Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the Chairperson of HCL Technologies, and is also the CEO of HCL Corporation, a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, and the Founder and Trustee of The Habitats Trust.
Since its inception, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has invested $988 million in nation-building institutions and in driving transformational leadership. Roshni is also the Chairperson and driving force behind VidyaGyan, a leadership academy for the economically underprivileged, meritorious, rural students of Uttar Pradesh, and has been working toward nurturing future leaders from rural India who can be catalysts of change for their communities, villages, and the nation at large.
Passionate about wildlife and conservation, Roshni established The Habitats Trust in 2018. The Foundation aims to work toward protecting India’s natural habitats and its indigenous species with the core mission of creating and conserving sustainable ecosystems through strategic partnerships and collaborations with all stakeholders, at every level.
Roshni is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the MIT School of Engineering, USA, and is also a member of the Kellogg School of Management Executive Board for Asia. She serves on the board of directors of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), and is also an independent director on the board of the HDFC Asset Management Company.
In recognition of her outstanding work in business and in philanthropy, Roshni has received several honors and accolades. Some of these include being featured in ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women’ list compiled and released by Forbes in 2021, for the fifth consecutive year. In 2020, Forbes also featured her among the ‘25 Most Powerful Businesswomen in Asia.’ Roshni was conferred with the Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award by Babson College in 2017 and was recognized by Horasis, an internationally renowned think tank, as the Indian Business Leader of the Year 2019.