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Kiran Bedi

Social Activist and India's First and Highest Ranking Woman Officer in the Indian Police Service

Social Activist and India's First and Highest Ranking Woman Officer in the Indian Police Service

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Kiran Bedi Biography

Kiran Bedi, holds the distinction of being India’s first and highest ranking female police officer, with more than 35 years of experience in reformative policing and prison management. She is a leading social activist and the founder of two NGOs. She has also worked with the United Nations and has represented India in International forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, and women’s issues. She has been voted as the “MSN most admired Indian female icon 2011”, and “India’s most trusted woman” by Navbharat Times in 2012 and Readers Digest in 2010. Her efforts to prevent crime, reform prisons, end drug abuse, and support women’s causes earned her a Roman Magsaysay Award, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

She has addressed audiences at national and international universities, as well as corporate and civil society groups, including IIM, TED Talks, Partnering for Global Impact, Nomura investment Forum Asia, the World Justice Project and Eximius. She speaks about her work with her NGOs, the gender divide in India, leadership, female empowerment, and her experience in the Indian Police Service.

Bedi voluntarily retired as Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development in 2007. During her stint as the Inspector General of Prisons, Tihar Jail, Delhi (1993-1995), she instituted a number of reforms in the management of the prison, initiating several measures such as detoxification programs, yoga, vipassana meditation, literary programs and prisoner complaints. She also worked with the United Nations in New York as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations, for which she was awarded a UN medal. She represented India in international forums on crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms and women’s issues. She joined the Indian Police Service in 1972 and undertook a number of tough assignments ranging from Traffic Commissioner of New Delhi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in insurgency prone Mizoram, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Chandigarh, and Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau. Kiran influenced several decisions of the Indian Police Service, particularly in the areas of control over narcotics, traffic management, and VIP security.

Bedi co-founded the Navjyoti India Foundation (NIF) in 1987, which began as a drug-addiction rehabilitation initiative and has now expanded to other social issues like illiteracy and women empowerment. In 1994 Bedi setup India Vision Foundation which works in the field of police reforms, prison reforms, women empowerment and rural and community development. Her efforts have won national and international recognition, and her organizations were awarded the “Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award” for drug abuse prevention by the United Nations. Currently, her NGOs are running four community colleges and are registered with the Indira Gandhi National Open University to provide vocational and soft skills training to Indian youth. Her initiative, ‘Mission Safer India’, aims to ensure that police log and address citizen complaints. She has been a leading figure in the nationwide ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC) movement.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/06/2024.

Kiran Bedi Videos

  • Kiran Bedi: How I remade one of India's toughest prisons
    http://www.ted.com Kiran Bedi managed one of India's toughest prisons -- and used a new focus on prevention and education to turn it into a center of...
  • Vote For Modi - Dr Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi Books

  • I Dare
    I Dare
  • It's Always Possible: One Woman's Transformation of India's Prison System
    It's Always Possible: One Woman's Transformation of India's Prison System

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