Senior Partner, Transearch

Pari Jhaveri leads the Non-profit, CSR, BoP/inclusive markets and Education practice for TRANSEARCH India. A global executive search firm with presence in 60 countries. Pari’s experience spans fifteen years across CSR advisory, social enterprises, business operations and CXO and Board level executive search, advertising, behavior change communications and marketing. 

She has also helped co-found initiatives in sustainability and CSR advisory and has been a global thought leader in these domains. Pari has also pioneered the business approach to creating the country's first brand social responsibility practice at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, working with diverse clients such as Unilever, Castrol, bp, Johnson Controls, Wockhardt and USAID. She has led the Private Equity practice at Hunt Partners, and founded the country’s first not-for-profit and education CxO and Board Search firm, Third Sector Partners, where she has hired over 600 senior leadership positions across 150 plus clients in India and overseas. 

Pari serves on boards of innovative non-profits and social enterprises such as Miracle Foundation, Sustainability CXO Partners and has also co-founded Katalyst, a social responsibility program that empowers girls from underprivileged backgrounds to fulfill their goals of higher education through skills and personality development and economic empowerment. 

Amongst Pari’s many accolades are the PR Week Asia Pacific Award, Asian Brand Marketing Effectiveness Award, Best Woman Entrepreneur Award by Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Edelweiss Social Innovation Awards. Pari is performing arts enthusiast trained in theatre, dance and classical music. 

She holds a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and graduate and masters degrees in psychology, social sciences and non-profit management from the University of Mumbai.