Sangita Jindal

Sangita Jindal, Chairperson of JSW Foundation, has significantly impacted India’s social and cultural landscape over the past three decades.

Under her leadership and strategic direction, JSW Foundation, the social development arm of the JSW Group (one of India’s leading conglomerates) has an established track record and a legacy of enabling holistic change across communities around India.

A visionary who believes in the transformative power of art, Sangita set up the Jindal Arts Creative Interaction Centre (JACIC) at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in 1994. She also publishes Art India Magazine, which has been a chronicler of the Indian art scene since 1996.

Her efforts to preserve heritage for future generations led to extensive restoration work at the Hampi temple complex in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, and the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue and iconic David Sassoon Library and Reading Room in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The projects received conservation awards and an award of merit respectively from UNESCO.

She has recently undertaken the restoration of the Shalimar Bagh - the world-renowned Mughal Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. She supports the AD x JSW Prize for Contemporary Craftsmanship and is supporting the next edition of The Indian Ceramics Triennale.

Sangita is an Eisenhower Fellow, serving on the Board of Trustees of the World Monuments Fund - India Chapter and as an Advisor on the Khoj Board. She is a member of the Tate International Council, the UN Women Business Sector Advisory Council (BSAC), a governing board member of Mumbai First and a global trustee of Asia Society.