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In addition to his position at NFI, Mr Behar is the Convener of National Social Watch Coalition and was the Co-chair of the Global Call to Action Agai...

Amitabh Behar
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Mr Singh Aditya brings in over 20 years of experience in technology innovation and deep understanding of rural markets. He is passionate about networ...

Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya
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Mr. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay’s primary specialisation is in econometric methods applied to topics in the field of education,labour and public poli...

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
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Mr. Raj Liberhan is a leading discussant in the public sphere on issues of concern to society at large. He has been instrumental in building platforms...

Raj Liberhan
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Dr. Vikas Choudhry is a medical doctor from India with a PhD. in Public health from Lund University, Sweden. Over the course of last 10 years as publi...

Vikas Choudhry
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Ms. Heer Chokshi leads the development sector work at Edelman and oversees communications planning and implementation for development sector organizat...

Heer Chokshi
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Mr. Sanjiv Phansalkar has been Program Leader since 2007 at Tata Trusts, one of India's oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organizations. Dr. Phansal...

Sanjeev Phansalkar
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Mr. Madhavan Narayanan is an editor, writer and columnist with more than 30 years of experience in both Indian and international environments. He has ...

Madhavan Narayanan
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Mr. Depinder Kapur is a Senior Development and WASH Expert and is currently working with the Sanitation Capacity Building Platform of NIUA. He has pre...

Depinder Kapur
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Dr. Priya Nanda is the Country Lead, Equity and Social Change, Evaluation and Research at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Nanda has about twent...

Priya Nanda
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Mr. Nikhil Mathur has worked as a development sector professional for nearly two decades. His work has spanned the thematic areas of education, natura...

Nikhil Mathur
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Dr. Dipa Sinha has worked extensively on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health. She has worked with the Office of Commissioners t...

Dipa Sinha
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As Chief Knowledge Officer, Mr. Dharmendra Chandurkar is responsible for new curricula, pedagogies, and methodologies in development M&E and capacity ...

Dharmendra Chandurkar
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Mr. Brian Holler has worked over the past ten years in the United States and abroad to develop innovative, data-driven solutions to emergent public he...

Brian Holler
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Ms. Diva Dhar has worked extensively on evaluations in gender, ICT, nutrition, child health and youth. She was formerly Associate Director at J-PAL So...

Diva Dhar
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Aniruddha Brahmachari is a social sector professional with more than 20 years of experience in Programme management & Monitoring and Evaluation. Mr Br...

Aniruddha Brahmachari
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Mr. Nehal Sanghavi has more than 15 years professional experience in international law, business and development. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Sanghav...

Nehal Sanghavi
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Ms. Ramakrishnan has over 40 years of experience in social development working extensively with Government, Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Donor agencie...

Vimala Ramakrishnan
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Mr. Navin Horo has been working in the rural development sector since over 15 years with different organisations. He has been engaged in natural resou...

Navin Horo
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Mr. Sachin Kumar has over 14 years of experience in designing, operationalizing and monitoring of financial inclusion (digital finance, microfinance, ...

Sachin Kumar
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Mr. Prashant Mittal has been associated with the Ministry of Rural Development since 2013 and has extensive grass root experience in eGov for 29 years...

Prashant Mittal
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Ms. Sheena Cherian has wide experience of working with skill development programmes, departments of state governments for module creation and skill de...

Sheena Cherian
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As the founder of Agrasar, Mr. Prerit Rana helps in skilling more than 4,000 disadvantaged youth in the age group of 18 to 35 years and supports them ...

Prerit Rana
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Mr. Brajesh Pandey’s expertise include high level strategic evaluations and impact assessments, programme design, social and market research an...

Brajesh Pandey
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Ms. Dash comes with over 25 years of rich experience in the development sector. Her area of work involve action research, campaigns and advocacy, prog...

Mamata Dash
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Mr. Basanta Kumar Kar, the recipient of prestigious Global ‘Transform Nutrition Champion’ and Odisha Living Legend Award is a credible in...

Basanta Kumar Kar
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Mr. Prabhat Labh is an international development expert with over two decades of experience in leading programs and initiatives across Asia, Africa an...

Prabhat Labh
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Mr. Swetan Sagar has over 18 years of experience in designing and leading multi-country programme evaluations in the financial inclusion space. His ke...

Swetan Sagar
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Dr. Sanjiv Kumar has 41 years of experience in public health across 29 countries. He was an Executive Director at NHSRC where he led a team of 120 sta...

Sanjiv Kumar
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Mr. Neeraj Jain oversees the strategic, programmatic, and financial operations for a matrix of global and in-country programmes implemented across PAT...

Neeraj Jain
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Dr. Sunil Mehra is a practicing paediatrician with a passion for working in the development sector. He is a member of several national and internation...

Sunil Mehra
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Ms. Smita Rakesh is an independent consultant who has worked extensively on themes related to gender. Before becoming an independent consultant, she w...

Smita Rakesh
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Ms Sirohi’s work at Anubandh centres on the themes of 'interconnectedness' and 'local'. An Aspire Fellow, she has worked extensively in social...

Madhu Singh Sirohi
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Mr. Praveen Kumar Gurunath is a development sector professional working to strengthen civil society organizations in India. He has developed various m...

Praveen Kumar Guruna...
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Dr. Yogesh Kumar founded “Samarthan - Centre for Development Support”, Bhopal, which primarily works for strengthening civil society effor...

Yogesh Kumar
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Mr. Amitabh Kant currently serves as the CEO of NITI Aayog. Mr. Kant has also served as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) ...

Amitabh Kant
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Mr. Parameswaran Iyer is currently leading the Swachh Bharat Mission. A 1981 batch IAS officer, he joined the World Bank as a Senior Water and Sanitat...

Parameswaran Iyer
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Mr. Bishwajit Mukherjee is a management and analytics professional, demonstrating successful leadership in the development sector for more than 9 year...

Bishawajit Mukherjee
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Apart from being the founding chairman of Beam Money and Genesis Foundation, Dr. Anand Shrivastav is also the Member of RBI’s Financial Inclusi...

Anand Shrivastav
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With over 18 years of work experience in banking, consulting retailing and FMCG, Mr. Mukesh Sadana has worked extensively in a dozen countries on a wi...

Mukesh Sadana
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Mr. Gaurav Mehta founded Dharma Life in 2009 with an aim to promote entrepreneurship as a scalable solution to the issues of poverty and unemployment ...

Gaurav Mehta
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Ms. Priyanka Ahuja is a Marketing and Communications professional. She has worked as a reporter and journalist in leading media houses like TV Today ...

Priyanka Ahuja
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Dr. Kalpana Viswanath has spearheaded the mission to make cities safer in more than 20 cities globally. She has worked as a Technical Expert with UN W...

Kalpana Viswanath
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After having worked in leading MNCs for over 12 years, Mr. Sujay Santra started iKure with the vision to provide quality healthcare which is affordabl...

Sujay Santra
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Mr. Anirban Ghose is a part of the lead team at Transform Rural India. He has been on the leadership team at India’s leading non-profit PRADAN ...

Anirban Ghose
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Arnab is Assistant Vice President at Sambodhi. He is an engineer and MBA specializing in conservation and Livelihoods from the India Institute of For...

Arnab Dey
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Mr. Jayesh has over 17 years of experience in the natural resources management and the rural development sector. He has been engaged with consultancy ...

Jayesh Bhatia
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Mr. Anish Kumar is part of the lead team at Transform Rural India. He has been on the leadership team at PRADAN, looking at the overall organization s...

Anish Kumar
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Dr. N.C. Saxena retired as Secretary, Planning Commission. He has also worked as Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development. From 1993-96 he was the Dir...

N. C. Saxena
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Mr. Hemendra Mathur has over 20 years of experience in private equity, management consulting and investment banking. He has rich experience as an inve...

Hemendra Mathur
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Development sector professional, strategy consultant, executive coach, award nominated screenwriter of four full length motion pictures, and two time ...

Rajen Makhijani
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Lijo Mannaraprayil is a Senior Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. He has twenty-four years of experience that includes Business Strategy and...

Lijo Mannaraprayil
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Ms. Arundhati Das has over 10 years of experience in the WASH sector with her core expertise in project planning & execution, stakeholder engagement a...

Arundhati Das
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Ms. Shipra Saxena is an experienced Team Lead at India Sanitation Coalition with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization mana...

Shipra Saxena
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Swamini Adityananda Saraswati has been serving the poor and working towards helping to realize an improved environment and healthier world for nearly ...

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Dr. Vikas Choudhry, Vice President- Public Health Practice at Sambodhi Research and Communications, is a medical doctor from India with a PhD. in Publ...

Vikas Choudhry
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Dr. Hriday Kant Dewan is the founder member of Eklavya, Bhopal and VBERC Udaipur and Organising Secretary and Educational Advisor at Vidya Bhawan Soci...

Hriday Kant Dewan
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Dr. Dhir Jhingran has worked in the primary education sector for over two decades, within and outside the government. As an officer of the Indian Admi...

Dhir Jhingran
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As the founder of Agrasar, Mr. Prerit Rana helps in skilling more than 4,000 disadvantaged youth in the age group of 18 to 35 years and supports them ...

Prerit Rana
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Dr. Vani Sethi started her professional career in 2002 and has been involved in public nutrition research, programs, knowledge management, programme d...

Vani Sethi
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Dr. Alok Ranjan has been working in areas of public health and nutrition for over a decade. He has worked with WHO-National Polio Surveillance Project...

Alok Ranjan
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Mr. Santosh Kumar Mehrotra is a human development economist, whose research and writings have had most influence in the areas of employment, skill dev...

Santosh Kumar Mehrot...
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Ms. Suneeta Krishnan is a public health researcher with over 15 years of experience conducting research and engaging policymakers on the promotion of ...

Suneeta Krishnan, Ph...
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Dr P K Anand, is a retired IAS officer of 1983 batch of Rajasthan cadre. He is equipped with degrees of Phd. Economics; MSc. Physics and MSc. Economi...

P. K. Anand
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Shri Krishna Kumar is a retired ISS officer of 1984 batch. He did M.Sc in Statistics from Meerut University. He is a professional official statisticia...

Krishna Kumar
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Richa is passionate about use of data and technology to solve sustainable development challenges. SocialCops is a data intelligence company whose plat...

Richa Verma
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Mr. Krishna Kumar has worked extensively with technology all through his illustrious career in the corporate world. He has had a distinguished graph o...

Krishna Kumar
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Dr. S. K. Neogy’s interests include applied statistics, time series and forecasting, operations research and game theory for decision making. H...

S K Neogy
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Mr. Anirban Mukerji manages Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach™ initiatives in India and South Asia. He has over 20 years of experience of working...

Anirban Mukherji
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Mr. Dhananjay focuses on executing Surgo Foundation’s existing investments in India, as well as building its investment pipeline and key relati...

Dhananjay V. Rohini
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Mr. Neeraj Trivedi leads the capacity building portfolio of EPoD in India that focuses on building capacities of policymakers and government agencies ...

Neeraj Trivedi
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Ms. Ushnisha Ghosh joined the Lean Data Team as Senior Associate in April 2016 and leads the Impact and Lean Data work in India. A major portion of he...

Ushnisha Ghosh
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Ms. Bijker’s expertise is in leveraging different methods and data sources to design and evaluate health behaviour change interventions in term...

Maaike Bijker
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Mr. Pradeep Narayanan is currently Director, Research and Capacity Building, at Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices, New Delhi. As a research...

Pradeep Narayanan
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Prof. Milindo Chakrabarti, Ph.D., has distinguished teaching and research experience of more than years as a faculty both nationally and international...

Milindo Chakrabarti
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Mr. Rex Joshwa is the Results and Evaluation Adviser for DFID India and Burma. He has a Masters in Social Work from Madras Christian College, Chennai....

Rex Joshwa
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Shri Amarjeet Sinha has over thirty years of experience in the Government, largely in the social sector. He has had the unique distinction of having p...

Amarjeet Sinha
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Before taking up his position with DFID India, Mr. Gavin McGillivray was head of the DFID Office in Burma / Myanmar from 2013 to 2017. He was previo...

Gavin McGillivray
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Mr. Shukla has been working on improving quality of education since 30 years. He has worked in national education programmes for development and imple...

Subir Shukla
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Mr. Paresh Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of DevInsights, a Delhi based research firm. He has led around 50 large-scale studies in his 17 years of ca...

Paresh Kumar
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A development activist who has lived and worked with indigenous people and dalit communities in India, Mr. Sandeep Chachra is currently the Executive ...

Sandeep Chachra
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Mr. Aaditeshwar Seth is the Co-founder of Gram Vaani, a social enterprise that builds innovative community media technologies for poor and marginalize...

Aaditeshwar Seth
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Syed Imran Farooq is a public health professional with expertise in public health solutions and private sector engagement. He has worked largely on Po...

Syed Imran Farooq
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An expert in Governance and public-sector management, Mr. Jaydeep Biswas is currently engaged as Senior Governance Advisor with DFID. He is also highl...

Jaydeep Biswas
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Mr. Osama Manzar is a social entrepreneur, author, columnist, impact speaker, angel investor, mentor, and sits on several government and policy commit...

Osama Manzar
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Ms. Sara Chamberlain is a Tech Laureate and the Head of Information Communication Technology for BBC Media Action in India. She is responsible for dev...

Sara Chamberlain
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Ms. Anushree Banerji is a Project Manager at Dimagi where she works with diverse clients ranging from grassroots organizations to government ministrie...

Anushree Banerji
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Mr. Rajiv Tikoo is Managing Director at OneWorld Foundation India. He is a New Delhi-based editor and development communication professional with more...

Rajiv Tikoo
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Dr Suraj Kumar, Chief Mentor, Neeti Foundation and Co-founder Kronstadt IndUS, has prepared the Sustainable Development Vision & Action Plan for Chhat...

Suraj Kumar
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Mr Vijoy Prakash is a Retired IAS officer who has worked in Bihar since the early 80’s. During the span of his career his work has been spread ...

Mr. Vijoy Praksah
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Dr. Kanika Mahajan is an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University. Her primary research interests include empirical development economics in the field...

Kanika Mahajan
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Mr N N Sinha, a 1987 batch IAS officer, is the Managing Director National Highway Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL). As MD of NH...

N N Sinha
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Dr. Rajat Kathuria is Director and Chief Executive at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. He has work...

Rajat Kathuria
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Mr. Encarnação is a senior innovation executive with over 20 years of experience specializing in new business development through technology and...

Miguel EncarnaçÃ...