Yasmin Surveyor

Yasmin Khurshedji Surveyor was an Indian academic, banker, and social worker who is recognized as Asia’s first woman commerce graduate. She graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai in 1925 at a time when participation of women in higher education, especially in commerce, was extremely rare. She worked in banking at a time when very few women were employed in the sector.

After retirement, Surveyor volunteered at the Ratan Tata Institute, dedicating her time to the welfare of women and children.