Ms. Rama Bijapurkar graduated with a B.Sc (Hons) degree in Physics from Miranda House, Delhi University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is an independent market strategy consultant and also a visiting faculty and member, Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She has over 30 years of experience in industries such as advertising, marketing and consultancy. She has previous work experience with McKinsey & Company, MARG (now AC Nielsen India), and been a full time consultant with Hindustan Unilever Ltd. She has published extensively on emerging market and consumer related issues and is the author of the book titled “Winning in the Indian Market - Understanding the Transformation of Consumer India”.

Ms. Bijapurkar serves as an independent director on the boards of Infosys Technologies Limited, CRISIL Limited, Axis Bank Limited, Godrej Consumer Products Limited, Entertainment Network (India) Limited (Radio Mirchi), Give Foundation (a not-for-profit company), Subhiksha Trading Services Limited and Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd.