Janaka Pushpanathan currently leads British Council’s work in South India, and she hasover 20 years of experience in the Arts, Education & Enterprise sectors.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangaloreand Project Zero at Harvard University, Janaka is among the top 100 mostinfluential in building UK-India relations and she’s part of the India Inc.list, which is the first ever all women’s power list to celebrate the immensecontribution of women from all walks of life driving a glorious futurerelationship between UK and India.

Janaka is a STEM major and is passionate about the arts, equality, girls’education and the environment and is on the advisory board of women lednon-profits, early to mid-stage education start-ups, and the State of TamilNadu’s skills and education sectors. She also sits on the Government formedTask Force for Internationalisation of Higher Education, for the State ofKarnataka.

In her free time, Janaka is re-learning Indian classical music and is workingtowards her goal to sight 50 tigers in the wild, in India, by 2030.