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GLOBAL CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIESWEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

Vanitha Narayanan Managing Director, IBM India Private, Ltd.

Vanitha Narayanan is the Managing Director of IBM India Private Limited, and the Regional General Manager for India/ South Asia (ISA). Appointed to this leadership position in January 2013, she is responsible for all of IBM’s sales, marketing, services and global delivery operations in the India/South Asia region, including operations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. India remains one of the fastest growing countries for IBM and has emerged as a strategic location within the company’s global services delivery network.

Having joined IBM in the US in 1987, Vanitha has over 26 years of experience working with multiple client sets and in several countries. Since 2009, she has been a part of the IBM ISA business, serving in roles as the Sales & Distribution Leader and recently as the Managing Partner for Global Business Services (GBS). Prior to this, she has served as the Vice President of Communications sector, Asia Pacific, and the Global Vice President for IBM’s telecom solutions offerings.

She is a member of IBM’s Growth & Transformation Team which is comprised of senior Global Executives who are selected by the IBM Chairman. In 2012, Vanitha was inducted into the IBM Industry Academy, a select group of experts, designed to advance IBM’s industry thought leadership and brand. Vanitha also leads several leadership development & diversity initiatives for ISA and is the executive sponsor for developing the women’s leadership pipeline.

Vanitha is a member of the National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14, Co-Chair of National Committee for MNCs of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14 and also the Chairperson of the board of governors for National Institutes of Technology (NIT) heading NIT-Suratkal.

She has a Masters in Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Madras and a Masters in Business Administration in Information Systems from University of Houston - Magna Cum Laude. Vanitha is married with a daughter and is presently residing in Bangalore, India.

Dr. Swati PiramalVice Chairperson, Piramal Enterprises Ltd.

Dr. Swati Piramal has used her background in medicine, public health and business to change the trajectory of healthcare, education, and public policy in India. She is one of India’s leading scientists and industrialists and is involved in public health and innovation. Born in 1956 Dr. Piramal earned her medical degree from Mumbai University. Dr. Piramal is an alumnus of the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and Dean’s Advisor to Harvard Business School & Public Health.


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She is the Director of Piramal Enterprises, a leading Indian multinational company in Healthcare, Financial Services and Information Management. The company aims to bring innovative medicines to reduce the burden of disease globally, supplies medicines to over a 100 countries.

As Director of the Piramal Foundation, she helps promote health in rural India with mobile health services, women’s empowerment projects and supporting community education that create young leaders. As the first woman president of India’s Apex Chamber of Commerce in 90 years, she helped influence important public policies and governance. She served as an adviser to the Indian Prime Minister in science, technology and economic policy.

She is a leader who makes a positive difference to the community and the world. Her contributions in innovations new medicines and public health services have touched thousands of lives.

Deval SanghaviPartner & Co-Founder, Dasra

Deval has provided philanthropists with intelligent investment strategies directing over USD $44 million into the Indian social sector over the past 15 years. He incubated the Indian Philanthropy Forum and engaged over 1000 philanthropists, multi-lateral agencies and corporate foundations, who are driving the philanthropy agenda in India. He also initiated India’s largest collaborative giving platform, Dasra Giving Circles, which combines in-depth research, funding and managerial support enabling 15–30x scale. Deval has written articles for media publications such as Mint, Business India & Alliance Magazine and has been quoted in NDTV, Times of India, Economic Times, Hindustan Times and Mint.

He has also spoken at various events like Global Philanthropy Forum, We the People-NDTV, The Outsider-BloombergTV, Unconvention-Forum, Maidan Summit, SOCAP, ICICI Fellows Programme and Mint Conclave. He was recently awarded the Forbes Philanthropy Awards in the ‘Crossover Leaders’ category for 2014 for successfully transitioning from a thriving career in investment banking to work for the non-profit sector Deval is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, completing his Bachelor of Business Administration with a dual Honors degree in Business and Finance and is a Cordes Fellow. Deval is a founding Board member of Magic Bus and Villgro.


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D. Shivakumar Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo India Holdings Private Limited

Shivakumar, or Shiv as he is popularly known, is Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo India Holdings Pvt. Ltd. Before Pepsico, Shiv was with Nokia for eight years, running India and then the Emerging Markets operations.

Shiv is a Marketer and CEO. He has run over 34 brands in his career across Unilever, Philips and Nokia. Shiv is a growth manager, having grown every brand and geography he has managed through Innovation, new business models and ecosystem partnerships. Shiv is a good coach and invests time and energy in growing people.

Shiv writes regularly for the business press on emerging markets, on brands, on consumers and leadership, followship. Shiv also teaches in Business schools across the world.

Shiv has been awarded many times over for Marketing, for leadership and for turning around businesses. The one that’s dear to his heart is the “Most Distinguished Alumnus award” from his alma mater IIM Calcutta bestowed on him in 2011. He was one amongst nine to get the Most Distinguished Alumnus award in the first 50 years of IIM Calcutta.

Shiv’s pioneering work in telecom has become case studies in Harvard, Ivy and ISB.

Shiv is an Independent Director on the Board of Godrej Consumer products Limited and is on the Board of Governors of IIM Ahmedabad.

Shiv loves reading biographies; he is an avid sports watcher.

Padmini Somani Founder and Director, Salaam Bombay Foundation

Padmini Somani has been working in the field of health with a focus on tobacco control for the last 20 years. She is the Founder- Director of Salaam Bombay Foundation, an NGO, with India’s largest preventive school based programme on tobacco, with a focus on children from at risk homes. Padmini also actively spearheads the Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation that supports several causes in the area of health, especially cancer control, education and employment generation. She is the co-founder of Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health and is also on the board of the Prince Aly Khan Hospital, Ambuja Cement Foundation, Ambuja Education Initiative, the Everest Foundation and the Indian Institute for Craft Design (IICD). She has served on several committees of the Government of India and the Government of Maharashtra.


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Supriya SuleMember of Parliament (MP), 16th Lok Sabha

Supriya Sule is a member of Parliament of India of the Lok Sabha (House of People). Some of her development initiatives include: a state wide campaign against female foeticide, Maharashtra State Youth Policy formulation and implementation, a network for support, tanning, and empowerment of women self help groups, advocacy for women’s safety, quality education for all, rights of people with disability, dignity and rights of senior citizens, and sustainable development and conservation of environment. Supriya Sule also has wide-ranging interests in socio-cultural arena, especially in paintings, literature and science.

Supriya holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology.


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GLOBAL CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIESTHURSDAY, JUNE 18

Shekhar BajajChairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Electricals Limited

Mr. Shekhar Bajaj is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bajaj Electricals Limited (BEL). He has been the past President of ASSOCHAM, IMC, ELCOMA (Electric Lamp & Components Manufacturers Association), CFBP (Council for Fair Business Practices) and IFMA (Indian Fan Manufacturers Association). He is on the board of Bajaj Auto Ltd and a number of other companies.

A B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Mathematics from Pune University (1968), followed by an M.B.A. degree from New York University (1974), he started off in Bajaj Sevashram after graduation, and joined Bajaj Electricals Ltd as Chief Executive in 1980. Thereafter in 1984, he took over as Managing Director and became the Chairman& Managing Director in 1994.

Bajaj Electricals Limited with a turnover of over Rs. 4200 crores (FY 2014-1 5) has six strategic business units - Engineering and Projects (EPC), Appliances, Fans, Luminaires, Lighting and Morphy Richards. Bajaj Electricals Ltd is well established in a wide range of products in small domestic appliances like mixers, irons, water heaters, new age products like induction cookers as well as the hi-tech LED range of lighting, lamps, tube lights etc. The company is also in the business of ceiling fans as well as table, pedestal and wall fans. The EPC division of the company caters to turnkey engineering services besides being into Transmission LineTowers manufacturing and Rural Electrification.

It has successful tie ups with international companies like Disano of Italy & CREE Lighting of USA (for Luminaires); Delta Controls of Canada (for Building Management Systems) and Securiton of Switzerland (for Security Systems), Morphy Richards of UK (for Appliances), Disney of USA & Midea of China (for Fans).

Mr. Bajaj continues to nurture,develop and encourage small-scale industries, marketing their products under the reputed Bajaj brand umbrella. BEL consistently provides financial assistance and technical know-how to them.

Significantly, he has always believed that people are the ultimate source of strength in any organization. He upholds meritocracy, looking upon his employees as an extension of his family and winning in the process the unswerving loyalty of his team.

Under the leadership of Mr. Shekhar Bajaj,the Corporate Social Responsibility of BEL has taken concrete shape. BEL has been committed to being a Tobacco Free work environment for over a decade now. The CSR initiative of a tobacco free work force was launched within BEL in 2010 and has now expanded to its own factories and vendor locations. Employees and workers are not only motivated to quit smoking/chewing tobacco but are also encouraged to participate in the cessation programme driving very good results in giving up the habit completely. The employees also volunteer as Anti-Tobacco Crusaders.


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Under his stewardship BEL is moving to become socially responsible and also environmentally sustainable company by undertaking initiatives such as changing thermocol packaging to biodegradable material, encouraging energy efficient products and offsetting carbon footprint through tree plantation initiatives. Each employee too is given an incentive to participate in CSR activities and appreciated for her/his efforts. BEL launched Project Disha to implement vocational skills programs for youth. Special skill sets such as repair technicians,masonry and electrical works have been identified.

The CSR activity are guided by the 4 pillars - sustainability,diversity (gender inclusion), employee volunteering and community outreach. The communities where BEL operates should also benefit, hence all the programs are planned and executed accordingly. Our priorities for the Community Outreach Programmes are:

• EnsuringEnvironmentalsustainability&promotingitsEducation

• Employment,enhancingvocationalskillsandlivelihoods

• PromotingPreventingHealthCare

His own close-knit family - wife Kiran, son Anant, daughter-in-law Pooja and daughter Geetika are the bulwark of his strength. Anant Bajaj is the Joint Managing Director of Bajaj Electricals Ltd. Kiran Bajaj is known both as a sensitive writer and an environmentalist. She has combined her two passions to run two separate NGOs aptly called Shabdam and Paryavaran Mitra. Mrs Kiran Bajaj has been the inspiration behind all the environmental activitiesthat the Bajaj Electricals have been undertaking so far.

Dr. Pankaj ChaturvediTata Memorial Hospital

Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi MBBS,MS,FAIS,FICS,FACS,MNAMS is Professor and Head and Neck cancer Surgeon at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Dr Chaturvedi did his medical schooling and post graduation in General Surgery at Banaras Hindu University. He was adjudged the best Intern and the best post graduate during his tenure in Banaras Hindu University. Later, he decided to work in field of surgical oncology and received his formal training at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. He has been invited as visiting faculty in 22 institutions in 18 countries. He is member of several prestigious national and international organizations and he is reviewer of several leading journals and he is the editor of the Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery. He is the Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Head and Neck surgery. He has authored 6 book chapters and more than 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals.

He is Principal investigator of several clinical trials and his main area of interest is early detection of oral cancer. He is the recipient of the Robert Maxwell Byers award of the American Head and Neck society in year 2010. He was nominated as Council Member of the prestigious


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International Academy of Oral Oncology. He is one of the founding members of South Asian Federation of Oncology and in the steering committee of the Eurasian Head and Neck Oncology Society. He is the founder and treasurer of the Head Neck Cooperative Oncology Group. Dr Chaturvedi has tremendous interest in Public Health issue especially related to Tobacco control. He was the coordinator of the Smoke free Mumbai – www.smokefreemumbai.org campaign. He started the famous Voice of Tobacco Victims Campaign (www.vovindia.org ) which has allowed the cancer victims to voice their opinion on the issue of tobacco control. This campaign was instrumental in ban on Gutka all over India and also increase in Tobacco Taxes. He received WHO Director General’s award in 2010 for this campaign. He represented India as Global Cancer Ambassador to New York to lobby with UN representatives for the special UN summit on Non Communicable diseases. He was awarded Outstanding Young Indian award for his public health initiatives. He was selected as a speaker on behalf of the Civil Society in UN Summit on Non Communicable diseases, 2011 in New York. He is also the recipient of the Judy Wilkenfield Award for excellence in Tobacco Control by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington, USA. Recently he was conferred British Medical Journal award popularly known as Oscar of Medicine.

Dr. Soumitro GhoshChief Executive Officer, Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH)

Well known for successfully integrating commercial business principles and approaches as well as public private partnerships to achievement of public health goals Mr. Ghosh has over 30 years’ experience in strategic and social marketing, program management, marketing research, strategy planning and behavior change communications with for-profit and non-profit multinationals namely Futures Group International, Marie Stopes International, Population Services International (PSI), J Walter Thompson (JWT), McCann Erickson and Gfk-MODE in various senior management and leadership capacities. An ardent promoter of innovations in healthcare, Mr. Ghosh has 15 years in senior leadership and management capacities as Country Director, Global Head, Senior Technical Advisor for a number of USAID, CDC, DFID funded health programs in South Asia and Africa. He has worked extensively in South Asia, Pacific Asia, Africa and Latin America on sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, child survival and malaria prevention.

Dr. Rati GodrejInternal Medicine; and Board Member,IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health

Dr. Rati Godrej is an American Board Certified and licensed physician trained in Internal Medicine. She held a position as a Medical Consultant and Post Medical Advisor for the US Consulate General in Mumbai, India from 1999 to April 2014. Her other professional commitments in Mumbai include serving a two year term on the Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials and Research at the Tata Memorial Hospital (2009-2011) and was the Deputy Medical


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Director at the Asian Heart Institute in 2010 and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Godrej Memorial Hospital from 2006-2009. She has served as the President and continues to be a Board Member of the Jai Vakeel School for Children with Special Needs, since 1999. Dr. Godrej is currently a member of the Board of Directors for ICTPH, an organization committed to public health, research and innovation to provide adequate access to improve the quality of primary health care for the rural population in Tamil Nadu. Dr. Godrej is also collaborating with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on the India Learning Network for Tobacco Control.

Dr. Prakash C. GuptaDirector, Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health

Dr. Prakash C. Gupta is Director – Research of Healis – Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health, Navi Mumbai, Visiting Scientist at the Harvard (now T.C.Chan) School of Public Health and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, USA. He is President of the Action Council against Tobacco – India. Until July 31, 2004, he was with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He has published hundreds of research papers in international scientific journals on cancer and tobacco epidemiology. He has a Doctor of Science degree in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A., and a Master of Science in Statistics from the Bombay University. He was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, U.S.A. and a Visiting Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, France. His current ongoing research collaboration include Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. He has received several awards including Luther Terry Award from the American Cancer Society and Tobacco Free World Award from the World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Sundeep KapilaCo-Founder, Swasth India

Sundeep completed his B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 2001. While at IIT, he worked with a campus-based startup and subsequently with a Swedish company to develop a technology product which has been spun off as a separate company. Sundeep joined the India practice of McKinsey & Company in 2001 and worked with them for 6.5 years, specializing in the Healthcare and Development sectors. Sundeep left McKinsey in Jan ’08 to pursue his passion in the development sector. Subsequent to that, he has completed LLB (G.M.) from Mumbai University, M.D. in Alternative Medicine from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicine and a Diploma of Associateship from the Insurance Institute of India.


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Dr. Nachiket MorBoard Chair, SughaVazhu Health

Dr. Nachiket Mor has qualified in business management from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and obtained a doctorate in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board Chair of CARE India and a member of the Boards of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), CRISIL, Institute for Financial Management and Research, CIPLA, and IKP Trust. He is Chair of RBI’s Advisory Committee for the Licensing of Payment Banks; and a member of the Government of India’s Task force on Primary Healthcare Rollout, the Health Commission for the State of Himachal Pradesh, and the Task Force on Global Health at the Institute of Medicine in Washington DC. He worked with ICICI from 1987 to 2007 and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 to 2007. From 2007 to 2011, he served as the founding President of ICICI Foundation.

Poonam MuttrejaExecutive Director, Population Foundation of India

Poonam Muttreja is the Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI) - a New Delhi-based NGO established in 1970 to promote population stabilization in India and global thinking on population and human development. She also serves as a member of the FP2020 Reference Group – a global initiative to develop a new global architecture for increasing access to voluntary family planning services.

Poonam has served on several government committees including the National Commission on Population chaired by the Prime Minister of India, the Advisory Group for Community Action set up by India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Program Advisory Committee of the National Population Stabilization Fund. She also serves on the Governing Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Grassroots Trading Network for Women (GTNfW), SEWA, Ahmedabad as well as on the Governing Board of ActionAid India.

Prior to joining PFI in 2010, Poonam served, for close to 17 years, as the Country Director of MacArthur Foundation in India. In the earlier stages of her career, she was instrumental in setting up of Ashoka Foundation, India (as its Indian Founder Director), Society for Rural, Urban and tribal initiatives (SRUTI) and DASTKAR – both based in New Delhi. Poonam studied psychology and mass communications in Delhi University and public administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She has taught courses on development from a grassroots perspective in Amherst College and Earlham College in the United States. She lives in New Delhi.


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Dr. K Srinath ReddyPresident, Public Health Foundation of India

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is presently President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He was appointed as the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2009. He is also an Adjunct Professor of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. PHFI is engaged in capacity building in Public Health in India through education, training, research, policy development, health communication and advocacy.

Widely regarded as a leader of preventive cardiology at national and international levels, Prof. Reddy has been a researcher, teacher, policy enabler, advocate and activist who has worked to promote cardiovascular health, tobacco control, chronic disease prevention and healthy living across the lifespan. He edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years and is on editorial board of several international and national journals. He has more than 400 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals.

He has served on many WHO expert panels and is presently the President of the World Heart Federation (2013-14). He also chairs the Core Advisory Group on Health and Human Rights for the National Human Rights Commission of India and is a member of the National Science and Engineering Research Board of Government of India. He recently chaired the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage, set up by the Planning Commission of India. He has also served as the President, of the National Board of Examinations which deals with post-graduate medical education in India.

Prof. Reddy is a member of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (ww.unsdsn.org), established to assist the United Nations in developing the post-2015 goals for sustainable development. He chairs the Thematic Group on Health in the SDSN.

Padmini Somani Founder and Director, Salaam Bombay Foundation

Padmini Somani has been working in the field of health with a focus on tobacco control for the last 20 years. She is the Founder- Director of Salaam Bombay Foundation, an NGO, with India’s largest preventive school based programme on tobacco, with a focus on children from at risk homes. Padmini also actively spearheads the Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation that supports several causes in the area of health, especially cancer control, education and employment generation. She is the co-founder of Healis-Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health and is also on the board of the Prince Aly Khan Hospital, Ambuja Cement Foundation, Ambuja Education Initiative, the Everest Foundation and the Indian Institute for Craft Design (IICD). She has served on several committees of the Government of India and the Government of Maharashtra.


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Vanessa D’SouzaChief Executive Officer, Society for Nutrition, Education & Health Action

Vanessa D’Souza is CEO of SNEHA (Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action) since March 2013, after volunteering with SNEHA for the previous two years.

Prior to that she worked with Citibank India in various positions, her last role being, Director, Citigroup Private Bank. During her tenure with Citibank she worked across various divisions including Non-Resident Indian Business, Corporate Bank, Project Re-engineering and eventually with the Private Bank. She won the coveted Citicorp Chairman’s Service Excellence Award in 1989 for exemplary performance.

She has completed her BA in Economics honors and MBA with a specialization in Marketing Management. She also did a Management Executive Development Program at Stanford University, sponsored by Citibank.

Somak GhoshCo-Founder, Contrarian Capital India Partners2011 AL Fellow

Somak Ghosh has been one of 3 professional Co-Founders of Yes Bank. As of fiscal 2011, Somak was Group President – Corporate Finance and Development Banking, responsible for 70% of the Bank’s assets (USD 12bn) and over 50% of the Bank’s profits (USD 0.2bn). As a Co-Founder, he has been a key member of the Bank’s Executive Management, the Management Credit Committee and the Asset Liability Committee for over 8 yrs and emerged as an exceptional leader in building start-up businesses and taking them to scale.

Being part of the founding team, Somak has extensive operating experience in creating and implementing strategies across early stage/ start-up businesses, building and managing large teams, initiating and growing external relationships and finding bootstrapping solutions necessary at an early stage of an organization. In his role at Yes Bank, while building the highly profitable Corporate Finance practice, Somak simultaneously founded the Development Banking vertical, with application of mainstream corporate finance structures for delivering financial services to previously underserved populations.

His path-breaking commercial banking services to low-income populations for over 1 mn families annually (~ 5 mn people) were recognized in a HBS 2010 case study and subsequently attended the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard in 2011. Somak decided to move on from Yes Bank in September 2012 to pursue his professional and personal passion of Contrarian Capitalism for Mainstreaming Change –moving the investment thesis of investing in BoP businesses from niche to mainstream.


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The Contrarian Vriddhi Fund- I is an Angel Fund which invests in early stage enterprises with investment size between INR 50 lakhs going upto INR 5 crs progressively in subsequent rounds. The Fund’s target sectors are education, healthcare, affordable housing, energy, livelihoods and agribusinesses – and within these, for-profit enterprises that seek to achieve superior financial returns by delivering core goods or services to stakeholders as producers or consumers.

Neera NundyPartner & Co-Founder, Dasra

Neera plays a leading role in bringing managerial skills, knowledge and critical analysis to Dasra. Most recently, she led the launch of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business School, the first-of-its-kind executive education program for sector leaders in India. Neera has supported the analysis of over 22 Dasra sector reports in the education, health and livelihoods which has enabled over $42 million of funding for hundreds of social enterprises. She has closely worked with Dasra’s successful portfolio organizations such as Educate Girls, SNEHA, Sarathi and Aangan to refine their strategies and accelerate their growth by 20 - 30x.

She played a pivotal role in engaging with USAID, Piramal Foundation and Kiawah Trust to form the Dasra Girls Alliance that focuses on reproductive- maternal- new-born child healthcare and adolescents girls’ empowerment in India. Neera holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, is an Indian Leadership Initiative Fellow with Aspen Institute and is an elected executive committee member of Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. She is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General’s Medallion for her dedication to addressing the persistent challenges of poverty in India and has also been awarded the Forbes Philanthropy Award in in the ‘Crossover Leaders’ category for 2014.

Dr. Devi ShettyChairman, Narayana Health

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Chairman of the Narayana Group of Hospitals. Dr. Shetty and his team have a mission to make healthcare affordable to the masses living in third world countries.

Dr. Shetty was the first heart surgeon in India to perform heart surgeries on newborn babies, using a microchip camera to close holes in the heart. He has also pioneered operations for complex problems of the heart, such as pulmonary endarterectomy, Redo Heart surgery, valve repairs in newborn babies and aortic aneurysm surgeries.

Dr. Shetty and his team have performed thousands of major heart surgeries, out of which 40% of the operations were on children, many of them newborn babies.

Dr. Shetty manages the world’s largest Telemedicine Programme through Indian Space Research


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Organization (ISRO), as well as a chain of rural clinics in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh.

Dr. Shetty received his MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and his MS (General Surgery) from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.

Ratan TataChairman Emeritus, Tata Sons

Ratan N Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, from 1991 till his retirement on December 28, 2012. He was also chairman of the major Tata companies, including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Chemicals, Indian Hotels and Tata Teleservices. During his tenure, the group’s revenues grew manifold, totalling over $100 billion in 2011-12.

Mr Tata is also associated with various organisations in India and overseas. He is the chairman of two of the largest private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India. He is a member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry. He is the president of the Court of the Indian Institute of Science and chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He also serves on the board of trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California. Mr Tata serves on the board of directors of Alcoa, and is also on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, Temasek Holdings and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Mr Tata received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell in 1962. He worked briefly with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles before returning to India in late 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.

The Government of India honoured Mr Tata with its second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2008. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities in India and overseas.

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