Meher Tatna was born in Mumbai, India and came to the U.S. on a scholarship to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts where she graduated cum laude with a degree in economics. For the past 20 years she has freelanced for publications in Asia and her film criticism, essays and interviews have appeared in Vogue, Grazia, Femina and Elle in India, IMN in Singapore and Malaysia, and The New Paper in Singapore. Tatna was a member of the HFPA since 2002, serving in every position in the association’s administration including president from 2017 to 2019. During her presidency, the HFPA significantly increased philanthropic giving by expanding its film restoration funding and inaugurating its support of journalistic organizations with million-dollar grants announced at the Golden Globes. In 2018 she was invited to chair the Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Awards in New York with host Bill Whitaker of CBS News.