Roopa Unnikrishnan is an Indian-born American

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and

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consultant, based in

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. In 1998, she was the first Indian woman to ever win a gold medal at the

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, in the 50m rifle prone position event.

Biography

Unnikrishnan won the Arjuna Award, India's highest sporting prize (equivalent to sports hall of fame) presented by India's President in 1999. The award recognized her multiple global medals, including gold medal and record in the XVI Commonwealth Games,

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, Malaysia, 1998, in women's prone sports rifle; Silver medal at the World Shooting Grand Prix, Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1998; hold several records at the South Asian level. She has been a strong advocate for increased support for athletes in India, where they continue to be resource constrained. Though Shooting is a "Half Blue" sport at Oxford, Unnikrishnan was awarded an Extraordinary Full Blue, since she had won the Commonwealth medal, helped the Oxford team win in university leagues, and was the Captain of the Oxford Women's Shooting Team. In 1995, she won a Rhodes Scholarship from India. She got her B.A. at Women's Christian College, Chennai; an M.A. at Ethiraj College, Chennai; an M.A. in Economic History at Balliol in Oxford; and an M.B.A from the Said School of Business in Oxford. She is Head of Strategy at

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in New York City. She has contributed to

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and to Knowledge@Wharton. In 2017, she published the book, ''The Career Catapult: Shake-up the Status Quo and Boost Your Professional Trajectory''.

Personal life

Unnikrishnan became a US Citizen in 2013. She is married to Sreenath Sreenivasan, former Chief Digital Officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India Women's Christian College, Chennai alumni Shooters at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Recipients of the Arjuna Award Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games {{India-sportshooting-bio-stub

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