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Kiran Bedi

"No one can stop a woman determined to make a difference" - Kiran Bedi, India's first and highest ranking female police officer and community activist with more than 35 years of experience in reform policing and prison management.

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Om Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi holds the distinction of being India's first and highest ranking female police officer with more than 35 years of experience in reform policing and prison management. She is a leading social activist and founder of two NGOs. She has also worked with the United Nations and has represented India at international forums on crime prevention, drug abuse and women's rights. She has been named "MSN's Most Admired Indian Female Icon 2011" and "India's Most Trusted Woman" by Navbharat Times 2012 and Readers Digest 2010. Her efforts to prevent crime, reform prisons, fight drug abuse and support women's causes have earned her a Novel Magsaysay Prize, which is the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize. She has given speeches to national and international universities as well as to companies and civil society groups, including IIM, TED Talks, Partnering for Global Impact, Nomura Investment Forum Asia, World Justice Project and Eximius. She talks about her work with her NGOs, gender inequality in India, leadership, women's rights and her experience in the Indian police. Kiran Bedi voluntarily retired as Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development in 2007. During her tenure as Inspector of Jails in Tihar Jail, Delhi (1993-1995), she introduced a number of reforms in prison management and initiated several measures such as rehabilitation programmes, yoga, vipassana meditation, literature programs and inmate grievances. She also worked with the UN in New York as a political advisor to the UN Secretary-General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, where she was awarded a UN Medal. She represented India at international forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women's rights. She joined the Indian Police in 1972 and was assigned a series of difficult assignments including Traffic Commissioner in New Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police in insurgency-torn Mizoram, Adviser to the Lieutenant Colonel in Chandigarh and Director General of the Narcotics Control Bureau. Kiran influenced several decisions in the Indian police, especially in the areas of narcotics control, traffic management and VIP security. Bedi co-founded the Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) in 1987, which began as an initiative for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and has now expanded to other social issues such as illiteracy and women's rights. In 1994, Bedi established the India Vision Foundation, which works in the areas of police reforms, prison reforms, women's rights and village community development. Her efforts have won national and international recognition and her organizations were awarded the "Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award" for the prevention of drug abuse by the United Nations. Currently, her NGOs run four community colleges and are registered with Indira Gandhi National Open University to provide vocational training and soft skills to Indian youth. Her initiative, 'Mission Safer India', aims to ensure that the police register and address citizens' complaints. She has been a leading figure in the nationwide 'India Against Corruption' (IAC) movement. In her retirement age, she also supports social change and civic responsibility through her books and at