Parmesh Shahani is the author of the award-winning book Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace (2020). His first book 'Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India' was released in 2008. He is presently a curator and consultant to many different organisations on their LGBTQIA inclusion strategies. Until 2021, he headed the Godrej India Culture Lab, an award winning experimental idea-space that he founded and ran for 10 years. Parmesh has a Masters degree in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Areas of Expertise
Diversity and Inclusion, LGBTQIA activism, Media Technology & Web 2.0