To identify and develop unique & high potential change agents of India through a multi-disciplinary programme guided by eminent leaders and scholars of our time.

Cameron Arnold
With a background that encompasses teaching in Italy and Thailand, Cameron comes to the School of Convergence with a background in English as a second language and linguistics, as well as non-profit management experience. She earned her MA in linguistics at New York University and a BA in the history of art and Italian studies from the College of William and Mary. In addition, she has certificates in non-profit management, English language teaching and is a qualified Italian to English translator. She was selected as an English Language Fellow by the US Department of State in 2009.

Prior to joining the School of Convergence, Cameron worked as a teacher trainer and English language and curriculum consultant in north India for one year. She moved to Asia in 2007 when she took up a position as an English teacher at an international school in Thailand, returning to the classroom after a hiatus of 10 years. Her academic experience includes teaching English and communication skills to students of all ages, from seven to seventy, from a range of backgrounds and cultures. She currently teaches online courses in socio-linguistics with a US-based university as well.

Cameron’s experience also includes non-profit management, program design and fundraising in New York City where she worked for organizations such as the International Center of Photography and Henry Street Settlement, developing and managing programs aimed at immigrant and underserved communities. Languages and communication, and the connections between language and society, have held a life-long fascination for her. Language acquisition, English language education and the evolving role of English as a global language are her primary areas of interest.

Amita Baviskar
Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India); Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black); Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press); and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge). She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.

Amita did her BA in Economics from University of Delhi, MA in Sociology from University of Delhi and earned a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Andre Béteille
Andre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology.

He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi. After a brief stint at the Indian Statistical Institute as a research fellow, he joined the faculty of sociology at the DSE.

In his long and distinguished career, he has in the past taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, and the London School of Economics. He is currently Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and of the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

In 2005, Professor Béteille received the Padma Bhushan as a mark of recognition for his work in the field of Sociology. The same year he was appointed a member of the Prime Minister's National Knowledge Commission. In 2006, following a proposal for increasing caste-based reservations, Andre Beteille quit the Commission in protest. In 2006, he was made National Professor.

Vivek Bhandari
Dr Vivek Bhandari was the Director and Professor of Social Science at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) in India. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his doctorate from UPenn, he became a faculty member at the School of Social Sciences at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. In this capacity, Dr Bhandari also taught and researched collaboratively at academic institutions in the Five College Consortium located in Massachusetts. He had been in this present role since 2007, when he moved to India after fifteen years in the US.

Born on March 4, 1970, Dr Bhandari is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He did his BA (Honors) in History from St. Stephen’s College, and then a Master’s in Modern History from the University of Delhi. He went on to do a second Master’s in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to complete his PhD in History from the same university.

Most recently, as a co-author of "The State of Panchayats Report: An Independent Assessment, 2007-08,” India’s first macro-study of institutions of local self-governance in India, Dr Bhandari has taken a particular interest in the study of social and community mobilizations in India, and explored strategies for mediation between the state and extremist movements. His work as a professor and the director of IRMA involves an in-depth engagement with the changing character of rural India, and the role that academic and civil society organisations can play in shaping the country’s fast-unraveling rural transformation. In 2008, Business Today magazine included him in its list of “India’s Top 25 Young Executives under the age of 40.” Most recently, on a short break from IRMA, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sanjeev Chatterjee
Dr Sanjeev Chatterjee is Vice Dean, Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, where he has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production at the University of Miami. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and has been nominated two more times since.

Professor Chatterjee is producer, co-director and writer of a global motion picture project about potable water entitled “One Water”. An earlier short version of the film won two awards at the Broadcast Education Association and has been screened at special United Nations conferences in 2004 and 2005.

Prof. Chatterjee’s earlier documentary work explores issues of identity among people in the Indian diaspora. His films on the topic are “Bittersweet” (1995) about Asian Indians in the United States and “Pure Chutney” (1998) about people of Indian origin in Trinidad. “Pure Chutney” won second place at the Film South Asia competition in Kathmandu in 1999. In 2005 Professor Chatterjee completed “Dirty Laundry” - an essay film about people of Indian origin living in South Africa.

In 1999-2000, Professor Chatterjee was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce television reports about environment and culture in India. The topics of these reports ranged from deforestation and habitat fragmentation to the survival of folk and classical dance in India.

Professor Chatterjee has served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy since its inception in 2003. In 2006 he accepted the responsibility to advise the global online enterprise databazaar.com on their philanthropy aimed at supporting American and Indian students in the fields of Visual Journalism. Professor Chatterjee earned his M A in English Literature from Delhi University and his M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College.

Anunaya Chaubey
Anunaya Chaubey is a well-known artist and Principal of the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna University. Dr Chaubey also teaches English Literature at Patna University.

A self-taught painter, he has had a few exhibitions of his paintings in India and Canada. Many paintings of his are to be found in private and public collections the world over.

For his Doctoral thesis Dr Chaubey worked on Ezra Pound’s critical theories and practice. ‘The natural object is always the adequate symbol,’ is one of his favourite Poundean precepts.

In 2008, he was invited by the Government of Mauritius as a Visiting Fellow to set up the department of Arts and Crafts at the Rabindranath Tagore Institute.

Patrick Le Galès
Patrick Le Galès is both a sociologist and a political scientist. He held previous research, teaching and visiting position at Sciences Po Rennes, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UCLA, University Milan Bicocca, SURF, University of Salford. He was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI Florence. He works and teaches in three areas: Comparative public policy in Europe, State restructuring, governance, theories of public policies; Urban sociology; Economic sociology/political economy.

At Sciences Po Paris, he is one of the coordinator of the "Public policy groupe" and he coordinates the "Cities/metropolis/cosmopolis" research unit. He coordinates the French group for the EU Research and Training Network "UrbEurope" and the doctorate URBEUR (with university of Milan Bicocca) He is the scientific director of the master "Urban and territorial policies strategies" at Sciences Po Paris. He teaches and supervises students in the PhDProgramme on public policy.

Recent publications include: "European cities, social conflict and governance", Oxford University Press, 2002 (UNESCO Stein Rokkan prize for comparative research in 2003); Crouch, C., Le Galès, P., Trigilia, C., Voeltzkow, "The changing governance of local economies in Europe, "Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004; (ed.with Pierre Lascoumes) "Gouverner par les instruments", Paris: Presses de Sciences po, 2004.

Laurent Gayer
Laurent Gayer's research revolves around two distinct themes, Political violence in South Asia, and in particular patterns and social representations of female militancy in the Indian Punjab, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Residential patterns and repertoires of collective action of Muslim town-dwellers in India, in Delhi in particular.


 Laurent Gayer was the coordinator of the International Relations research programme of CSH between 2006 and 2008, before joining CNRS (CURAPP, Amiens). He has been affected by CNRS at CSH since October 2009. He is also a research associate at the Centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) and a member of the scientific board of the online academic journal SAMAJ (http://samaj.revues.org/).


 His most recent publications include a collective volume coedited with C. Jaffrelot, Muslims of Indian Cities. Trajectories of Marginalization/, London/New York, Hurst, Columbia University Press (forthcoming), as well as a special issue of SAMAJ, coedited with I.Therwath, "Modern Achievers: Role Models in South Asia" (http://samaj.revues.org).

In 2008, he was invited by the Government of Mauritius as a Visiting Fellow to set up the department of Arts and Crafts at the Rabindranath Tagore Institute.

Jonathan Gil Harris
Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University, where he has taught since 2003. Prior to that, he held positions at Ithaca College, New York, and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The past recipient of fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also served as Associate Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly since 2005.

Professor Harris is the author of five books: Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, named by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009); Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (Ronsdale Press, forthcoming 2012). He coedited, with Natasha Korda, Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is also the editor of the third New Mermaids edition of Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Methuen, 2008); Placing Michael Neill: Issues of Place in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate Press, 2011); and Indography: Writing the “Indian” in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012).

Professor Harris is currently spending a year in Delhi to work on a book project called Becoming Indian, which considers poor European travellers to India in the seventeenth century – servants, soldiers, masterless men – who to lesser and greater extents became Indian, and whose elusive lives suggest the outlines of alternative Indo-European histories that potentially unsettle modern conceptions of bodies, race, and foreignness.

Pierre Jacquet
Pierre Jacquet has been Chief Economist of the French Development Agency (AFD) since 2002. He was also Executive Director in charge of strategy from 2002 to 2010, at a time when AFD went through profound changes and significantly increased its presence in the French and international debates on development. Before that, he was Deputy Director of the French Institute on International Relations (IFRI), where he managed the economic program and also worked as the Chief Editor of IFRI's quarterly review, PolitiqueEtrangère. He serves now as President of the Global Development Network, an international organization head-quartered in New Delhi, with the mandate of enhancing research capacities in developing countries. Professor Jacquet was until July, 2012 President of the Department of Economic and Social Sciences and Professor of International Economics at the EcoleNationale des PontsetChaussées, a French graduate engineering school. He is a member of the Cercle des Economistes, a think tank in France comprising 30 French economists that maintains a systematic presence in the public debate through daily interventions on Radio Classique, as well as press columns. He is, furthermore, a member of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development, an advisory council within the French Ministry for Environment. Apart from publishing numerous policy-oriented articles and press columns on international economy, trade, development and economic policy issues, Pierre Jacquet has also co-authored the textbook Economic Policy: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Christophe Jaffrelot
Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris). He was Director of CERI (Centre d’Etudeset de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po, between 2000 and 2008. His research interests include: theories of nationalism and democracy; mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India; Hindu nationalist movement; ethnic conflicts in Pakistan.

Christophe holds degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP), the University of Paris I-Sorbonne, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) and a PhD in political science. He joined the CNRS in 1991 and was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 1993. He became a senior research Fellow in 2002. He has served as director of CERI of 2000-2008.Directs four book series published by Fayard, Autrement, Hurst and Palgrave; former editor-in-chief (1998-2003) and current director of Critique Internationale. He is the member of the steering committee of Aspen France and of the scientific councils of SüdasienInstitut, Heidelberg and IUED, Geneva. He chairs the Asia Group at the DGCID of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He also teaches Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's University India Institute and is a regular Visitor at the universities of Yale, Princeton, SAIS and Columbia University. He has to his credit publications such as, India’s Silent Revolution. The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India, London, Hurst, 2003, The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics, 1925 to the 1990s, London, Hurst 1999. His recent publications include Armed Militias of South Asia, Co-editor with L. Gayer, London, Hurst, 2010, India since 1950, Yatra Books / Cambridge University Press, 2011, andMuslims in Indian Cities, Hurst / Harper Collins, 2012 which is still forthcoming.

Dwight Jaggard
Dr Dwight Jaggard is Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Undergraduate Curriculum Chair at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Jaggard consults, coaches and teaches around the world on leadership development, team building, enhancing communications and influence as well as on technical topics. His blend of interpersonal, business, academic and technology skills provides an ideal background for working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and is director of the EMTM (Executive Master’s of Technology Management) Program at Penn. He was the co-founder of a high-technology business.

Dr Jaggard has successfully taught over a thousand students on three continents about the foundations of leadership. He has published some 120 journal papers, authored numerous book chapters, edited a book and given several hundred technical talks. He has also been awarded five patents.

Kriti Kapila
Kriti Kapila is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on the work of law in contemporary India. She is currently completing a manuscript entitled Domestic Modern: Law, Intimacy and Citizenship in North India. The book is an anthropological study of the place of law in everyday domestic life in colonial and contemporary India.

Her present research is concerned with the regimes of evidence around cultural difference in India in three distinct but interrelated contexts. This research examines the politics of recognition in India with a particular focus on the overlaps and disjuncture between official, popular and academic understandings of the category ‘tribe’ in contemporary India. It further compares two large-scale mapping exercises that have the culture-concept at their heart, currently underway in India: a) The biologicalised understanding of Indian society in the ongoing research on the historical DNA of Indian population groups, and b) The codification of group rights in tangible and intangible cultural heritage under the UNESCO Convention and the interface of national and transnational legal regimes.

Kriti studied at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and did her PhD at the London School of Economics. She subsequently held the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge and was also a Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Devesh Kapur
Devesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in 2006. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds the position of Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India. Prior to arriving at Penn, Professor Kapur was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard.

His research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages, especially international migration and international institutions, affect political and economic change in developing countries, especially India. His new book, Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India, was published by Princeton University Press in August 2010.

He is the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize awarded to the best junior faculty, Harvard College, in 2005.

Professor Kapur holds a B Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University; an M S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota; and a Ph D from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.

Mekhala Krishnamurthy
Mekhala Krishnamurthy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2012) at CASI, having recently completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, her doctoral dissertation spans three decades of rural transformation in the social, economic and political lives of an agricultural market (mandi) town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The dissertation explores the interconnections of changing agrarian practices, reforming agricultural commodity markets, the dynamics of political participation, and the forces of local, regional and corporate capital as they are experienced and expressed in the everyday lives and relationships of farmers, traders, laborers, state and corporate institutions.

From 2003-2007, Mekhala worked at the Social Initiatives Group at ICICI Bank, the largest private sector bank in India. During this time, she coordinated the Group's Health Practice (now the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition) which is dedicated to securing sustainable improvements in the health and nutritional status of women and young children in the poorest regions of the country. Here, Mekhala facilitated partnerships between NGOs, governments and research institutions on a range of action-research, resource support and reform initiatives to develop community-based processes and public health systems in rural and urban contexts in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, and Mumbai. She has also organized and participated in national and international seminars, consultations and conferences. She serves on a number of bodies located within civil society and independent public institutions.

Through long-term field research and public engagement, Mekhala seeks to contribute to strengthening institutions and public systems in the very regions that present the most difficult challenges and vibrant possibilities for social justice and change in India.

Mekhala graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University, where she received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for her thesis on nariadalats, women's courts creatively conducted by and for rural women in the state of Gujarat. She subsequently completed an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where she was the recipient of a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship. Her doctoral work at University College London has been supported by a Graduate Student Research Scholarship, an Overseas Research Scholarship, and the UCL Global Excellence Scholarship.

A. K. Shiva Kumar
A. K. Shiva Kumar is a development economist and professor. In addition to serving as an advisor to UNICEF - India, he is a member of India's National Advisory Council. The council was set up in June 2004 to oversee the implementation of India’s National Common Minimum Programme.

Dr Kumar earned his postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his M A in economics from Bangalore University. He also holds a Master's degree in public administration and a Ph.D in political economy and government from Harvard University.

Shiva Kumar teaches economics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He has focused his research on poverty and human development, social sector analysis, and the impact of development policies on children and women.

Kumar has been a regular contributor to UNDP's Annual Human Development Reports. He has also been associated with the preparation of national human development reports in a number of countries including Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar and Serbia. In 2003, Kumar co-edited the book Readings in Human Development. His other publications include the Public Report on Basic Education (PROBE) (Oxford University Press, 1999) and a co-authored report entitled, Women in India: How free? How Equal?, for the UN System in India.

Amitabh Kundu
Dr. Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been nominated as a member of National Statistical Commission in 2006. He has done Post-Doctoral work as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a Visiting Professor at University of Amsterdam, Maison des Sciences de L’homme, Paris, University of Kaiserslautern and South Asian Institute Heidelberg, Germany. He has undertaken International Consultancies for UNDP, UNESCO, UNCHS, ILO, Government of Netherlands, University of Toronto, Sasakawa Foundation etc. He has worked as Director at various institutes such as National Institute of Urban Affairs, Indian Council of Social Science research and Gujarat Institute of Development Research. Currently he is in the Editorial Board of Manpower Journal, Urban India, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Indian Journal of Labour Economics. He has about twenty-five books and two hundred research articles, published in India and abroad, to his credit. His recent books are Science, Religion and Development: Advancing the Discourse(Ed. with Mariam Tai), India: Social Development Report (Chief Editor), Oxford University Press, Handbook of Urbanisation, (with Sivaramakrishnan and Singh) OUP, ICT for Human Development: Towards Building a Composite Index for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, UNDP, Inequality, Mobility and Urbanisation: China and India (Ed.),Manak Publications, Informal Sector in India, (Ed. with Sharma), Institute for Human Development, Poverty and Vulnerability in a Globalising Metropolis: Ahmedabad,(Ed. with Mahadevia), Manak.

Madhavi Menon
Madhavi Menon is interested in desire. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (University of Toronto Press, 2004), which explores how Renaissance rhetoric manuals encounter and present desire; and of Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave, 2008), a polemical inquiry into the methodologies within which we study desire. She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke UP, 2010), which is the first book to put queer theory in conversation with every one of Shakespeare's poems and plays. Named a "monumental" book by CHOICE magazine, Shakesqueer is already in its second print run.

Her current research is on questions of identity and queerness. Titled Indifference or Queer Universalism, her newest book looks at performances and performance artists from different parts of the world to theorise alternative modes of inhabiting desire. Resisting the imperative to line up bodies and identities, she thinks of ways in which our desires can continually surprise and expand as well as undermine what we think of as our fixed selves. Literature undermines the narrative of the fixed self while many strands of politics seek to enshrine it. This current book looks both at the literary tensions and the political possibilities generated by an unpredictable desire.

Professor Menon teaches classes on queer theory, literary theory, Renaissance literature, and drama at American University in Washington, DC. She has also taught extensively at Delhi University and JNU. Prior to completing her Ph.D from Tufts University in Boston, she did her BA and MA in English from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, where she was the College topper in her BA, and the gold medal-winning University topper in her MA.

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Dr Mukherjee is a historian and author, as well as Opinions Editor, The Telegraph, Kolkata.

Dr Mukherjee has taught history at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and the University of California, Santa Cruz. At the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), he became involved in several aspects of historiography, especially the issues concerning the ascendancy of the North in the production of knowledge. He has edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader and is the author of the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75, and co-edited Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee studied at Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

His D Phil in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1981 was based on his acclaimed thesis on the revolt of 1857 which presented a view of the revolt from the native perspective. He has revisited this theme in his books including Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance, Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres, which tries to re-frame the popular colonial image of the massacres, and Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?

Shailaja Neelkantan
Shailaja Neelakantan has been reporting from India since 2002, and she is the South Asia Correspondent for the Washington DC-based The Chronicle of Higher Education. She has previously worked in New York for Forbes and Bloomberg News and in Hong Kong for Dow Jones Newswires. Her articles have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Scientific American, Uranium Intelligence Weekly, Salon, Red Herring, Business 2.0 and Far Eastern Economic Review. Shailaja has written about a variety of subjects including politics, business, health,education, gender, society, culture and books, among others. She has degrees in politics and journalism from the University of Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College and Columbia University, respectively. Before her Columbia degree she was a reporter in Delhi for the Indian Express for two years and The Statesman, for a year.

Eric Saranovitz
Dr Eric Saranovitz has a broad and diverse background in international media, journalism and communication—both as a scholar and a practitioner. He earned his PhD in Media Studies from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He received his MA in Communication and Journalism from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and his BA in Comparative Religion from Amherst College. He is currently the Associate Dean at the School of Convergence (SOC), Delhi. Before he joined SOC, Eric worked as an Instructor of Media Studies at NYU and as an Assistant Professor in International Communication at Denison University—an elite college in central Ohio.

Among the many honours he has received for his academic research, Eric was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for his research on the Israeli national media system. Eric’s research interests and teaching have been focused on developments in media technologies, national and international media industries, globalization, national identity, and documentary production.

In addition to his academic passion for understanding developments in electronic and print media, Dr Saranovitz has held a wide variety of positions in the media and communications industry as well. Before beginning his PhD, Eric worked as a marketing communications consultant in Tel Aviv, advising start-up high tech companies on their international marketing campaigns and web design during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also worked as an assistant correspondent in the Jerusalem bureau of the Japanese broadcaster, NHK. To add to his diverse experiences, Eric also served as a Combat Medic in the Israeli Defense Force.

A gifted writer, Eric has taught courses in expository writing and has worked as a writing consultant in New York City, helping aspiring journalists, writers, and filmmakers develop their skills and find their voice. His expertise as a writer was developed in part through the various positions he has held over the years in public relations firms in both Boston and New York City.

Ann Torfin Shoemake
Ann Torfin Shoemake is a visiting faculty member in the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Ann has a teaching and research background in intercultural communication and the study of social conflict. She is a PhD Candidate in Ohio University's School of Communication Studies, and she holds an MA in International Affairs from Ohio University’s Center for International Studies. Ann was awarded a United States Fulbright Fellowship for her doctoral fieldwork on intergroup relations in Indonesia.

Ann has taught a variety of communication courses at Ohio University and Keene State College in the US, and she has conducted workshops on conflict management with the University of Indonesia. Her academic papers have been presented at conferences sponsored by the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association, the Association for Asian Studies, the International Peace Research Association, and the United States Institute of Peace. Her publications have appeared in Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Ann also serves as Associate Director for the Center for Research on Intergroup Relations and Conflict Resolution (CERIC) at the University of Indonesia, and she is a founding member of the Nurani Dunia Foundation, based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Eswaran Sridharan
Eswaran Sridharan is the Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), (in New Delhi), from its inception in 1997, and was earlier with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is a political scientist with research interests in the political economy of development; elections, party systems and coalition politics; and international relations theory, conflict resolution and cooperation-building in South Asia. He is the author of The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective 1969-1994 (1996); and has edited International Relations Theory and South Asia, Vols. I and II (2011) and The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations (2007), and co-edited (with Zoya Hasan and R. Sudarshan), India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies (2002; 2005); co-edited (with Anthony D’Costa), India in the Global Software Industry: Innovation, Firms Strategies and Development, (2004); and co-edited (with Peter de Souza) India’s Political Parties (2006). Another edited volume on comparative patterns of coalition politics in Asian democracies has been accepted by Oxford University Press. He has published over forty-five journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, and has presented papers at many conferences and given talks at many universities and institutes internationally and in India. He is the Editor of India Review, published by Routledge, USA and is the only India-based editor of a US-based academic journal; he is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. He has testified as an expert before the Indian government’s Committee on State Funding of Elections, and has been a consultant to the World Bank, Ford Foundation, International IDEA, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and some private companies in India and abroad. He majored in chemistry at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, took post-graduate degrees in political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenwyn Smith
Dr Kenwyn K Smith is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Director of Penn's Master’s Programme in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership. Dr Smith teaches leadership, group and intergroup dynamics, organizational politics, change management in three of Penn’s schools: the School of Social Policy & Practice, the Wharton School and the Fels Institute of Government (Arts and Sciences). Dr Smith is an international scholar in the fields of group and intergroup dynamics, organizational change and leadership. His research experience ranges from prisons to schools, from businesses to health care institutions, from state enterprises to social entrepreneurial activities, from oppressed black townships in South Africa to agencies creating sustainable livelihoods in rural India, from pharmaceuticals in Belgium to financial services in urban America, from the World Bank to a community in Philadelphia wrestling with the anguish of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Dr Smith did his PhD in Organizational Behavior in 1974 and MA in Organizational Behavior in 1973 from Yale University. He has founded a number of volunteer-based, nonprofit organizations and is about to launch several research initiatives that will be at the heart of Penn’s Center on Nonprofit Leadership. He has also received numerous Excellences in Teaching Awards and also highest ranked teacher award from the University of Pennsylvania.

He has also worked in the following universities in various capacities. Oxford University, University of Maryland, University of Melbourne, Yale University, University of New Haven, University of Melbourne.

Sehrish Shaban Tankha
Sehrish Shaban Tankha is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and media consultant. She has been part of the multimedia journalism revolution since 2005 when she started her career at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive. Shehas reported and produced content for washingtonpost.com, PBS News Hour and NYTimes.com and other international news outlets.

Most recently she was producing video as part of the launch team for an award winning multimedia business news site at Thomson Reuters in New York.

Sehrish also provides media and leadership training globally through clients such as the Global Press Institute and World Pulse.

She has a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Women’s Studies from the University of Virginia and a digital media production diploma from the New York Film Academy.

Yunus Tuncel
Yunus Tuncel received his doctoral degree in philosophy in 2000 from The New School for Social Research with a dissertation on Nietzsche’s philosophy entitled “The Principle of Agon in Nietzsche.” Since then he has taught in Philosophy and Humanities at New York University, Pace University and the New School University in New York City. He is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle based in New York City and serves on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The Agonist. In addition to typical philosophy courses, he teaches inter-disciplinary topical courses on power, taboo & transgression, gai saber & the troubadours, crime & punishment, and spectacle. He organizes textual workshops to read philosophical texts closely. In addition to Nietzsche and history of philosophy, he is interested in the twentieth century French thought and recent artistic, philosophical, and cultural movements, including transhumanism and posthumanism. His primary areas of research are art, culture, myth, sports, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations. He does research on these topics and presents papers in the US and internationally. In recent times he has undertaken a project called Philomobile to explore, with interested searchers, the works and lives of philosophers on location within their historical context. He has led three such trips, one on Nietzsche in May 2010, another one on ancient Greek philosophy in May 2011, and the last one on Roman philosophy and literature in May 2012. His most recent book, Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle, was published in March 2011 by Eye Corner Press.

Santosh Venkatesh
Dr Venkatesh is Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his B Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Ph D in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Since 1986 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in computational learning theory, information theory, wireless communication, and neural networks.

When not at work, he is also the coach of a youth soccer team; among his many duties is included spending quality time with the team mascot!

Gilles Verniers
Gilles Verniers is PhD candidate at Sciences Po, Paris, and Ph.D. affiliate at the Centre for Human Sciences, New Delhi. His research focuses on the Samajwadi Party and Electoral Politics in Uttar Pradesh. It covers the various dimensions of political representation:electoral sociology, study of legislators, party politics, party-voter linkages, elections and governance, corruption and criminalization. He also serves as Sciences Po Representative to India, in charge of student and faculty mobility and academic cooperations with various Indian partners. He is based in New Delhi since 2005.

Tommaso Vitale
Tommaso Vitale, MA in Political Sciences (1999) and PhD in Sociology at the Universitàdegli Studi di Milano (2003), Certificate of Achievement awarded in the Programme for Advanced Study in Comparative Institutional Analysis and Design at the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2004). Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po (Paris, France), where he is the scientific director of the biannual master “Governing the Large Metropolis”. His main research interests are in the fields of Comparative Urban Sociology and of Urban Politics where he has published books and articles on conflicts and urban change, on spatial segregation, on social service planning, and on élite and local governance of industrial restructuring. He is a member of the scientific committee of the peer-review series “Globalization, participation, and social movements” (director: Roberto Biorcio) and "Transizioni e politichepubbliche" and of the academic peer-review journal “Partecipazione e conflitto. Rivistaitaliana di studisociali e politici” of the "Participations. Revue de sciences socialessur la démocratie et la citoyennete" (De Boeck). He has been Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the Universitàdegli Studi di Milano–Bicocca; and visiting scholar at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis Affiliated Faculty (Bloomington, Indiana University), at the UMREducation et Société (INRP, Lyon) and at the Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale (EHESS, Paris).

Marie Hélène Zérah
Marie – Hélène Zérah is a PhD holder in Urban Studies from the Paris Institute of Urban Studies. She is currently a Senior Researcher with the Institute of Research for Development (Paris) and is deputed to the Centre de Sciences Humaines of New Delhi. She previously worked with the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank and with Ondeo (Suez Group). She was also involved in projects and consultancy for a number of organisations, including the European Union.

She has worked extensively in the area of water supply and sanitation in Indian cities as well as other urban services. Recently, her more recent research interests concern the shifts in urban governance in India. She has published a book on the question of water access in Delhi and recently co-edited a book on the Right to the City in India.

Cameron Arnold
With a background that encompasses teaching in Italy and Thailand, Cameron comes to the School of Convergence with a background in English as a second language and linguistics, as well as non-profit management experience. She earned her MA in linguistics at New York University and a BA in the history of art and Italian studies from the College of William and Mary. In addition, she has certificates in non-profit management, English language teaching and is a qualified Italian to English translator. She was selected as an English Language Fellow by the US Department of State in 2009.

Prior to joining the School of Convergence, Cameron worked as a teacher trainer and English language and curriculum consultant in north India for one year. She moved to Asia in 2007 when she took up a position as an English teacher at an international school in Thailand, returning to the classroom after a hiatus of 10 years. Her academic experience includes teaching English and communication skills to students of all ages, from seven to seventy, from a range of backgrounds and cultures. She currently teaches online courses in socio-linguistics with a US-based university as well.

Cameron’s experience also includes non-profit management, program design and fundraising in New York City where she worked for organizations such as the International Center of Photography and Henry Street Settlement, developing and managing programs aimed at immigrant and underserved communities. Languages and communication, and the connections between language and society, have held a life-long fascination for her. Language acquisition, English language education and the evolving role of English as a global language are her primary areas of interest.

Santhosh Babu
Santhosh Babu, the managing director of ODA – Organisation Development Alternatives (www.odalternatives.com), focuses on supporting growth and transformation of organisations and communities. Trained in system behaviour and large group intervention tools like appreciative inquiry, future search, deconstructionist approach and mindset change techniques, he’s also familiar with Gestalt psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, MBTI assessment, Enneagram tests, executive coaching and social network analysis.

His consultancy, ODA, works in the area of organisation development, a system-wide application of behavioural science knowledge to the planned development and reinforcement of organisational strategies, structures, and processes to improve an organisation’s effectiveness. The ODA has worked with about 80 organisations, including Airtel, Aviva, Metlife, Sterlite, Microsoft, Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Ranbaxy, Virgin Mobile, Citi, McKinsey, WHO, USAID etc.

Santhosh Babu, who focuses on transformation-related projects, leadership development and CEO coaching, visits many educational institutes like Management Development Institute (MDI), Institute of Management Technology (IMT) and Indian School of Business (ISB). The gamut of his work experience ranges from teaching students at a primary school in Bhutan to doing mass hypnosis shows in top-ranked institutes like IITs and IIMs. Santhosh worked with WWF India before starting his OD consultancy. When he is not facilitating organisation transformation programmes, he trains dogs, and helps schools and NGOs in transformation.

Santhosh has been a keynote speaker at many prestigious conferences, and has also conducted training programmes for a large number of prestigious organisations in India and abroad, including Abbot Healthcare Global meet, USAID annual conference, Schering-Plough annual sales conference, Ranbaxy Annual Global IT Meet, Amex Travel Business Annual Conference, Bausch and Lomb Annual Sales Meet, Infosys PLES Day, ABN Amro, Airtel, American Express, Amway, Aviva, Coca Cola, Citibank, Bausch and Lomb, Birlasoft, Deutsche Bank, Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Ericsson, GE Medical, Genpact, General Motors, Hewitt, LG, Microsoft, Mudra, Metlife, Nestle, Pfizer, Philips, Ranbaxy, Sterlite, Sony, Steria, Tata Motors, The Times of India, Virgin Mobile, and Xansa.

An avid reader and writer, Santhosh’s articles have been published in leading newspapers such as the Financial Express, Economic Times, Business Standard, DNA and Hindustan Times. His acclaimed study on the “Leadership Styles of 10 Indian Politicians” was published as a two-page report in the Economic Times in 2009.

Amita Baviskar
Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India); Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black); Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press); and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge). She is currently writing about bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.

Amita did her BA in Economics from University of Delhi, MA in Sociology from University of Delhi and earned a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University.

Andre Béteille
Andre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India. He is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology.

He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi. After a brief stint at the Indian Statistical Institute as a research fellow, he joined the faculty of sociology at the DSE.

In his long and distinguished career, he has in the past taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, and the London School of Economics. He is currently Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and of the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

In 2005, Professor Béteille received the Padma Bhushan as a mark of recognition for his work in the field of Sociology. The same year he was appointed a member of the Prime Minister's National Knowledge Commission. In 2006, following a proposal for increasing caste-based reservations, Andre Beteille quit the Commission in protest. In 2006, he was made National Professor.

Vivek Bhandari
Dr Vivek Bhandari was the Director and Professor of Social Science at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) in India. He is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania. After earning his doctorate from UPenn, he became a faculty member at the School of Social Sciences at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. In this capacity, Dr Bhandari also taught and researched collaboratively at academic institutions in the Five College Consortium located in Massachusetts. He had been in this present role since 2007, when he moved to India after fifteen years in the US.

Born on March 4, 1970, Dr Bhandari is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He did his BA (Honors) in History from St. Stephen’s College, and then a Master’s in Modern History from the University of Delhi. He went on to do a second Master’s in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to complete his PhD in History from the same university.

Most recently, as a co-author of "The State of Panchayats Report: An Independent Assessment, 2007-08,” India’s first macro-study of institutions of local self-governance in India, Dr Bhandari has taken a particular interest in the study of social and community mobilizations in India, and explored strategies for mediation between the state and extremist movements. His work as a professor and the director of IRMA involves an in-depth engagement with the changing character of rural India, and the role that academic and civil society organisations can play in shaping the country’s fast-unraveling rural transformation. In 2008, Business Today magazine included him in its list of “India’s Top 25 Young Executives under the age of 40.” Most recently, on a short break from IRMA, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI)at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inga Butefisch
Writing Centre coach, Inga Butefisch is a communications all-rounder. Starting her career as an advertorial copywriter in suburban newspapers in her native Western Australia (WA), she became a junior reporter with her newspaper group and subsequently an editor. The opportunity of a short-term contract in media relations for the Ministry of Education saw her “jump ship” to public relations. She hasn’t looked back. She enjoys the opportunity to encourage the media to write stories about the great organisations, people and projects she has worked for. This now includes New York-based international NGO, Human Rights Watch, and, of course, the Young India Fellowship Programme. While working in public education in Australia, Inga took up a secondment as a press secretary to the WA Cabinet, where she worked for the Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Prisons. It was during this posting that she, in 2005, holidayed in India and instantly developed a fascination for the country, especially its immense potential. She has lived here now more than three years. As well as writing coaching and media relations, Inga is a sub-editor and also runs training programmes for executives and other spokespeople in media interview techniques and in crisis communications.

Giti Chandra
Dr Giti Chandra is Assistant Professor of English at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. After completing her Master’s and M.Phil from Delhi University, she acquired her PhD from Rutgers, New Jersey, on Violence and Collective Identities. She has also published a book on the subject: Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To witness these wrongs unspeakable, Macmillan UK/US, 2009. She has also been a Course Writer for the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

A trained soprano and violinist, she was part of the Delhi Symphony Orchestra for ten years, and conducted the Capital City Minstrels, the best-known western classical choir in Delhi. Chandra was also involved in drama, with the Shakespeare Society at Stephen’s, as well as a group called Yatrik. Chandra is a founder-member of the Capital City Minstrels.

Apart from her book on Violence and the Collective Identity, Dr Chandra has also written her first novel, a book in the fantasy-fiction genre, for young adults. It is called The Fang of Summoning and is being received very well.

Sanjeev Chatterjee
Dr Sanjeev Chatterjee is Vice Dean, Associate Professor and Executive Director at the Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami, where he has taught classes in studio and field production, media and society, writing and documentary production at the University of Miami. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2002 and has been nominated two more times since.

Professor Chatterjee is producer, co-director and writer of a global motion picture project about potable water entitled “One Water”. An earlier short version of the film won two awards at the Broadcast Education Association and has been screened at special United Nations conferences in 2004 and 2005.

Prof. Chatterjee’s earlier documentary work explores issues of identity among people in the Indian diaspora. His films on the topic are “Bittersweet” (1995) about Asian Indians in the United States and “Pure Chutney” (1998) about people of Indian origin in Trinidad. “Pure Chutney” won second place at the Film South Asia competition in Kathmandu in 1999. In 2005 Professor Chatterjee completed “Dirty Laundry” - an essay film about people of Indian origin living in South Africa.

In 1999-2000, Professor Chatterjee was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to produce television reports about environment and culture in India. The topics of these reports ranged from deforestation and habitat fragmentation to the survival of folk and classical dance in India.

Professor Chatterjee has served on the Advisory Board for the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy since its inception in 2003. In 2006 he accepted the responsibility to advise the global online enterprise databazaar.com on their philanthropy aimed at supporting American and Indian students in the fields of Visual Journalism. Professor Chatterjee earned his M A in English Literature from Delhi University and his M.F.A. in Television Production from Brooklyn College.

Anunaya Chaubey
Anunaya Chaubey is a well-known artist and Principal of the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna University. Dr Chaubey also teaches English Literature at Patna University.

A self-taught painter, he has had a few exhibitions of his paintings in India and Canada. Many paintings of his are to be found in private and public collections the world over.

For his Doctoral thesis Dr Chaubey worked on Ezra Pound’s critical theories and practice. ‘The natural object is always the adequate symbol,’ is one of his favourite Poundean precepts.

In 2008, he was invited by the Government of Mauritius as a Visiting Fellow to set up the department of Arts and Crafts at the Rabindranath Tagore Institute.

Kenneth Foster
Dr Foster is a Professor at the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests relate to biomedical applications of nonionizing radiation from audio through microwave frequency ranges, and health and safety aspects of electromagnetic fields as they interact with the body. For example, Ken examines the prospects of workers in electrical occupations and the possibility (or lack of) cancer risk. Another and somewhat broader topic of interest is technological risk and impact of technology (principally electro-technologies on humans). His goal in this area is to examine technology, putting into perspective its relative risks and benefits to society. What he hopes to impart is a better perception of the social use of science.

Dr Foster did his BS in Physics from Michigan State University and his PhD in Physics from Indiana University.

Radha S. Hegde
Radha S. Hegde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. She has been teaching at NYU since 2001 and previously has taught at Rutgers University and at the State University of New York, Albany. She has also worked as a journalist with the Indian Express in Chennai before her academic career. Currently her research and teaching center on the subject of globalization, migration and global media flows. Her edited book, Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures is forthcoming with NYU Press in June 2011. Radha’s current research projects include a book on media and migration (Polity Press) and another ethnographic project on training Indian workers for the global economy. Her work has appeared in journals such as Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, Violence against Women, Global Media and Communication. She has been the Chair of the Feminist and Women's studies division of the National Communication Association. She serves on the editorial board of several major journals in the field of media and cultural studies.

Dwight Jaggard
Dr Dwight Jaggard is Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Undergraduate Curriculum Chair at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Jaggard consults, coaches and teaches around the world on leadership development, team building, enhancing communications and influence as well as on technical topics. His blend of interpersonal, business, academic and technology skills provides an ideal background for working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and is director of the EMTM (Executive Master’s of Technology Management) Program at Penn. He was the co-founder of a high-technology business.

Dr Jaggard has successfully taught over a thousand students on three continents about the foundations of leadership. He has published some 120 journal papers, authored numerous book chapters, edited a book and given several hundred technical talks. He has also been awarded five patents.

Devesh Kapur
Devesh Kapur was appointed Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India in 2006. He is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and holds the position of Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India. Prior to arriving at Penn, Professor Kapur was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard.

His research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages, especially international migration and international institutions, affect political and economic change in developing countries, especially India. His new book, Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India, was published by Princeton University Press in August 2010.

He is the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize awarded to the best junior faculty, Harvard College, in 2005.

Professor Kapur holds a B Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University; an M S in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota; and a Ph D from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.

Sanjeev Khanna
Dr Khanna is Professor and Rosenbluth Faculty Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Khanna’s primary research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial optimization and in complexity theory. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an IBM Faculty Award.

Mekhala Krishnamurthy
Mekhala Krishnamurthy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2012) at CASI, having recently completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London. Based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, her doctoral dissertation spans three decades of rural transformation in the social, economic and political lives of an agricultural market (mandi) town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The dissertation explores the interconnections of changing agrarian practices, reforming agricultural commodity markets, the dynamics of political participation, and the forces of local, regional and corporate capital as they are experienced and expressed in the everyday lives and relationships of farmers, traders, laborers, state and corporate institutions.

From 2003-2007, Mekhala worked at the Social Initiatives Group at ICICI Bank, the largest private sector bank in India. During this time, she coordinated the Group's Health Practice (now the ICICI Centre for Child Health and Nutrition) which is dedicated to securing sustainable improvements in the health and nutritional status of women and young children in the poorest regions of the country. Here, Mekhala facilitated partnerships between NGOs, governments and research institutions on a range of action-research, resource support and reform initiatives to develop community-based processes and public health systems in rural and urban contexts in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, and Mumbai. She has also organized and participated in national and international seminars, consultations and conferences. She serves on a number of bodies located within civil society and independent public institutions.

Through long-term field research and public engagement, Mekhala seeks to contribute to strengthening institutions and public systems in the very regions that present the most difficult challenges and vibrant possibilities for social justice and change in India.

Mekhala graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University, where she received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for her thesis on nariadalats, women's courts creatively conducted by and for rural women in the state of Gujarat. She subsequently completed an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, where she was the recipient of a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship. Her doctoral work at University College London has been supported by a Graduate Student Research Scholarship, an Overseas Research Scholarship, and the UCL Global Excellence Scholarship.

Rishikesha Krishnan
Rishikesha T. Krishnan is a Professor in the Corporate Strategy & Policy Area and Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB). His research interests are in the areas of strategy, innovation and competitiveness and he is currently the Chairperson of Research & Publications and IIMB.

Prof. Krishnan has been a consultant to, or conducted management development programs for, Hewlett-Packard, British Telecom, Daimler Chrysler, Wipro, Siemens, and the Governments of India and Karnataka.

Prof. Krishnan holds an M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur; an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science & Engineering) from Stanford University; and the title of Fellow (equivalent to Ph.D.) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, where his thesis proposal won the outstanding thesis proposal award instituted by the Industrial Finance Corporation of India.

Prof. Krishnan has been a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Panel on Intellectual Property, R&D, Technology and Innovation, the Advisory Council of CII’s National Innovation Mission and on the jury of NASSCOM’s innovation awards. He has just completed an external review of the plan schemes of India’s Department of Scientific & Industrial Research.

Prof. Krishnan is an independent director on the boards of D-Link (India) Ltd., Sundaram BNP Paribas Asset Management Company Ltd., and Halbit Avionics Pvt. Ltd. He is on the Indian advisory board of CIO Magazine and the Foundation for Excellence Trust, and a member of the Governing Board of the Indian Institute for Health Management Research, Jaipur. In addition, Prof. Krishnan is an active member of Globelics and Asialics, international fora that focus on the understanding of innovation systems and competitiveness. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Management & Entrepreneurship, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, Science, Technology & Society, and ManagementNext. He has presented his research at seminars at a number of reputed institutions such as Stanford University, London Business School, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

A. K. Shiva Kumar
A. K. Shiva Kumar is a development economist and professor. In addition to serving as an advisor to UNICEF - India, he is a member of India's National Advisory Council. The council was set up in June 2004 to oversee the implementation of India’s National Common Minimum Programme.

Dr Kumar earned his postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and his M A in economics from Bangalore University. He also holds a Master's degree in public administration and a Ph.D in political economy and government from Harvard University.

Shiva Kumar teaches economics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He has focused his research on poverty and human development, social sector analysis, and the impact of development policies on children and women.

Kumar has been a regular contributor to UNDP's Annual Human Development Reports. He has also been associated with the preparation of national human development reports in a number of countries including Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar and Serbia. In 2003, Kumar co-edited the book Readings in Human Development. His other publications include the Public Report on Basic Education (PROBE) (Oxford University Press, 1999) and a co-authored report entitled, Women in India: How free? How Equal?, for the UN System in India.

Lisbeth Lipari
Lisbeth A. Lipari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University. She joined the faculty at Denison in 1998. She earned a BA at the University of Minnesota in 1988, an MA at the University of Texas in 1992 and a PhD at Stanford University in 1996. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between language, politics, and ethics. Central to her work are questions involving the role of public communication in the creation of equitable and just democratic political practices.

As a scholar, Dr Lipari’s work on listening draws on both European phenomenological and dialogic philosophies and Indian Buddhist and language philosophies in order to develop a theoretical perspective on listening as an ethico-political communicative praxis. Among other things, her work centers of the interplay of alterity and ethics and the ways in which listening acts as a form of communicative conjuring that is nascent to the ethical relation. Much of her work is involved in developing new concepts and a theoretical vocabulary for understanding listening from humanistic perspectives. She has also published scholarship involving rhetorical history, which concerns the work of civil rights playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry, as well as critical political communication, which concerns the ideologies of public opinion polling.

As a teacher, Dr Lipari approaches the classroom as a student-centered interactive learning community where students and professor work collaboratively to apply, analyze, create, critique, and extend knowledge. Her teaching is embedded in interdisciplinary perspectives that help students draw distinctions and make connections across a variety of epistemic frameworks. Because of the centrality of communication to all aspects of our shared social world, students are encouraged to develop the habits of mind needed to fulfill their many life goals. In short, Dr. Lipari’s courses invite students to recognize and cultivate their own intellectual abilities, values, and goals so that they may contribute meaningfully to the communities they inhabit.

Dr Lipari’s work has been published in a number of scholarly journals including Argumentation and Advocacy, Communication Theory, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Listening, Journal of Communication, Journal of Popular Culture, Media Culture and Society, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Political Communication, and The Quarterly Journal of Speech, as well as in several edited volumes including 'After You,’ Human Sciences on Ethics in Dialogical Counselling; Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance; Encyclopedia of Identity; Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Queering Public Address: Sexuality and American Historical Discourse; and Politics, Discourse, and American Society. Her work has also been presented at a range of scholarly conferences including the International Association for Dialogic Studies; at an Interdisciplinary Expert Seminar held in the Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit; A Critical Symposium on Race, Communication, Media, and Counter-Racist Scholarship; at The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation; at the New Agendas in Political Communication; the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research; the National Communication Association; and the International Communication Association.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Dr Mukherjee is a historian and author, as well as Opinions Editor, The Telegraph, Kolkata.

Dr Mukherjee has taught history at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and the University of California, Santa Cruz. At the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), he became involved in several aspects of historiography, especially the issues concerning the ascendancy of the North in the production of knowledge. He has edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader and is the author of the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75, and co-edited Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee studied at Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

His D Phil in Modern History at the University of Oxford in 1981 was based on his acclaimed thesis on the revolt of 1857 which presented a view of the revolt from the native perspective. He has revisited this theme in his books including Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance, Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres, which tries to re-frame the popular colonial image of the massacres, and Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?

Dhruv Raina
Dhruv Raina is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Education at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He studied physics at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from Göteborg University. His research has focused upon the politics and cultures of scientific knowledge in South Asia. He has co edited Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham (1999) and Social History of Sciences in Colonial India (2007), and more recently Science between Europe and Asia (2010). Images and Contexts: the Historiography of Science and Modernity (2003) was a collection of papers contextualizing science and its modernity in India. S.Irfan Habib and he co-authored Domesticating Modern Science (2004) which again addressed the encounter between modern science and the so called “traditional sciences” in colonial India. He has published papers on related subjects in journals of the history and philosophy of science, social studies of science and social and political history. Over the last couple of years he has been working on cultures of history and science policy in postcolonial South Asia, in addition to a decade long preoccupation with the social theory of science, technology and mathematics. A forthcoming work deals with transnational academic networks and the formation of academic disciplines. In 2007-2008 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and is the first holder of the Heinrich Zimmer Chair for Philosophy and Intellectual History at Heidelberg University.

Maura Sabin
Writing Centre tutor Maura Sabin has had a long and varied career in IT, PR, theatre, and writing. She got her B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park. She began her professional life as an IT specialist for the U.S. Department of State and eventually joined the Foreign Service. Her diplomatic career, which spanned 16 years, took her to Central America and Asia, where she discovered the delights of India. After resigning from the government, she returned to New Delhi in 2005 and delved into the worlds of PR and theatre. Both fields taught her valuable lessons in crisis management and the perils and pleasures of leadership. For the last four years, she has been a freelance writer and editor, focusing on technology, arts and culture, and health and wellness. She has edited four non-fiction books on subjects as diverse as long-distance running, travel and Indian cuisine. She is also a social media consultant, helping clients create and fine tune their websites. In her spare time, she is a voiceover artist for various U.S. companies and school systems and has also voiced for Indian IT ventures.

Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urbanist. He is Founder and President of the Sustainable Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and is Deutsche Bank's Global strategist. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (Penguin).

The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for 2010.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well-regarded environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in recognition for his work on urban systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - an environmental accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, in 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes a regular column for Business Standard, India's second largest business newspaper. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Eric Saranovitz
Dr Eric Saranovitz has a broad and diverse background in international media, journalism and communication—both as a scholar and a practitioner. He earned his PhD in Media Studies from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He received his MA in Communication and Journalism from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and his BA in Comparative Religion from Amherst College. He is currently the Associate Dean at the School of Convergence (SOC), Delhi. Before he joined SOC, Eric worked as an Instructor of Media Studies at NYU and as an Assistant Professor in International Communication at Denison University—an elite college in central Ohio.

Among the many honours he has received for his academic research, Eric was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for his research on the Israeli national media system. Eric’s research interests and teaching have been focused on developments in media technologies, national and international media industries, globalization, national identity, and documentary production.

In addition to his academic passion for understanding developments in electronic and print media, Dr Saranovitz has held a wide variety of positions in the media and communications industry as well. Before beginning his PhD, Eric worked as a marketing communications consultant in Tel Aviv, advising start-up high tech companies on their international marketing campaigns and web design during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also worked as an assistant correspondent in the Jerusalem bureau of the Japanese broadcaster, NHK. To add to his diverse experiences, Eric also served as a Combat Medic in the Israeli Defense Force.

A gifted writer, Eric has taught courses in expository writing and has worked as a writing consultant in New York City, helping aspiring journalists, writers, and filmmakers develop their skills and find their voice. His expertise as a writer was developed in part through the various positions he has held over the years in public relations firms in both Boston and New York City.

Subir Sinha
Subir Sinha is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he is also the Research Tutor (in charge of the MPhil/PhD program), and has previously been the Chair of the Centre for South Asian Studies.

He lectures in postgraduate courses on the theory, politics and practice of international development, civil society and social movements, globalisation, and development conditions and experiences, where he draws on material pertaining to Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Subir has been a visiting faculty at the summer school at the University of Turin, and a lecturer at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Pavia, both in Italy. He has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Developing Country Research Centre at the University of Delhi. Previously, he has been a Research Fellow at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, and an Assistant Professor at the Environmental Program at the University of Vermont in the US.

He has lectured widely on topics relating to various aspects of the history of international development, the politics of the poor, environmentalism, civil society, developmental performance of governments, the nature of the developmental state, and the history of social movements as it connects with contemporary political theory, with specific reference to India. Recently, he has lectured on these topics in Delhi, Oxford, Brasilia, LSE, King’s College London, and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

Subir’s research publications focus on various historical and contemporary dynamics in India. He has published on the Chipko Movement and the Kerala Fishworkers’ Movement, on the ‘transnational regime’ aiding Indian development, on how poor people’s movements interact with science, the law, and notions of citizenship, and how ‘neoliberalism’ has changed Indian politics and civil society.

Subir has been educated in schools in Jharkhand and Bihar, took a B.A. in History from Delhi University, started his doctoral degree in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, finishing from Northwestern University in the US.

Eswaran Sridharan
Eswaran Sridharan is the Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), (in New Delhi), from its inception in 1997, and was earlier with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is a political scientist with research interests in the political economy of development; elections, party systems and coalition politics; and international relations theory, conflict resolution and cooperation-building in South Asia. He is the author of The Political Economy of Industrial Promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective 1969-1994 (1996); and has edited International Relations Theory and South Asia, Vols. I and II (2011) and The India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship: Theories of Deterrence and International Relations (2007), and co-edited (with Zoya Hasan and R. Sudarshan), India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies (2002; 2005); co-edited (with Anthony D’Costa), India in the Global Software Industry: Innovation, Firms Strategies and Development, (2004); and co-edited (with Peter de Souza) India’s Political Parties (2006). Another edited volume on comparative patterns of coalition politics in Asian democracies has been accepted by Oxford University Press. He has published over forty-five journal articles and chapters in edited volumes, and has presented papers at many conferences and given talks at many universities and institutes internationally and in India. He is the Editor of India Review, published by Routledge, USA and is the only India-based editor of a US-based academic journal; he is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. He has testified as an expert before the Indian government’s Committee on State Funding of Elections, and has been a consultant to the World Bank, Ford Foundation, International IDEA, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and some private companies in India and abroad. He majored in chemistry at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, took post-graduate degrees in political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kenwyn Smith
Dr Kenwyn K Smith is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Director of Penn's Master’s Programme in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership. Dr Smith teaches leadership, group and intergroup dynamics, organizational politics, change management in three of Penn’s schools: the School of Social Policy & Practice, the Wharton School and the Fels Institute of Government (Arts and Sciences). Dr Smith is an international scholar in the fields of group and intergroup dynamics, organizational change and leadership. His research experience ranges from prisons to schools, from businesses to health care institutions, from state enterprises to social entrepreneurial activities, from oppressed black townships in South Africa to agencies creating sustainable livelihoods in rural India, from pharmaceuticals in Belgium to financial services in urban America, from the World Bank to a community in Philadelphia wrestling with the anguish of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Dr Smith did his PhD in Organizational Behavior in 1974 and MA in Organizational Behavior in 1973 from Yale University. He has founded a number of volunteer-based, nonprofit organizations and is about to launch several research initiatives that will be at the heart of Penn’s Center on Nonprofit Leadership. He has also received numerous Excellences in Teaching Awards and also highest ranked teacher award from the University of Pennsylvania.

He has also worked in the following universities in various capacities. Oxford University, University of Maryland, University of Melbourne, Yale University, University of New Haven, University of Melbourne.

Vijay Tankha
Vijay Tankha has been teaching philosophy at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, where he has been head of the department since 1990. He founded and has been the director of the School of Languages at St. Stephen’s College for the last 11 years. He did his PhD, specialising in Plato’s early works, from McGill University, Montreal, on a Commonwealth fellowship.

Tankha’s research interests led him to a study of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Awarded two fellowships by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), he has taught courses in Plato, Parmenides and Aristotle at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Apart from his interest in Greek philosophy, he has also taught courses in Indian philosophy, logic and ethics.

Interested in philosophy as well as literature, Tankha has published articles in journals and periodicals over the years. His Ancient Greek Philosophy: Thales to Gorgias was published by Pearson in 2006. He is currently working on a book on Plato’s The Republic.

Gene Terry
Gene Terry got his BA degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He also holds a Grade ARELSA/ACELS Certificate from the Language Centre of Ireland.

Terry’s work experience includes a stint as an EFL teacher at the Dublin School of English, where he taught TOEFL and IELTS prep courses to adult students from Europe, Asia and Latin America. He also worked as a graduate teaching assistant at University of California’s History Department and as an English instructor at Kansas State University.

Terry is an avid writer and his short stories have been published in a wide range of international journals such as The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Dublin Review, The South Dakota Review, The Connecticut Review, The Barcelona Review, Fourteen Hills, 42Opus, Juked, Dark Sky Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Failbetter, Eclectica, Storyglossia and Miranda. He received the Editor’s Select Prize at 42Opus and won a Notable Story commendation at Story South’s 2007 Million Writers Award. He has to his credit vast experience in the media – among the positions he took up at various production houses in the United States and Ireland are that of transmission editor, audio-visual technician and technical research intern. He has also worked pro bono as a production assistant at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata.

In addition to the United States and Ireland, Terry, who speaks fluent Spanish, has lived and worked in England, Mexico, Chile and India. He currently resides in New Delhi with his wife and son.

Santosh Venkatesh
Dr Venkatesh is Associate Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his B Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Ph D in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Since 1986 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in computational learning theory, information theory, wireless communication, and neural networks.

When not at work, he is also the coach of a youth soccer team; among his many duties is included spending quality time with the team mascot!

Sanjeev Aga
Mr. Sanjeev Aga is Managing Director of Idea Cellular Limited, which is among the top four mobile telephony players in India. He is a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Management Corporation, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India.

In a business career commencing in 1973, Mr. Aga has held senior positions in Asian Paints, Chellarams (Nigeria), and Jenson & Nicholson. In 1987, he joined Blow Plast to head the furniture business, was made Chief Executive of Mattel Toys in 1990, and in January 1993 was appointed Managing Director of Blow Plast with multi-business responsibility including the flagship VIP luggage business.

In November 1998, he was appointed CEO of the Aditya Birla Group's telecom JV, Birla AT&T Ltd. He led the company through a period of fast-paced change, through expansion and acquisition, and merger with Tata Cellular Ltd., to be CEO of what became Idea Cellular. From May 2005 until October 2006, Mr. Aga was Managing Director of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, a diversified conglomerate with manufacturing and service sector businesses.

Mr. Aga is an Honours graduate in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Smita Agarwal
Smita Agarwal is currently the Director of Education at American India Foundation (AIF). With two Masters degrees in Economics and Management from BITS, Pilani, she started her career in the Development sector in 1987. Smita has two decades of experience in Education, of which the last eight years have been spent working on education of migrant children. The Learning and Migration Program (LAMP) was initiated by her in AIF. This programme covers multiple migration sectors, is running in four states in India currently, and has reached out to over 280,000 children until now.

Smita’s work is focussed on retention of migrant children in the school net, improving learning levels of children, and strengthening school governance in the villages directed at systemic change. This is done through building teacher capacity, upgrading classroom pedagogy and engaging communities, specially youth and women, to improve community-school linkages. Her work is highly field based, and she comes with in-depth understanding of the ground reality. And her extensive travels to more than 300 districts of the India as well as several other countries give a very rich perspective to her work.

She has significant advocacy experience and has been successful in effecting policy change vis a vis education of migrant children in India. She has worked with large scale projects such as Lok Jumbish and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan in the past.

Smita has published a book and several papers, which have been highly acclaimed in India and abroad, and are a rich source of reference.

Madeleine K. Albright
Madeleine K. Albright is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

Dr. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Dr. Albright reinforced America's alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labour, and environmental standards abroad. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President's Cabinet. From 1989 to 1992, she served as President of the Center for National Policy. Previously she was a member of President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council and White House staff from 1978 to 1981, and from 1976 to 1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie.

Dr. Albright is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Albright serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Institute. In 2009, Dr. Albright was asked by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to Chair a Group of Experts on NATO's New Strategic Concept.

Dr. Albright received a B.A. with Honors from Wellesley College, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, as well as a Certificate from its Russian Institute. Dr. Albright is the author of four New York Times best-sellers. Her autobiography, Madam Secretary: A Memoir, was published in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Albright published The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs. Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership was published in 2008. Her latest book, Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box was published in 2009.

Kulbir Arora
Kulbir Arora will become the Global Head of Architecture, Strategy & Engineering at Deutsche Bank Group starting March 2013. Based in London in this capacity, he will lead technology strategy, set enterprise architecture and establish design, control and technology risk mitigation methodologies across the global Deutsche Bank organisation.

Previously, Kulbir was the Chief Technology Officer across the trading and sales divisions at Goldman Sachs, New York. He led the design and development of application software for derivatives, equities, and fixed income product lines and set technology strategy with respect to costs, quality and commercial needs. He served on the Goldman Sachs Technology Architecture Board, the Technology Career Development Council and on Technology steering committees concerned with data capacity, growth and retention.

Kulbir joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 as a software architect for FX systems. He managed the Currencies and Commodities Trade Processing Department and improved the scale and stability of the systems by an order of magnitude via a major re-architecture initiative. In 2000, he moved to a Core Strategist role in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. He returned to Technology in 2001, to lead the effort to build new systems around the firm's Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives business. He became a Technology Fellow in 2003 and a Managing Director in 2006.

Prior to 1997, Kulbir was a Principal at Technology Solutions Company, Chicago. He began his career in academia and has worked as an independent consultant in the defense, manufacturing and financial industries.

Ajay Bakshi
Dr. Ajay Bakshi is an experienced healthcare professional having played diverse roles as practicing Neurosurgeon (India), Stem cell Scientist (USA) and management Consultant (global) over the last 2 decades. He has abundant expertise in healthcare, has strong leadership skills and a passion for innovation.

In his last role, Dr. Bakshi was an Associate Partner with McKinsey and company where he worked for more than 6 years. He started in the New Jersey office, then moved to Dubai office and most recently transferred to the India office of Mckinsey. During this period, Dr. Bakshi worked on strategic, organisational, operational and M&A related engagements with leading international hospital chains, top-10 global pharmaceuticals and medical device companies, health insurance companies, philanthropic foundations and several ministers of health. In addition, Dr. Bakshi is deeply passionate about using technology to improve healthcare delivery models and he helped create and lead Mckinsey`s global mobile healthcare practice.

In his first professional assignment, Dr. Bakshi worked as a consultant Neurosurgeon at a leading private hospital in New Delhi. During this period (1998-2002), Dr. Bakshi conducted several hundred major brain and spinal surgeries including those for brain tumours, brain haemorrhage, injuries, congenital malformations and movement disorders. In particular, he pioneered Endoscopic Neurosurgical research work has been published in Journal of India.

Dr. Bakshi received his medical training from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India. He completed his MBBS in 1991 and M.Ch (Neurosurgery) in 1996. He has also completed the Wharton Management Programme from The Wharton School (2002-2004). He is married to Dr. Asha Bakshi (also a Neurosurgeon). He loves to play golf, read history and biographies and play the violin when in tranquil surroundings.

Rahul Bannerjee
In the early 1980s, a fresh civil engineer out of IIT Kharagpur, Rahul Banerjee answered an inner calling to be among the less-privileged and went to work in the interiors among the Bhil Adivasis. He questioned the usefulness of his technical degree and though he joined National Dairy Development Board in Kolkata, he quit after a few days because they didn't allow him to wear Kurta-Pyjamas to office. He then headed straight to Rajasthan to work for an NGO that sent him to work among the Adivasis in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh.He helped them fight for their rights against the socio-economic oppression that existed from the time of the British rule in India.

His strong analytical skills with a dexterous writing ability have propelled him to work as a freelancer in the domain of statistical data analysis for about 12 years.

He has worked in the realm of water conservation widely and has been involved with water recharging, harvesting and waste-water treatment quite effectively for clients like the World Bank and International Water Management Institute. Since 1997, he has been the Director Research of Aarohi trust and has undertaken several research activities, impact assessments of projects and designing strategies for state planning commissions in Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh.

Over the years, he has helped grow empowering initiatives among the Bhil tribals and has helped to preserve the society's rights in the middle of several challenges.

Rukmini Banerji
Rukmini Banerji is Director of ASER Centre, the autonomous research and assessment unit of Pratham. She has also been a member of the national leadership team of Pratham, a large scale citizens’ initiative to universalise elementary education in India. Currently Pratham works in 20 states across India and has a presence in 250 out of approximately 600 districts. Initially trained as an economist (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and the Delhi School of Economics) Rukmini was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University between 1981 and 1983. She completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1991. Rukmini did her post-doctoral work at the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago and later worked as a programme officer at the Spencer Foundation. Originally from Bihar, she is now based in Delhi.

With Pratham, Rukmini’s work since 1996 has focused on designing and implementing large scale programmes for helping primary school children learn well. This is done through building collaborative partnerships with state governments and with village communities. Much of her field experience is in states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Rukmini has also been a core member of the team that designs and implements ASER (Annual Status of Education Report). ASER is the largest annual study ever done by Indian citizens to monitor the status of elementary education in the country. In the seven years since it was initiated, the ASER effort has been widely recognised for its innovative use of citizens’ participation in understanding and improving the delivery of basic services.

Atul Bhalla
Atul Bhalla is an artist, born in New Delhi, India in 1964. He did his B.F.A at Fine Arts College of Art, New Delhi, University of Delhi. For his Masters he went to Fine Arts School of Art, (M.F.A.) Northern Illinois University, USA. For a number of years now, his work has focused on the river Yamuna and the streets of Old Delhi; the two are linked not just by their proximity but through the artist’s preoccupation with the theme of water.

Atulis making the pollution of the sacred Yamuna the focus of his latest work, which is currently on display at Harvard University in the USA. The exhibit, entitled, “I Was Not Waving, but Drowning,” uses photographs to bring a new dimension to Stevie Smith’s 1957 poem “Not Waving But Drowning”. Polluted Yamuna has been featured in Bhalla’s art since 2005. OWNING

Bhalla is known for his photographic work, although his interdisciplinary practice also includes paintings, sculptures, installations, photo performances and videos. Bhalla has exhibited internationally, most recently in ‘Paris-Delhi-Bombay: India through the eyes of Indian and French artists’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and ‘Water’, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, USA.

Promod Bhasin
Pramod founded Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) in 1997. Under his leadership, Genpact pioneered the Business Process Management Industry in India. This industry now employs over a million people in India, directly and indirectly. Genpact has also been the pioneer of this industry in China and Eastern Europe. Today, it is acknowledged as a leader in the globalization of services and technology. Genpact serves its global customers from over 39 operations centers in 13 countries, with over 43,000 employees across a wide range of business processes, technologies and industries. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Pramod has recently started his own entrepreneurial venture in the education and training sector, named Skills Academy. Pramod was earlier an Officer of General Electric (GE). His career with GE and RCA spanned 25 years across the US, Europe and Asia. He was most recently the head of GE Capital in India and in Asia, having earlier worked with GE Capital's Corporate and Finance Group in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.

Pramod is a Chartered Accountant from Thomson McLintock & Co., London, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University. He was the past Chairman of India's National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM), and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of NASSCOM Foundation. Pramod is the current Chairman of the CII Services Council. He serves on the boards of NDTV and SKS Microfinance. He is also Chairman of the Junior Achievement India Founders Board, and is on the governing boards of several educational institutions including IIM Lucknow, Lady Shri Ram College, and Shri Ram School.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman of InfoEdge, the company that runs the popular job portal Naukri.com. Mr. Bikhchandani obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management ("PGDM") from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. His work experience includes an advertising position at Lintas India Limited, a marketing position at HMM Limited (now known as Glaxo SmithKline), and a senior management position at CMYK Printech Private Limited (owner of The Pioneer newspaper). Sanjeev, along with his partner Hitesh Oberoi, won the "Ernst and Young – Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2008 for Business Transformation. He also won the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award & the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Business in 2008. Sanjeev is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at conferences and at business schools.

Ravindra Chamaria
A Commerce Graduate from Calcutta University, Mr Ravindra Chamaria is a visionary and pioneer who has spawned and nurtured companies in new and unchartered areas of business activities. With his sharp foresight he established many enterprises, right from ideation to completion, both in India and abroad. Ravindra has set ground-breaking precedents and raised industry benchmarks in the sphere of IT and green Infrastructure. His interests are in multifarious activities including trading, manufacturing, power generation, air pollution control, greening projects and capacity building. He is deeply committed to the causes where children are the main beneficiaries and the cause closest to his heart is the Akshaya Patra Foundation, of which, he is the Chairman on the Advisory Board. Ravindra is an Executive Committee Member and Chairman of the Infrastructure Sub-committee of Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry and a Regional Council Member of the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Amit Chandra
Mr. Chandra joined Bain Capital in early 2008 to found the Mumbai office and today is the Managing Director of Bain Capital Advisors. Mr. Chandra spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, India's leading investment bank. At the firm, he had direct oversight of its Global Markets & Investment Banking business. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 as its Board Member & Managing Director. Previously, Mr. Chandra was a partner, since inception, of NSR Advisors, which advised NSR Private Equity, a $1.3 bn fund focused on the sub-continent. Prior to his MBA, Mr. Chandra worked for over two years at India's leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. Mr. Chandra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. He is active in India’s not- for- profit space and serves as a Trustee/Board Member of The Akanksha Foundation (providing education to less privileged children), GiveIndia (India's leading philanthropic exchange), and Creditibility Alliance (working towards uplifting standards of NGOs).

Mr. Chandra received his MBA from Boston College, on a full research scholarship, and was awarded the school's Distinguished Alumni in 2007. He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University.

T D Chandrasekhar
An alumnus of IIT Delhi and XLRI Jamshedpur India, TD has more than 20 years of general management corporate experience in India, US and Southeast Asia. He has worked in areas like Corporate and Strategic Planning, Management Consulting, Re-engineering and change management and large programme implementations and organisation development.

TD’s last corporate role was as Head of Ameriprise India, which he set up for the parent organisation and ran and scaled it up successfully. Prior to Ameriprise India, TD handled a large consulting team in Ameriprise (erstwhile American Express Financial Advisors) in Minneapolis. He started his career in Strategic planning at NIIT and then joined PwC leading management consulting assignments. Currently TD is also a consultant for capacity building programmes of the central government in India. He is also a lead consultant for Harvard Business Publishing India, the corporate consulting arm of Harvard Business School.

Leading workshops, facilitating training programmes and coaching have been his interest area(s) throughout his career. An expert facilitator, TD has trained and led workshops and done coaching assignments for middle and senior management teams across reputed MNCs and Indian businesses.

He is especially interested in the area of decision making and innovative thinking and has conducted Sr. Management programs on topics like Strategic Thinking, Creativity and problem solving, Developing expertise, Leadership, Talent Development and creating smart and high performing Teams.

In his corporate career, TD has been recognised with global awards. Throughout his career he has shown the ability to develop high performing leaders and teams.

TD is deeply interested in Zen and is a Taichi student.

Jerome Chin
Jerome H. Chin, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. is a board-certified neurologist and lecturer in Global Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Pharmacology) from Yale University and his M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed a neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Chin is the chair of the Global Health Section in the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the visiting faculty at Makerere University School of Medicine in Kampala, Uganda.

Ajay Chaturvedi
Founder of HarVa, Ajay Chaturvedi, is an ex-Citi where he served in Strategy and Sales positions in Cards and Consumer banking verticals. Ajay begun his career with IBM Consulting in the US and has experience in Management, Operations and IT Consulting across Financial Services, IT and ITeS industries in US, UK, and South East Asia. Prior to Citi, Ajay was the Transition Leader at Global Vantedge, a company that was a pioneer in many ways besides being the first offshore receivables management provider. Ajay is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and a Graduate in Management of Technology from the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ajay truly believes in the power of cost effective innovation on all aspects that will lead to value creation across the world, especially in India and supports the Socio-Capitalistic business models as the drivers of inclusive growth. He also thinks that the real growth in rural areas across the world and in India is yet to come and is possible only when we get into the real fabric of the country and not just overlay thoughts and patterns from the developed nations. A voracious reader, an avid golfer and an ardent traveller, Ajay spent almost a decade living in the US and across the world and now lives in Gurgaon. Most recently Ajay was awarded CNN IBN Youth Icon / Young Indian Leader of the year 2011.

Most recently HarVaXPO entered the Limca Book of Records for being the first all women rural BPO in the world. HarVa has won numerous awards and accolades including the Manthan Chairman Excellence Award 2011, SKOCH Financial Inclusion 2011 and TiE Entrepreneurial Excellence 2011 among the latest recognitions. Earlier in 2011, HarVa was also identified as the 3rd most innovative company in India (next only to Tata Motors) by the Fast Company magazine of New York, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability& Empowered Woman Award by the Rockefeller Foundation / United Nations 2012.

Ajay has recently been nominated as one of the Amazing Global Indian by Times Now News 2012-13 and Yahoo unsung Heroes 2012-13.

Rajeev Chopra
Mr. Rajeev Chopra has been the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Philips Electronics India Limited of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV since December 13, 2010. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific at the Philips Lighting Luminaires Business Unit. He served as Vice Chairman and a Director of Philips Electronics India since December 13, 2010.

He has been with Philips for 8 years- prior to this Rajeev was head of the Lighting sector in India, and before that he was the Asia-Pacific head for the Philips Luminaires Business Unit in Shanghai. Rajeev has 20 years of work experience across India and the Asia-Pacific region, Prior to Philips, he worked in the IT industry (with Cisco, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard) and FMCG (with Reckitt and Colman).

He holds Masters Degree in Business Administration from Tulane University, Bachelors Degree from IIT Kanpur and Advanced Management Program from Wharton School in 2010.

Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and General Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, was a New York Times best-seller. He was recently named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg Business Week dubbed him “America’s Hottest Economist.” Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” of 2011. He co-writes a blog at www.marginalrevolution.com with his colleague Alex Tabarrok and has recently inaugurated an on-line education project, MRUniversity.com.

Ashish Dhawan
Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who guides the Foundation with his strategic vision, values and fresh approach to philanthropy. Prior to founding Central Square, Ashish was Sr. Managing Director, ChrysCapital; a private equity firm that he co-founded in 1999.

Ashish serves on the board of several non-profits including Akanksha Foundation, 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Janaagraha and GiveLife. He is also a member of the HBS India Advisory Board. Previously Ashish has worked with leading investment institutions such as Goldman Sachs, GP Investments and MDC Partners. He is an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual bachelor's (BS/BA) holder in applied mathematics and economics with Magna Cum Laude honours from Yale University.

Mike Feinberg
Dr. Mike Feinberg is Co-Founder of the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Foundation and the Superintendent of KIPP Houston, which includes 18 public charter schools: nine middle schools, seven primary schools, and two high schools. To date, 89% of the KIPPsters who have left the KIPP Houston middle schools have gone on to college.

Feinberg received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and a Masters of Education from National-Louis University in 2005. In 2010, Yale University awarded Feinberg an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters. After graduating from Penn, Dr. Feinberg joined Teach for America and taught fifth grade in Houston, Texas.

In 1994, he co-founded KIPP with Dave Levin and established KIPP Academy Houston a year later. In 2000, he co-founded the KIPP Foundation to help take KIPP to scale. Today, KIPP is a network of 99 high-performing public schools around the nation serving 24,000 children. In 2004, Dr. Feinberg was named an Ashoka Fellow, awarded to leading social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions and the potential to change patterns across society; a year later, he led the effort to start a public K-8 school in Houston for Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans. The school, NOW College Prep (New Orleans West), opened in just ten days.

In 2006, Drs. Feinberg and Levin were awarded the Thomas B. Fordham Prize for Excellence in Education, and the National Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, and in 2008, Feinberg and Levin were named to the list of "America's Best Leaders" by US News & World Report and received the Presidential Citizens Medal in the Oval Office of the White House. In 2009, they were the recipients of the Charles Bronfman Prize as well as the Manhattan Institute's William E. Simon prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship. Dr. Feinberg and Dr. Levin's efforts became the story told by Washington Post reporter Jay Mathews in his book, Work Hard. Be Nice. KIPP has been featured on The Oprah Show, CBS 60 Minutes, ABC World News Tonight, and in The New York Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, and more.

Frances Fitzgerald
Frances was elected as T.D. (Teachta Dála a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament) for Dublin Mid West in 2011 to serve in the 31st Dail. Upon her election Frances was appointed Ireland's first ever Minister for Children. Frances was also Leader of the Opposition in the Senate on her election as a Senator to the 23rd Seanad and previously served as T.D. for Dublin South East for ten years. She gained a B.Soc. Science in U.C.D. and an M.SC. in Social Administration and Social Work in the London School of Economics. Prior to her election to the Dail Frances was a high profile Chair of the National Women’s Council of Ireland (1988-1992) and Vice President of the European Women’s Lobby.

As Chair of the National Women’s Council she initiated and served on the second Commission on Women, chairing the Employment Sub-Committee. She held the first conference on Women and Decision Making and championed the cause of introducing equality proofing mechanisms. Frances also led a number of high profile health campaigns. She has served on the boards of the Employment Equality Agency, Arthritis Ireland, The O’Reilly Theatre and the Breast Research Unit in St. Vincent’s Hospital. Frances was also Vice Chair of Europa Donna, the European breast cancer campaign.

Frances trained as a social worker and family therapist. She worked in the Mater Hospital, St James’ Hospital and Ballymun Child and Family Centre for ten years. She also worked in inner city communities in London and Dublin. She specialised in family-work including adoption and fostering. She also lectured in social work in Adult Education Courses and in Trinity College, Dublin.

Since her first election to the Dail, Frances has been appointed to six different portfolios under three different Fine Gael leaders - John Bruton, Michael Noonan and Enda Kenny. On her first day in the Dail Frances was appointed to the Fine Gael front bench as Spokesperson on Arts, Culture and theGaeltacht and went on to serve as Spokesperson on Defence, Social Community & Family Affairs, Equality & Family Affairs, Social Welfare and served as Spokesperson Health and Children in the Senate.

Frances has served on various Dail and Seanad committees including Justice, Health, the Committee on the Constitution, the National and Economic Social Forum, the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Social Affairs and Health. Frances was also a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children and co-authored several Oireachtas Committee reports. She recently co-founded the first ever Cross Party Group on Mental Health and worked closely with Amnesty International to help break down the stigmas associated with mental health issues. Frances has campaigned strongly on mental health, special needs, social policy and equality issues and worked professionally in these areas.

Frances is married and has three sons in their twenties, an actor, a trainee accountant and a student.

Amit Garg
Amit Garg is a Senior Associate at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). Prior to joining NVP, Amit spent four years at Google, where he was an associate product manager and a business analyst. As a product manager, he contributed to the development of Google Images, helped launch Google’s Brazil offices and internationalised several products. In his role as a business analyst, Amit supplied the business and sales teams with critical analytics to make informed business and sales decisions.

Amit was born and raised in Brazil and has lived throughout India and the U.S. He is fluent in Portuguese and Hindi and advanced in Spanish and Urdu. Since 2000, Amit has led Hospital for Hope (hospitalforhope.org), a non-profit focused on developing infrastructure in rural India. He has also scaled Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa, been selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and is a frequent speaker on startups, venture capital, and global trends. Amit has also founded two startups BookBox and iShoe, Inc.

Amit holds an MBA from Harvard Business School as well as a Master of science degree in biomedical informatics and a Bachelor of science degree in computer science (major) and biology (minor) from Stanford University.

Ashutosh Garg
Ashutosh Garg is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Guardian Pharmacy, a chain of Health, Wellness and Beauty stores with over 230 stores in the country. Prior to starting his own venture, Garg had worked in the corporate sector for 25 years. He worked for ITC Limited for 17 years, leaving in 1995 as Managing Director of one of the ITC group companies, based in Singapore. Garg has started an exciting social initiative to provide basic health services in rural India with a focus on women and children by establishing pharmacies under the brand name “Aushadhi”. His company is also the publisher of newspaper and magazine in English and Hindi called the Guardian Health Chronicle.

Garg is a director of the GAVI Fund a US$ 8 billion fund formed by the WHO, UNICEF, The World Bank, the Gates Foundation and some of the developed nations to meet the 4th and 5th United Nations Millennium Development Goals for Women and Child health. A member of the Retail Strategy Council of India and the Advisory Council of the Centre for Policy Research, a premier think tank supported by the Government of India, he also serves on the boards of several companies.

Ramachandra Guha
Dr Ramachandra Guha is an Indian writer whose research interests have included environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for the newspapers The Telegraph, Khaleej Times, and The Hindustan Times. He is a fellow of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Born in Dehra Dun in 1958, Guha studied at The Doon School and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He graduated in Economics with a BA in 1977 and then an MA from the Delhi School of Economics, and did a PhD in Sociology at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and Oslo University, and later at the Indian Institute of Science. During this period, he was also a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in Germany.

He served as Sundaraja Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2003. He is the managing trustee of the New India Foundation, a nonprofit body that funds research on modern Indian history.

He is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and Ecco in 2007. The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. And in 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award.

Anshu Gupta
Popularly known as the Clothing Man, Anshu has done his Mass communications twice and masters in Economics. Starting as a freelance journalist, Anshu left a corporate job in 1998 and founded GOONJ with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it among the list of subjects for the development sector. An Ashoka Fellow and the Global Ambassador of Ashoka, Anshu is creating a mass movement for recycling and reuse of tonnes of waste material by channelising it from the cities to the villages, as a resource for rural development. A powerful and inspiring speaker, Anshu addresses many national and international forums to bring clothing on the development agenda and to motivate the youth to take action. He is a regular speaker in many parts of the world on innovation, leadership, village development, power of youths and social entrepreneurship. Recently Anshu has been awarded the ‘Social entrepreneur of the year award’ by the Schwab foundation, sister concern of the world Economic Forum. Anshu’s efforts to bring wider attention to the most ignored basic need of human i.e. clothing and its various aspects right from dignity, deaths in winters to the most taboo subject of sanitary pads are getting wider acceptance across the world and many organisations have started replicating GOONJ’s various initiatives. GOONJ is considered one of the leading social enterprises in India, the largest non-monetary resource agency and people also call it one of the largest civic participation movement. Anshu is a passionate photographer and travels primarily in remote parts of the country to understand people, their behavior and need.

Ashish Gupta
Ashish is the COO and Country Head (India) of Evalueserve (EVS). Prior to joining EVS, he was the founder and CEO of Ties2Family.com, a community building portal that provided various services to Indians at home and overseas. At Ties2Family, Ashish was responsible for garnering 100,000 customers.

Before starting Ties2Family, Ashish was an Engagement Manager and spent around five years with McKinsey & Co. in Delhi. While at McKinsey, he worked with clients in India, the US, Europe and China, and was also a core member of the Firm's e-Commerce Practice.

Ashish did his MBA from The Carnegie Mellon University and a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay brings several years of experience leading and growing large teams and organizations worldwide. He took on the role of CEO Global at English Helper after a long stint at American Express, where he served as Head of Customer Service - International Markets from Singapore, Head of Global Financial Operations from New York and Senior Vice President and Head of the India Leadership Team. He has also held senior positions at Motorola, Pepsi co and Eicher in India.

Currently, he serves as Director BOIAxA, Grow Talent Ltd., and other companies. He is on the Advisory Boards of organizations including Schneider Electric India and Acumen Fund. Sanjay is deeply committed to the development sector and is a Trustee at Charities Aid Foundation (India), Udayan Care and Mobile Creches. Sanjay is alsoaguest faculty atDukeCorporateEducation.

Menaka Guruswamy
Menaka Guruswamy practices law at the Supreme Court of India. Amongst other cases, she argues a large constitutional case that seeks reform of public administration and the bureaucracy in the country, has successfully defended federal legislation that mandates that all private schools admit disadvantaged children (the Right to Education Act), has challenged the constitutionality of laws that punish same-sex relations and litigated successfully against Salwa Judum - state sponsored vigilante groups in Chhattisgarh. Most recently, she was appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court in a case concerning extra-judicial killings in Manipur.

Menaka was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, a Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a gold medalist from the National Law School of India. She has law degrees from all three schools. Her doctoral research from Oxford University is on Constitution- Making in India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Menaka has worked at the Office of the Attorney General of India. She has also practiced law in New York, as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. In 2006-2007, she taught at New York University's School of Law. Menaka has advised the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), New York. She has advised the Government of India on private security agencies and licensing of weapons. She also advises the Constitution-Making process in Nepal.

Her most recent publications, include, a piece on regulation of India’s intelligence agencies titled ‘Regulating the Gentleman’s Game’, and on Integration of Combatants and New Constitutionalism in Nepal. Menaka is on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She is admitted to the Bar in New York, and in Delhi.

Moloyashree Hashmi
Moloyashree Hashmi has worked in the field of elementary education for over thirty years with children in schools and other educational groups in both rural and urban areas. She has written textbooks for English at the elementary level and evolved new educational material (for NCERT, SCERT and Eklavya) in other subjects as well. She has conducted language-skill oriented programmes and regularly conducts workshops for innovative techniques for several subjects at the elementary level for teachers in government and private schools. She has used theatre as a pedagogic tool in the classroom. At present, she conducts the Theatre Practicum for students of the Bachelor of Elementary Education in various colleges of Delhi University and is the educational consultant for The Srijan School. For the last forty years, she has also been engaged in theatre, and was the Secretary of Jana Natya Manch for a very long time, India's premier street theatre group. Jana Natya Manch also known as Janam (meaning 'birth') this group of self-trained actors has to its credit more than 7,500 performances of about 100 street and proscenium plays in about 140 towns and cities of India. Established in 1973, Janam has played a significant role in popularizing street theatre as a form of voicing anger and public opinion. It has done plays on price rise, elections, communalism, economic policy, unemployment, trade union rights, globalization, women’s rights, education system, etc.

She has also been on the editorial board of ‘Nukkad Janam Samvaad’.

Tsun-Yan Hsieh
Tsun-yan Hsieh is the Chairman and Lead Counselor of LinHart Group, a Leadership services firm specialized in Advising boards and Counseling CEOs throughout Asia on issues of succession and leadership effectiveness at the top. He is an Independent Director of Bharti Airtel, Manulife Financial, Singapore Airlines, and Sony Corporation. He also serves as a Provost Chair Professor at the NUS Business School and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

In a career spanning 30 years with McKinsey, he served clients in as many countries and industries in corporate transformation and leader development. His leadership positions in McKinsey included Chairman of Professional Development Committee, Managing Director, Canada and ASEAN practices, Chairman of Asia Client Committee, and the Directors Committee till he retired in 2008. He founded McKinsey’s Leadership Services globally to help clients grow more, better leaders faster.

Heart, Smarts, Guts & Luck, a book he co-authored on leadership in building businesses, is a New York Times best seller published by Harvard Business Review where he also blogs on Leadership topics.

Tsun-yan contributes to community with board roles current and past including the Singapore International Foundation, the National University of Singapore Business School, the Institute of Policy Studies, the Singapore Symphony, Covenant House Canada and the University Health Network Foundation in Toronto.

Mr. Hsieh is a Harvard MBA who won double gold medals reading Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta as a President and Colombo Plan Scholar.

Zubin Irani
Zubin Irani is the Senior Managing Director – Commercial Companies, United Technologies India Private Limited and is responsible for developing and leading strategies to accelerate the growth of businesses in India. Zubin’s professional background encompasses experience in areas such as marketing, operations and business strategy.

Zubin is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

Sachit Jain
Mr. Sachit Jain is Executive Director, Vardhman Groupone of the largest textile houses (Vardhman.com) in India. He studied Electrical Engineering at IIT, New Delhi, Management at IIM, Ahmedabad and Financial Management at Stanford, USA. He was awarded gold medal at IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. Before joining Vardhman Group in 1990 as Executive Director, he started his management career with Hindustan Lever in 1989.

He led the IT Group of Vardhman for implementing ERP making Vardhman to be one of the first textile organisations to have done so. His accomplishments in implementing IT project at Vardhman have been showcased by IBM for global audience. He has also helped steer the implementation of TPM across Vardhman Group. He currently heads the finance function of the Group.

He has been active in various business forums as well.He was the Chairman of CII, Himachal Pradesh State Council,Chairman of HRD Sub-Committee, CII, Northern Region,President of Northern India Textile Mills' Association and the founder of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries Association. He has also been a member of the advisory board to the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission and advisory board to the Minimum Wages Board. Valuing his contributions, he was honoured by the Govt. of Himachal Pradesh and was awarded the Prerna Stotra Puruskar.

Manjari Jaruhar
Manjari Jaruhar belongs to the IPS and has retired as Special Director-General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in October 2010 after a distinguished 34-year career. She is one of the first five women police officers in India and the first from the state of Bihar. She was selected for the Indian Police Service (IPS), the elite crime prevention and law enforcement cadre of the Indian Civil Service, in 1976 and has held positions in the State Governments of Bihar and Jharkhand, the National Police Academy (NPA), the CISF and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). She has led teams in a wide range of complex and challenging assignments that have prepared her for a career in the private and social sector. From fighting crime to administering a massive organisation, Ms. Jaruhar has shown exemplary leadership in a domain traditionally dominated by men. She is the recipient of the Government of India’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. She was awarded the Director General’s Commendation Disc for outstanding service twice in the CISF and once when she was with the CRPF.

Ms. Jaruhar currently resides in New Delhi with her husband, who is also a retired IPS officer. After her retirement, Ms. Jaruhar has been working as a Consultant/Advisor. She is at present Advisor, TCS and Chief Coordinator for the Indian Music Industry. Recently, she has been appointed as Chairperson of the Private Security Industry Committee of FICCI.

Sushil Jhangiani
Sushil Jhangiani is a certified executive coach with 21 years of business experience behind him. Sushil has coached senior leaders both in India and abroad across diverse sectors and areas such as manufacturing, offshore services, IT, banking, UN agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations. Besides this, Sushil has worked with numerous senior leadership teams across domains to help them evolve shared visions, manage change, and improve effectiveness.

Sushil’s work derives from a philosophy of service leadership deriving from the three core legs of self-awareness and understanding, role and value appreciation, and impact and legacy. Some clients that he has worked with recently include BASF, Tetra Pak, UNICEF, UNFPA, CARE, McGraw-Hill, Nokia and BAE Systems.

Sushil is also a strategic and brand consultant. Sushil spent the first 13 years of his working life as a marketing professional, with companies such as Procter and Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser in India, Europe, and the Americas, before returning to India in 2004. Among other achievements, he was responsible for resurrecting a global business worth over $ 400 mn through strong product innovation, and achieving sustained profitable growth in geographies he handled.

Sushil is a visiting faculty in the Marketing Area at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. In this role he teaches both first and second year students of the flagship Post Graduate Programme. The subjects he teaches include Advertising, Brand Management, Marketing Research, International Marketing and Sales Management.

Sushil has a BSc from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Deep Kalra
The pioneer of online travel in India, Deep Kalra founded MakeMyTrip in April, 2000. Drawing on his experience from his years at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank, under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has become the largest online travel company, as well as the largest e-commerce business in India.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM and chairs the NASSCOM Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE, New Delhi. Deep is also a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at numerous internet and travel conferences across the world. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website. Deep is also a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990), and a MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992). His interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.

Helena Kaufman
Helena Kaufman is the Director of Off-Campus Studies (OCS) at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Helena is responsible for coordinating Off-Campus Studies programming on campus, working with Carleton faculty on the development of Carleton seminars, advising students on program choices, and supervising the OCS office. Originally from Poland, she has worked at OCS since 2000 and holds a PhD in Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zila Khan
Ustad Maa Zila Khan’s musical heritage spans seven generations of legendary classical musicians and five generations of recorded music. She has successfully established herself in a mould that is inspired by, but is independent from that of her celebrated father, the renowned Sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan. She is also the first female singer from this Gharana, and has many albums, videos and records to her credit. The cognoscenti of the world, Sufis and members of all faiths flock to her concerts. Her performance at Broadway Symphony Space, New Yorkor the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games speaks of her popularity and her class-to-mass appeal.

She has been awarded the “Roll of Honour” by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Chief Justice of India.

One of Ustad Maa Zila Khan’s greatest asset and strength is her ability to apply her musical skills and knowledge in multiple languages. This allows wider audiences and larger market segments with varied backgrounds to connect with her music. She is known for her perfect command over various styles of performance – be it dramatic Folk Songs, classical ragas, softly nostalgic ghazals, Arabic and Persian songs, Bhakti Soul Sangeet and of course authentic Sufi Music.

Ustad Maa Zila has one of the most powerful voices in the Music World today, which adds to her repertoire as a Sufi Singer. She has just recorded for Coke Studio.

She has also sung a Western Concerto in Arabic, adding a new dimension to Jazz while expanding her musical ability to greater creative heights in showbiz. Hers is a harmonious blend of fusion music with a singular and enjoyable flavor imbued with literary resonance. Her music is a unique style of melody enriched with literature, seeped in heritage while being dramatically spunky and contemporary, showcasing her ‘Sufiyana style’ in the world of international music or World music as it is called today. Ustad Maa has conscientiously helped spread awareness of social responsibilities, her Album – Zila The Girl Child, had the first woman Sufi’s sufi’ism recorded for the first time in the history of music.

“Zila’s unstoppable and insatiable desire for ‘literary search’ constantly leads her to the root of Sufi’ism and brings it forth to the World of Music” was what the critics had to say about it. Her thirst for live singing accompanied by storytelling was revealed to the world when she played the lead role in an English Musical that sent ripples through the world of theatre and Broadway.

Zila Khan was also the Cultural Advisor and Official Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Zila Khan has a music school in 2008 called as Ustadgah, a state-of-the-art gurukul at Panchsheel which also has a digital archive, art gallery, library and a resource centre. It has three other branches at Gurgaon, Gol Market and Pusa Road. The school also trains musically talented students from underprivileged background.

Gulpreet Kohli
Gulpreet Kohli is at present the Managing Director at ChrysCapital. Gulpreet joined the Advisors in May 2000 and leads client fund raising functions in addition to managing the consumer sector. He previously worked at General Electric and was selected into its two-year global financial management leadership program. Gulpreet received an MBA from Clark University and a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Delhi University

Kay Koplovitz
Kay Koplovitz was the first woman to head a television network when she founded USANetworks under the banner of Madison Square Garden Sports in 1977. As a visionary of what sports television would become, Ms. Koplovitz launched major professional and collegiate sports on cable television by negotiating the first contracts and creating first cable coverage for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the Masters from Augusta Georgia, the US Tennis Open and a collection of NCAA conference sporting events. She led USA Networks to first place in cable primetime ratings and it remained there for 14 years. In 1992, she launched the Sci-Fi Channel which has become a top ten rated cable network known for innovative drama and mini-series. In 1994, she launched USANetworks International into 60 countries worldwide.

In 1998, President Clinton appointed Kay Koplovitz to chair the bipartisan National Women’s Business Council. She used this platform to launch Springboard Enterprises, in a move to get women to “think big” about their growth companies and to raise venture capital to fund them. Springboard, her shared vision, has screened over 4000 companies and presented 360 of them since its first forum in 2000.

An experienced public board member, Ms. Koplovitz is currently the Chairman of the Board of Liz Claiborne and a board member of CA. She served as Director of Instinet Group Incorporated since June 2001 and General Re Corporation since 1990. In 2001, Ms. Koplovitz co-founded Boldcap Ventures, a venture fund backed exclusively by high net worth women seeking to grow their portfolios with venture investments. Boldcap invests principally in the media, technology, and healthcare sectors.She has served on the boards of Instinet, Oracle and Nabisco.She served as Director of Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLP. She served as Independent Director of NextMart Inc. from September 12, 2005 to February 19, 2007 and SE Global Equities Corp. since September 12, 2005.

Dr. Koplovitz holds Honorary Doctorate degrees from Michigan State, St. Johns University, and Emerson College. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin and holds a Master’s degree in Communications from Michigan State University. Kay Koplovitz is the author of Bold Women, Big Ideas (2002), which she wrote to inform and inspire women entrepreneurs to create wealth through equity. She is a sought after motivational speaker on subjects ranging from leadership and management to entrepreneurship, capital formation and emerging media.

Srivatsa Krishna
Srivatsa Krishna, topped India (1 out of about 500,000 candidates) in the National Civil Services Examination in 1994, and was awarded the President's Gold Medal. He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), India's top management government cadre and was thereafter a member of the Government of Andhra Pradesh's core IT and infrastructure strategy team in India. “He was part of the leadership team which created one of Asia’s largest IT and investment clusters there which has been globally acclaimed by Goldman Sachs, BusinessWeek, The Economist, and TIME as a "Marvel of Modern India". In 2009 he led a study commissioned by the highest levels of the Government of India on infrastructure and related private equity and investments policy for the country on behalf of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), The World Bank Group.

He went on to become the first serving IAS officer to complete the prestigious MBA Programme at Harvard Business Schooland thereafter did an Advanced Executive Programme at Wharton Business School-IFC as well. While at Harvard he co-authored an independent research study on clusters, competitiveness and economic development in India with University Professor Michael Porter and on engendering disruptive economic growth with the global innovation guru Professor. Clayton Christensen. The World Economic Forum at Davos honoured him as one of its Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow in Davos in 2003, for his achievements in creating new infrastructure and attracting new investments. (Past awardees have included Bill Gates, Tony Blair, Mukesh Ambani, and Jeff Bezos).

More recently in the Strategy, Finance and Risk Management Vice Presidency at the World Bank in Washington D.C he was co-heading investing the World Bank's annual capital portfolio of about $2b into energy, healthcare, infrastructure services, IT/technology, various consumer-facing industries/ services to name a few. He was also involved in designing, financing and executing large infrastructure projects in China, India, Jordan, Sri Lanka and the Middle East etc.

Srivatsa writes regularly for The Economic Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Today, Financial Times, Outlook etc and is a prominent prime time national television commentator on BBC, CNN-IBN, NDTV, Times Now etc. He is currently a PhD Research Scholar at IIT, Madras and IIM, Bangalore, jointly, in the field of contracts, financing and infrastructure PPPs. He has spoken on the TED stage, Harvard Business School Centennial Summit, and World Economic Forum, Davos.

He is a serious aficionado of gadgeteering and a student of classical music and has sung playback for "Shanghai", a Bollywood production, about an IAS officer's life, whose main protagonist's character is inspired by his own life and has auditioned for India's Oscar Award winning composer A.R.Rahman for a forthcoming production.

Sunitha Krishnan
Sunitha Krishnan, Founder General Secretary of Prajwala, “an eternal flame”, is an eminent anti trafficking activist internationally known for her fight against girl child trafficking for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. A rare breed of individual, Sunitha Krishnan has committed her life as a fulltime volunteer in Prajwala. She has been instrumental in rescuing hundreds of women and children from commercial sexual exploitation and restoring dignity.

Spearheading the anti trafficking movement in India, Sunitha Krishnan has demonstrated that it is possible to prevent and combat sex trafficking. Till date over 6000 children of prostituted women have been prevented from being inducted into flesh trade, more than 5000 women and children have been rescued from sexual slavery and rehabilitated and millions have been sensitized on the issue of sex trafficking.

For her lifetime efforts Sunitha Krishnan has been recognized both nationally and internationally. Perdita Huston Human Rights Award, International Justice Award, Global Leadership Award, CNN-Real Hero, Vital Voices Human Rights Award, John Jay International Leader Award are some of the international recognition she has received. At the national level Government of India has recognized Sunitha Krishnan’s efforts by honoring her with Stree Shakti Puraskar (Woman Power Award), Vanitha Woman of the Year Award and National Child Welfare Award. She was also recognized as 150 Fearless Women in the world by NEWSWEEK.

Samir Kuckreja
Samir Kuckreja is the Founder & CEO of Tasanaya Hospitality Private Limited which specialises in advisory/ consultancy work for the hospitality industry and as service provider to the industry both in India and other countries. He has done a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and a BS in Hotel Administration from Cornell University, USA.

Samir has over 22 years of experience in the hospitality industry. He started his career with the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, USA. He was the Business Development Manager for the Indian Subcontinent with Yum Restaurants in Delhi responsible for setting up over 70 Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants. He was the Joint Managing Director of Mars Hotels & Restaurants in Mumbai for two years and responsible for expanding their hotels, restaurants and cake shops. He was CEO & Managing Director of Nirula’s from June 2006 till April 2012. One of the key achievements was growing the footprint from 35 outlets in two cities to 85 outlets in 8 cities.

T Vijaykumar
T Vijaykumar is an IAS Officer of the 1982 Batch- Andhra Pradesh Cadre. He joined the IAS after working for 4 years in the corporate sector at Mumbai. He was ranked 3rd in the UPSC Civil Services exams of 1981-82 and had scored 234/300 in a Sociology paper which is a record till date! During his 31 years in the IAS, he has served in various departments in the Andhra Pradesh Government and Government of India. Currently he is the Mission Director for National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) in the Ministry of Rural Development. He was CEO of SERP, a registered society in Andhra Pradesh that successfully pioneered the Self Help Group (SHG) model in India. He has vast experience in the development sector and has worked in collaboration with Development Agencies such as ADB, World Bank, UNDP and Civil Society Organisations. His efforts have been instrumental in taking millions of household out of poverty. He has both field and policy level experience.

Connson Locke
Dr Connson Locke joined the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group in 2008 as Lecturer in Management. She is also a member of the Innovation Co-Creation Lab, the Radical Innovation, Team Processes and Leadership project and is Deputy Head of the Behavioural Research Lab. She received her Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley (Haas School of Business), her M.Sc. in Business Administration, also from the Haas School of Business, and her B.A.(Hons) in Sociology from Harvard University.

Before commencing postgraduate study, Dr Locke worked for over ten years as an educator, manager, and consultant in the United States and Asia. She has designed and taught executive education programmes on leadership, team management, negotiation, and communication skills as well as provided individual coaching to executives at all levels.

Dr Locke’s research interests lies in Leadership, Followership, Communication, Power, Voice and silence, Upward influence, Gender stereotypes and Participative decision making. Her research focuses on the relationship between managers and their employees, a relationship essential to organisational performance and employee productivity and satisfaction. The power imbalance inherent in this hierarchical relationship makes it particularly complex and challenging as it affects the interpersonal perceptions, judgment, and behaviour of both parties. Drawing from social and cognitive psychology, her work contributes to our understanding of leadership, followership, communication, and power.

Vijay Mahajan
Vijay Mahajan is an Indian microfinance icon. From setting up the non-profit, Pradan, to creating microfinance company, Basix, Mahajan's mission is to promote rural livelihood to Indians who live on less than $2 a day. Basix is one of the first microfinance enterprises in the world to attract Indian and foreign debt and equity investments, providing livelihood to over 1.5 million customers. His recommendations on the Local Area Bank concept were approved by the then-Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. As well as providing customers with credit, Basix imparts livelihood training and institutional development. Mahajan's in-depth knowledge of the farming sector has made him a sought-after adviser with the Planning Commission and many Indian states. He was a member of the Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, chaired by RaghuramRajan, and also of the C. Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion. Vijay serves on the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, and the Micro Finance Development and Equity Fund. In 2002, Vijay was selected as one of the 60 “Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” at the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2003, he was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, Delhi. He has co-authored a book, “The Forgotten Sector,” on the rural non-farm sector in India. He studied electrical engineering at IIT Delhi and an MBA at IIM, Ahmedabad. He graduated with a gold medal for scholastic performance, and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Arjun Malhotra
Mr. Malhotra served as Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors before its acquisition by Genpact in May 2011. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra founded TechSpan in 1998 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International. The merger of TechSpan with Headstrong had built an end-to-end services organization. Mr. Malhotra led the seamless integration across businesses and cultures, resulting in Headstrong’s recognition as one of the fastest-growing IT-based Financial Services companies.

Mr. Malhotra has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Malhotra is a Member of the Board of Governors, IIT (Kharagpur) Foundation, Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Member of the Board of Governors of Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong and Member of the Indian Public Schools Society, which runs The Doon School. He is currently Co-Chair of the Pan-IIT Alumni Association. He founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endowment. In “recognition of his outstanding contribution and services to the Institute”, Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003.

Mr. Malhotra was awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Medal for 2001. The Award salutes the high tech industry’s vanguard who “with their vision…have revolutionized the perception of time and space, linking mankind with ever growing speed and ingenuity. Their cutting-edge breakthroughs have empowered countless others.” The Institution of Engineers (India) has named Mr. Malhotra an Eminent Engineering Personality.

Mr. Malhotra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE), and a Member of the Institute of Engineers, India (MIE). He has served on the Board of Governors for the Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, and as Vice President of The Doon School Old Boys Society.

He is currently a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM which is India’s representative organization for the IT & ITES industry.

Mr. Malhotra is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit network with over 10,000 members across 44 chapters in 9 countries. He is currently serving as a member of the Global Board of Trustees, having previously served as the Chairman of the Board. TiE fosters global entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education.

He is also one of the founding members of SPIC-MACAY, the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth and is presently on their Advisory Board. SPIC-MACAY is today India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.

Bennett McClellan
Bennett McClellan is a business strategist, executive coach, educator and writer with over thirty years of corporate and consulting experience. He is at present the Chief Catalytic Officer at NBM Research, Inc.and a senior faculty in Sun Stone Business School.

Bennett holds a PhD from Claremont Graduate University, an MBA from Harvard Business School and an M.F.A. from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.

He was also the Managing Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Media & Entertainment practice. He has also held management positions with leading entertainment companies like Hanna-Barbera Productions, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and has worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company for 7 years and Arthur D. Little, Inc. He works as a freelance journalist and has published over 100 articles and editorials.

R K Mishra
After graduating from IIT Kanpur in 1989, R. K. Mishra was one of the 25 students chosen from 18 countries to pursue Master of Engineering from Tokyo University, Japan under a special internationalisation initiative by the Ministry of Education of Japan. In 2006, he founded SAHYOG - Indian Council for Public Private Partnership. RK's focus areas are "Sustainable Public Infrastructure in Urban India" and "Livelihood Opportunities for Rural Poor". In 2008, RK was adjudged the WINNER of LEAD INDIA a nationally televised & voted for initiative to identify new generation political leaders of India. RK started the "Change India Initiative" to engage educated youth, middle class and working professionals in the matters of public policy and electoral polity.

RK believes in building a corruption free and transparent political system. Hence he started his political movement ‘Nav-Bharat’ to encourage the youth to get into politics and reform the current political system. Nav-Bharat focuses on bringing candidate centric polity rather than present party centric polity. This movement has great impact in many states in India like Karnataka, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Shaheen Mistri
Shaheen Mistri is an Indian social activist and educator. She is the CEO of Teach For India and the Founder of Akanksha Foundation. Shaheen founded Akanksha Foundation in 1989 with the vision to provide children from all strata of society with the education, the skills, and most importantly, the character that they would need to lead empowered lives.

Shaheen Mistri was born in Mumbai, India, in a Parsi family. She had an international upbrining and grew up in various countries, including Lebanon, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the United States as she moved countries with her father, a senior banker with Citigroup. After attending boarding school in Connecticut, she moved to India for university. She graduated with a BA degree in Sociology from St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai and later obtained a Master’s in Education from the University of Manchester. Before launching the Akanksha Foundation, Shaheen's interest in children's education led her to volunteer as a teacher in diverse organisations in Mumbai, such as the Happy Home and School for the Blind and the E.A.R. school for the Hearing Impaired.

Shaheen Mistri, as a young college student, walked into the Mumbai slums and expressed her desire to teach the less privileged children who roamed the streets. To fulfill this goal, she founded the Akanksha Foundation, a non-profit organisation working primarily in education, at the age of 20 to impact the lives of such children. Over a period of 20 years, her Akanksha Foundation, which started with just 15 children in one centre, now teaches 3,500 children in 58 centres and six schools. In the summer of 2008, she took on a leadership role at Teach For India which enlists India's most promising college graduates and young professionals to spend two years teaching in low-income schools and attempt to bridge the educational gap in the country.

Shaheen was selected an Ashoka Fellow in 2001. She was also awarded the ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’ at the World Economic Forum in 2002 and the ‘Asia Society 21 Leader’ in 2006.

Shaheen also sits on the boards of Ummeed, and the Thermax Social Initiatives Foundation and is an advisor to the Latika Roy Foundation. She lives in Mumbai, India with her 2 daughters.

Manisha Natarajan
Manisha is a Senior Editor, Business News at NDTV. She hosts the well watched and popular program “The Property Show”on NDTV Profit and 24x7. It is a daily prime time show on Profit and a weekly on NDTV’s flagship News Channel, NDTV 24x7. The program has not only engaged the viewers by addressing their detailed queries on property investments and interests, but also created a distinguished space in the B2B Property market with industry leaders, builders, realtors and policy makers through its sector coverage and the weekly, one-hour debate.

Manisha has also made a distinct mark in television journalism with her personal wealth call-in and advise show, 'Let’s Talk Money'on NDTV Profit.

She learnt the ropes of television journalism as a reporter for BBC World's 'Moneywise' and 'India Business Report' and has anchored over 1000 hours of live business news, including key events such as the Union Budget, Economic Survey, Credit Policy and Tax Roundtables. Manisha has also contributed as a columnist inIndian Express and Mint and worked with Karvy Consultants and Sundaram Mutual Fund in financial services.

Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He currently serves as the Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), after a successful career at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He is also now heading Government of India's technology committee, TAGUP. Nandan Nilekani, after graduating from IIT Bombay in 1978, joined Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems where he was interviewed by N.R. Narayana Murthy. Three years later, in 1981, Murthy walked out of Patni following a disagreement with one of the Patni brothers. His entire division walked out with him. The defectors decided to start their own company, Infosys. Nilekani became the Chief Executive Officer of Infosys in March 2002, taking over from Murthy. Nilekani served as CEO of the company from March 2002 to April 2007, when he relinquished his position to his colleague Kris Gopalakrishnan, becoming Co-Chairman. He left Infosys on 9 July 2009 to serve as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India, in the rank of a cabinet minister under invitation from the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Nandan studied at St. Joseph's High School Dharwad, studied at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and later in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he graduated with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering in 1978.

Varad Pande
Varad Pande is the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to India’s Minister for Rural Development, where among other things he assists in the implementation of the direct benefits transfers programme. Varad also advises Prof Abhijit Banerjee on the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on a Post-2015 Development Agenda and is a member of the Government of India’s Expert Group on Strategies for Low Carbon Inclusive Growth. Previously, as OSD to the former Minister of Environment and Forests, he advised the Minister on climate change and environmental governance issues.

Varad has previously worked with the strategy and competitiveness firm Monitor Group on Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) business models and at the World Bank on decentralisation and primary education reform in South Asia.

Varad holds an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School, an MA in Economics from University of Cambridge, and a BA Honours in Economics from St. Stephens College, Delhi.

Greg Pfundstein
Greg Pfundstein is President of the Chiaroscuro Foundation. Greg is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College and holds a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of the board of the Patients Rights Council, FEMM Foundation, the Chiaroscuro Institute, and the National Abstinence Education Foundation.

Arjendu Pattanayak
Arjendu Pattanayak is the Associate Dean at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota and oversees the offices of Off-Campus Studies and the Registrar. His responsibilities include academic integrity cases, language exemptions, and student academic concerns. As a standing member of the College's Education and Curriculum Committee (ECC) and Academic Standing Committee (ACS), he is deeply involved in academic policy, and in students' academic progress. In addition, Dean Pattanayak is responsible for the College's non-tenure-track faculty hiring.

Bryan Edward Penprase
Dr. Bryan Penprase is the Frank P. Brackett Professor of Astronomy at Pomona College. He joined Pomona’s faculty in 1993, and served as Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department from 2007 until 2011. Bryan is an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow based at Yale University during 2012-13, working with the Yale President-elect Peter Salovey, to foster innovative curriculum and science teaching at Yale and the new Yale/NUS college, and to help improve the diversity and retention of students in STEM fields.

While at Yale, Bryan has helped lead the development of the Yale-NUS College curriculum as a member of the inaugural curriculum committee and a co-author of the report on Yale-NUS College entitled Yale-NUS College ¬ A New Community of Learning. He also served on the Yale Summer Bridge Program Advisory Committee, has consulted with the Yale Provost¹s office on topics such as online learning and science at Yale, and has been working with the Yale Internationalization Office to strengthen ties with Indian institutions, as well as co-organising a conference with Yale and the Raman Research Institute (RRI) on The Future of Liberal Arts in India at the RRI Bangalore campus in January 2014.

Bryan received both a BS in Physics and an MS in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1985, and a PhD from the University of Chicago in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1992. Before coming to Pomona, he was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, and a pre-doctorial Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute, in Baltimore, MD. Bryan’s research includes nearly all aspects of observational astrophysics, from photometric observations of nearby asteroids to spectroscopic studies of element formation in the Early Universe, using telescopes ranging from the Pomona College 1-meter telescope to the Keck Telescope in Hawaii. He is the author of ‘The Power of Stars- How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilization’, published by Springer, Inc., and has authored or co-authored 47 peer-reviewed articles, most recently in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical Journal, but also inNature and Science.

Bryan’s courses include interdisciplinary astronomy courses such as Archaeoastronomy and World Cosmology, and Earth’s Cosmic Origins, which blend astronomy, anthropology, environmental science, history and geology. He also has taught across the entire curriculum of physics, and astronomy and astrophysics. He has led numerous interdisciplinary field trips, hosted a national a conference on astronomy teaching known as Cosmos in the Classroom, and has led many interdisciplinary efforts at Pomona College. He was selected to be a Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) F21 member in 1995, and has served as a mentor for the PKAL leadership institutes for four years.

Bryan’s scholarship has been recognised by awards of visiting fellowships at Downing College, Cambridge, at Harvard/SAO, the Raman Research Institute (Bangalore, India), an ASEE faculty fellowship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most recently with an appointment as a Visiting Associate at Caltech. His faculty leadership positions at Pomona College have included service as the head of the Physics and Astronomy Department (2007-2011), the Teaching and Learning Committee (Chair, 2006-2007), and as member of the Public Events Committee, the Faculty Grievance Committee, the Faculty Position Planning Committee, and the Curriculum Committee (for two terms). He has served on numerous NSF and NASA review panels, the Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee, and has participated in the external review of the Five College Astronomy Program.

Bryan is married to Bidushi Bhattacharya, and has two daughters, Shanti (who is currently attending Carleton College) and Asha. He is an avid outdoorsman, and loves bicycling, swimming, kayaking and backpacking, as well as SCUBA diving.

Anoop Prakash
Anoop Prakash is the Managing Director for Harley-Davidson India where he is responsible for sales, business development and marketing for motorcycles, parts and accessories and general merchandise.

Prakash formerly served as a Senior Executive Service appointee in the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and has worked as Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development at the U. S. Small Business Administration. Prakash has actively participated in U.S.-India trade promotion as a vehicle for economic development and growth for both countries.

Prakash previously held senior private sector roles in strategy, marketing and business development, including Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at LexisNexis, Director of Business Development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and consultant at McKinsey & Company.

A former U.S. Marine Corps Officer, Prakash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Public Policy from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prakash has served on several non-profit boards in Washington D.C., including the Indian American Leadership Initiative and Brainfood.

Pupul Dutta Prasad
Pupul Dutta Prasad did his schooling from his native city, Patna, whereafter he read Political Science in B.A. (Honours) degree programme at Patna College, emerging the topper in the university. He then obtained a Masters in International Relations from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. There too he secured the first position in the final results. He thereafter gained admission in M.Phil in International Law at the Center for Legal Studies at JNU in 2001 having topped the all-India entrance test.

Pupul joined the Indian Police Service in the year 2003, and was the youngest officer in his batch. He was allocated the Himachal Pradesh cadre. He has served in various capacities as a police officer, including ADC to His Excellency the Governor of Himachal Pradesh. He has also ably administered three districts of Himachal, namely, Kinnaur, Sirmaur, and Mandi, as their Superintendent of Police.

Keen to rejoin the academia, Pupul went to the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 on a sabbatical, where he was a PJD Wiles Scholar as well as a British Chevening Scholar. He completed an MSc in Human Rights, with distinction in Criminal Justice Policy and Managing Humanitarianism.

Pupul has published various articles and papers across a plethora of subjects which interest him, ranging from the professional to the personal. These include human rights, democracy, policing, internal security problems, Hindi film songs, and cultural and personal attributes visible in day-to-day life.

Pupul is presently serving as the Senior Superintendent of Police at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), New Delhi. He also takes time out from his official duties to learn French as a foreign language.

Sai Prasad
Sai Prasad is the first Asian with a paraplegic disability to travel all the way to Antarctica and pursue research on renewable energy resources. He also won the Bryce Courtenay award for ‘Dream it – Do it’ from Sir Robert Swan. For Sai Prasad Vishwanathan, Risk consultant, U.S. Deloitte, featuring in Satyamev Jayate, the celebrated TV show, was an opportunity to raise the concern over our country's infrastructural disability. A recipient of multiple awards including the Helen Keller Role Model Person of the Year Award 2010 & I.S.B.'s Torch Bearer Leadership Award -- 2011, Sai has now caught the imagination of the world through his indomitable spirit and self-belief in dealing with physical disabilities. Sai was born with severe physical challenges. With more than 60 percent physical disability, he was refused admission in to several high schools as a kid.

But he and his parents never gave up. His achievements speak for themselves. A gold medalist from CBIT, a summa-cum-laude research scholar & M.S. Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, and an MBA from ISB, Sai began his career last year at Deloitte as a campus hire. "The number of times you are hurt, insulted and fail -- will not matter on the day you achieve that, which your heart most truly wants," he says.

Sai is an adventure freak. In 2008, while in the U.S., he became the first physically-challenged Indian to skydive from 14, 000 feet, which fetched him a mention in the Limca Book of Records. In 2009, he went scuba diving and in 2012 -- he was out exploring Grand Canyon and its billion year sediments in a chopper ride. 'The goal is to explore and experience all the five elements that constitutes life -- earth, water, fire, sky and air', he says.

Lastly, his adventurous and academic pursuits have never interfered with his plans to become an entrepreneur. In FY09-10, he consulted Wadhwani Foundation & the Home Ministry to create a business model that promotes employment for physically challenged people. He also co-founded a venture called 'Sahasra' that provides scholarships to meritorious and financially backward students, so that they can pursue higher education. Sahasra has impacted over 15,000 students.

Usha Ramanathan
Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, University of Nagpur and Delhi University.

She is a research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute. She works as an advisor to non-governmental organisations and international organisations. She is a member of Amnesty International Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as an expert on mental health on various occasions. Dr Ramanathan is also the South Asia Editor of ‘The Law, Environment and Development Journal’ (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS. Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad. She has been involved in different capacities with a number of issues such as the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Narmada valley dam project. She has made immense contributions by voicing her opinion against slum eviction in Delhi and the UIDAI.

PVK Rameshwar
PVK Rameshwar was born in Vijayawada and graduated from the School of Architecture, CEPT, Ahmedabad. He received his masters in Architecture and Urban Design from the School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis, USA in1986. He trained with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York City and later worked in New Jersey.

He won the 7thAnnual JIIA Award for Excellence in Architecture, 1995forPrivateResidenceat Jaipur and the 10th Annual JIIA Awards, 1998 for Industry at Udaipur. (Both awarded nationally by Indian Institute of Architects). In addition to practice, he presently serves as Chairman, Graduate School, and Professor and Head, Master’s Programme in Urban Design and Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. He also serves as an Urban Design Consultant to the CEPT Research and Development Consultancy. He is also the Founding Member, Fellow& Vice- President of the Institute of Urban Designers –India,

PVK Rameshwar is a partner at Shilany as a Partnership Firm since 1989, which offers consultation in architecture, interior design, urban design, landscape and jewellery. Their projects include urban design, residential, industrial, public parks, commercial and recreational. Their work has been published in Architecture + Design, Inside Outside, Indian Architect and Builder, JIIA, India Today Publication and AWA – Architecture Optimal an award winning architecture international year book 1999-2000,Cologne, Germany.

PVK Rameshwar has made book contributions and edited monograph. He has extensively traveled in India and abroad-Lectured, attended seminars / workshops, served as Juror, Convenor / Expert Member of COA inspection Committee for Architectural/Urban Design Education.

Geoff Riddell
Geoffrey (Geoff) Riddell, 1956, holds an MA degree in natural sciences (chemistry) from Oxford University (The Queen’s College) and later qualified as a chartered accountant. He started his career with Price Waterhouse in 1978 and four years later moved to AIG, where he held various roles, including country manager for Hong Kong, Belgium and France. While in Hong Kong, he was responsible for setting up the first foreign general insurance company in China. Mr. Riddell joined Zurich in May 2000, initially as managing director of Zurich Commercial in the UK, and then became managing director of the UK Corporate and Government businesses. In November 2002 he was appointed CEO of General Insurance in the UK, Ireland and Southern Africa. Mr. Riddell assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Global Corporate in April 2004, and was promoted to be a member of the Group Executive Committee in October 2004.

On January 1, 2009 he took on the roles of CEO of Asia-Pacific & Middle East (APME), responsible for both Life and General Insurance in the APME region and Chairman of Global Corporate. In July 2010 he assumed the newly created role of Regional Chairman of Asia Pacific & Middle East. Mr. Riddell is a former member of the General Insurance Council of the Association of British Insurers and for three years chaired its liability committee. From 1990 to 1995, he was a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Insurers Council. He was a director of Pool Re from February 2005 till August 2010 and of the Forum for Global Health Protection from 2007 till the end of 2010. He was a member of the Confederation of British Industry’s Chairmen’s Committee and chaired the CBI Financial Services Council till September 2010. Until late 2009, he was a member of the Foundation Board of IMD in Lausanne, the City of London EU Advisory Committee and the Lord Mayor of London’s Advisory Committee.

Patrick Rousseau
Patrick Rousseau is the Chairman and Managing Director of Veolia Water India and the Veolia Environnement Delegate for India. He is also the Managing Director of Grameen Veolia Water and Chairman of Orange City Water (in charge of the Nagpur water utility).

He is in-charge for business development of all water services and for the management of Veolia Water contracts in the Indian sub-continent. He has a high level expertise in water and wastewater services and has implemented roll-out plans for large contracts including restructuring programmes and staff reorganisation.

He has earlier worked with a Generale des Eaux (nowadays Veolia Environnement) Group’s French subsidiary in France from 1977 till 1995.

Subsequently, he integrated Vivendi Water (nowadays Veolia Water) for international activities, being in-charge of their major operations in the Czech Republic, Southern Africa, Morocco and then Gabon.

He is President of the French Foreign Trade Council and Vice-Chairman of the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in India as well as a Member of the European Business Group.

Mr Rousseau graduated in 1974 from Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Poitiers, France and he completed his master’s degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University, USA.

Prannoy Roy
Prannoy Roy was born on October 15, 1949. He graduated from Doon School and went on to Haileybury (UK) to get his A-levels. He did a BSc with distinction from London University, after which he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales) and a consultant with Price Waterhouse, India. He pursued a PhD from the Delhi School of Economics where he also taught for a year. Prannoy also worked as Economic Advisor in the Finance Ministry, Govt of India.

In 1987 Prannoy Roy shifted to the electronic media. He had people glued to their television sets with “The World this Week”. He is responsible for changing the face of news broadcasting almost beyond recognition. He is aptly termed the brand-equity of New Delhi Television (NDTV).

Prannoy Roy brought the country to the edge of its seat with his innate knack of translating the complicated facts of election politics and budget number crunching into straight-to-the-point analysis.

Several years and thousands of anchoring hours on, he has questioned and examined salient facts about how the news affects his viewer’s lives. He has been adjudged the television personality of the millennium by the Indian Express poll and has contributed to various national and international publications.

Sujata Sahu
Sujata Sahu is the founder and director of 17000 ft Foundation, a multi-disciplinary team of Corporate Professionals turned Social Entrepreneurs with a focus on transforming lives at the remotest and most inaccessible regions of high altitude-Ladakh.

With over 20 years in leadership roles in corporate IT, and as an educator and facilitator, Sujata is the backbone behind 17000 ft's educational initiatives. Her extensive experience in IT, also puts her in the right position to visualize, create and manage the large technology systems required for collecting, harnessing and analysing the data of over 900 schools, 30,000 students over their range of interventions. Their mission is to arrest the exodus of young families to far away cities in search of education, by strengthening rural schools and communities, driving attention to remote villages, providing opportunities for learning through enriching exchanges with visiting travellers and creating a framework for economic independence through increased tourism. 17000 ft Foundation is committed to creating opportunities for enhanced learning for children of extremely remote villages in India. They believe that distances may be limiting but access to good education need not be. 17000 ft was born in Ladakh, India and their focus is the implementation of Education for every child, at every school, in every village.

Sujata has also been Programme Coordinator at Mission Julley, a CSR Initiative of The Shri Ram School and The SRF Foundation at The Shri Ram School in the past. She did her education from University of Pune and University of Delhi.

Kranti Saran
Prof. Saran is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi's Department of Philosophy. He has a doctorate from Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. Kranti completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at Harvard University in May 2011 and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard University. Kranti's dissertation focused on the nature of bodily sensations. More generally, he is interested in questions about the metaphysics and epistemology of experience.

Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urbanist. He is Founder and President of the Sustainable Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and is Deutsche Bank's Global strategist. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (Penguin).

The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for 2010.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well-regarded environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in recognition for his work on urban systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - an environmental accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, in 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes a regular column for Business Standard, India's second largest business newspaper. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Parth Shah
Parth J. Shah is the founding president of the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), an independent, nonprofit think tank in New Delhi. CCS offers public policy solutions within the framework of the rule of law, subsidiarity, community engagement and competitive markets. It is currently focused on education reforms through the School Choice Campaign: Fund Students, Not Schools!and on livelihood deregulation through the Law, Liberty, & Livelihood Campaign and Jeevika Documentary Festival.

Parth taught economics at the University of Michigan before returning to India to start CCS. He has published academic articles in the areas of development economics, welfare economics, business-cycle theory, free or laissez-faire banking, and currency-board systems. He has edited Morality of Markets, Friedman on India, Profiles in Courage: Dissent on Indian Socialism, Do Corporations have Social Responsibility?, and co-edited Law, Liberty, and Livelihood, The Terracotta Reader, and Agenda for Change. He writes regularly in newspapers and magazines. He is also the youngest Indian member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the premier international association of classical liberals.

Harsh Shrivastava
Harsh Shrivastava is a policy and communications expert with a deep understanding of the links between business, government, and civil society. Harsh is the Planning Commission’s Consultant (Planning), where he managed the process of making India’s 12th Plan. He’s also on the board of the Meghalaya Institute of Entrepreneurship. Harsh was also on Prime Minister Vajpayee’s personal staff as his deputy speechwriter. Harsh has also been the head of the agribusiness secretariat of the Confederation of Indian Industry, been the head of marketing at Feedback Infrastructure, and a Vice President at Reliance Capital. He’s also been a journalist and co-written India’s first book on corporate social responsibility. Harsh is a regular guest lecturer at leading business schools, and been an Emerging Leaders Fellow at the Australia India Institute, Melbourne. Harsh did his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1995.

George Shuffelton
George Shuffelton teaches medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on Middle English poetry at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. He has published work on Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the representation of minstrels in Middle English poetry. His edition of a late medieval household miscellany, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 61, appeared in 2008 as part of the TEAMS Middle English Text Series. He is currently working on studies of fourteenth and fifteenth-century book owners. Degrees: Harvard, A.B.; Cambridge, M.Phil.; Yale, Ph.D.

Harpreet Singh
A vocalist, guitarist, composer, and lyricist, Harpreet Singh is a young musician with a taste for fresh music. Extremely passionate about music, he listens to various genres, incorporates elements from them and creates music which is unique. His song, Maatti, is very well known amongst music enthusiasts. Harpreet has been playing regularly at the event, Music on Hills, for a few years now and continues to travel and perform all over India. Harpreet is extremely loyal to his audience. An honest performer,when he sings he is being himself...

Venkat Srinivasan
An expert in the field of computational linguistics, Venkat brings his rich academic background and knowledge of intelligent technology to English Helper. A uniquely experienced individual with substantial expertise in multiple functional areas, Venkat started his professional career as a public accountant and completed his doctoral work in credit and finance. He is an expert in knowledge-based systems architectures, computational linguistics, and natural language processing and holds several patents related to flexible technology architectures.

Venkat is the founder of several other companies including Rage Frameworks, Bright leaf Corporation, and Corporate Fundamentals. He serves as Chairman of Teranode. Between 1992 and 2000, Venkat was the founding CEO of eCredit.com, the leading provider of credit, financing and receivables management solutions.

Also active in the community, Venkat serves as a Trustee at American India Foundation, BUILD Boston Chapter, and the Boston Harbor Islands Alliance Board.

Dev Tayde
Dev Tayde has been the Executive Director of Indicorps since August 2010. Dev joined the Indicorps team in January 2006 and has ambidextrously juggled Project Development and Fellowship Support roles. Dev brings a decade of experience spread over low cost housing and sanitation, community development, governance, education, youth development and capacity building. His volunteer stints with numerous organisations across India have enabled him to channelize his passion for service. Dev assisted and co-founded Down To Earth and Jagruti, non-profits engaged with children and youth from humble backgrounds and rural development respectively. Dev loves his time with earthworms as they collectively dig deep to make the world greener, and with young adults in workshops and on sports fields exchanging notes about making things better.

Prior to joining Indicorps, Dev earned his Masters of Social Work and gained field experience with Shelter Associates and Akanksha. During his time at the Akanksha Foundation, he was voted “Most Hardworking Team Member” for two successive years. The award was scrapped in the third year!!

He is currently working for Unlimited India. Indicorps offers prestigious grassroots public service fellowship to implement sustainable development projects with community-based organizations across India.

Indicorps is a non-partisan, non-religious, non-profit organization with its India operations based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Indicorps’ objectives are multifold: providing Indians from all over the world with a channel to reconnect with India and with the means to contribute to its development, while fostering a new generation of socially-conscious global leaders.

Ros Tennyson
The great great grand daughter of the great Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ros Tennyson was brought up by parents who had had spent two years in India before she was born and were greatly inspired by Gandhi, Tagore and the Upanishads throughout their lives. They infused in their daughter a strong sense of social concern and social justice.

Originally trained in drama and theatre Ros moved to work in community development and with young offenders. For the past 20 years she has been working for an international educational charity leading their pioneering work on cross-sector partnerships. This has involved researching, writing, training and supporting individuals and organisations in their partnering endeavours. Such partnerships typically operate as voluntary collaborations between organisations from different sectors (business, government & civil society). They aim to address seemingly intractable problems by using pooled resources and diversity as a basis for innovation. In these partnerships Ros is essentially focussed and involved in empowerment and capacity building – drawing out creativity and potential – often latent and unexamined.

Ros Tennyson worked for IBLF (International Business Leaders Forum) for more than two decades in various parts of the World and was responsible for leading its pioneering partnership work until the end of 2011. She also co-founded Trigonos in 1996, a social business in North Wales that seeks to integrate social, economic and environmental solutions by providing opportunities for personal and professional development to a range of individuals and groups.

Ros is presently working as an independent consultant pursuing her passions for partnership brokering, social innovation, training and mentoring.

Piyush Tewari
Piyush is a social entrepreneur focused on improving road safety and emergency medical care in India. He is the Founder of SaveLIFE Foundation, an initiative for which he won the Echoing Green Fellowship in 2012 and the Rolex Award in 2010. He has been responsible for an order of the Supreme Court of India that ensures explicit protection, from Police harassment and legal hassles, to those who help injured persons. He is advocating for a Good Samaritan Law for India and currently expanding SaveLIFE's award-winning model of emergency care that trains, connects and mobilizes community volunteers and police officers to the aid of injured victims well before formal care is available. A graduate in IT from Delhi University, Piyush was the Managing Director - India of the Calibrated Group, a US-based private equity firm, before he decided to give up his corporate job to focus on building SaveLIFE Foundation.

Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are filmmakers who completed their Masters in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia University. Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh run an independent media outfit - Black Ticket Films - and have produced & directed award-winning films. Their movie 'In Search of My Home' which explored the lives of refugees living in the capital city of the largest democracy of the world received the best film award & the best director award at The Short & Documentary Film festival of Hyderabad in 2010. They produced films like 'The Miracle Water Village', 'Flying Inside My Body', 'Children of the Night', 'Bullets & Butterflies' which highlighted issues relating to climate change, gender & HIV AIDS, lives of handicapped street children and disability. Their films have been screened in film festivals across the world and also premiered on global television networks like the National Geographic Channel and NDTV. They also conduct film appreciation and filmmaking workshops for young adults in various educational institutions in Delhi. Some of their films are also being used as an advocacy tool by various NGOs working with street children in France, Germany, Italy and India.

NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan
“Tiger” Tyagarajan is credited as one of the pioneers who transformed Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) into a global leader in business process and technology management, offering a broad portfolio of enterprise and industry-specific services. Today, Genpact serves its global customers from 50 operations centers in 16 countries with over 49,000 employees, managing over 3,000 processes for more than 500 clients worldwide. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Tiger was CEO of Genpact from 1999 to 2002 and led the business through a critical growth phase as a subsidiary of GE. In October 2002, he transferred within GE to its multibillion-dollar Commercial Equipment Finance division, serving as SVP, Six Sigma and Global Operations. When Genpact became an independent company, Tiger rejoined Genpact from GE Capital U.S. as EVP, Sales and Business Development from 2005 to 2009. Thereafter, he took on the role of Genpact’s Chief Operating Officer.

Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India, and then worked with Citibank, India. He joined GE Capital in 1994 and held a variety of leadership roles in both India and the U.S. until 2005. He is a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Matt Ulrich
Matthew James Ulrich (born December 30, 1981) is an American football offensive guard free agent in the National Football League.

Ulrich was named Northwesten University team captain in 2004 and earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention. He was named National Strength and Conditioning All-American in 2004 and still holds many Northwestern weight room records including squat (715), bench press (475), and incline press (425).

Ulrich graduated in 2000 from Streamwood High School, where he won All-State and All-Midwest honours in football and also competed in the shot put. Ulrich was also a three time Academic All-State in Illinois.

Matt is retired from the NFL, and is the Director of Operations/Sports Performance at Winning Edge Athletics/Train With Ron in Chicago, IL.

Ulrich won Super Bowl XLI with the Colts during the 2006 season.

Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma
Justice Jagdish Sharan Verma assumed highest position in Indian judiciary system when he was appointed the Chief Justice of India on March 25, 1997. He was the 27th Chief Justice of India and retired on Jan 18, 1998. Prior to becoming the CJI, Justice Verma has served as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court and Rajasthan High Court. Then he was appointed as a Judge of the apex court of India in Jun 1989. The 80-year-old legal luminary was born in Jan 18, 1933. He received his education in Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He started his legal career when he was 20-years-old in 1955. He started his career as a pleader in the Judicial Commissioner's Court of Vindhya Pradesh at Rewa (now in Madhya Pradesh) in January 1955. Justice Verma also served as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Justice Verma has delivered some landmark judgments - for instance, in the Sanjay Dutt case (1994) and the Vishakha case (1997, relating to the sexual harassment of a woman in her workplace). He was instrumental in enlarging the content and scope of Article 21 (the right to life and personal liberty) of the Constitution. Records say Justice J.S. Verma has deliberated on around 470 cases since 1990.

Justice Verma's name came into the limelight in the aftermath of the Delhi gangrape episode. He favoured comprehensive amendments to criminal laws seeking minimum 20 years imprisonment for gangrape and life term for rape and murder but refrained from prescribing the death penalty.

However, the three-member Committee headed by former Chief Justice JSVerma, which was constituted in the wake of the nationwide outrage over the Dec 16 gangrape of a girl in Delhi, is not in favour of reducing the age of juveniles under the law.

Nor did the Committee favour chemical castration of rapists saying the Constitution of India does not permit mutilation of a human body.

Smita Vats
Smita Vats is the Founder and Director of ITIHAAS, a Delhi based educational trust active in the area of heritage education.She strongly advocates Heritage Education at the school level and works with many schools to make tangible and intangible heritage accessible and age-appropriate. She studied Psychology at Delhi University and then went on to do her Masters in Mass Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia. After 20 years in documentary film making she founded ITIHAAS. Smita has also been very deeply involved with theatre and has acted at the helm in over 30 major productions. She now brings all her experience and energy to ITIHAAS.

Francis Vérillaud
Francis Vérillaud is the Vice President of Sciences Po Paris and Director of International Affairs and Exchanges at Sciences Po. He has been the main architect of Sciences Po’s internationalisation strategy. He has contributed immensely to the opening of the institution to international students and faculty, and in negotiating and setting the educational and scientific institutional programmes such as the dual degrees with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and many others. He is also responsible in bringing in the Global Public Policy Network and in creating the Alliance Programme at Columbia University with Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and Ecole Polytechnique.

Prior to coming to Sciences Po, he held several positions within the Ministry of External Affairs in France, being posted in Washington and Santiago de Chile. He has taught Economics classes in several French lycées, at Universidad Catolica de Chile and at Sciences Po.

Francis Vérillaud is a graduate in Philosophy from Paris University Nanterre and a graduate from Sciences Po Paris.

Akela Venkatesh
Professor Akela Venkatesh is presently a faculty at the University of California, Davis, in the department of the Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and also at Hewlett-Packard Company, Roseville, California.

Akella`s research interest lies in Computer Architecture and Parallel Computing, Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-design, Reconfigurable Computing, FPGA, Functional Programming and Asynchronous Circuits, Software Engineering, Electronic Commerce, Location-Aware Computing, Computational Biology and Optical Interconnects.

His current research involves exploring the use of optical interconnects to overcome the processor memory latency and bandwidth bottlenecks in multicore processors, developing systematic design methodologies to accelerate error-floor simulation for error correcting codes and techniques for developing and deploying embedded software to facilitate location aware computing.

The goal of Akella's research is to create models, platforms (architectures) and design methodologies to support high performance and low power computing requirements applications such as networking, location aware services, multimedia, compression, error correction, scientific computation and computational biology. The central premise of the research is that reducing cost and maximizing flexibility are absolutely critical for making computing systems accessible to a broader audience and in turn to have the maximum impact on our society. Hardware/software co-design and exploiting the trade-offs between resource utilization and quality of results have emerged as common themes to develop programmable architectures and design methodologies to address the requirements of many problems.

Akella did his Phd in Computer Science from University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1992 and his M.S. in Electrical & Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1988.

Steven Wilkinson
Steven Wilkinson is Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. His interests are in explaining conflict, and understanding the reasons for divergence in political and economic development. He is probably best known for his book Votes and Violence (Cambridge), winner of the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Prize, which examines the connection between political incentives and communal violence in India. He has just completed, with co-author Saumitra Jha, the first statistical analysis of ethnic cleansing during the partition of India (American Political Science Review November 2012), part of a larger book project on how war experience affects political and social change. That project also looks at the role of veterans in the French Revolution and their role in the Great Reform Act in UK. Professor Wilkinson is currently completing a book,Army in Nation, to come out later this year from Harvard/Permanent Black, which examines why India has been much more successful in managing civil military issues than Pakistan.

Shefaly Yogendra
Shefaly Yogendra is passionate about decision-making, and enjoys working at the cusp of multiple disciplines, fueling the emergence of new ways of thinking.

A visiting Professor at the Shiv Nadar University in India since 2012, she teaches a multidisciplinary course titled Society & Technology, as well as a philosophy and logic founded course on Critical Thinking.

Shefaly advises investors on due diligence and risk assessment for new ventures and existing businesses in highly regulated sectors. Earlier she worked in corporate venturing and strategy at the HCL Group, with a focus on building new businesses.

In her work and her teaching, she brings diverse perspectives to life, drawing on her academic training in three continents, eclectic interests, and her global experience. She has a PhD in decision making and a Master's in technology policy from the University of Cambridge, a PGDM at IIM Ahmedabad and a B. Tech in electronics engineering at the Lucknow University. She was also a CMI Research Fellow at MIT, in the Engineering Systems Division.

Shefaly enjoys travelling, art, film, and furthering her scholarship of design, with a focus on jewellery through the ages.

Sanjeev Aga
Mr. Sanjeev Aga is Managing Director of Idea Cellular Limited, which is among the top four mobile telephony players in India. He is a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Management Corporation, and is the Vice-Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India.

In a business career commencing in 1973, Mr. Aga has held senior positions in Asian Paints, Chellarams (Nigeria), and Jenson & Nicholson. In 1987, he joined Blow Plast to head the furniture business, was made Chief Executive of Mattel Toys in 1990, and in January 1993 was appointed Managing Director of Blow Plast with multi-business responsibility including the flagship VIP luggage business.

In November 1998, he was appointed CEO of the Aditya Birla Group's telecom JV, Birla AT&T Ltd. He led the company through a period of fast-paced change, through expansion and acquisition, and merger with Tata Cellular Ltd., to be CEO of what became Idea Cellular. From May 2005 until October 2006, Mr. Aga was Managing Director of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, a diversified conglomerate with manufacturing and service sector businesses.

Mr. Aga is an Honours graduate in Physics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Norman Atkins
Norman Atkins is the Co-Founder and CEO of Teacher U, which is fast becoming a path-finder in the training of urban teachers. He is also the Founder, Board Chair, and former CEO of Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit charter management organization based in New York City. Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit organization that starts and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. In 1997, he co-founded and co-led North Star Academy Charter School of Newark. From 1989 to 1994, he was the co-executive director of the Robin Hood Foundation in New York City. As a journalist, he has written about education, poverty, politics, culture, and social issues for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Parenting, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. Atkins earned a B.A. in History from Brown University and an M.A. in Educational Administration from Columbia University Teachers College.

After graduation, Atkins became the co-executive director of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization to aid in eliminating poverty. He then co-founded and co-led North Star Academy Charter School of Newark.

Atkins is also a guest speaker at Teach For India. Teach For India aims to bridge the achievement gap, in education, by placing outstanding young graduates and professionals for 2 years as class teachers in government and affordable private schools, holding them to high expectations for student achievement in that time, and influencing them to stay in education long-term.

Avnish Bajaj
Avnish Bajaj, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Matrix Partners India, the Indian arm of US-based venture capital firm Matrix Partners, turned a venture capitalist after successfully building Baazee – India’s largest auction portal. In late 1999 he was living in the U.S. and noticed the success of then–nascent eBay. He returned to India that year to start a similar Internet auction site called Baazee.com. As the Internet bubble began to burst the following year, the Baazee story quickly went from one of multiplying revenue to one of holding on tight for a bumpy roller coaster ride. The management team stuck together, refocused the business and its cost structure, and moved quickly to acquire two competitors just as the market was turning. As a result, Baazee grew into a healthy business in spite of the turbulent market, and ultimately sold to eBay in 2004 for $55 million. Avnish continued to run eBay India for a year and a half. The lessons he took from running a business in a rapidly changing and challenging environment have proven to be invaluable. Avnish’s additional experiences at Apple and eBay have given him a deep appreciation for the myriad of issues a leader has to deal with in creating and running successful enterprises.

Avnish attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He then completed a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the U.S. and joined Apple Computer as a Software Engineer. During his three and-a-half years at Apple (during which time the company had four CEOs), Avnish developed an interest in management and left Apple to complete a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Avnish interned with McKinsey and Co. After graduating from Harvard, Avnish joined Goldman Sachs in their investment banking team during the dot com bubble days where he was exposed to a number of compelling business ideas that ultimately led to the formation of Baazee. Today Avnish is looking to invest in companies run by great leaders who are focused on capitalizing on the exponential growth rates of the domestic Indian market.

Shumeet Banerji
Shumeet Banerji is a Senior Partner of Booz & Company. He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Booz & Company from 2008-2012. He joined the firm in Chicago in 1993. Prior to his election to CEO, he was the Managing Director of the firm’s European practice. He co-founded and co-led the firm’s practice in India in the mid-1990s. Mr.Banerji has advised public and private sector entities around the world, serving clients in the financial services, telecoms, technology and media, consumer products and retail, resources, steel, and chemicals industries. He has advised diversified conglomerates, investors, and governments. Typical issues have spanned the entire senior agenda, including corporate strategy, senior organisation, board performance, transformational change, operational performance improvement, M&A, and compensation.

He is a frequent speaker at key economic and business conferences around the world including the World Economic Forum and the Global Economic Symposium. For the last few years he has focused on leadership issues in the aftermath of the financial crisis. He is the author of numerous articles and is co-author of Cut Costs and Grow Stronger.

Mr. Banerji serves on the Board of Directors of Hewlett-Packard Company, the Panel of Senior Advisers of Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) and the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business before joining the firm.

Kaushik Basu
Dr Kaushik Basu is an Indian economist who is currently Chief Economist of the World Bank. Previously, he was the C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics, and prior to that the Chairman of the Department of Economics and Director, Center for Analytic Economics at Cornell University. He previously served as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.

Earlier he was Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, where he founded the Centre for Development Economics in Delhi was its first Executive Director. He is also a founding member of the Madras School of Economics.

He is currently President of the Human Development and Capabilities Association, which was founded by Amartya Sen. He has held advisory posts with the ILO, the World Bank, the Reserve Bank of India and was, for several years, member of the steering committee of the Expert Group of Development Issues set up by the Swedish Government. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Exim Bank of India.

He is Editor of Social Choice and Welfare, and served or serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review and the Japanese Economic Review.

A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Kaushik Basu has published widely in the areas of Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory and Welfare Economics. Professor Basu has also contributed popular articles to magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, Scientific American, India Today and Business Standard. He also wrote a regular column for BBC News Online. He has appeared on various television programmes including CNN (USA), NDTV and CNBC (India) and BBC.

In May 2008 he was awarded one of India’s highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan, by the President of India.

He holds a B A (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, M. Sc. (Econ) in Economics from London School of Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Anjali Bhardwaj
Anjali Bhardwaj has been closely associated with the Right to Information movement in India since 2000 and has been a member of the Working Committee of the National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information. The National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) was founded in 1996 and played a pivotal role in campaigning for an effective Right to Information Act. More recently, NCPRI has been actively campaigning for the enactment of effective laws like the Lokpal, Grievance Redress Act and whistle blowers’ protection law, to tackle corruption and redress citizens’ grievances.

Anjali is the director of SatarkNagrikSangathan (SNS), a citizens’ group, with a mandate to promote transparency and accountability in government functioning and to encourage active participation of citizens in governance. SNS has been assisting citizens in using the RTI Act to ensure transparency in the working of government departments and to demand political accountability by monitoring the functioning of elected representatives.

Before setting up SatarkNagrikSangathan, she worked for several years on development issues at various organizations including the World Bank. She studied for an MSc degree in Environmental Management at Oxford University and did her MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.

In 2009, Anjali was awarded the ‘Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs’ in recognition of her work on using the RTI Act to ensure transparency, accountability and responsiveness in the functioning of elected representatives. In 2011, she was awarded the 'Woman Achiever’s Award 2011 in the field of Social Entrepreneurship’ by the YFLO, FICCI.

Vijay Bhai
Vijay Poddar (fondly addressed as Vijay Bhai) grew up at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and teaches at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. He is a member of the executive committee of the Sri Aurobindo Society, an organization with a controversial history with Auroville. He is also the Director of Sri Aurobindo Institute for Research in Social Science as well as of the Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Integral Health and Research and an office bearer controlling power in several other such organizations operating under the umbrella of the Sri Aurobindo Society.

V. T. Bharadwaj
V. T. Bharadwaj is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital. He has focused on the consumer, retail,healthcare and energy sectors and led investments in Genesis Colors, Vasan, Celon Labs and Ind-Barath. V.T. has also worked closely with Paras and DrLalPathlabs and also supported public market investments in Cognizant, Havells and InfoTech. He is on the boards at Vasan, Celon Labs andDrLalPathlabs. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, V.T.spent six years with McKinsey & Company. He received an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal and holds a BS in engineering from BITS Pilani.

Promod Bhasin
Pramod founded Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) in 1997. Under his leadership, Genpact pioneered the Business Process Management Industry in India. This industry now employs over a million people in India, directly and indirectly. Genpact has also been the pioneer of this industry in China and Eastern Europe. Today, it is acknowledged as a leader in the globalization of services and technology. Genpact serves its global customers from over 39 operations centers in 13 countries, with over 43,000 employees across a wide range of business processes, technologies and industries. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Pramod was earlier an Officer of General Electric (GE). His career with GE and RCA spanned 25 years across the US, Europe and Asia. He was most recently the head of GE Capital in India and in Asia, having earlier worked with GE Capital's Corporate and Finance Group in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.

Pramod is a Chartered Accountant from Thomson McLintock & Co., London, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University. He was the past Chairman of India's National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM), and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of NASSCOM Foundation. Pramod is the current Chairman of the CII Services Council. He serves on the boards of NDTV and SKS Microfinance. He is also Chairman of the Junior Achievement India Founders Board, and is on the governing boards of several educational institutions including IIM Lucknow, Lady Shri Ram College, and Shri Ram School.

Ashok Chaddha
This army man's son turned his back on his family's preference for government service by joining the nascent IT industry of the mid-1980s.

Four months ago when Ashok Chadha quit one of India's largest third-party offshore BPO providers to join a niche player, he was probably carrying the same piece of baggage that he was two decades ago: "The urge to do more and better" has always been his driving force. As president and country head for San Francisco-headquartered Global Vantedge, he oversees the company's 1,200-executive Gurgaon call centre specialising in credit and receivables. That's quite a change from his previous job as associate COO at Wipro Spectramind where he ran end-to-end service delivery for multiple processes and managed around 4,000 people. As one of the core team that helped build Spectramind, he has learnt that focus and not a brand name is necessary to build a company. He believes that specialised Indian companies stand at the cusp of enormous growth, "The industry will consolidate and mature into a much bigger entity. The IT services sector will soon see a new high in terms of people it will employ and contribution to GDP." The $10 million Global Vantedge expects a four-fold growth over the next one year in India. Asked about his biggest hurdle so far, the XLRI graduate replies, "Finding experts from India who were comfortable in a niche domain like credit and receivable management was tough." He believes the BPO industry is the best thing to have happened to India. His reckoning: "Which other industry would give you an opportunity to become a vice-president at 32 and a chance to own a thousand-people company by your 40s? One should thank this sunrise industry, which has developed a confident and professionally robust generation."

Vijay Chandru
An academic entrepreneur, Dr. Vijay Chandru was named the ‘Technology Pioneer’ by the World Economic Forum in 2006. With aPh.D. from MIT he is the founder of Strand Life Sciences and currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. His academic career has spanned over two decades at Purdue University and the Indian Institute of Science. He is the recipient of several awards and honours: A Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (1996), MCIT Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT (2001), UGCHari Om Trust award for "Science and Society" (2003), the President's Medal of INFORMS in 2006, distinguished Alumni award by the MIT India Programme in 2007, and was recognised as the Biospectrum Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007. He is also the elected President (2009-2012) of the Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE), the apex trade body representing the Indian Biotech industry.

Ayush Chauhan
Ayush Chauhan co-founded Quicksand in 2005 (www.quicksand.co.in), a design research and innovation consultancy based in India, driven by the belief that design and inter-disciplinary collaborations are powerful tools to drive innovation and create social & business impact. He has since led the studio on projects with global corporations & foundations such as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PATH, UNDP, Google, Cisco & IDEO, on subjects as varied as water and sanitation, technology convergence, internet, education and healthcare. Specifically in urban sanitation, Quicksand has conducted an in-depth study of how India's urban poor interact with spaces, services and communities around the core issues of sanitation and hygiene. The study, christened as The Potty Project, and supported by the Gates Foundation, was presented at the South Asia Conference on Sanitation and has been published online at www.pottyproject.in. Quicksand also anchors an innovation eco-system called the Box collective which consists of B.L.O.T (a music, performing and visual arts collective - www.blottin.blogspot.com), Blindboys (a photo commune-www.blindboys.org) and Codesign (a brand strategy and communication design studio - www.codesign.in). One of the recent projects from the Box collective was the UnBox Festival (www.unboxfestival.com), a 4-day festival in Delhi celebrating creative thinking and interdisciplinary collaborations as the means of facilitating social and cultural change.

Ayush received his engineering and business degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and did a brief stint in brand & product management in the corporate sector before starting his journey as an entrepreneur. He was nominated by the Asia Society as part of Asia's Young Leaders Summit in Kuala Lumpur in 2009 and has served as an independent board member for Spandana, one of India's largest micro-finance institutions. He was invited by the Gates Foundation to be on the jury for Grand Challenges Exploration, a platform to foster innovation in global health and development.

Ajay Chaturvedi
Founder of HarVa, Ajay Chaturvedi, is an ex-Citi where he served in Strategy and Sales positions in Cards and Consumer banking verticals. Ajay begun his career with IBM Consulting in the US and has experience in Management, Operations and IT Consulting across Financial Services, IT and ITeS industries in US, UK, and South East Asia. Prior to Citi, Ajay was the Transition Leader at Global Vantedge, a company that was a pioneer in many ways besides being the first offshore receivables management provider. Ajay is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and a Graduate in Management of Technology from the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ajay truly believes in the power of cost effective innovation on all aspects that will lead to value creation across the world, especially in India and supports the Socio-Capitalistic business models as the drivers of inclusive growth. He also thinks that the real growth in rural areas across the world and in India is yet to come and is possible only when we get into the real fabric of the country and not just overlay thoughts and patterns from the developed nations. A voracious reader, an avid golfer and an ardent traveller, Ajay spent almost a decade living in the US and across the world and now lives in Gurgaon. Most recently Ajay was awarded CNN IBN Youth Icon / Young Indian Leader of the year 2011.

Most recently HarVaXPO entered the Limca Book of Records for being the first all women rural BPO in the world. HarVa has won numerous awards and accolades including the Manthan Chairman Excellence Award 2011, SKOCH Financial Inclusion 2011 and TiE Entrepreneurial Excellence 2011 among the latest recognitions. Earlier in 2011, HarVa was also identified as the 3rd most innovative company in India (next only to Tata Motors) by the Fast Company magazine of New York, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability& Empowered Woman Award by the Rockefeller Foundation / United Nations 2012.

Ajay has recently been nominated as one of the Amazing Global Indian by Times Now News 2012-13 and Yahoo unsung Heroes 2012-13.

Ash Damle
Ash Damle is the CEO and Founder of Medgle which is a personalised medical search engine. Medgle addresses the healthcare supply demand imbalance via personalised clinical decision support.MEDgle uses an expert system that connects 7000 symptoms to 2000 diagnoses and factors in personal information like age, gender, and lifestyles.Ashhas worked over the last 15 years with MIT, Navy, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Jcrew, and many others in developing webscale practical AI solutions in healthcare .MEDgle’s ultimate goal is to empower everyone to be the best healer they can be. An MIT graduate Ash has worked as a researcher in the field of robotics at UCLA for 2 years, as the Director of Technology/Strategy - Government Solutions at Skillnet Solutions Inc and also as a Business Technology Analyst at SkillNet Solutions Inc.

Gaurav Deepak
Gaurav spearheads Avendus’ flagship Financial Advisory business and leads the firm’s international operations. He has worked on several large and complex engagements in M&A, Private Equity Syndication, Equity Capital Markets and Fixed Income. He has more than twelve years of global Investment Banking experience. He is based out of Mumbai. Prior to co-founding Avendus, Gaurav worked with ICICI, a leading Indian financial services firm. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

Sushil Dharmarha
Sushil Darmarha a driven professional with wide ranging experience in Business Process Design, Information Planning and Application Design & Developmentis presently the Director at Polarities. Sushil has always maintained a business focus to implementation of information technology and this holistic, cross-functional perspective has been the key to his success in delivering quality business solutions with a high ROI (Return on Investment).

Sushil graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and spent the early years of his career at IBM, Australia followed by HP, India. He went to Japan in 1993 and established Polarities in 1996 with the objective of bringing the advantage of information technology to small & medium sized international businesses in Japan. He has directed IT initiatives across a wide variety of functional domains & technologies. Since 2007 Sushil has been working towards a vision of Japan that is open and welcoming to foreigners wishing to work there. Sushil is a director at IPSA Co. Ltd., a Japanese company that provides operational outsourcing services to overseas consulting companies enabling them to execute assignments in Japan without the hassles of establishing & operating a local entity.

Ashish Dhawan
Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who guides the Foundation with his strategic vision, values and fresh approach to philanthropy. Prior to founding Central Square, Ashish was Sr. Managing Director, ChrysCapital; a private equity firm that he co-founded in 1999.

Ashish serves on the board of several non-profits including Akanksha Foundation, 3.2.1 Education Foundation, Teach For India, Centre for Civil Society, Janaagraha and GiveLife. He is also a member of the HBS India Advisory Board. Previously Ashish has worked with leading investment institutions such as Goldman Sachs, GP Investments and MDC Partners. He is an MBA with distinction from Harvard University and a dual bachelor's (BS/BA) holder in applied mathematics and economics with Magna Cum Laude honours from Yale University.

Neha Dixit
Neha Dixit is a journalist at Headlines Today. She heads the Special Investigations Team which investigates stories on everything under the sun: news, politics, development, naxalism, human rights, women's rights, child rights, environment, crime, health, agriculture, labour rights, intelligence and more. Their agenda is to break the cocoons of cynicism and passivity. Neha has also worked as a journalist at Tehelka. She received a degree in journalism from MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University and a B. A. Hons in English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University.

Neha has won various awards and honours. She Won the Best News Reporter, News Television Awards in 2012, the Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism in 2011, Best Investigative Feature, News Television Awards in 2010-2011, Laadli-Media Award for Best Investigative Feature in 2009-2010 and the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award in 2009. She is also a Contributor to the UNESCO Casebook of Investigative Journalism 2011.

Arun Duggal
Mr. Arun Duggal is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where he teaches a course on Venture Capital & Private Equity.

Arun Duggal is Chairman of Board of Directors of Shriram Capital, Shriram Transport Finance Company, Shriram Properties, Shriram City Union Finance, and Shriram EPC. He is also Vice Chairman of International Asset Reconstruction Company. He is an experienced international Banker and has advised companies and financial institutions on Financial Strategy, M&A and Capital Raising.

He is on the Board of Directors of Jubilant Energy. Netherlands (Chairman Audit Committee), Patni Computers, Fidelity Fund Management, Ecron Acunova, Zuari Industries, Info Edge (Chairman Audit Committee), Dish TV, Mundra Port and Mortice Limited (Singapore) (Chairman of Audit Committee). He is a member of the Investment Committee of Axis Private Equity. He was erstwhile Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce, India He was on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Bank Management.

Mr. Duggal is involved in several initiatives in social and education sectors. He is a Trustee of Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, which focuses on improving the quality and access of education to students especially for the poor. Mr. Duggal is Chairman of Bellwether Microfinance Fund, a social sector fund, which provides equity capital to smaller, promising Micro Finance organizations.

Mr. Duggal had a 26 years career with Bank of America, mostly in the U.S., Hong Kong and Japan. His last assignment was as Chief Executive of Bank of America in India from 1998 to 2001. He is an expert in Oil & Gas Financing and from 1981-1990 he was head of Bank of America’s (oil & gas) practice handling relationships with companies like Exxon, Mobil, Etc. From 1991-94 as Chief Executive of BA Asia Limited, Hong Kong he looked after Investment Banking activities for the Bank in Asia. In 1995, he moved to Tokyo as the Regional Executive, managing Bank of America’s business in Japan, Australia and Korea. From 2001 to 2003 he was Chief Financial Officer of HCL Technologies, India.

A Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Mr. Duggal holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He is a US national and Overseas Citizen of India. A theatre enthusiast, he also plays tennis and enjoys trekking in the Himalayas. He is married to Dr. Rita Duggal and they have two daughters. They live primarily in New Delhi, but also spend some time in their homes in Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) and New York.

Shailaja Fennell
Shailaja Fennell is a University Lecturer in Development Studies and a Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Cambridge. Shailaja read for her undergraduate degree in Economics at St. Stephen’s College and her Masters degree in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.

Shailaja was awarded a Commonwealth scholarship in 1990 and proceeded to read for her doctorate at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research examined the long term trends in cereal production in China and India at household, provincial and national levels. Shailaja drew on both econometric methods and archival records in her research and this mixed methodology has become the foundation of her subsequent comparative research initiatives in the field of rural development.

Shailaja has been an international team leader on food security contributing to the first European Development Report published in 2008 as well as the international team leader examining the impact of public private partnerships in education on poor communities as part of a DFID (Department of International Development, United Kingdom) funded research consortium on educational outcomes and poverty (RECOUP) that conducted research in Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan between 2005-10.

Shailaja is also the Research Director of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum, an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together scholars from arts and humanities, social, natural and biological sciences to conduct research and to study and aid development in Central Asia. She has been a visiting professor at the Kazakh National University in Almaty and has been awarded an honorary Professorship by the International Kazakh Turkish University.

Her recent publications include Rules, rubrics and riches: the relationship between legal reform, institutional change and international development ( Routledge 2009)’ that reviews the impact of legislation on development processes in China, India and Malaysia, and an edited volume with Professor Madeleine Arnot, Gender Education and Development: conceptual frameworks, engagements and agendas ( Routledge 2007) that examines how gender frameworks need to be reconstructed to examine education in development contexts. Shailaja is currently working on a manuscript titled ‘Of Grains and Gains: a political economy of agriculture in China and India’.

Stephen Fennell
Stephen Fennell was educated as a philologist and philosopher in Sydney, Freiburg and Cambridge. He lectured in the Modern and Medieval Languages Faculty at Cambridge University from 1993 to 2009, specialising in German and classical philosophy, philology and literature. He has worked in Central Asian Studies since the 1990s and is currently Research Fellow at the Cambridge Central Asia Forum. He has published on Plato, Shakespeare, Goethe, the German Romantics, Persian poetry and Eurasian history, and is the author of a comparative Gothic lexicon. In recent years he has given international conference papers on Max Müller, Arabic breviary use in medieval Central Asia, the origins of Middle Eastern Islamic mystic philosophy, the editorial history of the Bhagavad Gita, Amir Temur, Platonic epistemology, and the readerships of Sufi literature. He has lectured at the British Museum on Sufi poetry, and in various countries on Central Asian history and philosophy, and related indological topics. He has taught Tocharian A and B at Cambridge.

Tejpreet S. Chopra
Tejpreet S. Chopra is the Founder, and President & CEO of Bharat Light & Power. Bharat Light &Power is a clean power generation company utilizing a variety of advanced technologies. Tejpreet’s 18 years of global management and finance experience was gained in various business roles held in France, England, Hong Kong, India and USA, of which over 14 years were at General Electric.

Until recently, he was the President and CEO of General Electric in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and was responsible for directing GE's strategies for growth in these countries. Prior to that, he served as President & CEO of GE Commercial Finance in India, where he successfully restructured and expanded the business thereby establishing GE Commercial Finance as one of the premier financial institutions in India. Since joining GE in 1996, he has held positions in marketing, structured finance and risk management, in Stamford and Hong Kong for GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). In 2005, he moved from the unit's headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, to open GECAS’s office in Delhi. As Senior Vice-President and Country Head-India for GECAS, Tejpreet arranged over US$1 billion in financing for India's growing airline industry. He is also involved in various industry associations. He was a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Chairman of the American Chamber of commerce in India (AMCHAM), and the Board of Directors of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC). He is a participant of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Cornell University Council. He is also an Aspen Institute Fellow, a part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. He has also spoken at a number of international conferences, including Asia Society’s CEO Forum Series in New York and LA, the Economist’s India Business Summit in London, the Wharton India Economic Forum, the Harvard Business School India Conference, and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos 2011. In 2008, he was named by Business Today as one of “India’s Hottest Young Executives”.

Tejpreet graduated from The Lawrence School, Sanawar. He holds a MBA degree from Cornell University and a B.A. Honours degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

Pavan Gandhok
Tejpavan Singh Gandhok is co-founder and CEO of Lite Bite Foods, a high growth new venture focused on chain Restaurants & Food courts. He has over 18 years of international Senior Partner level experience in Country & Regional Head roles across Australia, US, South East & Middle East Asia with Strategy consulting & Private Equity firms such as Halycon, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group. He has advised most of the leading blue chip Indian , SE Asian as well as global MNC clients on issues such as: corporate portfolio and business unit strategy ; organisation design; business performance improvement; corporate finance and valuation; governance and senior executive remuneration.

Pavan also worked with Monsanto as Director - business development and growth strategy for Asia-Pacific, ICI Australia and the University of Melbourne. He is also a co-founder and Lead Director of Natures Bounty an alcoholic beverages marketing company; co-founder and managing trustee of Madadghar a charitable trust. He has an MBA from UCLA (Dean’s list) and a BE Chem. Engg (Honours) from Univ. of Melbourne, as well as a qualification in journalism. Pavan is an Indian born, US educated, Australian citizen, permanent resident of Singapore and an Overseas Citizen of India.

Arunabha Ghosh
Arunabha Ghosh is CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India. He is also an Associate at the Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford; Faculty Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford; and Associate Fellow at the Governance of Clean Development Project at the University of East Anglia. He is a member of the working group of the Royal Society’s Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative.

Dr Ghosh was recently made a Global Leaders Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton and at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford. Previously, he was Policy Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme in New York and has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

Dr Ghosh’s interests intersect international relations, global governance and human development, including climate, energy, water, trade and conflict. His recent publication, Harnessing the Power Shift: Governance options for international climate financing (Oxfam), comprehensively assesses the range of financing channels, funds and institutions and offers alternative design options for governing climate finance.

Dr Ghosh has presented to the President of India, briefed the Indian Parliament, the European Parliament, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly and trained ministers in Central Asia. He has hosted a documentary on the water crisis set out of Africa, Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life, recognised as an Official Honouree at the Webby Awards. He has served as Assistant Editor and Book Review Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.

Arunabha holds a D.Phil. (Ph.D.) and M.Phil. in international relations from Oxford. He holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, as a Radhakrishnan-Chevening Scholar. He graduated at the top of his class with a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

Jonathan Gil Harris
Jonathan Gil Harris is Professor of English at George Washington University, where he has taught since 2003. Prior to that, he held positions at Ithaca College, New York, and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The past recipient of fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also served as Associate Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly since 2005.

Professor Harris is the author of five books: Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, named by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2009); Shakespeare and Literary Theory (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise (Ronsdale Press, forthcoming 2012). He coedited, with Natasha Korda, Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is also the editor of the third New Mermaids edition of Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Methuen, 2008); Placing Michael Neill: Issues of Place in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate Press, 2011); and Indography: Writing the “Indian” in Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2012).

Professor Harris is currently spending a year in Delhi to work on a book project called Becoming Indian, which considers poor European travellers to India in the seventeenth century – servants, soldiers, masterless men – who to lesser and greater extents became Indian, and whose elusive lives suggest the outlines of alternative Indo-European histories that potentially unsettle modern conceptions of bodies, race, and foreignness.

Melissa Heer
Melissa Heer is a researcher, a writer and presently a faculty at the University of Minnesota in the department of Art History. She specialises in contemporary art, photography, performance art and South Asian art. Melissa has worked as Arts Coordinator at the Folwell Center for Urban Initiatives during 2005–2006. She is also a recipient of various awards. She was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship, 2011–2012; Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2010–2011 and the Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Prospectus Development Fellowship in 2008. Melissa received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Minnesota in 2008 and her B.A. magna cum laude in Art History; Minor in Philosophy from Saint Catherine University in 2004.

Her present research is on "Re-staging History: Contemporary Photography and Performance in India": Dissertation in Progress, 2010 - 2013 (projected). The courses Melissa has taught include Art Since 1945,Islamic Culture,Art of Film and Art of India.

Sudhir Horo
Sudhir John Horo is the co-founder of the INDIA Future of Change Initiative, one of India's largest outreach programme to engage the global youth and working professionals with the emergent reality in India. He is also the Programme Director of the project INDIAFRICA: A Shared Future, another initiative to foster cultural and intellectual exchange between India and Africa. An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, Horo has been instrumental in developing communication for India's business brand, launched at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos, followed by other high-profile events like Hannover Messe 2006, India Business Exhibition in the European Parliament, Brussels, 2006 and IncredibleIndia@60 in New York, 2007, India Inculsive in Davos 2011. He has also worked for Incredible India, the tourism brand of India, having recently designed and executed its print and outdoor campaign in Singapore against the backdrop of the Singtel Singapore F1 Grand Prix 2008. In 2006, together with Amit Shahi, Horo founded the Idea Works, a communication design firm primarily focused on nation brands and public diplomacy, based in New Delhi. Since then, they have worked with governments on nation-branding and public diplomacy communication, most notable of which is the Public Diplomacy Initiative of the British High Commission in India, in 2006 and Bonjour India, Festival of France in India in 2009-10.

Eduardo D. Glandt
Eduardo D. Glandt is Professor and Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Upenn. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering - 1996, awarded Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1980, the Victor K. LaMer Award in 1979 and the S. Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1977. Dean Glandt received a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1977 from University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1968 from University of Buenos Aires.

Ramachandra Guha
Dr Ramachandra Guha is an Indian writer whose research interests have included environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for the newspapers The Telegraph, Khaleej Times, and The Hindustan Times. He is a fellow of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Born in Dehra Dun in 1958, Guha studied at The Doon School and St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He graduated in Economics with a BA in 1977 and then an MA from the Delhi School of Economics, and did a PhD in Sociology at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Between 1985 and 2000, he taught at various universities in India, Europe and North America, including the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Stanford University and Oslo University, and later at the Indian Institute of Science. During this period, he was also a fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in Germany.

He served as Sundaraja Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2003. He is the managing trustee of the New India Foundation, a nonprofit body that funds research on modern Indian history.

He is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and Ecco in 2007. The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. And in 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award.

Ashish Gupta
Ashish is the COO and Country Head (India) of Evalueserve (EVS). Prior to joining EVS, he was the founder and CEO of Ties2Family.com, a community building portal that provided various services to Indians at home and overseas. At Ties2Family, Ashish was responsible for garnering 100,000 customers.

Before starting Ties2Family, Ashish was an Engagement Manager and spent around five years with McKinsey & Co. in Delhi. While at McKinsey, he worked with clients in India, the US, Europe and China, and was also a core member of the Firm's e-Commerce Practice.

Ashish did his MBA from The Carnegie Mellon University and a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Vikas Gupta
Vikas Gupta is synonymous with marketing and easily one of India’s most senior and highly-regarded marketing professionals. Vikas was the CMO& President (Ad Sales)at ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika) Pvt Ltd. He was also the Sr VP & Head of Marketing, Coca-Cola India at of the Coca-Cola Company.Vikas has also worked at P&G and Unilever. He is at present co-Founder & Directorat 9.9 Mediaworx Pvt Ltd.Vikas oversees marketing across all 9.9 businesses and leads 9.9 Print.

Vikas completed his schooling from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, graduated in Mathematics from Hindu College, Delhi University, and has a PGDM, Marketing & Finance from XLRI Jamshedpur.

George Jacob
India-born Canadian museologist George Jacob has planned, designed and established museums and award-winning educational experiences spanning 11 countries and is among the leading museum thinkers of our times. Former Smithsonian intern and Canadian Commonwealth Fellow, he was educated with Degrees in Museum Studies, Social Anthropology and Leadership at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, University of Toronto and Yale School of Management. With a track record of over $200 million in museum projects worldwide, he is the recipient of an unprecedented $19 million in US Federal and State grants and the author of the seminal books Museum Design: The FUTURE and the sequel Exhibit Design: The FUTURE. Diverse museum projects cover a range of academic and popular pursuits. During these years, he has had the distinction of being the founding Director of three museums including the $30 million NASA-Ames funded Astronomy & Cultural Centre, Vice President of OMSI, OMNIMAX facility, Chair of numerous professional committees on museum ethics, policy, museum law, standards and curatorial practices. He was honored to be the Project Director for the production of the Star Spangled Banner (the 1812 flag that inspired the American National Anthem) permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington DC dedicated to the nation by President George W. Bush. He is, at present, the Principal Advisor to a $266 million 8 museum cluster project in the making jointly with MIT.

Christophe Jaffrelot
Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and teaches South Asian politics and history at Sciences Po (Paris). He was Director of CERI (Centre d’Etudeset de Recherches Internationales) at Sciences Po, between 2000 and 2008. His research interests include: theories of nationalism and democracy; mobilization of the lower castes and untouchables in India; Hindu nationalist movement; ethnic conflicts in Pakistan.

He currently teaches Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's University India Institute and is a regular Visitor at the universities of Yale, Princeton, SAIS and Columbia University. He has to his credit publications such as, India’s Silent Revolution. The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India, London, Hurst, 2003, The Hindu nationalist movement and Indian politics, 1925 to the 1990s, London, Hurst 1999. His recent publications include Armed Militias of South Asia, Co-editor with L. Gayer, London, Hurst, 2010, India since 1950, Yatra Books / Cambridge University Press, 2011, andMuslims in Indian Cities, Hurst / Harper Collins, 2012 which is still Forthcoming.

Rakesh Jaggi
Rakesh Jaggi joined Schlumberger in 1992 in its Wireline divsion. As a field engineer he worked on challenging projects in Bombay, San-Fernando and Galeota (Trinidad) after which he was assigned to management positions in Yopal and Bogota (Colombia). As the Field Service Manager he was responsible for setting up the new Wireline base in Bogota. He managed the profitability of his division during the downturn in the oil industry in the late nineties as the Country Manager & Oil Field Services Manager for Wireline & Testing in Trinidad. As the Operations Manager for Mexico in 2000 he restored the profitability of the Wireline division in the country and led the division of the NSA geomarket from August, 2002 to 2004. He is currently the VP, Reservoir Production Group at the Abu Dhabi office of Schlumberger.

Sachit Jain
Mr. Sachit Jain is Executive Director, Vardhman Groupone of the largest textile houses (Vardhman.com) in India. He studied Electrical Engineering at IIT, New Delhi, Management at IIM, Ahmedabad and Financial Management at Stanford, USA. He was awarded gold medal at IIM, Ahmedabad in 1989. Before joining Vardhman Group in 1990 as Executive Director, he started his management career with Hindustan Lever in 1989.

He led the IT Group of Vardhman for implementing ERP making Vardhman to be one of the first textile organisations to have done so. His accomplishments in implementing IT project at Vardhman have been showcased by IBM for global audience. He has also helped steer the implementation of TPM across Vardhman Group. He currently heads the finance function of the Group.

He has been active in various business forums as well.He was the Chairman of CII, Himachal Pradesh State Council,Chairman of HRD Sub-Committee, CII, Northern Region,President of Northern India Textile Mills' Association and the founder of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh Industries Association. He has also been a member of the advisory board to the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission and advisory board to the Minimum Wages Board. Valuing his contributions, he was honoured by the Govt. of Himachal Pradesh and was awarded the Prerna Stotra Puruskar.

Deep Kalra
The pioneer of online travel in India, Deep Kalra founded MakeMyTrip in April, 2000. Drawing on his experience from his years at GE Capital, AMF Bowling Inc. and ABN AMRO Bank, under his stewardship, MakeMyTrip has become the largest online travel company, as well as the largest e-commerce business in India.

Deep is a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM and chairs the NASSCOM Internet Working Group. He is also a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and serves on the Board of TiE, New Delhi. Deep is also a member of CII's Tourism sub-committee and a regular speaker at numerous internet and travel conferences across the world. He currently serves as an independent Director for IndiaMart.com, a leading B2B website. Deep is also a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focused on the improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.

Deep holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1990), and a MBA (PGDM) degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1992). His interests include adventure sports, swimming, yoga, quizzing and travelling to places off the beaten path.

Sanjana Kapoor
“To do your thing in a world that is constantly trying to do something new is the biggest accomplishment.” This quote from Emerson sums upSanjanaKapoor’s efforts to establish an independent identity for PrithviTheatre admist the cacophonous world of digital media and TV. Scion of the Kapoor family,Sanjana completed her schooling at Bombay International School, Mumbai and made her acting debut in the movie 36 Chowringhee Lane, before going on to act in movies like Hero Hiralal, Utsavand Salaam Bombay. After her brief stint in cinema, her love for theatre grew manifold and she joined the Prithvi Theatre, the place she used to visit almost daily during her college days.Her stint at Prithvi has been entrepreneurial as she single-handedly revived its glory through various events like ‘Chai and Why?’,children’s workshops and festivals. Her success lies in creating an independent niche identity for Prithvi, which she fondly calls “an oasis in a crazy city.” Besides theatre,Sanjana is also interested in circus.

Atul Khosla
Atul Khosla is a Partner in Oliver Wyman based in the New Delhi office, specializing in India growth strategy, strategic IT and operations and organizational development. He is presently the Country Head, India and Group Senior Director at Everest Group, Dallas, USA. Atul has worked in management consulting for over 15 years where he has served financial services clients in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and India in the areas of insurance, wealth and asset management, personal financial services and outsourcing/ offshoring. Atul started his career with McKinsey & Co in India and subsequently led Watson Wyatt's and Everest Group’s consulting practices in India. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Atul lead the global financial services practice of a-connect ag. Switzerland. Atul is a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and received an MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Gulpreet Kohli
Gulpreet Kohli is at present the Managing Director at ChrysCapital. Gulpreet joined the Advisors in May 2000 and leads client fund raising functions in addition to managing the consumer sector. He previously worked at General Electric and was selected into its two-year global financial management leadership program. Gulpreet received an MBA from Clark University and a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Delhi University.

Andrew Korf
Andrew Korf's a Lead Digital Architect at Azul 7 received his Bachelor of Science in Applied design and Art from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Andrew`s specialties lies in Information architecture, user experience design, digital strategy, location aware applications, real time digital applications. Andrew has worked as Principal at doctype design and technology group, as a Senior User Experience Designer at space150, as a User Experience Architect at Carmichael Lynch and also as a User Experience Director at FUN Technologies.

Sanjay Kukreja
Sanjay Kukreja is the Managing Director at ChrysCapital. Sanjay joined the Advisors in April 2000. He manages the business services sector and has assumed additional responsibilities for the manufacturing sector. Sanjay received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and graduated with a BA in economics from Delhi University.

Sujatha Kulshreshtha
Sujata did a 5-½ year diploma in Visual Communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India’s internationally acclaimed design institution. During this period she was selected to attend a special video workshop conducted by Martha Stuart of ‘Are You Listening Inc’, New York. She also got a ‘special mention’ in the National Awards for ‘Jalshakti’, a film done as a 3rd year student at NID. In 1984, Sujata co-founded Film Addicts, where she scripted and directed a number of films. She subsequently went on to head the video production department at New Video Limited, then the sole representatives of Sony, in India. At New Video, Sujata was responsible for the production of a number of corporate videos and commercials for leading advertising agencies in New Delhi. Sujata has also worked as an Art Director on assignments with Zee News, Tara Gujarati (Broadcast Worldwide), Aajtak and Headlines Today on the ‘Look of the Channel’. In 1988, she founded Wide Angle Films. The company has produced a large number of projects under her leadership.

Anuranjita Kumar
With over 17 years of experience at Citi group, Anuranjita kumar was appointed the country human resource officer for the Citi Group, owing to her highly effective human resources leader in February 2012. Kumar began her career in Citi India in 1995 where she held a variety of roles including Recruitment Manager, Senior HR Generalist for Corporate and Investment Bank before taking on the franchise wide role of Compensation and Benefits Head for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In 2005 she moved to London as the Citi Markets and Banking EMEAHR Strategy and Planning head. In 2007 she was appointed Head of HR, Global Banking EMEA.

Vijay Kumar
Dr Vijay Kumar is the UPS Foundation Professor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M Sc and Ph D in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and his B Tech from IIT, Kanpur.

Dr Kumar served as the Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2000-2004. In that time, he directed the GRASP Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception laboratory. He was the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from 2005-2008.

Dr Kumar's research interests lie in the area of robotics and networked multi-agent systems. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Journal of Franklin Institute, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. He is the recipient of the 1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, the 1997 Freudenstein Award for significant accomplishments in mechanisms and robotics and the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Kawamori Best Paper Award. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and an elected member of the Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee.

C. V. Madhukar
C. V. Madhukar is Founder and Director of PRS Legislative Research, a not-for-profit research initiative that publishes “Legislative Briefs” (short commented summaries) of Bills in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and publishes other articles about the work of the Indian parliament. The aim is to strengthen the legislative debate in India by making it better informed, more transparent and participatory. Madhukar set up PRS in September 2005. Prior to this, Madhukar had worked at the World Bank in Washington DC with a group focussed on parliamentary capacities in various countries.

Madhukar started his professional career as an investment banker with ICICI Securities and Finance Company in Mumbai, where he worked on disinvestment of large public sector enterprises. Officially an ICICI employee, he spent significant time as a volunteer with Pratham in its formative years, now a large not-for-profit organization focused on basic education in urban areas in India : he was part of the original Executive Group of Pratham.

At the invitation of the Government of Karnataka in early 2000, he co-founded and managed Akshara Foundation, a basic education initiative focussed on Bengaluru’s children. He concurrently helped set up the Azim Premji Foundation, an initiative of Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro. The initiative supports technology in rural schools in India.

Madhukar was an Edward S. Mason Fellow at Harvard University, where he earned his Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also has an MBA from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore University. Madhukar is an Echoing Green Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow.

In March 2008, Madhukar was one of the Indians to be named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Vijay Mahajan
Vijay Mahajan is an Indian microfinance icon. From setting up the non-profit, Pradan, to creating microfinance company, Basix, Mahajan's mission is to promote rural livelihood to Indians who live on less than $2 a day. Basix is one of the first microfinance enterprises in the world to attract Indian and foreign debt and equity investments, providing livelihood to over 1.5 million customers. His recommendations on the Local Area Bank concept were approved by the then-Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. As well as providing customers with credit, Basix imparts livelihood training and institutional development. Mahajan's in-depth knowledge of the farming sector has made him a sought-after adviser with the Planning Commission and many Indian states. He was a member of the Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, chaired by RaghuramRajan, and also of the C. Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion. Vijay serves on the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, and the Micro Finance Development and Equity Fund. In 2002, Vijay was selected as one of the 60 “Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” at the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2003, he was conferred the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, Delhi. He has co-authored a book, “The Forgotten Sector,” on the rural non-farm sector in India. He studied electrical engineering at IIT Delhi and an MBA at IIM, Ahmedabad. He graduated with a gold medal for scholastic performance, and public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Chandra Mallampalli
Chandra Mallampalli began his teaching in Westmont’s history department in the fall of 2001. He came to Westmont from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he completed his doctoral work in modern South Asian history. Prior to receiving his doctorate, he worked as a journalist in South Asia. His scholarly work addresses a range of interests concerning the intersection of religion, law and society in colonial India. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he conducted research in India and the UK for his forthcoming book, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India. At present, he is working on a project concerning the Wahhabi movement in colonial south India. Dr. Mallampalli is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University and a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. At Westmont, he teaches courses in World History, modern South Asia, British Empire, and comparative Asian history. He is married to Beverly Chen, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist.

Arjun Malhotra
Mr. Malhotra served as Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors before its acquisition by Genpact in May 2011. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra founded TechSpan in 1998 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International. The merger of TechSpan with Headstrong had built an end-to-end services organization. Mr. Malhotra led the seamless integration across businesses and cultures, resulting in Headstrong’s recognition as one of the fastest-growing IT-based Financial Services companies.

Mr. Malhotra has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage operation” to one of India’s largest Information Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues. In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996 he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation. He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Malhotra is a Member of the Board of Governors, IIT (Kharagpur) Foundation, Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Member of the Board of Governors of Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong and Member of the Indian Public Schools Society, which runs The Doon School. He is currently Co-Chair of the Pan-IIT Alumni Association. He founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endowment. In “recognition of his outstanding contribution and services to the Institute”, Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003.

Mr. Malhotra was awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Medal for 2001. The Award salutes the high tech industry’s vanguard who “with their vision…have revolutionized the perception of time and space, linking mankind with ever growing speed and ingenuity. Their cutting-edge breakthroughs have empowered countless others.” The Institution of Engineers (India) has named Mr. Malhotra an Eminent Engineering Personality.

Mr. Malhotra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE), and a Member of the Institute of Engineers, India (MIE). He has served on the Board of Governors for the Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, and as Vice President of The Doon School Old Boys Society.

He is currently a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM which is India’s representative organization for the IT & ITES industry.

Mr. Malhotra is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit network with over 10,000 members across 44 chapters in 9 countries. He is currently serving as a member of the Global Board of Trustees, having previously served as the Chairman of the Board. TiE fosters global entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education.

He is also one of the founding members of SPIC-MACAY, the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth and is presently on their Advisory Board. SPIC-MACAY is today India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.

Deepa Malik
Deepa Malik is an Indian swimmer, biker and an athlete. She has won numerous accolades for her participation in various adventure sports. Malik is an extraordinary person. Being paraplegic and paralysed from waist down has not stopped the 41-year-old from taking up challenges. Married to an extremely supportive army officer, and a mother of two, she has turned adversities in life to opportunities and success. Life took a twist when a spinal tumour made walking impossible for her at the age of 29. It was a tough time for the Malik family. Her husband Bikram Singh Malik was fighting the Kargil war and at home she was struggling with her tumours. Finally the family won both the battles. India won at Kargil, and Deepa despite three spinal tumour surgeries and 183 stitches between shoulder blades, came out a winner and has never looked back. She also runs a successful restaurant by the name Dee’s Place in Ahmed Nagar, where the family is settled. She is also associated with the Himalayan Motorsports Association (H.M.A.) and Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (F.M.S.C.I.). A lesson for all able and differently challenged, she has done 1700 Kms drive in 8 days, in minus degree temperatures. Even at an altitude of 18000 feet with oxygen shortage, she was able to sustain it all. It was - ‘Raid-de-Himalaya’. This journey covers many difficult paths including remote Himalaya, Leh, Shimla and Jammu.

Madhavi Menon
Madhavi Menon is interested in desire. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama (University of Toronto Press, 2004), which explores how Renaissance rhetoric manuals encounter and present desire; and of Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (Palgrave, 2008), a polemical inquiry into the methodologies within which we study desire. She is also the editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Duke UP, 2010), which is the first book to put queer theory in conversation with every one of Shakespeare's poems and plays. Named a "monumental" book by CHOICE magazine, Shakesqueer is already in its second print run.

Her current research is on questions of identity and queerness. Titled Indifference or Queer Universalism, her newest book looks at performances and performance artists from different parts of the world to theorise alternative modes of inhabiting desire. Resisting the imperative to line up bodies and identities, she thinks of ways in which our desires can continually surprise and expand as well as undermine what we think of as our fixed selves. Literature undermines the narrative of the fixed self while many strands of politics seek to enshrine it. This current book looks both at the literary tensions and the political possibilities generated by an unpredictable desire.

Professor Menon teaches classes on queer theory, literary theory, Renaissance literature, and drama at American University in Washington, DC. She has also taught extensively at Delhi University and JNU. Prior to completing her Ph.D from Tufts University in Boston, she did her BA and MA in English from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, where she was the College topper in her BA, and the gold medal-winning University topper in her MA.

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Dilip Modi
Dilip is a new generation tech entrepreneur who has been spearheading mobility innovations. He started his career in the early 90s, working closely with McKinsey to restructure Group businesses. With an eye on the future, he led the entry of his Group into the sunrise telecom sector in 1995 by creating Modi Telstra, India’s first mobile service provider. He rose to become its Chairman in July 1999 before its successful divestment from the Group in 2000.

Dilip became the Chairman and Managing Director of Spice Communications, a leading telecom service provider in Punjab & Karnataka. He was instrumental in building ‘Spice Telecom’ as a dynamic mobile telephony brand, leading the company through a successful and oversubscribed IPO in July 2007.

Dilip is the Director of S Mobility Limited, the emerging digital innovation company offering mobile internet products and services across India, ASEAN and parts of Africa. He is also on the board of several other Spice group companies including Spice Global, Spice Finance & Spice Enfotainment, in addition to being the executive Vice Chairman of Spice I2I.

Apart from managing his businesses successfully, Dilip is equally passionate about playing his role in nation building and this attribute is widely recognized by corporate India.

He is the youngest ever President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (ASSOCHAM), the oldest chamber of India. He is very passionately driving the ASSOCHAM agenda of “Making Inclusive Transformation Happen” in the country. He was also the youngest Chairman of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), for the years 2004 -2005.

He was awarded the “Youth Icon Award” by the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry for his visionary leadership. He is driven by his firm belief of technology being the key enabler for achieving inclusive growth.

Dilipholds a First Class BSc Degree in Management Technology from the Brunel University, London, UK. He has also done his MBA from the Management School at the Imperial College, London, with a specialization in Finance.

Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Dr. Rakesh Mohan is the Professor in the Practice of International Economics of Finance, School of Management, and Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, Yale University from July 2010. He teaches every Fall Semester there. He is also Non Resident Senior Research Fellow of Stanford Centre for International Development, Stanford University. He is Chairman, National Transport Development Policy Committee, Government of India, in the rank of Minister of State. In addition, he is Vice-Chairman, Indian Institute of Human Settlements; and Global Adviser, McKinsey and Company. During June 15, 2009 to December 15, 2009, he was Distinguished Consulting Professor at Stanford Centre for International Development at Stanford University. Prior to this, he was Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (September 9, 2002 to October 31, 2004 and July 2, 2005 to June 10, 2009). Earlier, in September 2002, he was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank for a period of three years. He relinquished that post in October 2004 when he was appointed as Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Anwar Murtaza
Anwar Murtaza, a Senior Scientist at Abbott Bioresearch Center, Worcester, MA, USA. has 10 years of drug discovery experience in the pharmaceutical industry. He has led research and development projects in multiple areas of auto- immunity; including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS) and asthma. He has deep expertise in development and execution of concepts in identification/validation of molecular targets, implementation of appropriate cellular assays and in vivo models of autoimmune diseases for preclinical proof-of-concept leading to the nomination of candidate biologic and small molecule compounds for development. He is also experienced in transitioning late stage projects into development while leading multi-disciplinary teams. Anwar Murtaza earned his Ph,D from AIIMS, New Delhi, India. He received his Post-doctoral Fellowship from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA in 1995-1998 and in 1999-2001 received his Post-doctoral Fellowship fromThe Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, USA.

Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He currently serves as the Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), after a successful career at Infosys Technologies Ltd. He is also now heading Government of India's technology committee, TAGUP. Nandan Nilekani, after graduating from IIT Bombay in 1978, joined Mumbai-based Patni Computer Systems where he was interviewed by N.R. Narayana Murthy. Three years later, in 1981, Murthy walked out of Patni following a disagreement with one of the Patni brothers. His entire division walked out with him. The defectors decided to start their own company, Infosys. Nilekani became the Chief Executive Officer of Infosys in March 2002, taking over from Murthy. Nilekani served as CEO of the company from March 2002 to April 2007, when he relinquished his position to his colleague Kris Gopalakrishnan, becoming Co-Chairman. He left Infosys on 9 July 2009 to serve as the chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India, in the rank of a cabinet minister under invitation from the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Nandan studied at St. Joseph's High School Dharwad, studied at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and later in the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he graduated with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering in 1978.

Tom Gordon Palmer
Tom Gordon Palmeris a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Director of the Institute's educational division, Cato University, Vice President for International Programmes at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and General Director of the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity.

Palmer earned his BA in liberal arts from St. John's College, his MA in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, and his doctorate in political science from Oxford University, where he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College.

Palmer has been active in the promotion of libertarian and classical liberal ideas and policies since the early 1970s. He has been editor of several publications, including Dollars & Sense (the newspaper of the National Taxpayers Union), Update, and the Humane Studies Review, and has published articles in such newspapers and magazines as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Spectator of London, National Review, Slate, Ethics, and the Cato Journal.

He teaches political economy and legal and constitutional history for the Institute for Humane Studies the Institute of Economic Studies Europe. He also works with such organizations as Liberty Fund, and the Council on Public Policy. He blogs at his own website and at Cato@Liberty and is a contributor to the Independent Gay Forum. Palmer is the director of Cato University, a summer seminar sponsored by the Cato Institute.

Ranjana Phadke
Ranjana has been in the field of Kathak dance for the past 24 years and has been giving regular performances worldwide. She has performed at Nehru Centre, London; the 75 th anniversary of Maharashtra Mandal, London; Milaap - where Kathak meets Ballet, Tap and Flamenco, in Phoenix, AZ, USA; at the International Dance Festival organised by The Cultural Ministry of Sri Lanka; at the Maharashtra Mandals in Qatar, Bangkok; at Cultural performances in The Netherlands and Malaysia; at the 2nd ‘Vishwa Marathi SahityaSammelan’, Dubai 2010 and various other places in India. Along with regular Kathak performances she has also choreographed and presented dance-dramas like ‘Rutuvilasaha (a dance-ballet depicting correlation between human life and the cycle of nature, based on Sanskrit lyrics), ’ ‘Vyadhakatha (the journey of a cruel hunter towards non-violence),’ ‘Nandi TePasaydan-a theme based programme (presenting the history of Marathi poetry through last 700 years in the form of Kathak dance),’ ‘Voyage-The Unending Journey (a dance drama that is a melange of Physics and Philosophy depicting the journey of a soul, to reach The Trinity through art and creativity),’ ‘Buddham Sharanam Gacchami (a dance drama based on the life of Buddha)’ etc along with her senior disciples.

Ranjana recently launched a new programme ‘Kathak Yatra’ which includes Vandana, Taal Tintal, Taal Dhamar, Thumri, Chatrang, Tarana, Sargam, Chaitee etc. She is an approved and graded artiste of Doordarshan. She runs an institute ‘Kathakalaya’ to train young dance enthusiasts and have cultivated many young dancers for over 24 years. She has also given duet performances with her senior most disciple and daughter Sayali (a Young India Fellow) and also group performances along with her senior disciples.

Ranjana has conducted workshops of several kinds; Advance training for Kathak dance students conducted in Phoenix & Dallas, USA and at Bhusaval & Surat (India); Training beginners with basics of Kathak; Workshops for beginners as well as students of Indian classical dance conducted from performance point of view wherein they were trained with choreographies on classical and classical based music.

Ranjana has been awarded ‘Maharashtra Gaurav’ by Maharashtra Kala Niketan and ‘Nritya Seva Puraskar’ by the well-known music institute Uttung Sanskritik Parivaar, Mumbai.

Anoop Prakash
Anoop Prakash is the Managing Director for Harley-Davidson India where he is responsible for sales, business development and marketing for motorcycles, parts and accessories and general merchandise.

Prakash formerly served as a Senior Executive Service appointee in the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush. He served as Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and has worked as Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development at the U. S. Small Business Administration. Prakash has actively participated in U.S.-India trade promotion as a vehicle for economic development and growth for both countries.

Prakash previously held senior private sector roles in strategy, marketing and business development, including Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at LexisNexis, Director of Business Development at Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and consultant at McKinsey & Company.

A former U.S. Marine Corps Officer, Prakash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Public Policy from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prakash has served on several non-profit boards in Washington D.C., including the Indian American Leadership Initiative and Brainfood.

Leela Prasad
Leela Prasad is Associate Professor of Ethics & South Asian Studies in the Department of Religion at Duke University. Her expertise is in ethnography, the study of culture and practices. From July 2010, she has also been the first Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement. Leela is on the boards of the Kenan Institute’s Ethics Certificate Program, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies. Leela’s research is in the area of ethics and it’s lived, expressive dimensions, in colonial and postcolonial anthropology of South Asia, folklore, narrative, gender, and the South Asian American diaspora. Her book Poetics of Conduct: Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town (Columbia University Press, 2007) won the prestigious American Academy of Religion’s “Best First Book in the History of Religions Prize” in 2007.

Leela is working on her second book titled Annotating Pastimes: Cultures of Narration in Colonial India. She has co-edited Gender and Story in South India (SUNY Press, 2006) and published across many journals. Leela was the guest-curator of the first exhibition on Indian American life in Philadelphia & the Greater Delaware Valley (on display in 1999 at the The Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies), for which she also edited the catalogue Live Like the Banyan Tree and co-directed a documentary film called Back & Forth: Two Generations of Indian Americans at Home. She has recently completed a project on ethical discourse in popular religious programming on Indian television.

An emerging area for Leela is contemporary manifestations of Gandhian ethics. She mentors Duke students and students from Indian universities on collaborative civic engagement work in economically underprivileged primary schools in Hyderabad. Along with Dr. Baba Prasad, she directs a DukeEngage program in Hyderabad , India, teaching in economically underprivileged elementary schools. Along with Dr. Baba Prasad, she is engaged in the making of a documentary film titled Moved by Gandhi.

Meghna Rao
Meghna Rao is the Country Director of Acumen Fund India. She has approximately 12 years of experience in investment banking, venture capital, manufacturing and technology. Prior to Acumen Fund, Meghna was the Managing Director of a mid-sized foil packaging manufacturing company in Maharashtra. Prior to this, she spent four years at Microsoft in India and the United States where her primary focus was driving the adoption of Microsoft’s offerings among small businesses. Earlier in her career, she worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs in New York and in venture capital at JH Whitney in Connecticut. Meghna holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in economics with a concentration in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Meghna herself is an entrepreneur, having built and run an IT solutions company. She currently serves as the president of the Harvard Business School alumni club of India and was recently named as a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative.

M. K. Raina
M. K. Raina is one of India's best-known theatre actors and directors. He graduated from theNational School of Drama in 1970 with a best actor award. Since 1972, he has been a freelance theatre worker and film-person, working all over India in many languages and with many traditional forms. Maharaj Krishna Raina was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. His association with rural and urban theatre across the country has developed into a unique style, where both forms blend and yet are rich with contemporary meaning and significance.As an actor, he has worked in more than 100 plays. He has directed several memorable productions, such asKabiraKhada Bazar Mein, Karmawali, Lower Depths, PariKukh, Kabhi Na Chooden Khet and The Mother-Andha Yug, which he directed, was performed in Berlin and the Festival of India in the USSR. He also produced Jasma Odan at Hawaii University in 1986. Raina has conducted many theatre workshops and acted and directed in a number of feature films, including 27 Down, Satah Se Uthta Aadmiand Ek Ruka Hua Faisla. His latest documentary film, Sacred Dances at Hemis Festival, has been made for the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. He was awarded the SanskritiSamman in 1980 and the Sahitya Kala Parishad Award in 1981, the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1995 and the Swarna Padak from Government of Jammu and Kashmir in 1996, for his contribution to Indian theatre. Besides being a practising actor/director in theatre and media, he is known also as a cultural activist.

M P Rajan
Professor M P Ranjan is a senior member of the faculty of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India and Chair of the Task Force on Geo Visualization set up by the Government of India. Since 1976 he has been responsible for the creation and conduct of numerous courses at NID, dealing with design theory and methodology, product and numerous domains of digital design. He has conducted research in many areas of design pedagogy, industrial and craft design and on the role of design policy in various sectors of the Indian economy. Ranjan continually explores cultural, ethical, technological, and social issues that pose intellectual challenges for the design community. As a professional designer and Chairman of NID's Design Consulting Office he has handled many design projects for industry, government and international agencies in areas of product design, interior design, exhibition design, craft design and design policy. He headed NID's Publications and Resource Centre, and managed Information Technology initiatives in his capacity as Chairman of the Computer Centre and Head of the Apple Academy at NID.

Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Dr. Rajan is also currently an economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India. Prior to resuming teaching in 2007, Dr. Rajan was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research (in plain English, the Chief Economist) at the International Monetary Fund (from 2003).

Since then, he has chaired the Indian government’s Committee on Financial Sector Reforms, which submitted its report in September 2008.

Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. His papers have been published in all the top economics and finance journals, and he has served on the editorial board of the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. He has recently written a book entitled Fault Lines: How Hidden Cracks Still Threaten the World Economy. He also has an earlier book co-authored with Luigi Zingales entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.

Dr. Rajan is a senior advisor to BDT Capital, Booz and Co, and is on the international advisory board of Bank Itau-Unibanco. He is a director of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and on the Comptroller General of the United State’s Advisory Council. Dr. Rajan is President (elect) of the American Finance Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr.Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize, given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance.

Usha Ramanathan
Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, University of Nagpur and Delhi University.

She is a research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute. She works as an advisor to non-governmental organisations and international organisations. She is a member of Amnesty International Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as an expert on mental health on various occasions. Dr Ramanathan is also the South Asia Editor of ‘The Law, Environment and Development Journal’ (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS. Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad. She has been involved in different capacities with a number of issues such as the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Narmada valley dam project. She has made immense contributions by voicing her opinion against slum eviction in Delhi and the UIDAI.

Yash Rana
Yash Rana is a partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, and is chair of the firm’s Asia Practice and its Hong Kong office. He is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Technology, Life Sciences and Clean Tech & Energy Groups. Yash is focused on advising private equity clients in connection with their investments and exits (including sales and public listings) in China, India and across Asia, as well as Asian clients in connection with their acquisitions in North America and Europe. During 2011, he has advised clients on more than $2 billion in private equity investments into China and India. Mr. Rana’s practice includes representing clients in cross border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyout transactions, early and late stage venture capital and growth equity investments, PIPE financing, joint ventures, restructuring and other corporate transactions. He has represented clients in such diverse industries as media, financial services, real estate, hotels, consumer goods, manufacturing, energy and technology, including software, Internet services, video and Internet game development, online advertising, electronic trading platforms and hardware. Yash has extensive knowledge of the communication industry, including communication services, fibre builders and related construction services. Yash completed his J.D.in 1995 from Columbia Law School, B.A. from Knox College and his I.S.C. from the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai.

Jerry Rao
Jerry Rao is the founder and former CEO of the software company MphasiS. Prior to that, he held various leadership positions (including Former Country Head, Citibank Consumer Banking India) in Citibank across Asia, Europe, South America and North America.

In 1998, Rao started MphasiS Corporation, a software company based in California, which subsequently merged with BFL Software in 2000 to form Mphasis-BFL with twin headquarters in Santa Monica, California, and Bangalore, India.

Mr. Rao is actively involved with the Confederation of Indian Industry and with the Government of India’s Software Technology Park initiatives, and has been Chairman of NASSCOM. MphasiS Vice Chairman Jeroen Tas and Mr. Rao were named the Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneurs of the Year 2004' for the New York region, which followed his being similarly awarded in India two years previously.

Mr. Rao is a regular writer and speaker with interest in technology strategy, customer relationship management (CRM), financial services, and e-commerce – a subject on which he has testified before the US Congress.

He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is an Indian economist, environmentalist and urbanist. He is Founder and President of the Sustainable Planet Institute. He is also one of Asia's leading financial economists and is Deutsche Bank's Global strategist. He played an important role in changing the image of India as an international investment destination and is the author of the bestselling book "The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline" (Penguin).

The World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader for 2010.

Sanjeev Sanyal is also a well-regarded environmentalist and expert on the economics of cities. He has been a strong advocate of including "walkability" and organic evolution in the way we think of cities. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in recognition for his work on urban systems. He is a member of the Steering Committee of "Urban Age" at the London School of Economics and is also a Senior Fellow of the World Wildlife Fund. He is Director of the Green Accounting for Indian States Project - an environmental accounting project. He has been closely involved with Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund which won the UN's World Business Award for 2006. He has been an Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the National University of Singapore, in 2009, he joined the Board of Governors of AFPRO, one of India's largest organizations working on food security. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University and has also advised the UK government, United Nations Environment Programme, and other international agencies.

He writes a regular column for Business Standard, India's second largest business newspaper. He attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and St John's College, Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Anoop Seth
Anoop spearheads AMP Capital’s infrastructure investments in Asia, and is the MD, AMP Capital Advisors,India. He joined AMP Capital Investors in 2007 from ABN AMRO, where he was Executive Director responsible for public sector businesses in India. A key achievement was his role in advising the Government of India during the recent privatisation of the Mumbai and Delhi airports – India’s largest privatisation to date. Anoop has previously worked as Vice President with Bechtel Enterprises, focussing on equity investment opportunities in a range of infrastructure sectors – airports, power, rail and water both within India and the UK. As Vice President Finance of Reliance Industries, Anoop was a senior member of the financing team for the $4BN integrated petrochemical and infrastructure complex at Jamnagar. Anoop has also been a CFO of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC), India’s premier infrastructure financing company.

Anoop holds an MMS (Finance) degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.

Kiran Seth
Kiran Seth, a professor at IIT Delhi and the founder-director of Spic Macay(Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth)completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in the year 1970 after which he did his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York. From 1974 to 1976 he worked as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. From 1976 onwards he has been teaching and doing research work in applied mathematics at IIT Delhi.

Dr. Seth is credited with setting up of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth (Spic Macay) in 1977, a society that has done phenomenal amount of work in the area of promoting classical music and culture amongst school and colleges in India and more recently in different parts of the world. It has grown to 300 cities in India and 50 cities abroad, conducting close to 2,000 events every year.

SpicMacay is the biggest, non- profit, voluntary, cultural, youth movement in independent India. Its contribution to Indian classical music & dance is unparalleled. For nearly 30 years, it has exposed generations of Indian students to culture—dance, music and yoga—through conventions, baithaks, camps, lectures and musical fests in cities and second-tier towns in every state in India.

Dr. Seth was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India for his distinguished service to Indian art and heritage. He was also the NDTV Indian of the Year 2008 for promoting Indian Culture and keeping it alive.

Akshay Sethi
Akshay Sethi returned to Stellar Ventures, his Real Estate development family business in India, in 2008. The business has diversified interests in hospitality, retail banking and information technology. Prior to his return, he worked at McKinsey & Company in their New York office. Previously, he also worked at the World Bank, where he helped develop public policies on health, education, and labour market reform in Europe and Central Asia. In order to provide a fun-learning environment for his 4 year old twin sons, Akshay has decided to open India's first Children's Museum in Delhi this year.

Amit Shahi
Amit Shahi, is an alumnus of Delhi School Of Economics, and is the CEO and co-founder of the Idea Works . He was the head of the Delhi branch of Ambience Publicis Advertising, and has worked in advertising and communication for over 18 years. His major projects include the ‘!ncredible !ndia @60’ Campaign in Singapore in ’07 and in New York in ’08 , in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and the Government of India. He also helped initiate the ‘UK Creating Tomorrow’ for the British High Commission in India as a part of their public diplomacy initiative. He was also responsible for the creation and branding of the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF). Amit also co-produced/edited ‘Mille Fleurs’ , a book of poetry from over 80 countries in collaboration with CII , to commemorate the Millennium UN Assembly 2001.

Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar joined Star TV India as its Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and oversaw Star TV's business ventures in India. In the past, Mr. Shankar has worked as the head of the Hindi news channel, Aaj Tak and also as the Chief Executive Officer of the Star News channel and Head of Sahara TV's news television channel business.

He has been a Director of Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd since September, 2009. He serves as a Director of several media companies such as Tata Sky Limited, Media Content and Communication Services (India) Private Limited and Asianet Communications Limited.

He holds an M Phil in Economics from the University of Delhi. Mr. Shankar is also a graduate in Journalism from the Times of India Media School.

Pravesh Sharma
Pravesh Sharma is a 1982 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre and presently the Managing Director of Small Farmer's Agriculture Business Consortium. The setting up of the Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) in 1994 was to bring about and facilitate a farm - focused growth through new ventures in agro-based industries. SFAC has emerged as a Developmental Institution with its core aims and objectives focused on increased production and productivity, value addition, provision of efficient linkages between producers and consumers. SFAC deals with agriculture in its wider connotation, including fisheries and horticulture. Pravesh has also served the country in various other capacities in the Govt of India. He received his post-graduation in history.

Vivek Sharma
Vivek Sharma is a Managing Director with IndUS Growth Partners (an affiliate of Piramal Group). At IndUS Growth Partners, he is responsible for driving the growth of existing businesses both organically and through acquisitions. He is also responsible for assisting Piramal group with their investments in new industries. Prior to this he was Managing Director with THL Partners a Boston based private equity firm. At THL Partners he was responsible for working with THL’s Portfolio companies to identify value creation opportunities and partner with the leadership of these companies with strategy and execution of growth/ restructuring and cost optimization opportunities.

Prior to joining THL Vivek was theVice President, Finance and Business Processes for Alstom Power in Baden, Switzerland and was responsible for Global Standardization and Integration of Business Processes and Systems. He has also worked with Advanced Micro Devices and Motorola Semiconductors focusing on Corporate and Operations Finance, Compliance and Process improvements.

Vivek has over 20 years of Global Management experience and is a Chartered Accountant from India, has passed the CPA exam from US and also has a Master Degree in International Business from Thunderbird. He has been featured in several finance magazines and has been listed as ‘100 Most Influential People in Finance’ by Treasury and Risk Management Magazine. He is currently on board of Systems Maintenance Services Inc (US based global IT managed services company) and a member of SAP’s PE Advisory Council.

Kunal Shroff
Kunal Shroff is the Managing Director at ChrysCapital. Kunal joined the Advisors in November 1999 and leads the infrastructure sector. He was previously at Chilton Investment Company, a $2 billion hedge fund, where he focused on technology stocks in U.S. equity markets. Prior to that he worked in the principal investment area at Goldman Sachs, pursuing investment opportunities and monitoring portfolio companies for a $5.5 billion family of private equity and mezzanine funds. Kunal received a BS in computer science with magna cum laude honours from Cornell University.

Dilip Simeon
Dilip Simeon joined Delhi University in 1966. In 1970 he joined the Naxalite movement which he left in the wake of the Bangladesh war. From 1974 till 1994 he taught history in Ramjas College. He was elected to the Academic Council in 1988. His thesis on the labour history of Bihar was published in 1995. In the aftermath of the 1984 carnage he participated in a citizen's campaign called the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan. Dilip has been a visiting scholar at universities in Surat, Sussex, Chicago, Leiden and Princeton. From 1997 till 2003 he was a consultant for a conflict mitigation program with Oxfam; & from 2003 till 2008, a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Library. He is chairperson of the Aman Trust, which works to understand & reduce violent conflict. His first novel Revolution Highway was published in 2010.

Rashmi Singh
A UTCS cadre IAS officer Rashmi Singh is presently the Executive Director, National Mission on Empowerment of Women, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India. Rashmi is the force behind the Delhi Government’s ambitious Mission Convergence project that promises to consolidate social utilities under one umbrella and give hope to the poor and vulnerable for a more secure existence. The Mission aims to link the stakeholders and the government machinery to the grassroots. Rashmi is a recipient of the coveted Stree Shakti Puraskar-Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Award from the President of India, Pratibha Patil for her contribution towards women empowerment in India.

Sandeep Singhal
Sandeep Singhal Co-founded WestBridge Capital and also serves as its Managing Director. Sandeep served as the Co- Founder and Managing Director at Sequoia Capital India and Managing Director at Sequoia Capital India Growth Fund I, L.P till February 2011. He served as the Managing Director of WestBridge Capital Partners, WestBridge Capital I, L.P. and WestBridge Capital II, L.P. Prior to joining WestBridge, Sandeep served as the Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he advised several mid-market Indian companies on their product and marketing strategies. At BCG, he advised clients in telecom, IT and e-learning, financial services, and pharmaceuticals. Prior to BCG, Sandeep worked with Hindustan Lever Limited, Mumbai where he was instrumental in eleven productlaunches targeting Indian consumer segments. Sandeep has been a Non- Executive Non-Independent Director of eClerx Services Limited since April 30, 2010. He serves as a Director of Celon Laboratories Limited, ReaMetrix Inc., GVK Bio Sciences, People Infocom Pvt. Ltd., GVK Biosciences Private Limited, People Interactive (India) Pvt. Ltd., App Labs Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Stovekraft Pvt. Ltd., Strand Genomics, Nazara Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Shaadi.com, Mauj Telecom, What's on India Media, Carzonrent (India) Private Limited and Strand Life Sciences Private Limited. He has been a Director of Dr. Lal Path Labs Pvt. Ltd. since June 1, 2005 and Just Dial Limited (formerly A&M Communications Pvt Ltd.) since July 18, 2009. Hewas also on the Board of marketRx.

He is a Chartered Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore chapter, and is on the Board of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). He has over ten years of venture capital and private equity investing experience in India. He has a strong experience in the Indian market as both a Management Consultant and Operating Manager. Sandeep holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, an M.S. degree in Molecular Simulation from University of Illinois, where he was awarded Abraham Lincoln Graduate Fellowship, and a B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T., Delhi.

Anjana Sinha
IPS, Govt of India, Cadre: Andhra pradesh

Ramamurthy Sivaram
R Sivakumar is Managing Director of Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group in South Asia, responsible for driving Intel sales, market and eco-system development efforts in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Siva took over this role in 2006 when he moved back to New Delhi, India to manage the South Asia region for Intel. Siva joined Intel in 1988 as a software engineer as a new college graduate and spent his first 7 years in research and development as part of Intel architecture labs. He focused on early development of network based multimedia technologies, launching both technology and products. In 1996, Siva moved to India to expand Intel’s presence and started a number of strategic programs, including ISV relationships, education and university programs, and Intel Capital, making Intel one of the first corporate venture capitalist in India. In 2000, Siva returned to the US as Assistant Treasurer and Director to manage Intel’s M&A program as part of Intel Capital and successfully executed over 20 transactions. In 2004, he took over as Worldwide Director for Business Development in the Intel Mobility Group, to accelerate Intel’s roadmap in mobility platforms and connectivity. In his current role in South Asia, Siva is responsible for assisting in transforming Intel into a platform-oriented organization, and accelerating the eco-system to bring computing capabilities to the next billion consumers. Siva spends his time working with Government, policy makers, industry associations and other fellow travelers to influence policy and implementation of infrastructure, particularly in broadband deployment and local manufacturing. Siva has a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech, New Mexico, USA. He also holds a US Patent in network based audio/video processing using multicast technology.

Michael Smolens
Michael Smolensis founder-chairman of dotsub.com, a browser based, one-stop, self-contained system for creating and viewing subtitles for videos in multiple languages across all platforms, including web based, mobile devices, and transcription and video editing systems. dotSUB Michael`s 9th start-up is dedicated to removing language barrier in all cross-cultural communication.A Carnegie Mellon graduate Michael has worked across the globe as a serial entrepreneur.

Suman Srivastava
Suman Srivastava a founding member of Marketing Unplugged has considerable experience in the advertising industry. A graduate of Delhi University, IIM Ahmedabad and IMD Lausanne, he is an advertising man, strategist, author, marathon runner, teacher, social worker, sports fan, creative bartender and now an entrepreneur. Srivastava was CEO of Euro RSCG India for five years, besides being the Chief Strategy Officer for Euro RSCG Asia Pacific. He had also been Chairman of Euro RSCG’s emerging markets planning council and was a member of the global management committee as well. Suman was also part of the team that started SSC& B Lintas.

Robert Swan
Robert Swan, OBE is one of the world’s preeminent polar explorers and environmental leaders. By age 33, Robert Swan, OBE became the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles, earning his place in history alongside the great explorers and adventurers. His 900 mile journey to the South Pole, ‘In the Footsteps of Scott’, stands asthe longest unassisted walk ever made on earth. During his expeditions, Swan experienced firsthand the effects of global warming at both Poles. In Antarctica, his eyes forever changed color after prolonged exposure under the hole in the ozone layer. In the Arctic, his team survived near-death encounters in a melting ocean, prematurely caused by global warming. These powerful experiences only helped to shape and focus Swan’s lifetime goal: working towards the preservation of Antarctica as the last great wilderness on earth. In 1992, Robert Swan, OBE was the Keynote Speaker at the first ‘World Summit for Sustainable Development’ held in Rio de Janeiro. There he addressed world leaders and was charged with undertaking a 10 year global and local environmental mission which would involve industry, business and young people. Ten years later in 2002, Swan reported back to world leaders at the second World Summit held in Johannesburg. He had successfully completed all of his promised missions, including numerous international, youth-driven clean-up projects in Antarctica and Africa. A true visionary at heart, Swan committed to a third 10 year mission, this time to inspire youth to become sustainable leaders and promote the use of renewable energy throughout the planet. Since 2003, Swan has led annual expeditions to Antarctica with students and business executives to focus on leadership training, environmental clean-up and education initiatives. The ‘Inspire Antarctic Expedition’ teams helped design and build the world’s first renewable energy Education Station in Antarctica, called the E-Base. In March 2008, Robert Swan, OBE made Antarctic history again by living solely on renewable energy at the E-Base for over two weeks. Successful in the world’s harshest climate, the positive message Swan sent to the world was “This is possible in Antarctica, and surely it is possible in the ‘real world’!” Currently Robert Swan, OBE is on a five-year global ‘Voyage for Cleaner Energy’ aboard his renewable energy sailboat, which will conclude at the third World Summit, currently expected to take place in Singapore. Swan aims to showcase sustainable living practices and transport alternatives that run solely on renewable energy. Swan’s contribution to education and the environment has been recognized on an international scale, seen through his appointment as United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Youth and Special Envoy to the Director General of UNESCO. He was awarded the high distinction of OBE, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, as well as the Polar Medal by Her Majesty the Queen. Robert Swan, OBE is an exceptionally gifted communicator and has an uncanny ability to motivate those around him into action. His unique insights and life experiences inspire and educate business leaders and young people around the world, and he clearly translates his icy experiences at the Poles to delicate maneuvers in the boardroom. Swan’s real-life discussion of leadership, trust and working together never ceases to thrill, uplift and stimulate crowds, drawing standing ovations throughout the globe.

Vivek Tiwari
Vivek Tiwari is the Director of Corporate Platform Office in the Intel Architecture Group at Intel Corporation.The Corporate Platform Office provides Intel’s processor, chipset, platform and software teams withproject management solutions and services as well as architects, adapts and deploys best-in-classproduct lifecycle management, user-experience and requirements engineering capabilities. Prior to this Vivek was the Director of Platform and Ramp Management and drove programme and ramp management for several of Intel's flagship CPUs and platforms. In the first 5 of his 14 years at Intel, Vivek wasin R&D, developing tools and techniques for reducing power consumption in Intel’s CPUs. Vivek has a PhD in Electrical Engg from Princeton University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sc. & Engg from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Gauri Trivedi
IAS, Govt of India, Cadre: Karnataka, 1986 batch

NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan
“Tiger” Tyagarajan is credited as one of the pioneers who transformed Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) into a global leader in business process and technology management, offering a broad portfolio of enterprise and industry-specific services. Today, Genpact serves its global customers from 50 operations centers in 16 countries with over 49,000 employees, managing over 3,000 processes for more than 500 clients worldwide. Genpact is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘G’.

Tiger was CEO of Genpact from 1999 to 2002 and led the business through a critical growth phase as a subsidiary of GE. In October 2002, he transferred within GE to its multibillion-dollar Commercial Equipment Finance division, serving as SVP, Six Sigma and Global Operations. When Genpact became an independent company, Tiger rejoined Genpact from GE Capital U.S. as EVP, Sales and Business Development from 2005 to 2009. Thereafter, he took on the role of Genpact’s Chief Operating Officer.

Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in India, and then worked with Citibank, India. He joined GE Capital in 1994 and held a variety of leadership roles in both India and the U.S. until 2005. He is a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Chris Underhill
Chris Underhill is a social entrepreneur working with marginalised people. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of London and later with an M.Sc in International Policy from the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. He worked for Voluntary Service Overseas in Zambia, an experience which led him into a career in development where he has specialised in leadership, disability, mental health and appropriate technology. With regard to disability and mental health, Underhill has founded a number of organisations including Thrive (formerly known as Horticultural Therapy), a UK based charity working with disabled people and medical professionals in horticulture, gardening and agriculture, Action on Disability and Development, a development agency targeting disabled people in the third world, and Basic Needs, which works with people with mental disorders and their careers in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam.He has also served as chief executive of the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action), the charity founded by E.F. Schumacher, author of ‘Small is Beautiful’. He went on to found the UK member organisation of International Development Enterprises known as IDE UK and he is currently Chair of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

Arjun Uppal
Arjun is currently Head of Agri Business at Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar. This is a rural retail initiative of DSCL (DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited) and works with the objective of delivering goods and services to the rural community across India. It is the largest organized sector enterprise engaged in rural retail in India. He is directly responsible for several businesses such as Dairy, Fruits and vegetable, Seeds, Cattle Feed, vocational training, telecom etc.

Prior to this Arjun was an Advisor to ICICI Bank’s Rural Credit Businesses: (2005 to 2007). There were two phases in this role. First was to interface between ICICI Bank and potential customers that operated in the rural space. This entailed working with large corporates such as ITC, Godrej, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance, Fabindia, Tata Chemicals etc with the objective of understanding their business models. Based on their needs, the Bank would create relevant products to cater to specific requirements. Creating a producer company model for Fabindia was one of the highlights.

During the second phase, he worked closely with Dr Nachiket Mor and ICICI Foundation. The objective was to build businesses that had social impact. This covered several sectors such as food processing, handicrafts, skills, rural tourism, energy, etc. It essentially involved understanding the sector, identifying successful models, preparing business plans, funding such enterprises and then mentoring these to reach scale.

Arjun was Managing Director of Mother Dairy Foods Ltd in its formative days. (2002-2003). The company’s mandate was to build a contemporary brand, form joint ventures with state federations and run the business in a commercially viable manner.

Arjun spent 19 years with Hindustan Unilever Ltd till 2002 and worked in various commercial and general management roles. Two major achievements were in turning around the Seeds business and Kimberly Clark Lever Limited from losing operations to profitable ones.

Arjun’s two major interest areas are agriculture and social entrepreneurship. He has experience in these areas having worked in this space for over twenty years. He is associated with the BASIX group as well as several NGOs.

Rashmi Varma
Rashmi Varma is an Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. She is the author of The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi and Bombay (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor of Women's Worlds: the McGraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Literature (2008). In 2011-2012, she will be on a British Academy Fellowship to complete work on her book ‘Modern Tribal: Representing Indigeneity in Postcolonial India’.

Gilles Verniers
Gilles Verniers is Ph.D. candidate at Sciences Po, Paris, and Ph.D. affiliate at the Centre for Human Sciences, New Delhi. His research focuses on the Samajwadi Party and Electoral Politics in Uttar Pradesh. It covers the various dimensions of political representation:electoral sociology, study of legislators, party politics, party-voter linkages, elections and governance, corruption and criminalization. He also serves as Sciences Po Representative to India, in charge of student and faculty mobility and academic cooperations with various Indian partners. He is based in New Delhi since 2005.

Raymond E. Vickery
Ray Vickery is a leading advisor concerning US-India relations. He took a primary role in the passage of the US-India civil nuclear legislation and has been instrumental in US-India initiatives on green energy, higher education, high technology, health security, intellectual property, and chemistry. Raymond has some forty-five years of experience with India, having first lived in India as a Fulbright Scholar.

He served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Trade Development, from 1993 through 1997. He served as Co-Chair of the U.S.-China Joint Committee on Commerce and Trade Business Development Working Group, Chair of the interagency Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee Environmental Trade Working Group, and the Secretary’s representative on the Ex-IM Bank Board of Directors.

He was in charge of the Department’s industry sector desks under Secretaries Ron Brown, Mickey Kantor, and Bill Daley. He was a leader in implementing the Clinton Administration’s National Export Strategy. As a part of that strategy, Mr. Vickery set up and supervised the Advocacy Center and the interagency Advocacy Network that advocated successfully projects with a U.S. export content of billions of dollars. In carrying out the Department’s Big Emerging Markets initiative, he exercised particular responsibility in regard to India. Mr. Vickery was instrumental in planning and executing Secretary Brown’s mission to India, Secretary Kantor’s mission to the Balkans, and the U.S.-India Commercial Alliance. He served as a member of the U.S.-India Economic Sub-commission.

He was a leader in the US-India Business Council’s programmes for President William J. Clinton’s historic trip to India in 2000. Mr. Vickery served as President Clinton’s policy advisor when he first returned to India in 2001 as a private citizen.

Before Joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Vickery was the managing partner of the law firm of Hogan & Hartson’s Virginia office where his practice included international technology licensing. Prior to joining Stonebridge he headed Vickery International, an international business consulting firm.

Mr. Vickery is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University, was a Fulbright Scholar in South Asia, and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. During 2008-2009, Mr. Vickery was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He served three terms in the Virginia General Assembly, and was a member of the South Asia advisory teams in the Obama, Kerry, and Gore Presidential campaigns. He is an active member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Virginia, is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ireena Vittal
Ireena Vittal is a partner in the world's best known consulting firm, McKinsey & Co. She works across emerging markets (Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil) in retail and consumer goods. She serves leading retailers in India in both specialty and broader retail. According to Ireena Vittal, the more the competition, the more the noise and better the results; perhaps that’s why she continues to encourage her clients to welcome all competition. “The job, despite having spent 10 years on it, is still fun” says Ireena, because she is ‘still learning’. Even her stints with Nestle (her first job) and Max (she helped launch Max’s mobile telephony service in Mumbai) she claims were good learning experiences.

Her philosophy of life is very simple. As a person she emphasizes more on the present and feels proud to be a part of present-day India, an India which is poised to take off And in an age when every business is looking at ways to conquer the Indian consumer, she has worked on bringing out exemplary McKinsey reports on the growth of Indian consumerism and suggested ways for MNCs for “Winning the Indian Consumer.”