Tabassum Inamdar

Tabassum Inamdar is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of extensive expertise in the banking, insurance, and financial services sectors across India and Asia. In 2019, she founded Tameel (https://tameel.in), a research initiative focused on impact strategy, which has published three reports deconstructing CSR in India.

She has had a distinguished career which includes leadership roles at top research houses, such as Goldman Sachs (Managing Director, Co-head of India Research and Asian Financials), UBS Securities (Director, BFSI Research), Kotak Securities (Senior Equity Analyst), and Jardine Fleming.

She currently serves as an Independent Director on the boards of:

1. Franklin Templeton AMC India (since Dec 2019)
2. Pure Earth Blacksmith Institute, a US-based non-profit (since Sep 2021)
3. Indifi Technologies Pvt Ltd and its subsidiary, Indifi Capital Pvt Ltd (both since May 2022)
4. UGRO Capital Ltd (since Aug 2023)

In February 2020, Tabassum was appointed a member of a Committee set up by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India on Development of a Concept Paper on Standalone Micro-Insurance Company.

Over the last few years, she has published the following four reports on the impact sector:

1. Vemo Sewa (May 2017): a report analyzing the insurance cooperative desiring to convert into full-fledged insurance company.
2. CSR–Competent Social Responsibility (May 2019): a report analyzing the strategies adopted by large companies in India.
3. CSR Review on Mahindra & Mahindra — analyzing M&M Ltd on the seven point frame-work and sharing experience from field visit.
4. CSR Review on ITC Ltd, Setting an Example — analyzing ITC Ltd on the seven-point framework and discussing experience from field visits.