COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
ROSHNI NADAR
Citizenship/Residence
India
Roshni Nadar is the Executive Director and the
CEO of HCL Corporation. She is the only child of
HCL’s founder, Shiv Nadar and is a trained classical
musician, and enjoys traveling and yoga. Honored
by NDTV as young philanthropist of the Year 2014,
Roshni is a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation,
which among its transformational educational
initiatives has established the SSN Institutions
in Chennai. She is the driving force behind the
VidyaGyan schools in Uttar Pradesh, a radical
initiative to induct and transform meritorious rural
children from economically challenged backgrounds
and create leaders of tomorrow.
Known as the ‘Cinderella’ of Indian
badminton, Saina Nehwal is not just the
first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics but also the first
to win the World Junior Badminton
Championship and a Super Series
tournament by clinching the Indonesia
Open in 2009. She attained her career’s
best rank of second in 2010 as per the
ranking released by the Badminton
World Federation. Played around 280
singles matches, Saina has won more
than 200. Her success can heavily be
attributed to the rigorous training sessions she has had.
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