Gunjan Veda

Gunjan Veda is a public policy and international development executive with a background in gender policy. Gunjan is passionate about elevating the voices of grassroots leaders and is currently one of the leading advocates for Community-led Development, Locally-led Development and Decolonization. Gunjan began her career as a journalist, and subsequently worked with the Planning Commission of the Government of India, to evaluate and create policies around health, nutrition, marginalized communities, gender and child rights.

In 2009, Gunjan founded INDIAreads.com, an online library and bookstore to ensure access to books for people in the remotest corners of India. A few years later, she worked with healthcare philanthropist and Co-Founder of iGate Corporation, Mr Sunil Wadhwani to set up a non-profit that identifies and supports healthcare entrepreneurs across India. Gunjan has authored many reports and newspaper articles and published two books: Beautiful Country: Stories from Another India, (with Syeda Hameed, Harper Collins, 2012) and the Museum of Broken Tea Cups (Sage-Yoda Press, 2020).