Meghana Narayan (born Pune, Maharashtra, India) is an international swimming champion. She was also one of India's Rhodes Scholars in 2000, and currently works as a management consultant in London.
Early years
Meghana Narayan was born 5 November 1977,in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Swimming career
- Asiad swimmer and former national champion.
- Women's swimming relay team, 2x400m freestyle, 13th Asian Games, Bangkok, 1998
- ... Meghana Narayan ... [etc.] have all done us proud by winning medals in the international level.
- Member of KCR Women's Relay Team, National Champions, 1998.
- In 1998, was National 100m, 200m Fly Record Holder.
Records
- 1995 - 400m butterfly, 4:39.00
- 1997 - 200m butterfly, 2:24.24, 11 November 1997
- 1998 - 50m butterfly
Education
- Computer Science and Engineering at UVCE, Bangalore University, 1999.
- Masters in computer science as a Rhodes scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, 2002.
- MBA, Harvard Business School, 2007.
Whilst at Oxford, she earnt a "blue" in swimming.
Post Oxford
After a spell as a Business Analyst in Delhi with McKinsey & Co, she went on to get an MBA from the Harvard Business School (2005–2007), and from 2007 through 2015 worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in London and Delhi. In 2015-2016, she co-founded Slurrp Farm, an organic food company for children based in Delhi.
Personal
Meghana met her fiance, Arunabha Ghosh, in Oxford; they married in Bangalore.
Arunabha studied
- Economics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi (University of Delhi)
- Masters in politics and philosophy at Oxford on an S Radhakrishnan scholarship
- M Phil in international relations as a Marvin Bower scholar