dollar Global Teacher Prize, 100 Women in Hedge Funds network, and loves classic styles in fashion and in art. She is also the founder of the NGO, The Stargazers Foundation that works on education and health for women and children in economically underprivileged regions. She writes for the Harvard Business Review, is a columnist for The Indian Express and The Pioneer in India, and watches more number of old French and Swedish movies than she reads books. She has lived in Agra, Jorhat, Chennai, Lucknow, Delhi, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, New York, London, Cairo, Beijing, Geneva, of which her favourite cities are Jorhat and Paris. Earlier Miniya worked with the World Economic Forum in Geneva, HSBC in Paris, and Goldman Sachs in London. Her first job was that of Policy Analyst with the Chief Advisor to France’s President Jacques Chirac in Paris.
Miniya has a PhD in Political Sciences from Sciences-po Paris during which she was a PhD fellow at Harvard University in Boston and at Columbia University in New York.She has a Masters degree in Public Policy from Sciences-po Paris, and an undergraduate degree from JNU in Delhi. She has Executive Management degrees at The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, INSEAD, and at Columbia University, as part of being a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum.