Nisha Alvares Meneses

Nisha was educated at various schools all around the world as her father was a diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service.

Her time at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco , California, USA led to her becoming Petite Marie, a signal honour, as it meant she was an outstanding all rounder in the Elementary School.

She finished her schooling at St Mary's Convent, Cambridge, UK, where she did her GCE Advanced Levels. She went onto the London School of Economics where she did her B.Sc. Econ. in Government. She likened the LSE to a vacuum cleaner which sucked you in at 9am and pushed you out at 5pm. However, she took an active interest in the various societies while at University and became the President of the India Society and held the Charles Wallace Scholarship. On leaving the LSE she joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York as a commercial banker and was sent by them to New York for training. On returning to London she worked with MGT for a few years and moved to Manufacturers Hanover Bank , specialising in Capital Markets as an investment banker. She left them to join Merrill Lynch and thereafter moved to County NatWest Bank as an Executive Board Director and a Director of NatWest Bank By this stage she was in charge of the supranationals as her clients all over the world. She died tragically young at 33. At this time she was being headhunted to become CEO of various banks and stock exchange companies in Europe, the UK and the USA. She went through the glass ceiling and was rated a huge success by the financial world and her myriad colleagues.

 She died on 22nd April 1989, having been flown back to the UK by air ambulance from Istanbul , Turkey, where she went on a brief holiday for Easter. She  was  on total life support in a coma for about a month, when the machines were finally shut down on her.She was sound sensitive and light sensitive in that time. The doctors were flummoxed by her case and never came to a final diagnosis when she died,calling her 'the case' at the time.

She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London, UK and her ashes were buried in Prithviraj Road Cemetery, New Delhi adjacent to her parents grave.

She loved squash, music, dancing and entertaining friends at her home.She trained as an opera singer and lieder singer at a very young age. She toyed with the accordion and guitar but never pursued them seriously.

A beloved daughter and sister, her death led to the heart attack of her mother Thelma, who had several cardiac operations in the USA and the UK.She died in 1995. Her father Tony died in 1992.

A tragic end to a very promising career, forever mourned and missed terribly.