Dr Bijna Kotak Dasani MBE, FRSA
Public Speaker, Venture capitalist, and Entrepreneur in Worldwide
With 25 years in Global Capital Markets, Bijna is a former Investment Banker turned Entrepreneur, Investor and Venture Capitalist.
Bijna is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), an alumnus of University of Oxford and De Montfort University; and holds Venture Capital certifications from The University of California Berkeley Law, Venture Forward, NVCA and Newton.
Bijna features in the following books: Future Relevant Me 3.0 (2025), Disruptors Volume II (2023), Bias Breakers (2023), The Seamless Middle East e-book (2022), CIO NET’s Digital Transformation Cookbook (2022), Aspire To (2021), The Ultimate Professional Networker's Guidebook Volume 1 (2019) and Women Kind: Unlocking the power of women supporting women (2018).
Bijna is Venture Capitalist of the Year, India (2025) as felicitated by Fortunna Global, Entrepreneur of the Year (2025) in the Finance & Venture Capital category by Excellence Awards awarded by Dr Yasemin Yazan LLC (USA). Bijna has been appreciated by Mumbai Uncensored’s 10 Women, One Nation: Celebrating Indian Women Achievers on Republic Day (2025).
She is Fox Story India's Woman Face of the year (2023), in Fortune India's Most Dynamic Personalities List (2022), a Global Icon for Services to DE&I, WASME (2022), and Yahoo Finance and Involve People's Top Ethnic Minority Exec and Women Leader across industries globally; Pride of India across 100+ countries (2022), Advocate of the Year for DE&I (2021) by Morgan Stanley and Digital Leader of the Year (2021) by Seamless Middle East and Terrapin under the patronage of HH Sheikh Saif Bin Zayad Al Nahyan.
Bijna is an appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2020) by Her Majesty, The (Late) Queen Elizabeth II.
Bijna was named Britain’s Rising Star, UK Women of Inspiration awards (2019), #29 in the World’s Top 100 Women Execs by Yahoo and HERoes (2019), one of Top 50 Women to Watch (2019) by Cranfield University, #EMRoleModels19 Top 100 Ethnic Minority Executives (2019), Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist (2019-18), one of the #TechWomen100 (2019), as 'Business Role Model of the Year' by the Women in IT Awards & Amazon (2019), by the Lloyds Banking Group Top 100 BAME Role Models List (2019, 2018) as a 'Global Champion' (#60) of the Top 100 Executive #FTHERoes18 by the Financial Times (2018) and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from De Montfort University (2018) for her ‘outstanding services to Business’.
She has received 18 further global honours and was the International Women’s Day Young Achiever of the Year (2006).