Economist; Founder, Myna Mahila Foundation
Dr. Suhani Jalota is an economist, social entrepreneur, and fellow at the Hoover Institution. She founded Myna Mahila Foundation, a women’s agency-building organization in slum communities in India with a reach of 1.5+ million women, and Myna Research, a data collection arm that manages field experiments on women’s issues in urban slums in India. She is also currently developing Rani Work, an employment platform for women in India to work on digital jobs on their smartphones. For the last fourteen years, she has been working on social projects including health, water, sanitation, and social protection policies in South Africa, Thailand, and India.
Jalota has received many prestigious acknowledgements for her work, including being an Acumen Fellow 2025, Forbes Asia under 30 recipient 2018, Hindustan Times 30U30 2021, Asia 21 Leader 2019, Young Achiever’s Mother Teresa Memorial Awardee 2018, and Queen’s Young Leader 2017.