2010
Subhashini ChandranGlenn H. Greenberg World Fellow
Executive Vice President and Managing Director
Xynteo
Subhashini Chandran is Executive Vice President and Managing Director at Xynteo, working with some of the world's largest businesses to transform their growth. Subhashini has two decades of organizational leadership experience in cultivating partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions with a special focus on reviving large-scale enterprises in the agriculture, manufacturing, eco-tourism, and social sectors in India.
She has worked closely with national and sub-national governments, a broad range of public and private sector actors, industry bodies, and trade unions. She previously led the delivery of CONNECT, the economic development component of UKaid’s flagship infrastructure project, Rural Access Programme 3 in Nepal. Prior to this, she was CEO of Woodbriar Group where she grew a small tea business into one of India’s largest privately-owned tea plantation businesses. She has also served as Senior Adviser to AgDevCo, a UK-based social venture capital fund investing in agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and as Adjunct Professor at XLRI Jamshedpur, India where she taught Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets on the MBA programme.
The 2010 World Fellows
The 2010 World Fellows include a senior advisor to the largest progressive Islamic organization in Indonesia; a leading advocate for drug policy reform in Mexico; a Tunisian pro-democracy proponent who is one of his country’s most successful business entrepreneurs; and a Sudanese diplomat who leads the developing world’s negotiations on climate change. “This year’s pool of candidates to the Yale World Fellows Program was the deepest and most talented to date,” said the program’s director, Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics, microbial pathogenesis, and public health. “The 2010 Fellows have each demonstrated an extraordinary ability to influence dialogue on issues of national, regional and global significance. We look forward to...Read More
