Designation: Executive Director, World Monuments Fund India Association

• Malini Thadani is Executive Director of World Monuments Fund India Association, affiliate of World Monuments Fund, a leading global independent organisation devoted to safeguarding the world’s most treasured places to enrich people’s lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities.
• She serves as independent director on several corporate and not-for-profit Boards and helps businesses design and operationalise the effective integration of ESG and Sustainability into their strategic vision to help to future-proof them.
• She is a Visiting Faculty at the Indian School of Development Management, where she teaches a course on CSR, Sustainability, and ESG.
• Malini has been a Strategic advisor on matters related to Sustainability and ESG. As a Leader of high-level stakeholder groups, she has held positions on international and regional Boards for industry bodies and not-for-profits.
• Malini serves as an Independent Director on the Corporate Boards of Max Estates Limited, AU Small Finance Bank and Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) Private Limited, and the following not-for-profit Boards - Access Development Services, Lighthouse Communities Foundation and is a Trustee of Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), Apnalaya and Shoshit Seva Sangh.
• She was a civil servant of the Indian Revenue Service, with 14 years’ experience in various Indian Government Ministries. She worked for 22 years at HSBC at first in India where she headed the financial services group’s Public Affairs, Communications, and Sustainability work. She moved to Hong Kong to lead the Bank’s Sustainability teams across 19 markets in Asia where HSBC had a presence, designing, developing, and implementing large-scale, complex, cross-border sustainability projects in partnership with global and regional think-tanks, not-for-profits, and academia, specialising in areas including sustainable finance, environmental resource security, livelihoods, employability, and entrepreneurship.
• She has a master's in history from Delhi University, a master's in public administration from Ohio University, USA and has done the Cycle Spéciale Étranger from the École Nationale d’ administration, France.