FIFTHESTATEONLINE - Key Persons
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- Technology Partner of FifthEstate
Abhishek is MD of Abhitech, an IT consultancy firm that provides services to various government and non-government small and large enterprises in India, USA, Sweden, UK, Canada, Singapore and many more countries. Abhitech is a Technology partner of FifthEstate. In the last 10 years of operations Abhitech has worked with several state government organizations like Uttar Pradesh Awas Vikas Parishad, Uttar Pradesh State Biodiversity Board, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Arbi Urdu Farsi University, Uttar Pradesh Forest Department, District Administration Unnao, Uttar Pradesh Electronics Corporation Limited etc. The international clientele for Abhitech includes esteemed organized like The Kaplans Group (Europe), The Nordea Bank (Europe), Graduation Solutions LP (USA), Harvard Drug Group (USA), King Abdullah Medical University (Saudi Arabia), University of Queensland (Australia), The Alternet (Slovenia) etc.
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- Co - Founder of Zouk Ventures
- Co - Founder, Zouk Ventures, India
Akash Bansal is a co-founder of Zouk Ventures, a new enterprise that facilitates debt financing solutions for SMEs and social enterprises. Akash has evaluated and advised several early stage enterprises on business development, fundraising, hiring and growth strategy over the last few years. As a former manager for impact investments at IIM Ahmedabad\'s incubator CIIE, Akash designed and led Tech4Impact, India\'s largest accelerator program for social enterprises. He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and Duke University.
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- Managing Director and Co - Founder of Innovation EXperience
- Managing Director and Co - Founder of Innovation EXperience, Europe and India
Alexey co-founded a consultancy practice focusing on innovation strategy and transformation programmes, working with companies such as Shell, Philips, and Akzo Nobel, based out of Paris, France. In UK he co-founded a business that aimed to transform the public perception around renewable energy, from one of guilt and obligation, to one of reaping financial benefits via an innovative financing mechanism. This was recognised by NESTA as one of the top 20 key initiatives in the UK that will help to achieve the Government vision of the ‘Big Society'. Since January 2011, Alexei has been working as a Catalyst at Kanthari International and has been a driving force in developing the Innovation Experience. Alexei also co-founded EnGen ltd which is engaged in the rollout of renewable technologies and related consultancy whose profits are gifted back to iX.
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- CEO and Founder at GoGetters, Africa and UK
- CEO and Founder of GoGetters
Alieu is the CEO and Founder of GoGetters, based in the UK with a deep passion for Africa; especially the new and exciting technology focused start-ups developing in the continent. GoGetters is a social initiative and with a mission to be the bridge between Westerners (especially Africans from diaspora) and the business opportunities within sub-Saharan Africa. Before GoGetters, Alieu was the CFO with Bukit in New York. BUKIT is disrupting debt collection by creating an online platform where people can bypass collection agencies to make a settlement offer directly to their creditors. He also works as a Management Consultant with PwC in London.
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- Development Economist
- President at the Glocal University in Saharanpur and Senior Advisor at Global Health Strategies
- President at the Glocal University in Saharanpur and Senior Advisor at Global Health Strategies, India
Amir is a development economist with a special interest in Education, Agriculture, health and financial inclusion. He also is fellow at the India Development Foundation. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has been an Adjunct Professor of Business and Law at the Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Amir also worked as Researcher for the Ministry of Finance, Government of India and the UNDP at Project LARGE (Legal Adjustments and Reforms for Globalising the Economy).
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- Director, PACS, a DFID Programme, South Asia
In close to 20 years in the development sector, Anand's career has encompassed strategic planning, programme leadership and partnership management, advocacy and lobbying and impact assessment. As head of Christian Aid India he oversaw over 75 civil society partnerships across 15 Indian states on projects with an investment of £3 million. Anand has worked with bilateral aid institutions and institutional funders on humanitarian and emergency response projects, pro-poor market and enterprise-based development initiatives and promoting human rights. He is actively engaged with the private sector in promoting inclusive policies and investment.
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- State Coordinator, Uttar Pradesh
Anita, a Post Graduate in Business Administration(HR) with a varied experience of more than 22 years in Corporate and Social Development Sector,Livelihood Promotion/ Health & Nutrition, Human Resource and General Administration having worked in MCI/Verizon Business, Mission Convergence/SSS(Govt. of NCT of Delhi) and CAP Foundation. She believes and practices to react positively to unexpected variances, delivering a culture of continual improvement and managing change.
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- Director, HoIP CIC, Europe
Anoop has over 25 years' experience in business strategy, analysis and modelling, and ICT spanning many industry sectors, including technology, financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and infrastructure development. He is COO at the Commonwealth Association for Infrastructure Development (CIID) based in London, whose mission is to build better lives and promote economic growth through sustainable infrastructure development, both economic and social infrastructure; he also serves as a director of a healthcare social enterprise working in public health and social care. Formerly he was Director of Technology Programmes at the Commonwealth Business Council
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- Director of Sankalp Forum
- Director, Sankalp Forum, Intellecap, India
As the Director of Sankalp Forum, Aparajita is focused on building the Forum as the leading convener of dialogue and outcomes for inclusive development globally. Sankalp's Global Summit in India and regional Summit in Africa are both convening that see participation of over a thousand practitioners and leaders on market-led development, impact investing, social entrepreneurship and South-South collaboration. From 2004 until 2012, she led Intellecap\'s Knowledge / Research practice. Aparajita has over 14 years of relevant experience in the development sector on initiatives to further financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She is often a facilitator / speaker on social entrepreneurship and impact investing at Indian and Global events. Her work has been featured through media coverage in CNBC Young Turks, Hindu Business Line, Financial Chronicle and Outlook Business. Prior to Intellecap, she worked at CARE India on initiatives around microfinance and livelihoods in the underserved states in India. She holds a management degree from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), India.
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- Programme Manager, Central Square Foundation, India
Aravind Prasad manages advocacy initiatives for Central Square Foundation in addition to research and investment for the High Quality Affordable Schools vertical. Aravind graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA. Previously, Aravind was a 2012 Teach For India Fellow, and worked as an elementary class teacher in a corporation school in Chennai. He has also worked as a Design and Development Engineer with Lutron Electronics, leading the development of lighting control products for the residential and commercial divisions.
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- Coordinator, Uttar Pradesh
Ayush, an architecture graduate of Lucknow envisions a society where each and every sector of the community is able to realize equitable outcomes. An art enthusiast and a bibliophile, Ayush is a Bon Vivant as well as an efficient leader with past experiences in steering teams towards accomplishments. The youngest member in the team, Ayush is a keen learner and wishes to capacitate the society through his learnings and endeavors.
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- Senior Lecturer at University of Wolverhampton Business School, UK
Barry is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing, Innovation, Leisure and Enterprise at University of Wolverhampton Business School. His teaching and research interests revolve around Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Innovation and Strategic Management. He ha also worked with Development Sector organizaitons. He also is involved in third sector engagement, links with charities and social enterprises, research on how Third Sector organisations can meet the challenges they face in their current operating environment. As part of his module Entrepreneurial Creativity and Innovation, he works with charity partners challenging his students to conceive and deliver creative fundraising activities.
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- Executive Director at Indicorps, India
Dev Tayde is an Executive Director at Indicorps, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a new generation of global leaders. Indicrops runs a Fellowship program similar to that of Ashoka's, where highly motivated individuals of Indian heritage are given the opportunity to work for community-based organizations across India. Prior to his work with Indicorps, Dev assisted in co-founding Down To Earth and Jagruti, non-profit organizations which engaged with children and youth from humble backgrounds and rural development respectively. He also gained field experience working with both Shelter Associates (founded by Ashoka Fellow Pratima Joshi) and the Akansha Foundation (founded by Ashoka Fellow Shaheen Mistri). Dev brings to the panel a unique and varied array of experiences having worked on projects ranging from low cost housing and sanitation to governance and community development.
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- Programme Manager, Central Square Foundation, India
Divyang manages research and investments in the area of entrepreneur development and capacity building at Central Square Foundation. Prior to joining CSF, Divyang worked as an analyst at JP Morgan Chase in New York City where he worked on various strategy projects across multiple divisions within the bank. Before that, he worked as Consultant for Booz and Co. in their New York City office on projects spanning multiple industries including Financial Services, Communications, Media and Technology (CMT) and Healthcare.
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- Director, Institute of Management Science, Lucknow University, India ( Sector of Expertise
- Economist
Dr Mohan is an eminent Economist and besides being Professor of Economics at University of Lucknow he has worked as a Consultant with World Bank, Adjunct Faculty IIM Lucknow, and Faculty for the Flagship Program of University of Texas. He also has the experience of working with UNDP, UNICEF, USAID and other national and international agencies. He has been Member of the State Taxes Board, GoUP; Member of Infrastructure Committee of GoUP; Member Technical Advisory Group NABARD; member policy committees of State Planning Commission; policy committee of Ministry of Medical Health and Family Welfare GoUP; and has worked closely with Udyog Bandhu and Department of Institutional Finance GoUP.
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- Founder and Executive Director of Global Health Advocates India
- Æquitas Consulting, India
Dr. Bobby works with Indian and other national governments, international agencies and civil society organisations on issues related to governance, finance, development and foreign policy to improve health in India. He has served as a member on the developing country NGO board delegation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, between 2006 -10, and also as the Chair of its Ethics Committee.
He has served as the Advocacy and Public Affairs lead for the India office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation between 2010 - 11. As an advisor and member of governing boards and technical working groups, he has served George Soros' Open Society Institute, the Population Foundation of India, MD India Pvt. Ltd, Saahasee, the Emmanuel Hospital Association, and the Governments of India, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Dr. Bobby John was trained at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, but stepped out of a career with the Indian Army to work among the rural poor in village Kedgaon of Maharashtra India during his early years of medical career.
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- Chief, Operational Support & Quality Assurance, Programme Division, United Nations Population Fund, US ( Sector of Expertise: Health, Women Empowerment )
More than 25 years of cumulative experience in policy, planning, programming and technical leadership focusing on women and girls at global, regional, national and sub-national levels including with public sector, bilateral donor programmes and the United Nations. Currently serving with the United Nations International Civil Service (ICS) as Chief at UNFPA's Programme Division in New York at Director-1 level. Track record of substantive contributions to policy and programming at various international positions including as Strategic Planning Adviser at global level and as Regional Adviser for South and West Asia. Before joining the UN, worked as Project Coordinator at the Innovations in Family Planning Services Programme - a $300-million USAID supported initiative.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Lecturer at London School of Economics, Specialist in Information and Communication Technology for Development
- Lecturer at London School of Economics, UK
Dr Shirin Madon is a Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems & Innovation Group, Department of Management at the LSE. She teaches an interdisciplinary Masters unit entitled IT & Development attended by students from various MSc degrees across the School. Building on an earlier interest in the role of ICTs for development planning and administration, her more recent research focuses on e-governance projects that are specifically designed to improve the living conditions of rural communities in the developing world in sectors such as health, agriculture and rural development. She currently undertakes research in this area in three states in India.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer at London School of Economics, UK
Dr. Smithson is a Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems & Innovation Group, Department of Management at the LSE. He teaches Global strategy and Management of IS and management and economics of E-Businesses. His research areas include Electronic commerce and inter-organisational information systems, Knowledge intensive organisations & emergent forms of organisation, The evaluation of information systems and Organisational problems of introducing computer based systems.
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- Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Specialises in Research and Development of Information and Commutation Technology and in Innovation
- Team Leader With Euro - India ICT R & D Project at Copenhagen
Dr. Sudhanshu is a Team Leader with Euro-India ICT R&D Project at Copenhagen business school. He works with New Institution theory, ICT R&D, IT, culture and innovation. He is currently engaged in research that explores virtual and networked teams from an institutional perspective. He is a member of the faculty at the Department of Informatics and is the project manager of a EU funded project on Mapping the ICT, Research and Development competency of India. Prior to his academic career Dr. Sudhanshu has worked in the IT industry as director of system design at trust4health a health insurance company and was was also employed by Tata Economic Consultancy Services in New Delhi as Senior Economist . He has also served the government of Sikkim, in India as their economic advisor and was responsible for IT diffusion and strategy across the state.
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- Project Manager, Uttar Pradesh
A graduate of Political Science from Lucknow University, Durga is diligent, sincere & a keen learner. She has worked as a project coordinator and administrator in her earlier engagements across different sectors. She has managed and lead various events and has also been a key player in a challenging & creative environment. In her free time, Durga also work as a freelance content writer. She is a great team player and an ardent project manager.
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- Co - Founder of IMedia Associates and the Director of Innovation and Technology
- Co - Founder of IMedia Associates and the Director of Innovation and Technology, Pakistan and Europe
- Strategy Specialist
Emrys is a strategy specialist in communications and mobile technology with substantial experience in research, policy and practice. Emrys has advised national governments, international and multilateral organisations and NGOs on the use of media, communications and public engagement to address governance, conflict, and public policy issues in the health, education, justice and legal sectors. He is the co-founder of iMedia Associates and the Director of Innovation and Technology. iMedia is an innovative company, working with rapidly converging media to tackle communication challenges presented by conflict, governance and poverty. Its clients include UK government departments, national and international donor agencies and NGOs. Its recent work has included the development of mobile phone based media services in Afghanistan and Pakistan; broadcast, social and mobile media for peace building in Nigeria; promoting HIV/AIDS social and behaviour change in southern Africa, and strengthening the media's role in electoral reform in Nigeria.
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- Sustainable Development Policy Coordinator
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- Chairman FLO Lucknow Kanpur at FICCI ( Sector of Expertise: Women Empowerment, Employment and Livelihood )
Jyotsana is the Chairperson of FLO - which is the Women Wing of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. She also sits on the Management Committee of Cheshire Home India, International department of Leonard Cheshire Disability and its partners straddles 54 countries in the world. Through six regional offices their development work takes place in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Today, Cheshire services function in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - a region that houses more than 68 million people with disabilities.The South Asia Regional Office (SARO) partners 36 organisations that are managed by local committees, across the region. Through this network, SARO reaches out to 20,600 people with disabilities.SARO's work is multi pronged and aims at holistic transformation both at the personal and institutional levels.
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- Engineer
- Manager Tata Trust, India
Lakshman Sethuraman, an engineer-MBA, belongs to the Tata Administrative Services and has been working with the Tata Group for ten years across diverse roles such as coordinator of the Tata Medical Center Project, and programme manager at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Tata Trusts.
LT. Gen. Sushil Pillai was born in 1934 and commissioned in 1955 into the Assam regiment. He served in command of troops from platoon to corps (3 divisions) levels. He was promoted to Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Director General Infantry and also served as Military Attache in Moscow and Ulan Bator. Lt Gen Pillai was awarded the Param Vishint Sewa Medal (PVSM) for outstanding service and retired in 1991. Since then LT Gen Pillai has been an active proponent for the development of 'civic consciousness', has written two monographs on Nagas and Mizos, is the Associate Editor of ‘Fault Lines' and is active in the Kerala Election Watch programme.
LT. Gen. Sushil Pillai was born in 1934 and commissioned in 1955 into the Assam regiment. He served in command of troops from platoon to corps (3 divisions) levels. He was promoted to Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Director General Infantry and also served as Military Attache in Moscow and Ulan Bator. Lt Gen Pillai was awarded the Param Vishint Sewa Medal (PVSM) for outstanding service and retired in 1991. Since then LT Gen Pillai has been an active proponent for the development of 'civic consciousness', has written two monographs on Nagas and Mizos, is the Associate Editor of ‘Fault Lines' and is active in the Kerala Election Watch programme.
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- Principal Innovation and Engagement, NSDC, India ( Sector of Expertise: Education, Health, Agriculture, Employment and Livelihood )
Mahesh is currently working as Principal of Innovation and Engagement at National Skill Development Corporation, where he works on innovation in the skills space, business revitalization, CSR and collaborative engagement models. Before NSDC Mahesh was the Chief Executive Officier at KGVK, where he was responsible to ensure KGVK Social Enterprises was operating on strategy and in line with the Board's directives in each of the entities with investments from Jhawar Impact Venture Fund.
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- Assistant Director at IntraHealth International, Kenya
Innovative and dynamic program manager with over 10 years experience designing and implementing large scale technology and non-technology projects in Kenya and around Africa in development sector. Martin is a graduate from London School of Economics and is currently supporting the governments and learning institutions to leverage and institutionalize technology for the development of human resources for health and advance the eLearning ecosystem in Kenya.
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- Political Analyst and Development Sector Professional, Indi ( Sector of Expertise: Water and Sanitation, Agriculture, Clean Energy )
Innovative and dynamic program manager with over 10 years experience designing and implementing large scale technology and non-technology projects in Kenya and around Africa in development sector. Martin is a graduate from London School of Economics and is currently supporting the governments and learning institutions to leverage and institutionalize technology for the development of human resources for health and advance the eLearning ecosystem in Kenya.
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- Co - Founder of Digital Empowerment Foundation
Mr. Osama Manzar is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, editor, columnist, and new media specialist who is spearheading the mission to overcome the information barrier between India's rural sector, and the so-called developed society, through Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), the not-for-profit organisation founded to accomplish the mission.
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- Head of Business Development
Nick is a graduate from London School of Economics where he majored in designing information services, IT strategy and innovation management. He is an international analyst and consultant with experience in creating strategic solutions and serving diverse clients in UK, Germany, and US. He has experienced in Innovation Management, Product Innovation and Management, Collaborative services, Project Management and Social Media.
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- Managing Director
- Managing Director, FifthEstate Trust
Pallavi comes from a background of technology and development studies and is passionate about utilizing technology for development. She is a graduate from London School of Economics where she majored in open innovation techniques and technology for development in emerging economies. She has worked as a business consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a software engineer with IBM Software Labs, McAfee Software and Autodesk . She has more than nine years of experience of working in UK, Singapore and India and has worked on projects with DFID, USAID and Sida.
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- Director of EcoSolutions, Consultant and UNDP Ecosan Resource Person for South Asia
Eco-solutions is an initiative by Paul Calvert who has more than fifteen years' experience in gender aware and culturally sensitive community development work in Asia and East Africa. Having first trained as an officer cadet in the merchant navy he obtained an honours degree in Engineering in Sheffield and spent two years in the manufacturing and construction industries in the UK and Iceland. In 1985 he joined the Intermediate Technology Development Group UK. He has experience as a project officer and programme manager on projects ranging from small-scale sugar processing to fisheries, boat building and artificial reef construction. He has work experience in East Africa, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. He recently led an FAO project in Andhra Pradesh on Sea Safety and Cyclone Disaster Preparedness and has also undertaken work for UNDP and the SANRES programme of SIDA. His work in Ecological Sanitation began in 1994 when, in response to the poor sanitary conditions in local fishing communities, he began building ecological toilet and waste water systems in Kerala, south India. He currently spends much of his time in India and the South demonstrating and promoting the ecological sanitation approach among communities, government and non-government organisations
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- Co - Founder of Braille Without Borders
- Co - Founder of Kanthari
- Co - Founder of Kanthari, Asia
Paul Kronenberg is a "Social-Engineer" and co-founder of Braille Without Borders (BWB) and kanthari, International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators. He has a technical background graduating in mechanical engineering, computer science, commercial technology and data-communication system science and gained practical experience while working for different organizations in development projects in Africa, Eastern Europe and Tibet. Next to being a motivational speaker, Paul has a keen interest in eco friendly low cost "open hardware" technologies and architecture. Paul is the driving force behind the low cost and eco friendly designs of the buildings and supervises all construction activities within the projects.
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- Partner, Africa Business Group Leader, PwC, UK and Africa
Paul is a Partner with PwC UK and sits on the management committee of PwC Africa as well as continuing to run the Africa Business Group in London. He has extensive experience of international development projects with DFID as a client and led PwC's Government & Public Sector practice with a personal focus on strategy for public sector organisations. Paul is an MBA from London Business School and have a number of board level non-executive positions including the UK Government\\\'s Social Mobility & Child Poverty Commission, the Advisory Group of the think tank Demos and the Advisory Board of Race for Opportunity, which promotes racial equality in business.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director, Sankalp Forum, India
As Associate Director, Priyank is directly responsible for the expansion of Sankalp Forum and its ecosystem into South East Asia. He is also involved in various initiatives to further develop the Forum as a leading inclusive development-convening platform across the 3 regions: India, Africa and South East Asia. Priyank comes with around 11 years of diverse experience in leading B2B marketing initiatives, market entry consulting projects, and strategy & business development engagements. Prior to joining Intellecap, he was managing corporate marketing for South and West India at the country's 4th largest private sector bank, YES BANK. Previously, he worked at KPMG across marketing, business development and M&A Tax consulting roles in India, and established the India-Korea Consulting Practice at KPMG in South Korea to promote cross border investments. Priyank holds a postgraduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India and a bachelor's degree in commerce from Christ College, Bangalore, India.
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- Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics
- Specialist in Information and Communication Technology
Chrisanthi Avgerou is a Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She specialises in relationship of ICT to organizational change and the role of ICT in socio-economic development. She is chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on Social Implications of Information Technology and she chaired the IFIP WG 9.4 group on computers in developing countries from 1996 till 2003. She is Associate Editor of the Information Systems Research Journal and The Information Society Journal. She is Fellow of the British Computer Society and Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. She is currently organizing the 8th Human Choice and Computers conference. Her research areas are Information systems in the context of developing countries, Information systems and organisational change, Information systems implementation.
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- Consultant
- Journalist and Development Sector Specialist, India ( Sector of Expertise
Puja is consultant to UP's first Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. She has worked with and evaluated programs and schemes in development sector with organizations like Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Oxfam, Find Your Feet, UNDP-IKEA, UNICEF and the like and has also worked extensively with the state Governments in India, especially in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand . She has worked on mid-term review of the European Union supported project on "Strengthening the capacity of tribal organisations to influence policy and ensure implementation of rights-based legislation", Uttarakhand.
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- CEO E & H Foundation, India
- CEO of EnH Foundaiton
Sanjeev has significant experience of working at the grassroots and has implemented large-scale development projects in India, Afghanistan and Nepal. Sanjeev worked with Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan for about five years and led large scale (500 villages, 500 staff and about 10 million USD annual budget), multi sectoral development projects in conflict prone central and Northern Afghanistan in challenging conditions and remote areas. Sanjeev also worked with IFAD, Fair trade Original (Netherlands), ICCO-Netherlands, OXFAM-Bridge, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Small Farmers Agriculture Consortium (SFAC) under the ministry of Agriculture, India-Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), Project LARGE (UNDP), Center of Development studies (CDS) - University of Wales, ASA (Action for Social Advancement), ACP (Association of Crafts Producers), Sasakawa Peace Foundation, ARAVALI, Atkins UK (on a DFID project) as a consultant and researcher on diverse livelihoods and development issues.
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- Sustainable Development Practitioner, India ( Sector of Expertise
With over 28 years of expertise in Mechanical Sealing Solution Industry, Quality Assurance, Ecosystem Development, ICT and Green Energy, Sauman Das Gupta brings along with him passion and drive to work for the betterment of human society. His specialities lies in Sealing Solutions, Sustainable Micro and macro community development, Zero emission Scale ups, Business and Education Integration, Quality Assurance, Renewable Energy project design and implementation. Sauman has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific and Australasia region.
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- Clean Energy Consultant, PwC, UK ( Sector of Expertise
Shaun specializes in Clean and renewable energy and Clean Technology. He works as a Consultant with PwC, UK and provides strategy and economics advice to clients on cities/urbanisation, sustainable economic growth, clean tech and renewables, and climate change. He has also worked as Consultant for Sustainable Energy Finance with International Finance Corporation, where he provided technical advisory on renewable energy financing programme, Portfolio Approach to Distributed Generation Opportunity (PADGO), in Sri Lanka, India and Maldives, covering renewable energy and green building sectors. Capacity building with local banks, project financial analysis and developing the business case for energy efficiency in the tea and garment/apparel sectors
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- State Head, Uttar Pradesh
Siddharth, an entrepreneur himself, comes from marketing background. He has more than eight years of experience in Business Development of education and media, by effective business strategies. He has over the years worked across sectors in multiple districts in Uttar Pradesh and has worked with both business sector and government.
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- Director
- Director, Analytical I, UK ( Sector of Expertise: Women Empowerment, Employment and Livelihood )
Priya is a Harvard Graduate, where she studied Public Administration, and has worked with companies like KPMG, Thomson Reuters and Accenture. She has worked as a Lead Business Analyst and Executive Product Owner with House of Commons in UK and Delivery Manager with Government Digital Service in UK. She is Director of Analytical i and is currently working as Digital Business Analyst with Greater London Authority. She has worked on multiple projects with the Government of United Kingdom and has a good understanding of Policy Infrastructure and Development Sector.
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- Associate Editor
- Chief Advisor
- Associate Editor of Frontline
Venkitesh is the Associate Editor of Frontline, a leading fortnightly published by The Hindu group of publications. He is a renowned political journalist and has covered National Affairs extensively throughout the country. He has been heavily involved in activities regarding Development issues with special focus on empowerment of the socially and economically marginalized sections of the society. He's also involved in reporting on broader socio-anthropological trends and other sociology related subjects with an emphasis on environment, health and tribal life.