Mrs. Janet Gasper Chowdhury

Mrs. Janet Gasper Chowdhury is the President of The St. Augustine Education Society. Her father C.R. Gasper was the founder of the brand St. Augustine’s Day and she has been serving on the Governing Body of the Society for over 35 years. She has spent most of her career in the corporate world having worked in leading companies like ABN Amro Bank, Nestle and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She also served as the Chief People Officer (Group Head HR) of a leading micro finance company in India. She served on the Board of the National HRD Network which is the apex body of HR professionals in India. During her career she has been a recipient of professional awards, which include being amongst 100 most influential HR leaders in Asia two years in a row and amongst the 40 most talented HR leaders in Asia by World HRD Congress. An MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and Certification in School Leadership from Harvard she is also an alumnus of Trinity College, London and St. Xavier’s College Kolkata.
She and her husband, Amitava, have founded the two new schools following the CBSE curriculum – St. Augustine’s Day School for Girls and St. Augustine’s Day School for Boys.
She guides the school management on strategy, focuses on new initiatives & builds infrastructure. She also helps with the Proud to be Augustinian program that serves
the community. She is a theatre aficionado and sports enthusiast who plays golf in her free time.