Indrani Malkani nee Mukherjee is the Chairman and Managing Trustee of V Citizens Action Network (VCAN) and is an Ashoka Fellow. Beginning her career with the Taj Group of Hotels, she rose to become the Conventions and Conference Manager of The Taj Palace Convention Hotel, Delhi. She coordinated various National and International Conventions. She moved to Mumbai when she married Capt. Ashok Malkani.

Her specialty at work was in Logistics, Co-ordination and Troubleshooting, developing what was commonly known as “people skills”- an expertise which remains one of her major strengths in the work she does even today.

In Mumbai, she has involved herself in civic and community issues, particularly contentious ones, where her belief has been to develop sustainable solutions in partnership with the Authorities. Among the organizations she works with are, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), Mumbai Police, various State Government departments, the Election Commission of India and State Election Commission of Maharashtra.

She founded the ALM of Little Gibbs Roads in Malabar Hill, which was instrumental in starting MCGM’s “Integrated Relay Transport System of Segregated Waste Collection” in 2000. The success of which led MCGM to take execute this system across Mumbai.

One of her more successful projects was to conceptualize and implement the Model School Bus Service, for the safe and secure transportation of school children. This safe and efficient system was accepted as a model on which the State of Maharashtra has based its Policy of Transportation of School Children. She is a Member of the Government Committee which formed this Policy and is now implementing the said Policy. She is also Member of the Road Safety Patrol Traffic Advisory Committee Traffic Police Mumbai.

Apart from being a Member of the High Court Appointed Monitoring Committee for the Girgaum Chowpatty Beach, she is a Sitting Panel Member in the Lok Adalat of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Maharashtra, and a Member of the State Committee on Electoral Literacy. She is Co-Convener of INTACH Greater Mumbai (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) and a Director in Citizens Association For Child Rights (CACR). She is also a Member of the Internal Complaints Committees for Sexual Harassment of Women in multiple Companies.

To establish effective linkages between Government and Citizens, her Trust V Citizens Action Network (VCAN) runs a Web Portal www.togethervcan.in, which deals with multiple issues that effects a Citizen’s daily life on a single platform and also conducts a live talk show series titled “TogetherVCAN's SOCIAL SANCHAR” with the motto “Interact with your Government from wherever you are". During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Social Sanchars have been expanded with a new series called 'Health and Wellbeing' featuring leading Doctors and Healthcare Professionals as Speakers.

Indrani Malkani has been invited to speak at various fora on issues ranging from Safe Transportation of school children, Road Safety, Role of Cooperative Housing Societies in the Electoral Processes, Solid Waste Management, Civil Society and NGOs role in Disaster Management, Lok Adalat, to Consumer Rights etc.

She has also been invited to be a Panelist on multiple television channels as well as being interviewed on radio shows.

She has received many awards and recognitions, including the Mumbai Police Gaurav Patra and Medal, IBG Excellence Award for Public Service, Featured among 26 Mumbai Heroes by the Mumbai Mirror – 2013, Loreto College (her alma mater) – Alumnae Achiever’s Award - Centenary Year, Vocational award for Outstanding Contribution for Betterment of Public Service in Mumbai City by Rotary Club of Mumbai South, Personal award received in 2002 for “Swachcha Mumbai Abhiyan” by MCGM and being an Ashoka Fellow.

She firmly believes in working in Partnership with the Statutory Authorities, towards achievable goals and start a movement and find the will and power to sustain it.