2025 Speakers

2025 Speaker's Profile

Pallavi Srivastava

Director Talent, APJ

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Pallavi Srivastava is currently the Director Talent for Asia Pac & Japan at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Prior to this role, Pallavi was working with Johnson Controls as APAC HRBP for business functions and for nearly 20 years with IBM in various global and regional HR leadership roles, based out of India, New York and Singapore. Pallavi has extensive experience in the field of Human Resources both as a corporate HR leader and as HR consultant working with clients. She has now been based in Singapore for past 16+ years.

A passionate believer in leveraging technology for HR solutions of the future, Pallavi has been closely involved with IBM’s HR transformation journey towards cognitive enabled HR offerings and often represents her point of view on future of work, digital HR transformation and DEI aspects at regional and international conferences. A prolific speaker and an HR thought leader, she is often invited for industry interactions as guest lecturer with students in several Singapore universities – NUS, NTU, SP Jain and SUSS. Pallavi also articulates her insights on HR digital transformational aspects through her articles in regional media publications.

She holds a B A (Hons) in Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources. Pallavi also received the Business HR professional and Global Compensation & Benefits certification from Cornell University. Pallavi also holds several certified Skill badges in Cognitive HR, Design Thinking, Agile, Big Data and Disruptive HR.

Pallavi was featured in the HRD Magazine’s HRD Hot List in 2017 and is a member of Asia’s Keynote Women Speakers’ directory.