Neera Nundy is the co-founder of Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation that for 20 years has supported non-profits to achieve scale and impact lives. She leads Dasra’s Field Building initiatives in the areas of adolescents, urban sanitation and democracy and governance. She is responsible for initiating the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business Publishing, a first-of-its-kind executive education program for social sector leaders in India. She also launched the $50 MM Dasra Adolescent Collaborative, a high-impact collaborative funding platform that unites funders, technical experts, government stakeholders and social organizations to focus on key outcomes for adolescent empowerment. She has been critical to establishing partnerships with global leaders that include Harvard University, Stanford University, USAID, Omidyar Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is on global board of The Hunger Project, SNEHA and Disha Seema Centre; strategic and investment committees of Mann Deshi, Educate Girls and the Education Alliance. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, is an Indian Leadership Initiative Fellow with Aspen Institute. Neera is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Medallion for her dedication to addressing India’s critical development challenges.She lives in Mumbai and is married to Dasra cofounder Deval Sanghavi with three boys Ayush, Laxman and Akbar.


is the co-founder of Dasra, an India based strategic philanthropy foundation which brings a field building approach to create systems change in India. Over the past 20 years, Dasra has actively shaped the philanthropic sector by building stronger institutions such as Magic Bus, Educate Girls and SNEHA, has worked with leading foundations including Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives, Tata Trust, Omidyar Network and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and works closely with government departments at a state and national level to put impact first in the development agenda. Dasra's work spans across a spectrum of focus areas, such as creating collaborative funding platforms in the fields of Adolescents, Urban Sanitation and Democracy and Governance in India. Reinforced through a research-backed approach and institution building for non-profit organizations, Dasra focuses on prioritizing human lives at the center of all of its thinking.Deval holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a dual Honors degree in Business and Finance from the University of Texas, Austin, is a Cordes Fellow, and a founding board member of Magic Bus and Villgro. In 2014, he was awarded the Forbes Philanthropy Award in the 'Crossover Leaders' category for successfully transitioning from investment banking to the non-profit sector. As co-founder, Deval provides strategic guidance and support to a 100+ member team, is an advisor to multiple family foundations and serves as a trusted confidant to leading NGO leaders and management teams.