Anu Aga at a glance

Personal Life
Proffessional and Social Life
of Anu Aga
Awards And Achievements
Social Work
About Akansha






Age: 70+
Source of Wealth:Engineering
Residence: Pune, India
Country of Citizenship: India
Education: Bachelor of Arts /
Science, Bombay University
Marital Status: Widowed
Children: 1

Anu Aga was born on 3 August 1942 in an upper
middle-class Parsi family in Mumbai.
She did her B.A. in Economics from St Xavier's
College, Mumbai, and post graduation in medical
and psychiatric social work from the prestigious
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
She had also been a Fulbright Scholar and
studied in the United States for four months.
Anu was married to Rohinton Aga, a graduate
from the Harvard Business School and became
parents to daughter Meher and son Kurush.
Rohinton died in 1996 of massive stroke, and a
little over a year later, her son Kurush died at
the age of 25-years. Today, Arnavaz 'Anu' Aga
lives in Pune, Maharashtra
.

Her daughter, Meher Pudumjee is the
current Chairperson of Thermax, taking
over from her mother in 2004.
She is a post graduate in chemical
engineering from the Imperial College
of Science and Technology, London and
joined Thermax in September, 1990,
and is also a member of the
Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII)
Family Business Forum and the Young
Indians.
It is in the position of chairperson that Anu Aga has
introduced several measures that were unknown in the
realm of business of India. Being the chairperson, Anu Aga
was instrumental to smooth the progress of four major
turnaround initiatives at Thermax, viz. the reconstitution
of the board, shedding of non-core activities, rightsizing of
operations and increased focus on the customer. Apart
from this, she also happens to be the main protagonist in
the driving of a high performance culture at Thermax,
especially at the senior levels. But it was in the October of
2004, Anu Aga decided to retire as the chairperson. But
even though se has not been free from a busy schedule.
Anu Aga has been very active in various national and local
associations like Confederation of Indian Industries (CII)
and was the first woman Chairperson of CII's Western
Region. She has written extensively and given talks on the
subjects of women empowerment, corporate governance,
value-based management and on corporate social
responsibility.
Not only this, but also she has been to advocate
several organizations engaged in the promotion of
education, above all of the underprivileged
children from slums. With the help of a Mumbai
based NGO called Akanksha, 21 centres have been
opened in Pune for the slum children. Currently
she is involved with several NGOs. She is keenly
involved in the causes of communal harmony and
human rights, especially women and children.
Anu Aga (born 1942) is an Indian businesswoman
and social worker, who led Thermax Ltd.,to the
Rs3246-crore energy and environment engineering
major, as its chairperson 1996-2004.She had been
figured among the eight richest Indian women, and
in 2007 was part of 40 Richest Indians by net worth
according to Forbes magazine.
After retiring from Thermax, she took to social
work, and 2010 was awarded the Padma Shri for
Social Work by the Government of India. She is
currently Chairperson of Teach For India.She was
nominated to Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of
Indian Parliament on April 26, 2012, by President
Pratibha Patil.


She had been figured among the eight
richest Indian women, and in 2007 was
part of 40 Richest Indians by net worth
according to Forbes magazine.
After retiring from Thermax, she took
to social work, and 2010 was awarded
the Padma Shri for Social Work by the
Government of India. She is currently
Chairperson of Teach For India.She was
nominated to Rajya Sabha, the Upper
House of Indian Parliament on April 26,
2012, by President Pratibha Patil.

She is also closely associated with the
Thermax Social Initiative Foundation
(TSIS).
The foundation, in partnership with the
municipal corporations of both cities and
Akanksha, manages two schools for lower-
income groups. She is also known for her to
transparency in corporate governance.
She has been one of the driving forces
behind the Teach for India Foundation. Her
work on corporate governance, corporate
social responsibility, empowerment of
women and above all, an inclusive society
with a high emphasis on human rights and
communal harmony has been noteworthy.








The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with
a mission to impact the lives of children from low-income
communities, enabling them to maximize their potential
and change their lives. Akanksha works primarily in the
field of education, addressing non-formal education
through the Akanksha center and also formal education by
initiating school reform through The School Project.
Currently, Akanksha reaches out to around 4000 children
through two models: the after-school or center and the
school model. Akanksha has 40 centers and 13 schools in
Mumbai and Pune. Through the centers, a commitment is
made to support each child by providing a strong
educational foundation, good time, self-esteem and
values, and to help them plan how they can earn a steady
livelihood as a step towards improving their standard of
living. The School Project is a venture to open high-quality
schools serving children from low-income communities in
Mumbai and Pune. These schools are in partnership with
local municipalities, with the vision of creating small
clusters of model schools in these cities that can be used
to impact the mainstream education system.