BACKGROUND

Professor Meena Raghunathan is a management graduate with over three decades of experience in the non-profit, CSR, and sustainability sectors. Her career reflects a strong passion for enabling every young person to realize and attain their potential while fostering a better world through education, livelihood development, and community development, rooted in sustainability. She has spent 19 years at the Centre for Environment education and 15 years leading CSR at the GMR Group, where she built programs, institutions, and partnerships for sustainable change. Beyond industry, she serves on the boards of corporates, NGOs, and academic institutions, and is deeply committed to institution building as a catalyst for long-term social impact. A prolific writer and editor, Professor Raghunathan has authored books, policy papers, handbooks, and children’s literature, focusing on CSR, responsible business, and sustainability education.

EDUCATION

• MBA (Marketing)
• B.Sc (Hons.) Chemistry
• Diploma in Radiological Physics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Faculty at MYRA School of Business (5 years)

Courses Taught

• Ethics, Governance and Sustainability
• Social Entrepreneurship

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

• 19 years – Centre for Environment Education
• 15 years – Head of CSR, GMR Group
• Board Memberships – Corporates, NGOs, and Academic Institutions

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Responsible Business
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Responsible Business
• CSR
• NGOs

TRAINING & CONSULTING INTERESTS

• Responsible Business
• CSR
• Gender
• General Management
• Management for NGOs
• Management for Educational Institutions

Certifications

• Certified Social Auditor

Publications

Books

• Raghunathan, Meena. The Responsible Manager. Atlantic Publishers, 2026.
• To Every Parent, To Every School: Raising Resilient Children in a VUCA World – V. Raghunathan & Meena Raghunathan, 2024, Penguin India.
• Doing Good: Navigating the CSR Maze in India – Meena Raghunathan, 2022, Harper Collins.
• Textbooks with Sage and Macmillan.
• Teacher handbooks and guidebooks.
• Policy papers.
• Children’s books.

Academic Publications and Book Chapters

• Raghunathan, Meena, and Kara Li Liu. Engaging Stakeholders to Build, Sustain, and Grow Responsible Business: Some Frameworks. Markets, Globalization & Development Review 10(3), Article 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.23860/MGDR-2025-10-03-03
• Meena Raghunathan, Kara Li Liu. Moving from ‘Managing Stakeholders’ to ‘Managing for Stakeholders’: The Imperative for Responsible Business. Markets, Globalization & Development Review: Vol. 9: No. 3, Article 4. DOI: 10.23860/MGDR-2024-09-03-04 Available at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol9/iss3/4
• Raghunathan, Meena (2024) “Review of “Social Entrepreneurship in India: Quarter Idealism and a Pound of Pragmatism” by Madhukar Shukla (2020),” Markets, Globalization & Development Review: Vol. 9: No. 1, Article 5.DOI: 10.23860/MGDR-2024-09-01-05. Available at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol9/iss1/5
• Raghunathan, Meena; Kumar Avanish. 2018. CSR Committee Composition and Possible Impacts. Journal of Contemporary Research in Management. Coimbatore Vol. 13, Iss. 4, 9-27.
• Raghunathan, Meena. Corporate Social Responsibility in India. Pathways Towards 2014, and Beyond. Amity Journal of Corporate Governance. 2017. 2 (1)
• Raghunathan, V., and Meena Raghunathan. A Unique Place for Corporate Social Responsibility. In Revealing Indian Philanthropy, edited by Mathieu Cantegreil, Dweep Chanana and Ruth Kattumuri. Alliance Publishing Trust, 2013.
• Kumar, A., Meena Raghunathan, and Y. Nandanwar. Schools as Effective Institutions for Disaster Management and Preparedness. In Know Risk, edited by Terry Jeggle. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2005.
• Kumar, A., Meena Raghunathan, and Y. Nandanwar. Involving Stakeholders. In Know Risk, edited by Terry Jeggle. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2005.
• Sarabhai, Kartikeya V., Shivani Jain, and Meena Raghunathan. Pioneering Examples: India. In Path to Success: Some Pioneering Examples of Environmental Education, edited by Bishnu Bhandari et al. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, 2002.