Manjeet Kripalani

Manjeet Kripalani

Executive Director, Gateway House

Prior to the founding of Gateway House, Kripalani was India Bureau chief of Businessweek magazine from 1996 to 2009. During her extensive career in journalism (BusinessweekWorth and Forbes magazines, New York), she has won several awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, Overseas Press Club and Daniel Pearl Awards. Kripalani was the 2006-07 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, which inspired her to found Gateway House. Her political career spans being the deputy press secretary to Steve Forbes during his first run in 1995-96 as Republican candidate for U.S. President in New Jersey, to being press secretary for the Lok Sabha campaign for independent candidate Meera Sanyal in 2008 and 2014 in Mumbai. Kripalani holds two bachelor’s degrees from Bombay University (Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Arts in English and History) and a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York. She sits on the executive board of Gateway House and is a member of the Rotary Club of Bombay.
She tweets at @ManjeetKrip     Image credits: Sunhil Sippy  
Expertise

Business, Digital, G20, U.S.

Last modified: September 25, 2017

Recent projects

Swachch Bharat poster Courtesy: inbministry.blogspot.com
9 February 2015 Gateway House

Public messaging for a new Delhi

It’s time to change India’s bad habits. A historic opportunity to alter social behavior was lost in 2012 after the Delhi rape case. What better place to make amends and reignite youthful energies than the new, citizen-centric AAP in Delhi 2015?
Mumbai Courtesy: wikimedia
7 November 2014 Gateway House

BRICS headquarters in Mumbai

Globally, metropolitan cities are becoming powerful centres that sustain entire countries. In the case of Mumbai, the government can work backwards by stitching the infrastructure and governance together. The tried-and-tested technique is to host an international institution or event. Gateway House argues that Mumbai is most appropriate to be home to the headquarters of BRICS
mia-main Courtesy: wikimediacommons
31 October 2014

State-to-state diplomacy

After a brief a spell of bonhomie marked by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attending Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, the hostilities between the two countries have resumed. Amidst the backdrop of increased tensions on the LoC, Gateway House recommends some small, realistic steps forward through state-to-state diplomacy, to mend the bilateral
Martin Luther King Memorial Courtesy: MEA/Government of India
6 October 2014 Gateway House

India-U.S: indifference to interest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington has led to a patching up of differences between the two countries. Building on this understanding will allow the bilateral to operate as a partnership of equals, and move from the current indifference and irritability, to a true convergence of interests

Digital Diplomacy
26 September 2014

Digital Diplomacy

This interview discusses the use of social media and digital platforms for diplomacy

Can India do business with both Japan and China?
28 August 2014

Can India do business with both Japan and China?

Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director, Gateway House, speaks to M.D. Nalapat, Director of Geopolitics at Manipal University, on India's strategic maneuverability to increase bilateral trade with both Japan and China.

PennyPritzker Courtesy: Commerce department\US govt
30 July 2014 Gateway House

Pritzker: pragmatic dealmaker?

Penny Pritzker, U.S. commerce secretary is the new element in the India-U.S. bilateral dialogue. Her business skills have brought a shine to her ministry at home and perhaps she can have the same effect in Delhi

VI BRICS: Next Steps
18 July 2014

VI BRICS: Next Steps

On July 18, Gateway House hosted a Google Hangout titled VI BRICS Summit: Next Steps

financial-times-logo Courtesy: Financial Times
15 July 2014 Financial Times

Mumbai should host the BRICS bank

Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder, Gateway House, in an article for the Financial Times blogs section makes a case for setting up the BRICS development bank in India's financial capital - Mumbai