Anu is an economist who feels privileged to have been trained by Professors Amartya Sen, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, David Starrett, Tibor Scitovsky, and Kanti Sastri. They were dazzling scholars with a deep grounding in philosophical traditions as well as economic and political history. They brought sophisticated mathematical and statistical tools to bear on socio-economic problems, deriving elegantly simple yet powerful solutions grounded in both reason and ethics. Anu taught in the Economics Departments of UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz, and at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. For over a decade, she served as President and CEO of Floreat Inc., a Silicon Valley provider of multimedia communications software and services. UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal appointed her Special Advisor on International Initiatives, with responsibility for advancing campus-wide international programs, enhancing the university’s global visibility, and establishing strategic international partnerships. Anu has served on the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board for 25 years, including a term as President. In that capacity, she has supported programs in Economics, Languages, Poetry, Indian Classical Music, and Satyajit Ray Film Studies; the Center for South Asian Studies; the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning; and the Sidhartha Maitra Lectures on Humanism, Reason, and Tolerance. She serves on the board of the India Community Center, which seeks to unite, serve, and celebrate the South Asian diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a trustee of US Friends of HelpAge India, whose mission is to serve disadvantaged older adults. She chairs the Vision Committee of Pratichi India, which works to address inequities in education and healthcare, particularly for women and girls. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Bay Area Prabasi, an organization of the Bengali diaspora. In her nonprofit work, as in her teaching, Anu focuses on issues of social justice and economic equity, diversity and inclusion, climate change, and environmental stewardship. Anu and her husband, Thomas Kailath, advance these commitments through their philanthropic endeavors. Anu received her PhD in Economics from Stanford University, an MA from the Delhi School of Economics, and a BA (Honors) from Miranda House, University of Delhi.