Roopa Kudva

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Roopa is Managing Partner at Omidyar Network India. Prior to joining Omidyar Network India, Roopa spent 23 years with CRISIL, and was its managing director and chief executive officer since 2007.Roopa has served on several boards as an independent director, including Infosys, Tata AIA Life Insurance Company, Nestle India, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A), and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). She has served on several government, regulatory and policy committees and industry associations, such as SEBI, RBI, and NASSCOM. She holds a postgraduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the institute.


Articles by Roopa Kudva


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June 1, 2022
Fundraising from a funder’s point of view
Over 10 years of fundraising best practices, distilled.
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July 3, 2020
A nonprofit’s guide to the social stock exchange
The proposed social stock exchange has much in store for nonprofits in India. Here’s how they can benefit from it, and what they need to do to leverage it.
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August 30, 2019
Building a new channel for fundraising
We have an opportunity to build a unique approach for robust and effective social stock exchanges that help social enterprises and nonprofits raise funds.
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November 9, 2017
Want sector-level change? Go beyond funding just programmes.
If we want to impact the lives of millions of Indians, we, as funders, will have to invest in organisational capacity, and even in the larger ecosystem. Because, that’s when we will see change happen at a sector level.
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