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Meera T. Gandhi
Meera T. Gandhi is a well-known humanitarian who divides her time between New York City, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong. She is the founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation. Meera Gandhi is noted for her Life Motto, "We are to the universe only as much as we give back to it."

Early life and education
Meera was born on January 28, 1963 in Mumbai, India to an Irish mother and an Indian father. She grew up and was educated in India, the UK, Canada and the United States, where she received her MBA from Boston University. In 2007 Meera Gandhi completed the Executive Education Program from the Harvard Business School in December of 2007.

Charitable activities
Meera is the founder and CEO of The Giving Back Foundation, a foundation geared towards alleviating illness, poverty and suffering while also addressing education issues affecting women and children around the world. Through her Foundation, Meera is devoting her life to charity and towards helping those in need, notably abused and hungry children, widows, the sick, the deaf and blind. She is particularly interested in education as the stepping stone to success.

Publications
She recently produced and directed a musical CD entitled Giving Back featuring a host of International artists including Marco Figueira, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Juliet Hanlon, David Harilela and Chandrika Tandon. She also authored a coffee-table book and produced a documentary, both of which are also entitled Giving Back.

Both the documentary and book include vignettes of people who inspire Meera Gandhi, including Cherie Blair, Kerry Kennedy, Patricia Velasquez, Kristi Yamaguchi, Steven Rockefeller, Francine Le Frak, Raj Loomba, Clodagh, Donna Karan, Ronan Tynan, Deborah Norville, Hillary Clinton, The American Friends of the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, Narciso Rodriguez and interviews with Bono and others. The documentary film was sold out at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2011. 100 percent of the proceeds from Meera Gandhi’s Giving Back Foundation projects will go to charity.

Awards & recognition
She has received numerous awards, including person of the year in 2010 from the Wayuu Taya Foundation, honoree of the year from One To World, Fulbright in 2007 and in 2011 Donna Karan International named her as one of its “Women Who Inspire.” In 2011 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University, the University’s highest honor.

In the words of Kerry Kennedy, "Meera Gandhi is one of those remarkable women whom the angels must have sent to teach us a lesson on how to conduct a fruitful life.”