Built on 25+ years of doing CSR — not just advising on it.
Bandana Jha has spent more than 25 years in CSR, including ten years heading the function for leading MNCs in India. Most recently she was Executive Director and Head of Philanthropy & Community Impact at Wells Fargo for India and the Philippines. Before that she built and led the ESG function at Bank of America (BA Continuum India) and implemented Barclays' community initiative strategy in India, growing colleague volunteering from negligible to 45% within a year.
Her earlier career spans the Tinplate Company of India (a Tata enterprise), the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in Jharkhand, and — where she began in 1996 — an NGO running skill-development programmes for rural youth. Her practice covers CSR policy, NGO due diligence, employee volunteering, and Companies Act and BRSR-aligned reporting.
She founded The Bold Circle to help companies, foundations and GCCs build CSR programmes that create real, lasting change in communities — grounded in good strategy, the right partners and credible evidence. Every engagement is led by her personally, supported where needed by a trusted network of domain specialists and implementation partners.