Aparna Piramal Raje is a writer, columnist, speaker, and educator and the author of the recently released, Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health, a book on her experiences of living with a serious mental health condition for the last two decades.

Her column, Head Office, in the Mint newspaper, looks at leadership through the lens of workspaces and workstyles. Over 100 CEOs have been featured in Head Office. The column led to her first book, Working Out of the Box: 40 stories of leading CEOs. She has also previously contributed to the UK’s Financial Times Weekend, a leading global newspaper. 

A visiting faculty member at the Anant National University in Ahmedabad, and former CEO of her family’s office furniture business, Aparna studied at Oxford University and Harvard Business School.