About

With extensive experience across Social Impact and Finance, Priyaka is currently an advisor with Essilor’s social impact team for their Livelihoods Impact Bond. She has managed the philanthropic portfolio of Amit Chandra (Chairman Bain Capital and Forbes Asia hero of Philanthropy) over a large part of last decade and then went on to set up their family foundation. As a drafting committee member for the creation of India’s Social Stock Exchange (Ministry of Finance) she focused on innovative structures for social finance deals and also contributed to the social finance frameworks in the CSR Policy High-level committee. Her profile was recently chronicled in Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘Women Leadership in the Development Sector’.