Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai is the Chairperson and Senior Advisor of Rothschild & Co India, Senior Advisor of Advent International Private Equity and TPG Rise private equity.and venture advisor to Lightspeed Venture partners India. She serves as an Independent Director on the boards of Holcim SA, Gland Pharma and UPL. She has been the Past President of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry). She retired in December 2015 as Executive Director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and Chairman HSBC India and in April 2018 from the global board of Nestle.

She is a member of the INDO-ASEAN Business Council, the Punjab Innovation Mission Advisory Board the Army Group Insurance Fund’s investment advisory committee, Harvard Business School’s South Asia Advisory Board, Standard Chartered Bank’s International Advisory Council and Champion India for the World Bank’s South Asia championing and visioning process.

An MBA from Harvard Business School, she is the recipient of several awards and honours including the Padma Shri for her contribution to Trade and industry. She is engaged with institutions in environment, water and sanitation and has authored 3 books including the bestsellers “30 women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories” and “Survive or Sink: An Action Agenda for Sanitation, Water, Pollution, and Green Finance”.

Her interests in Water, Sanitation and the environment and empowerment of women are reflected in her engagements as a Member Advisory Board of the Wildlife Conservation Trust, Chair of FICCI’s Water Mission and founder and Chair of the India Sanitation Coalition.