October 2015 \ Diaspora News \ Diaspora News
Tandons’ Magnificent Philanthropy

The gift - which will principally support faculty hiring and academic programmes - is intended to build on the engineering school’s existing practice of cross-disciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship and achieve new levels of academic excellence in engineering.

Ms Chandrika Tandon is a member of the Board of Overseers of NYU’s business school, a member of the NYU Board of Trustees, and leads the NYU President’s Global Council. A former partner at McKinsey and Company, she is chair of Tandon Capital Associates, a financial advisory firm she founded in 1992. She is also a Grammy-nominated musician, with an album, “Soul Call”, nominated for Best Contemporary World Music in 2011.




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