Gita Piramal (also referred as Dr. Gita Piramal, born: around 1954) is a renowned media personality, freelance writer, business historian, managing editor of The Smart Manager magazine, Director of BP Ergo and former director of VIP Industries Limited.. She was married into Mumbai-based Piramal business family and featured in 25 Most Powerful Women inIndian Business in 2004.
Gita worked as a Bombay correspondent for Financial Times from 1988 to 1992.
Gita Piramal had worked as the Associate Dean for Indian School of Business's publishing arm - ISB Interactive.
She has also worked as Member LBS Regional Advisory Board.
She has been working as managing editor of The Smart Manager, a management magazine, based at Mumbai, since 2002.
She has written for many years on the corporate sector for leading Indian and international publications such as The Financial Times and The Economic Times and is a consulting editor of the World Executive’s Digest. She also has been involved in the making of television programmes on Indian business for the BBC and Plus Channel.
Gita spent most of her childhood in London. She had married to Dilip Piramal of VIP Industries Limited around 1979. They divorced in 2005. Dilip and Gita had two daughters, Radhika and Aparna. Radhika did study from England and MBA from Harvard Business School. Aparna married to Amit Raje in June-2005. After the divorce, Dilip married to Shalini Agarwal in June-2005.