Dr. Ritu Anand is a pioneer in the field of Human Resources, with 30+ years of experience in HR and related functions. In her last position she was the Chief Leadership & Diversity Officer and Senior Vice President HR at Tata Consultancy Services. Prior to this she was the Deputy HR Head where she led talent management, workforce policy, planning, total rewards, culture, and welfare practices.

An eminent leader, Ritu has diverse functional experience at TCS and is recognized for human centric processes, talent, and leadership. Her expertise spans varied areas from compensation & benefits, workforce policy planning, career development, capacity building, performance management, leadership assessments, welfare programs, including culture, coaching, counselling, and mentoring.

As leader of talent management, she has established career growth and high potential programs, designed performance evaluation models, institutionalized variable pay models, and developed role and competency programs. Ritu has played a key role in handling areas such as employee grievance redressal process, motivating employees by personal counselling to instituting measure for reducing absenteeism and employee turnover, facilitating the performance evaluation process, and establishing the framework for substantiating appraisal system linked to rewards and recognition. She was also responsible for managing corporate functions and their development.

Developing women leaders is an area that she is personally committed to and has done tremendous work both in and outside TCS in this area. Ritu has been a change ambassador by implementing progressive policies for Gen Y workforce in the company that aims at re-skilling & up skilling in a digital context to close pay and career growth gaps. She has played a pivotal role in launching the TCS All-Women Centre at Riyadh in 2013, which is one of a kind all women employee office employing over 1,000 women.

She is a well-renowned speaker at various global forums, sharing her visionary views on the future of workplace, talent, and leadership. She was an Executive Board Member, Regional President and National Secretary of the National HRD Network (NHRDN). She currently serves as an independent director on the boards of Godrej Agrovet, MediAssist, and Welspun, and in the past in Tata Capital and Tata Petrodyne.

Ritu is a Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Bombay, MA in Psychology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and currently lives in Mumbai.