Gargi
Banerji
PMIR-1988
Current Position
Co-founder of Pragya, an NGO
Gargi Banerji
is a co-founder of Pragya, an NGO that carries out
development projects to benefit marginalised and impoverished
communities in some of the remote and difficult areas of Asia
and Africa. Her career spans more than 25 years of experience in research, development and consulting
period. She began her career in the corporate sector and has worked as a management consultant with
Tata Consultancy Services, and thereafter running her own consulting firm Prometheus. In this role, she has
consulted for several large industrial houses, including many multi-national corporations, and continues to
carry out projects for the state and the development sector.
Career Highlights:
• Has given talks at several prestigious development forums, including Royal Geographical Society, Cambridge Conservation
Forum, UKFIET at University of Oxford
• Geographical
, the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), featured Banerji, in their section on Geopeople
• The Telegraph
, India, selected her as one of the Top 10 Bravehearts who Dared to Draw a New Social Grid (2000)
• For her work on medicinal plants Banerji was conferred the Whitley Award for Conservation, touted as the Green Oscar, in
2000 by the Whitley Fund for Nature and Royal Geographical Society
• Under her leadership, Pragya has also won the top award for sustainable technologies, the Energy Globe Award in 2005
,
and the STARS Impact Award in 2010 for PRAGYA’s work on Education
• Her work has been recognised with the MSDS Award for Social Entrepreneurs (2007) and by the National HRD Network
(2008)
Distinguished
Alumnus
Award:
Entrepreneur
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