Political & Economic Analyst, and Social Entrepreneur

Dr. Virmani is a political and economic analyst, a writer, a disruptive social entrepreneur, a TED speaker and a passionate advocate for women's issues. In February 2018 she was awarded the 'The Inspiring Indian in the UK' Award for 2018 in London. In November 2017 she received the 'You Are Stardust Award' awarded by Radio Works, London for 'making a positive impact on the world'. In January 2017, she won the All Ladies League Award for the 'Iconic Woman Creating A Better World For All'. The awards recognised her in the areas of women and children's empowerment and for her political and economic talks and writings.

Dr. Virmani was awarded a PhD from the University of Bristol, UK. She has given talks on topics ranging from globalisation; political economy; entrepreneurship; women's rights and the non-profit sector to psychology and motivation in various countries including India, China, the USA, the UK, Ireland, Austria, Malta and Puerto Rico.

As a Political and Economic Analyst Dr. Virmani’s contributions have included to BBC Radio, London and publications such as The Guardian, London and The New Statesman, London among several other worldwide publications.

She is the Founder and Director of Paint Our World (POW), a humanitarian project that empowers and rehabilitates underserved children who have endured unimaginable trauma www.paintourworld.org such as rape, child abuse and becoming orphaned. Today, each of the children Paint Our World works with is going to a reputable school - the school retention rate is hence 100%; this works ‘POW’erfully towards POW’s cause of ‘emPOWering our most invisible children to become, invincible’.

As a mentor she has worked globally with educational institutions including business school students; children; teenagers; corporates including multi-media and the hospitality sectors such as ITC Hotels; and with individuals empowering them to define and realise their goals.

In 2018, she gave trailblazing workshops on motivation and empowerment to hundreds of lower income workers include factory workers, retail staff; men and women working on Assam’s (India) tea estates and underserved girls in Uttar Pradesh (India). She conducted these workshops in Hindi and Bengali and they were a roaring success. She believes that such workshops can transform the Indian workforce leading to tremendous value creation for industries/businesses and thereby for India as a whole.