Mahnaz Curmally :Trustee, Mumbai

A skilled writer with acknowledged strategy and consulting skills, communication experience of over 30 years that extends across specialist PR practices including expertise in opinion mobilization, advocacy strategy, messaging strategy, media management, crisis and issue management and healthcare communication, Mahnaz joined CRY as a trustee in February 2005. Starting her career with J Walter Thompson as a copywriter, she excelled in the writing of award winning corporate communications campaigns and moved on to account management. She switched to Public Relations just as this industry was ready for take off by joining Good Relations India, one of the first independent PR firms to be set up in India. She joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1993 and her ten-year period there saw the Ogilvy Public Relations, India rise from a loss making operation to a thriving industry pace setter. She won the Global Chairman's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000, in recognition of her contribution to the growth of the Ogilvy PR network in India. Currently she is a part time Senior Consultant Brand Communications for sanofi- aventis and honorary communications consultant to the Aga Khan Development Network in India.