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In the past, she has served on the Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Eminent Persons Advisory Group of\u00a0the Competition Commission of India.\n\nA former journalist, she has written for many leading publications such as Times of India, India Today, Mint, etc. Penguin Books India published her first book, a medical thriller called Stillborn, and her second non-fiction book, \u2018Uncommon Ground\u2019, based on her eponymous TV show. She has written several books for young children, published by Pratham Books, including the famous\u00a0\"Annual Haircut Day\u201d.\u00a0In 2022, she published an anthology of her writing titled \u2018Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar\u2019, outlining her philosophy of restoring the balance between the state and markets by positioning society as the foundational sector. In 2017, she was inducted as a Foreign Honorary Member of the\u00a0American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been a member of the Board of\u00a0Science Gallery Bengaluru, the Advisory Board of the Well Being Project since 2019, and the\u00a0Dakshin Foundation\u00a0since 2021. Rohini is a committed philanthropist, and in 2017, she signed the Giving Pledge with her husband Nandan Nilekani, which commits half their wealth to philanthropic causes.","link":"https:\/\/www.pearlinitiative.org\/ar\/speakers\/rohini-nilekani\/","name":"Rohini Nilekani","slug":"rohini-nilekani","taxonomy":"speakers","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRohini Nilekani Archives - Pearl Initiative<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pearlinitiative.org\/speakers\/rohini-nilekani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rohini Nilekani Archives - Pearl Initiative\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rohini Nilekani is the Chairperson of Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and Co-founder and Director of\u00a0EkStep a non-profit education platform. 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She has written several books for young children, published by Pratham Books, including the famous\u00a0“Annual Haircut Day\u201d.\u00a0In 2022, she published an anthology of her writing titled \u2018Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar\u2019, outlining her philosophy of restoring the balance between the state and markets by positioning society as the foundational sector. In 2017, she was inducted as a Foreign Honorary Member of the\u00a0American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been a member of the Board of\u00a0Science Gallery Bengaluru, the Advisory Board of the Well Being Project since 2019, and the\u00a0Dakshin Foundation\u00a0since 2021. 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