Meghana Narayan (born 11 May 1984 in Pune, Maharashtra, India) is an international swimming champion. She was also one of India's Rhodes Scholars in 2000, and currently works as a management consultant in London.

Swimming career

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  • Asiad swimmer and former national champion.[1]
  • Women's swimming relay team, 2x400m freestyle, 13th Asian Games, Bangkok, 1998[2]
  • ... Meghana Narayan ... [etc.] have all done us proud by winning medals in the international level.[3]
  • Member of KCR Women's Relay Team, National Champions, 1998.[4]
  • In 1998, was National 100m, 200m Fly Record Holder.[4]

Records

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  • 1995 - 400m butterfly, 4:39.00[5]
  • 1997 - 200m butterfly, 2:24.24, 11 November 1997[6][7]
  • 1998 - 50m butterfly[8][9]

Education

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Whilst at Oxford, she earned a "blue" in swimming.[11]

Post Oxford

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After a spell as a Business Analyst in Delhi with McKinsey & Co,[1][12] she went on to get an MBA from the Harvard Business School (2005–2007),[citation needed][10][13] and from 2007 through 2015 worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in London and Delhi.[citation needed][10][13] In 2015–2016, she co-founded Slurrp Farm, an organic food company for children based in Delhi.

Personal

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Meghana met her fiancé, Arunabha Ghosh, in Oxford; they married in Bangalore.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Rao 2004
  2. ^ Indians hugujkhiuhnujhnok, 7 December 1998, Rediff on the net
  3. ^ Swimming - Mysore Scene, mysoresports.com
  4. ^ a b K. C Reddy Swim Center, www.swimgala.com
  5. ^ Roopa Rao (1998) Tandon, Millet better marks; Zeba zooms to gold[permanent dead link], 6 September 1998, The Indian Express.
  6. ^ Shikha, Akbar best swimmers, 22 September 2002, rediff.com
  7. ^ M R Praveen Chandran (1997) Pedder pockets gold[permanent dead link], 11 November 1997, The Indian Express.
  8. ^ Three records in national aquatics, 17 September 2003, The Tribune, India.
  9. ^ Rajeev sinks National mark in 50m butterfly[usurped], 18 September 2003, The Hindu.
  10. ^ a b c d e Meghana Narayan's facebook profile
  11. ^ a b Rao 2002
  12. ^ Meghana Narayan, Business Analyst at McKinsey & Co, India. www.linkedin.com
  13. ^ a b Meghana Narayan Archived 2 December 2012 at archive.today, Associate at McKinsey & Co, London, United Kingdom. uk.linkedin.com