Shanta Acharya

Website: http://www.shantaacharya.com

Shanta Acharya was born and educated in Orissa, India and won a scholarship to Oxford where she completed her doctoral thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1983.

She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard before joining Morgan Stanley Asset Management in London in 1985. She has worked in the asset management industry ever since and is the author of several books on the subject. Since 1996, she has been the founder director of 'Poetry in the House' at Lauderdale House, Highgate, London.