Subha Rajan is a social activist passionate about women's issues, the girl child, wild life environment issues and social injustice. Ms. Subha Rajan Tampi was born in Trivandrum Kerala and took her Bachelors and Masters Degree from the Kerala University. Later she did a course in the American University at Egypt. She taught at the Port Said College in Cairo, St. Gregory's college in Lagos Nigeria and at the Rivers State University in Port Harcourt and the University of Monrovia in Liberia.

She has spent most of her life living with and supporting the down trodden and under privileged all over the world. She worked with the lepers in the only leper town in the world in Liberia and also with the physically and mentally challenged in Africa's remote villages. Subha and her family became victims of the civil war in Liberia and returned to India penniless.

She joined CII Confederation of Indian Industry in 1990 at the lowest level at New Delhi. She worked in the Trade fair department and has organised the IETF, The Auto Expo, and several other exhibitions including the mining /railway /SME exhibition etc. She was part of the Global leadership programme.