Nadia SamdaniMBE (née Khalil Choudhury) is a British born Bangladeshi businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. She is involved in developing platforms for art and culture in Bangladesh.[1] Along with her husband Rajeeb Samdani, she is the co-founder of Samdani Art Foundation and its headline event the Dhaka Art Summit, which she also leads as its director.[2][3] She serves as the Vice President of the Alliance Française de Dhaka.[4]
Samdani's family moved to Dhaka from the UK in the late 1980s.[7]
Career
Nadia is a founding committee member of Tate's South Asian Acquisition Committee and is also a member of Tate's International Council.[8] She is a founding member of the Harvard University Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute's Arts Advisory Council and a member of the Alserkal Avenue Programming Committee in Dubai and also serves on the advisory council of the art fair Art Dubai.[9][10][4] She presented the work of the foundation at museums and art fairs such as the Royal Ontario Museum, Art Basel, and Frieze Art Fair.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
Her art collection has been recognized since 2015 on the Artnews Top 200 collectors listing[17] – one of the sole South Asian collections to receive this recognition.[18][19] The Samdani collection is featured in international news publications including Hong Kong Tatler.[20]
Business
Samdani is director of Golden Harvest Group, a conglomerate in Bangladesh active in information technology, commodities, logistics, food processing, agriculture, dairy, aviation, insurance, banking, infrastructure development and real estate. She is the chairperson of Braintrain Studio, a subsidiary of Golden Harvest which is active in architecture and interior design consultancy in Bangladesh. She is also a director of the Khalil Group.[21]
