Neha Kirpal has worked at the intersection of the creative and social sectors for nearly two decades. Having founded India’s first international art fair, she ran it successfully for ten years before selling the business & moving her focus entirely to the marginalised sector of mental health. As a social entrepreneur, Neha brings tremendous experience in weaving impact networks with great passion and commitment, stemming from her own family’s mental health struggles for over three decades.
In 2019, Neha joined Dr.Amit Malik as co-founder of Amaha, one of India’s largest mental health organisations delivering accessible and high-quality treatment, care and support in 15+ languages, with an in-house team of over 150 psychologists and psychiatrists. Today Amaha’s digital platform has touched over 5 million lives. Having delivered over 1 lac+ therapy and psychiatry sessions in the last year to people in over 600 Indian cities, Amaha now offers in-person consultations at its three centres in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi NCR. Neha is also part of the founding cohort of India Mental Health Alliance (IMHA) a not-for-profit initiative set out to build mental health capacities amongst healthcare professionals and in communities across urban India, by harnessing collective knowledge, best practices and experiences of individual ‘experts by experience’ and mental health organisations across the country.
An Aspen fellow (2018) and an Eisenhower fellow (2018), Neha has been part of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders community (2015-2020) and received the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar given by the President of India in 2015. She received the NDTV Indian of the Year award (2018), Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 (2015), and the coveted Business Today’s. India’s Most Powerful Women award for three consecutive years.