Nisha Dutt is a social entrepreneur recognised for innovative and impactful work in sustainable development and community empowerment across Asia. Her work has focused on creating systems and organisations that combine commercial sustainability with genuine social impact.
Through her work she has helped develop models for enterprise that serve communities at the bottom of the economic pyramid, creating livelihoods and opportunities for some of the most marginalised people in South and Southeast Asia.
Her recognition at the 7th Asian Awards reflected the growing importance of social entrepreneurship as a model for creating lasting change — combining the rigour of business with the purpose of philanthropy to achieve what neither alone could accomplish.