Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairman Rothschild & Co India, Senior Advisor Advent Private Equity, Senior Advisor TPG Rise Climate and Venture Advisor Lightspeed Venture Partners, India.  She is a Non Executive Director on the boards of Holcim, Gland Pharma, UPL and Biocon and Past President of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry). She retired in December 2015 as Executive Director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and Chairman HSBC India and in April 2018 from the global board of Nestle. 

She is a member of the INDO-ASEAN Business Council, Army Group Insurance Fund’s investment advisory committee, Harvard Business School’s South Asia Advisory Board and Standard Chartered Bank’s International Advisory Council. 

 
An MBA from Harvard Business School, she is the recipient of several awards and honours including the Padma Shri for her contribution to Trade and industry. She is engaged with institutions in environment, water and sanitation and has authored 3 books including the bestsellers “30 women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories” and “Survive Or Sink: An Action Agenda for Sanitation, Water, Pollution, and Green Finance”. 

She chaired the Primary Markets Advisory Committee of SEBI and has been a member of the Government of India’s Industry Task Force, the Prime Minister’s Trade and Industry Council, the National Manufacturing Council, the National Trade Council, the Working Group on Banking, Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission and the National Institute of Bank Management.