Chandrika Tandon

Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon is a business leader, twice-nominated Grammy-winning artist, and humanitarian. She is a former partner of McKinsey & Company, and as founder and chair of Tandon Capital Associates, Ms. Tandon focuses on measurable transformation of institutions. She has worked with over 40 companies globally, on projects involving major financial and operational restructuring, global and domestic strategy, organizational redesign, core process/performance improvement, and broad-based culture change. Ms. Tandon is the Chair of the Krishnamurthy Tandon Foundation, whose mission it is to elevate human happiness through economic and emotional empowerment.

She is a Trustee of New York University, former Chair and current member of the Board of NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Chair of NYU’s President’s Global Council, and a Trustee of NYU Langone Health. Ms. Tandon is the founder and patron of Madras Christian College’s Boyd-Tandon School of Business. In January of 2026, the formation of the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence at IIM Ahmedabad was announced. Rooted in IIMA’s legacy of leadership, governance, and institution-building, the school will shape how AI is conceived, deployed, and governed. Bridging global AI advances with Indian data, contexts, and institutions, it will generate knowledge that is both locally transformative and globally relevant.

She is a former member of Yale University’s President’s Council of International Activities, and her Foundation has established faculty Chairs at Yale and Harvard Universities. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Investment Committee and serves as a Governor of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Ms. Tandon has received numerous awards for integrity and leadership, including the Gallatin Medal, NYU’s highest honor, the Walter Nichols Medal, and the Polytechnic Medal, in recognition of her contribution to science and engineering. She has received the BCA Leadership Award from Americans for the Arts and was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.  Ms. Tandon has been inducted into the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Americans and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AMACAD). She was recently honored with the Ban-ki Moon Award for Women’s Empowerment and the Maharishi Award from Maharishi International University.  Other recent recognitions for her music include the Game Changer Award from the Denyce Graves Foundation, the Champion Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and the Voice Education Research Awareness Award from The Voice Foundation. She has been profiled in print, on radio, and television, including in CNBC’s The Brave One series.

Ms. Tandon has recorded seven studio albums. Her first album, Soul Call, received a GRAMMY nomination for best Contemporary World Music Album while her sixth release, Triveni, won a GRAMMY for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album. She has conducted numerous benefit concerts on world stages to sold-out audiences, including Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Times Square, Nassau Coliseum, premier European venues, and Washington, DC's National Mall for hundreds of thousands of attendees of the World Culture Festival.