Neera Nundy

Biography

Neera Nundy is the Co-founder and Partner at Dasra, a leading non-profit systems orchestrator driving collaborative action for social change in India. Since co-founding Dasra in 1999, she has played a key leadership role in its transformation from a venture philanthropy fund to foundation for non-profits, mobilizing $330M+, supporting 1,500+ NGOs, advising 750+ funders, and impacting 170M+ lives. Neera drives Dasra’s strategic vision and its commitment to equity, proximate leadership, systems thinking, and collaborative platforms through programs like GivingPi, Dasra Social Impact, ClimateRISE and the Adolescent Girls Collaborative. She has experiences in gender, climate, WSH, family philanthropy and NGO capacity building. Currently she also pursuing a PhD in Philanthropy at Indiana University and is on the global boards of The Hunger Project, LGT Venture Philanthropy and The John Hopkins University India. Prior to Dasra she worked at Morgan Stanley and UBS Warburg; holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BSc in Statistical Sciences from University of Western Ontario and is an India Fellow of the Global Aspen Institute. She is Canadian and based in Mumbai for the last 23 years.