Vinita Ball

Ms Vinita Bali is a global business leader with extensive experience in leading large companies both in India and overseas. She brings a global and pragmatic perspective to strategy, marketing, innovation and operations, having worked across countries and continents, with responsibility for global and regional roles.

She has worked with eminent multinationals such as The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC in a variety of marketing, general management and Chief Executive roles in the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Latin America, and the USA, in addition to Britannia Industries Ltd in India.

Effective April 2014, she moved from a full-time operational role as MD & CEO of Britannia to pursue her wide-ranging interests in the corporate and development sectors. She is a Non-Executive Director on the Global Boards of Smith & Nephew plc, and Bunge Limited. She has also served on the Global Boards of Syngenta International AG and GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition), a Swiss Foundation, based in Geneva.

In India, Ms Bali serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Syngene International Limited, a Member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore, an Advisory Board Member of PwC, and chairs the CII National Committee on Nutrition.

She was among 27 global leaders appointed by the UN in 2012 to help improve maternal and child health as part of its SUN (Scaling up Nutrition) initiative and completed her term in 2016. She has been recognised in forums nationally and internationally and won several awards for her various contributions to business and society.

She holds a graduate degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and a Masters in Management from the University of Bombay.