Lata GULLAPALLI is an investment banker specialising in mergers and acquisitions and serves as a Non-Executive Director on both commercial and not-for-profit boards. She is also an author of fiction and non-fiction.

A core part of her work focuses on education and opportunity. She sits on the board of a Trust that supports underprivileged children and young people through more than 300 schools and 26 institutes, and she runs mentoring programmes for women entrepreneurs in rural areas across multiple countries.

She designs and delivers programmes for sustainable change for senior leaders, bankers, and universities internationally. She speaks and mentors on women’s leadership and teaches a course she created—How to Think—to leaders, entrepreneurs, bankers, and students in several countries.

She is also an Envoy for UN Women UK.