The leaders shaping what comes next
The Purple Economy is being advanced by business leaders, policymakers, innovators, advocates, and public voices who are helping reframe inclusion as strategy, market opportunity, and systems change.
21
Leaders engaged
7
Sectors represented
7
Countries represented
Featured leaders
“GIDC is fully committed to create a Purple Industrial cluster, in partnership with the Purple Economy Movement.”
Pravimal Abhishek
Managing Director, GIDC
“Accessibility is not an upgrade; it’s an expression of respect.”
Nitesh Ranjan
Executive Director of Union Bank of India
“Don’t make purple another color in the rainbow, give the rainbow a purple tint.”
Radhika Kaul Batra
Chief of Staff, United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, India
“If you don’t intentionally include, you will unintentionally exclude.”
Kannan Hariharan
Independent Director, Leadership Advisor, Former PepsiCo HR Leader, and Parent of a Person with Down Syndrome
“A movement succeeds when intent becomes action. The Purple Economy gives institutions a pathway to move from awareness to proof, and from proof to scale.”
Dipesh Sutariya
Co-founder, Trustee, Chairman and Managing Director, EnAble India
"The Purple Economy is about expanding access to economic and social opportunities for persons with disabilities, businesses and service providers. We see this as the beginning of a much larger transformation."
Sujith Nair
CEO and Co-founder, FIDE
"The Purple Economy Movement promises to be a watershed moment where, as a country and as a society, we recognize the economic value of the purple movement, purple footfalls, and purple customers."
Shankar Maruwada
Co-Founder and CEO at EkStep Foundation
"It is important to include persons with disabilities in the mainstream economy through sustainable economic models and make the world better for all of us."
Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy
Co-founder and CEO, Sattva Consulting
"The invisible will become visible. The normal will expand what we consider as normal."
Suchetha Bhat
CEO, Dream a Dream
"We are very happy and proud to be part of the Purple Economy Movement because it aligns very much with our mission of evolving inclusion and taking everyone together into the digital future that lies ahead of us."
Sreevidya Satish
Co-Founder and Director of Operations, Dhiway
"I've learned that a small attention and care from our side to build something specifically for people with disabilities can create such a positive impact in their lives."
Pulkit Jain
Co-Founder of Vedantu
“Once you see disability as a market, you cannot unsee it. The opportunity was always there — the world simply had not built for it.”
Neeraj Krishnan
Purple Economy Movement Head
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“A movement succeeds when intent becomes action. The Purple Economy gives institutions a pathway to move from awareness to proof, and from proof to scale.”
Dipesh Sutariya
Co-founder, Trustee, Chairman and Managing Director, EnAble India
“If you don’t intentionally include, you will unintentionally exclude.”
Kannan Hariharan
Independent Director, Leadership Advisor, Former PepsiCo HR Leader, and Parent of a Person with Down Syndrome
“Don’t make purple another color in the rainbow, give the rainbow a purple tint.”
Radhika Kaul Batra
Chief of Staff, United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office, India
“Accessibility is not an upgrade; it’s an expression of respect.”
Nitesh Ranjan
Executive Director of Union Bank of India
