Manjeet Kripalani is co-founder, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. Prior to that, Kripalani was India Bureau chief Businessweek magazine, and worked at Worth and Forbes, New York. She won several journalism awards including the Gerald Loeb, George Polk, Overseas Press Club and Daniel Pearl Awards.
Kripalani was 2006-07 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. She was deputy press secretary to U.S. Presidential candidate Steve Forbes, 1995; press secretary/advisor to Meera Sanyal, independent candidate, Lok Sabha, 2008, 2014. Kripalani holds bachelors degrees in Law and in Arts, Bombay University; master’s in International Affairs, Columbia University, New York; is member, Rotary Club of Bombay.