While heading to India for Dasra Philanthropy Week 2018, Synergos’ founder and chair Peggy Dulany talked to Seema Chowdhry of Mint about the role of leadership, how family shapes attitudes towards philanthropy, and the future of philanthropy in India and around the world.

“All complex problems take time. One problem we often run into with philanthropists is that they want things to happen quickly, particularly if they are business people. Unfortunately with social problems, it does not always work out that quickly. Philanthropists need to be bridging leaders. They must have the orientation to know that they have to bring different groups together and this will in turn help guide them to get the work done without power equations coming into play.”