Parmesh Shahani is an author, culture curator and the head of the Godrej DEI lab which iterated from the decade long award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab that he founded and ran between 2011-2021. Parmesh is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in corporate India and has guided many of the... Read more
Parmesh Shahani is an author, culture curator and the head of the Godrej DEI lab which iterated from the decade long award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab that he founded and ran between 2011-2021.
Parmesh is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ inclusion in corporate India and has guided many of the country’s leading companies on their inclusion journeys. His first book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (Sage Publications) was released in 2008. His second book, the award winning Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace (Westland Business) was released in August 2020.
Parmesh holds an MS in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. He is a TED Senior Fellow, an Aspen Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He is a board member of Breakthrough and KHOJ International Artists’ Association.