Girish has over 40 years’ experience in Natural Resource Management and Rural livelihoods. His work in the area of rural development ranges across interventions in Village Production Systems, Appropriate Technology, Agribusiness and nurturing Farmer Producer Organisations. He has also been involved in work on Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, Interdisciplinary Programme Management. On the policy and...
Ashok Bang has extensive experience of over 40 years in agriculture and horticulture in particular, and rural development in general. He has his M.Sc. in Horticulture (Pomology special) from Indian Agriculture Research Institute, Delhi, and was researching with Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), the apex body in that field. Ashok Bang mobilised Youth for...
Nilesh Nimkar has over 23 years of experience in the field of early childhood education, elementary education, teacher education, and curriculum development. He has initiated several innovative programs for teachers and children, especially in the rural and tribal areas. He is the founder trustee and director of Quality Education Support Trust. He has received the...
Mr. Sandeep Kabra is a chemical engineer with an M.B.A in finance and is currently the founder/ managing director of Suhans Chemicals Pvt Ltd. which manufactures nickel catalysts and recycles nickel containing wastes. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Jalgaon west and actively participates in Rotary global grant projects which led...
Dr. Anand Bang, Physician and Public health specialist, works with the ngo SEARCH. He is an Honorary Advisor to the Chief Minister, Maharashtra on various social sector policies, projects and partnerships, and is also the Advisor Health with the Tata Trusts, the oldest philanthropic organization in India.
Dr. Nilima Ragavan is the medical director of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Special Care Nursery, an attending neonatologist at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She also directs pediatric resident education in the NICU and...
Mr. Nick Nash is president of Garena, a fast growing Singapore based technology company. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s working group on local capital markets integration, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, a member of the Singapore Chapter of the Young President’s Organisation and a...
Mr. Vivek Ragavan is a telecommunications networking industry veteran and seasoned entrepreneur with more than 35 years of high-technology leadership experience. He has served as president and CEO of private and public companies and as a board member of many private companies in this industry. He currently serves on the Advisory Council of the McCormick...
Ms Shailaja Asave founded and was the managing director of Orbit Exports Ltd., a textile manufacturing and exporting firm, for 22 years. Prior to that, she worked for two years each, with Mercantile Bank of Canada in Montreal as a research analyst and also with British Petroleum in Toronto, Canada. After her retirement, she has...
Mr. Avi Nash founded a firm that has advised many of the world’s leading chemical companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and strategy and also heads an investment-advisory firm. Earlier he was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he helped lead the firm’s global chemical industry effort, and mentored numerous senior professionals. Avi served...
