Sunanda Nair-Bidkar has over three decades of entrepreneurial experience working at the intersection of Law, Strategy, Policy, the Academy, and Government. Trained as a lawyer in India and the United States, she began her career as an Attorney in the Supreme Court of India, attached to the chambers of the constitutional lawyer K.K. Venugopal, the former Attorney General for India.
An in–house corporate counsel for the Essar Group, a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association of India, an associate with the boutique international corporate law firm, Levin and Srinivasan LLP in New York City, and an intern with the United Nations Agency, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in its New York office, Nair-Bidkar has been passionate about partnering with drivers of transformational change. In 2011, she founded Indus Interface LLC, an international strategic consulting firm in the United States.
For over a decade, Nair-Bidkar has built partnerships and convened initiatives on South Asia bringing together some of the greatest economic thinkers and young researchers around the world in conferences like University of Berkeley, University of Cambridge, LEPC, MYM, Bennett, LSE, NLSIU, ISEC, SDG, OKDISCD, and Krea University
Nair-Bidkar currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Peddie School, a private boarding, and day high school located in Central New Jersey, and has previously served on the Board of Trustees for the Princeton Montessori School, a private, infant–8 grade day school in Princeton, New Jersey. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Fund of New Jersey and the Board of Directors of Sakhi for South Asian Women in New York where, until recently, she was the Co-Chair of the board.
Nair-Bidkar earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with Honors from the Hindu College, University of Delhi, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi, and a Master of Laws degree from Columbia Law School in New York.
