Dr B Kinnera Murthy is a strategy consultant, director on corporate boards and academic governing councils, national council member of professional organisations, and founder of a women support NGO, among others. Since her superannuation in 2012 from the Administrative Staff College of India, where she held the posts of dean and professor of strategic management. She is also associated with Moving Images and Apna Watan. She is a director of the Hyderabad Literary Festival.