Jyoti Chopra

Biography

Jyoti Chopra is a Global Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability Leader. She currently serves on the Diversity Advisory Board of Toyota Motor North America and on the Global Talent and Diversity Council for the Asia Society.

Jyoti was most recently the Head of Global Citizenship and Sustainability and Chief Diversity Officer for BNY Mellon. She joined the company in 2012. Jyoti was responsible for leading the company’s comprehensive award-winning diversity and inclusion program and promoting a culture of inclusion that created pathways for the continued recruitment, development and advancement of a diverse workforce. Her responsibilities included overseeing BNY Mellon’s diversity strategy and execution, leading gender initiatives and employee resource groups, advancing internal diversity training and hiring, and serving on the company’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Council. She was a member of BNY Mellon’s Senior Leadership Team. She served on the boards of the BNY Mellon Foundation (New York) and the BNY Mellon Foundation of South Western Pennsylvania. She oversaw the company’s corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and social investing areas and managed the corporate art collection.

Previously, Jyoti served as the global leader for communications and public relations at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, where she was responsible for external relations, executive and internal communications. In 2011, she initiated and spearheaded the development of Deloitte’s first global diversity report. She joined Deloitte in February 2009 working for the Office of the CEO and the Global Chief of Staff where she was responsible for leading and managing strategic projects and supporting the Global CEO and Executive team.

Jyoti worked at Merrill Lynch from 1998 until 2009. She holds an MBA from the Said Business School, University of Oxford and a BA Honors in journalism from New York University.