Nishi Vasudeva (nee Luthra), Economic Honours, Batch of 1975 was presented the SCOPE Award for Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to Public Sector Management under the Individual Leadership Category. The award was presented by the Hon’ble President of India on the 7th Public Sector Day.

Nishi, who was Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited until March 31st 2016, is an MBA from IIM,Calcutta and is the first woman in India to head a Fortune 500 companyin the Energy sector. She is the recipient of the prestigious ‘CIO 100 Award’ for four consecutive years from 2006-07 to 2009-10 and was inducted into the ‘CIO 100 Hall of Fame’. She has also been conferred with the coveted “Most Powerful Women in Indian Business” award by Business Today for three consecutive years. Honoured with various other prestigious awards like Platts “Global CEO of the Year (2014-15), “Platts Asia CEO of the Year” (2014-15), ‘Outstanding Woman Manager Award’ (2010-11) - by SCOPE, Government of India, Nishi was also elected to the position of Vice President – Youth and Gender (2011 to 2014) in the Executive Committee of the World Petroleum Council.

Talk of ELSAs break glass ceilings – quietly and surely!

Sumedha Verma Ojha, Economics Hons, Class of 1989, Researcher, Author and Speaker on Ancient India (and based in Geneva, Switzerland) invites ELSAs to a lecture by her at the IGNCA in New Delhi on 24th May at 4.30 pm.

'Trading in Stories' will bring alive the oral and literary traditions which have for millennia, since the days of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, flown across land and sea with the monsoons, which carried ships, traders and their stories. The focus will be on the 1st milleniumbce and its turn into the common era. How did stories from the Ramayana, the Brihat Katha, Buddhist and Jain traditions move and change shape as they reached new places and new cultures. What are the references in these works themselves to lands and people far away? How did Greek geographers understand the Indian Ocean trade? What is the link between Shakespeare and the Brihat Katha of Gunadhya?

ELSA Networking Gallery
Photographs from two lively networking meets in Mumbai and NCR last month.