Dr. Rohini Anand is Founder and CEO of Rohini Anand LLC providing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) advisory services to clients in the public and private sectors. Most recently Rohini was SVP Corporate Responsibility and Global Chief Diversity Officer for Sodexo where she reported to the Global CEO and was a member of Sodexo’s North America Executive Committee.
Rohini is the author of the book Leading Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations, and has been featured in numerous publications such as CNBC, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. She is the recipient of the Mosaic Woman Leadership Award, the Women’s Foodservice Forum Trailblazer Award, Webster University’s Women of Influence Award and the Who’s Who in Asian American Communities Award (WWAAC).
Dr. Anand received her PhD from the University of Michigan. She serves on the boards of several organizations including WomenLift Health, a Gates Foundation initiative, Aspen Institute’s Family Prosperity Initiative, and Galt Foundation. She also serves on the external diversity advisory boards for Sanofi and for Charter Communications and chaired the Catalyst Board of Advisors. Rohini is a Senior Fellow with the Conference Board and is on the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Center for Inclusive Governance’s Advisory Council.