Vidya Shah

Vidya Shah is the Executive Chairperson at EdelGive Foundation, the philanthropic initiative of Edelweiss Group – a leading Indian diversified financial services group. Vidya left behind her successful career in investment banking to start EdelGive Foundation, and over the last 13 years has steered the growth of Edelweiss’ social investments to develop EdelGive into a strategic philanthropic organization. In addition,to being a non-executive director at Edelweiss, Vidya also serves on the boards of variousprominent CSOs such as Akshaya Patra Foundation, Agastya International Foundation, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, Olympic Gold Quest, Mann Deshi Foundation, and the Indian School of Public Policy. She is also a member of the Governing Board of the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur. Additionally, Vidya is also on the board of several international organizations including WINGS and Empower Families for Innovative Philanthropy. Most recently she has joined the Asia Gender Network, a group of members curated by AVPN, committed to changing the future for Asian women and girls.

Vidya has been recognized as India’s Top 100 Women in Finance by the Association of InternationalWealth Management of India (AIWMI) 2019. Vidya earned an MBA degree from IIM-Ahmedabad and spent the first 11 years of her career in the field of investment banking with companies like ICICI, Peregrine,and NM Rothschild. She subsequently was Chief Financial Officer of Edelweiss for 7 years until its IPO in 2007