Deepa Chaudhary joined Brakeley as its Singapore-based consultant in June 2008.  She has over seven years of experience in professional fundraising, originally in her native India, and more recently in Singapore. 

From 2003 to 2006 she was Deputy Executive Director of United Way Mumbai, which she and a colleague founded.  She was responsible for introducing United Way’s Employee Giving and Major Gifts programmes into India and was a key contributor to increasing UWM’s income ten fold and establishing a donor base of over 30 leading multinationals.  In her work with United Way, Deepa developed good all-round fundraising expertise in the area of donor relationship management, major gifts, employee engagement, corporate social responsibility programmes and communication strategies.

Since moving to Singapore in 2007, Deepa has worked as a consultant with Habitat for Humanity International and Nathan Associates, a disaster relief agency.  She has also held the position of Development Director with the Singapore-based NGO, the World Toilet Organisation.

She has a Masters Degree in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Science in Mumbai and BA Hons in Psychology from Delhi University.  She is fluent in English and Hindi.