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: June 19, 2017

Recent projects

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.

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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

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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

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24 June 2014 Gateway House

The Iraq crisis and India’s energy security

Professor Madhav Nalapat, the director of the School of Geopolitics at Manipal University talks of the Wahhabi winter sweeping West Asia. In an interview to Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder, Gateway House, he speaks of the need to include regional experts and religious leaders to deal with its impact on India
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24 June 2014

ISIS and their Wahhabi agenda

In part-two of a two-part interview, Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director of Gateway House, interviews Professor M.D. Nalapat, Director of Geopolitics at Manipal University, about the rise of ISIS, their Wahabi influence and how India and the rest of the world will be affected with the advance of the ISIS militants.

Iraq crisis and India’s energy security
24 June 2014

Iraq crisis and India’s energy security

In part-one of a two-part interview, Manjeet Kripalani, Executive Director of Gateway House, interviews Professor M.D. Nalapat, Director of Geopolitics at Manipal University, about the rise of ISIS and their Wahabi agenda and connection with India.

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18 June 2014 Gateway House

India Inc can drive economic diplomacy

For too long, India's intellectual elite and foreign policy establishment have ignored economic statecraft, focusing instead on the immediacy of security and political diplomacy. Now with Narendra Modi, a focused push to gain lost ground seems likely - and Indian business can play a vital role.