This one doesn’t lack in EQ. At 25, New Jersey born Malayalee Roopa Puroshothaman co-authored the BRIC report that talks about Brazil, Russia, India and China becoming a much larger force in world economy by 2050. A few years later, it’s still widely discussed and written about. She majored in ethics at the Yale University followed by London School of Economics. “I joined Goldman Sachs in London, where I got the opportunity to work on the BRIC report,” she says. She met her Cuban-Puerto Rican husband Joseph Cubas at the university. “I got married in the US; we had both Malayalee and Christian ceremonies,” she recalls fondly. Roopa, now the chief economist and strategist at Future Capital in Mumbai, lists meeting people from different backgrounds and new research ideas as the perks of her job. She is currently studying the spending and saving patterns of people across 20 rapidly growing cities in India. “It was my husband’s decision to move to India. He works at the American School. Though we enjoy it here, I miss my family and make it a point to visit them at least two to three times a year.”