Ms Soumya Rajan is the Founder of Waterfield Advisors, India’s largest independent Multi-Family Office and Wealth Advisory company, advising and managing assets of ~USD 5 bn and working with clients in the areas of global investments, succession planning and strategic philanthropy.

A Mathematics major from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Balliol College, Oxford University, Ms Rajan is recognised as one of India’s top women in business and is listed in Fortune India’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2025 and featured in Forbes India’s Women Trailblazers in 2021. She was recently nominated to the Aspen Institute Global Finance Leaders Fellowship (Class of 2025) and is a nominee on regulatory expert committees set up by the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for Registered Investment Advisors in India and the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) at GIFT City, India, for Fund Management.

Ms Rajan and her husband, Mukund, have endowed India’s 6th Rhodes Scholarship (the Radhakrishnan-Rajan Rhodes Scholarship) for Indian students to study at the University of Oxford. She cares deeply about contributing to the social sector and serves on the Boards of several non-profit organisations in the education and mental health space.