Leena Gade was born in Perivale, United Kingdom, the daughter of Indian immigrants.

After university, Gade worked as a vehicle refinement engineer for Jaguar Cars for six and a half years.

In 2011, she became the first female race engineer to win at Le Mans, with drivers André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler.

[8] In December 2012, Gade was named FIA World Endurance Championship 'Man of the Year', and in the same month she received the C&R Racing Women in Technology award.

[9] In 2018, she took the role as race engineer for James Hinchcliffe as part of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports's IndyCar program on the No.

[14] Later that year, she was appointed president of the FIA GT Commission overseeing global grand tourer racing.