Juliana Di Giustini

Juliana Di Giustini is the Executive Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India. She has over three decades of executive and managerial level experience in for-profit technology startups, non-profit organizations, and higher education.

At CASI, she leads strategic planning, program development and implementation of the Center’s mission, spearheads fundraising, and serves as chief of staff and oversees Board relations.  Juliana has had a key role in shaping CASI’s institutional growth since she joined as Associate Director in 2007 and subsequently as Deputy Director (2012-2024). During this time, she has contributed to all CASI’s core programmatic areas and has strengthened the Center’s research network, outreach, and student engagement. These include collaborating with the Director to expand the vision for the Center’s sponsored-research activities and outreach such as India in Transition and the Khemka Distinguished Lecture series; fundraising, designing, and launching CASI Student Programs and its signature Summer Internships and Research opportunities in India; and formalizing CASI’s prestigious Visiting Scholars/Fellows program as well as establishing a new and growing Postdoctoral program.

Juliana has a unique background in entrepreneurial management and fundraising. Prior to joining CASI, she was a development officer in corporate and foundation relations for the humanities, arts, and international programs at Yale University. She brought to higher education over sixteen years of experience in the formation and management of for-profit startup companies and nonprofit organizations, including cutting-edge work with analytical software companies and educational programming on the arts and culture of India. She began her career as a member of pioneering teams in the nascent years of the desktop publishing bureau start-ups in the US and applied her knowledge of innovative design technologies at Sotheby's London by launching a pilot project to convert catalogue production east of the Atlantic to digital methods. At Sotheby’s, she contributed to international business development research for Rare Books and Manuscripts. Throughout her professional life she has been committed to community service. In her native Boston, she has served on the boards of several nonprofits.

Her professional engagements with India span over 25 years across the domains of business, technology, and the arts and began with a senior honors thesis on Home Rule in India. Juliana is a cum laude graduate of Boston College with a B.A. in Modern European History. She also studied British History and Politics at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, and earned a certificate in British and European Fine and Decorative Arts from the Sotheby's Institute of Art London.