About

Ms Amita Chebbi is a professional with extensive experience in the development as well as financial services sectors.

Previously, she was with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she led all programmes in India as Country Director. In this role, she was responsible for evaluating new opportunities, setting up partnerships, fundraising and managing all aspects of operations in the country. She was responsible for building and maintaining strategic relationships with pharmaceutical partners in India and facilitated access to lower prices for pediatric anti-retrovirals (ARVs) to more than 70 countries in the developing world.

More recently, she was Head-South Asia, Strategy and Partnerships at the Childrenâ??s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the largest private philanthropy in the UK. In this role, she provided strategic direction in developing CIFFâ??s investment portfolio in the region across the health, education and nutrition sectors.

She serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Biltech Building Elements Limited, an Avantha Group company and has over 16 years of experience across management functions in the public and private sectors. She has also worked in the commercial banking and credit rating industry. She is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.