Topic: Breaking the Concrete Ceiling: A Transgender Person’s Transformational Journey To Leadership

Speaker: Born in Mumbai, Zainab is a transgender person and is one of the petitioners in the National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India case on transgender rights. She currently works with Pernod Ricard India as the Chief, Inclusion and Diversity; prior to this, she worked with KPMG as the Director, Diversity and Inclusion. She holds an MBA in HR and was the National Manager, Health and Human Rights at UNDP country office in India and was the regional policy analyst on human rights in Asia. Her areas of interest are health and social development issues and she comes with over 20 years of national and international work experience. She currently serves as the western India representative in the National Council for Transgender Persons and is Kamal Nayan Bajaj Aspen global fellow.