Niranjana Rajagopal

Managing Director, Global Forum

Niranjana Rajagopal is Managing Director of the Global Forum at Indiaspora, where she is responsible for the Forum’s strategic direction, programmatic design, fundraising, and operational execution.  In this role, Niranjana sets the Forum’s long-term vision within Indiaspora’s broader mission to activate the Indian diaspora as a global force for impact. She draws on her background in leadership development, strategy, and stakeholder engagement to bring together senior diaspora leaders across sectors and geographies for meaningful engagement and connection.

Prior to joining Indiaspora, Niranjana was a Leadership Advisor at Egon Zehnder, where she worked with organizations on identifying and developing their board & CxO leadership. She spent a decade at McKinsey & Company starting in strategy consulting and later overseeing the firm’s leadership development programs for clients globally. She began her career as a Corporate Finance analyst at KPMG.

Niranjana holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and BE in Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai. A first-generation Indian-American, she has lived and worked in Mumbai, Dubai, and Chicago, a path that informs her understanding of the diaspora experience she now works to channel into impact.

She enjoys music and reading and is based in Chicago.