Dr. Shanu S.P. Hinduja

Dr. Shanu is the Chair of S. P. Hinduja Banque Privée and Co-Chair of the United Nations Global Accelerator. A female career banker, Dr. Shanu has dedicated her life to the empowerment of minorities. She has made it her mission to change the face of banking in the modern world, to increase transparency and to stress the value of robust regulation, as well as to champion the role of the under-represented. She pioneered as a woman chairing the board of a Swiss Bank. Leading from the front, Dr. Shanu has worked to embed a values-driven, progressive and meritocratic culture. She has been featured and profiled in major global publications such as the Sunday Times, Forbes and the Financial Times on her life’s work and continued efforts to call out bias in the financial sector. Dr. Shanu’s experience and insights as a visionary extend far beyond finance. She has written and lectured on subjects ranging from leadership, equality and technology, to education, Brexit and globalisation, across the world. As a respected speaker on the world’s most pressing issues, she has captured the attention of the leaders of more than 130 countries at the UN General Assembly, and publicly discussed achievement of the UN’s gender equality goals with former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Davos. In addition to supporting the Duke of Edinburgh Award and the UN Global Accelerator, which is a programme designed to foster entrepreneurial ideas to tackle today’s economic challenges –Dr. Shanu alongside her father, the late Mr. Srichand Parmanand Hinduja, provided scholarships through the Hinduja Foundation at Columbia University, Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Cambridge. She is a founding member of HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco’s environment-focused Foundation. Dr. Shanu was bestowed the title of Professor of Leadership at the University of Bolton’s Institute of Management and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University in December 2020.