Bim Bissell, the wife of late FabIndia founder John Bissell, has run the Playhouse School and worked as a Social Secretary to US Ambassadors John Kenneth Galbraith, Chester Bowles, and Judge Kenneth Keating in New Delhi. She has spent 21 years with the World Bank and worked as a Senior Accountants Executive ASP for the Government of India’s Tourism and Travel Account from 1972 to 1975. She worked as an External Affairs Officer at the World Bank in New Delhi from 1975 to 1996. In 1992, with the help of Japanese government funds and the World Bank, she founded Udyogini, an NGO that works with assetless, landless women in India, with Ela Bhatt of SEWA as Chair.