Executive summary / Personal profile
Meera Rao
Chief Data Officer India · Global perspective
Making trusted data useful in consequential decisions.
Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations
Start a conversation01 / Leadership approach
Trusted data becomes valuable when people can use it responsibly in a decision. I connect ownership, quality and analytical capability to business purpose, with explicit limitations and human accountability for consequential uses.
02 / Areas of responsibility
- Data strategy
- Data governance
- Analytics adoption
- Responsible AI
- Trusted source of truth
- 1
- Replacing 37 conflicting reports
- Value from analytics
- ₹410 Cr
- Verified by finance, year three
- Models governed
- 220
- Under one responsible-AI framework
- Time to decision data
- 9 days → 4 hrs
- For the executive committee
Evidence from practice
- Enterprise data ownership
- Business functions were maintaining different versions of a critical performance measure.
- Decision intelligence
- An analytics initiative had produced technically sound outputs that were not part of the management routine.
- Responsible AI adoption
- Teams wanted to move AI experiments into business use without a consistent review process.