Meheroo Jussawalla was born on 14th July 1923 in Secuderabad, India. She now lives in Hawaii where she is currently an emerita research fellow in telecommunications and economics, working at the East West Center in Honolulu.

Whilst studying her BA in economics and history at Madras University, Meheroo studied for the Royal Academy of Music piano exams and finished the LRSM. For her BA degree she obtained a gold medal for topping the list of economics students and went on to study her master's. After marriage and two children, Meheroo obtained a fellowship to study in the USA. She pursued her doctorate in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The East West Center in Honolulu is a federally funded think tank established by an act of the US Congress forty years ago. Meheroo joined the center in 1978 and has published fifteen books and one hundred papers in refereed trade journals, all dealing with the economics of information and telecommunications technology as it is used in Asia and the Pacific.