Mala Chawla

Mala Chawla is a Managing Director at Stanton Chase in India and Singapore. She has been at the forefront of the firm’s growth across both markets, expanding its presence and building lasting partnerships across a range of industry sectors.

For more than two decades, Mala has partnered with clients on some of their most important leadership appointments. She is recognized for her ability to read businesses, organizational culture, and people, which allows companies to identify leaders who combine capability with long-term cultural fit.

Her work extends well beyond individual executive search assignments to advising clients on wider business and talent decisions. She is known for her market intelligence, her insight, and her pragmatic approach to solving leadership challenges.

Her experience covers the industrial, consumer, energy, infrastructure, real estate, logistics, and services sectors, and she remains attentive to the differing needs, cultures, and priorities of domestic and international organizations of varying scale and complexity. A significant part of her work involves cross-border assignments, carried out in close collaboration with Stanton Chase colleagues across multiple global markets.

An engineer by education, Mala began her career in industry before moving into executive search. That early operating experience gives her a practical understanding of businesses and of the environments in which leaders succeed, which adds another dimension to her work with clients.

Mala contributes extensively to industry conversations on leadership, careers, board effectiveness, governance, and executive hiring trends. She shares her perspectives through Stanton Chase’s thought leadership work as well as industry articles, interviews, and executive forums.

Mala travels extensively for work and enjoys discovering new cuisines along the way. She values spending time with her family.