Veena Mankar is Member, Board of Directors, Artha India, and the Founder of Swadhaar FinAccess, a non-profit that focuses on financial and digital literacy for low income households and micro-entrepreneurs, especially women. She has over four decades of experience in banking and financial services. Her expertise is in trade and structured finance, finance for MSMEs and financial inclusion. She is the founder of entities under the Swadhaar name, a non-profit and an MFI, focused on financial inclusion. The latter was acquired by RBL Bank. 

During the course of her career she has worked with leading financial institutions from India and abroad, that included WestLB Germany, Emirates Bank International, Dubai and FIMBank Malta. She has led NBFCs as the Managing Director and been India Country Head of the representative office of a German Bank. She is currently a Director on a few Boards, including RBL Bank Limited, PB Fintech Limited and Alicon Castalloy Limited. In the past she has been on several Boards, including IDFC First Bank Limited, Liberty General Insurance Limited, and Sadhan, the industry association for community development institutions.

She has a BA in Economics from Lady Shree Ram College, Delhi and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.