Indian American Smriti Kirubanandan Joins Accenture as Managing Director of Healthcare Practice
- The 36-year-old public health expert was selected Young Global Leader 2023 by the World Economic Forum.
Healthcare business executive Smriti Kirubanandan has joined Accenture as managing director of the firm’s healthcare practice. A company press release describes the 36-year-old Indian American as “a contemporary Renaissance figure” who has achieved “significant milestones” as a growth and partnerships executive with “a distinctive background in robotics and public health.” She is also a raw vegan chef and nutritionist, actively engaging in community service, and spearheading initiatives to combat food insecurity.
She was selected Young Global Leader 2023 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), where she is a member of the Young Leaders Circle at the Milken Institute. She is also the founder of HLTH Forward Podcast, an award-winning media platform that hosts healthcare leaders, policymakers, and artists to discuss the challenges in the system and what we could do collectively to move healthcare forward, the WEF said.
She has “helped organizations globally to build the capacity to empower people to engage in wellness programs,” the WEF added. She is “responsible for educating small farmers in Africa to lift them out of poverty to improve food & nutrition insecurity, impacting 2 million people per year.” In 2022, she was appointed to serve the Los Angeles County food equity round table as a Nutrition & Policy Advisor to design and strategize programs to address food insecurity by educating and improving access and affordability to nutritious food.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Robotics, Master in Engineering Management from the University of Southern California, and Masters in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles.