Reliance on evidence and facts to make informed policy decisions.
Emphasis on inclusion and regeneration for a brighter future.
These are just a few of the traits that our Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) program will instil in you.
MPP is a residential 2-year multi-disciplinary program that gives you exposure to all aspects of policy - economics, politics, business, law, ethics, communications and technology. Our curriculum design is based on the international pedagogical framework and contextualized specifically to tackle complexities of the Indian market that will accelerate your career in policy making, consulting and evaluation, non-profit or
social enterprises, or government & politics.
Our program’s combination of academic rigour and on-ground experiences will give you the confidence to assume leadership in any career of your choice. Here are some of the popular avenues you can choose after your MPP.
Public service, including policy making and implementation, government roles and politics
Private sector, including business consulting, policy consulting for large corporations, policy analysis, think tanks and private policy implementation organisations
Non-profit or social enterprises
Media & communications, with a focus on public sector topics
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Panel Discussion
“Are we prepared for the third wave?”
July 28, 06:00 PM IST
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Dr. M V Padma Srivastava
Dr. M V Padma Srivastava Professor and Head of the Neurology department, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, is known for pioneering the Acute Stroke Programme (Code-Red) initiative for supporting patients afflicted with epilepsy and stroke. Dr. Srivastava has been recently appointed as director of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS). The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for her contributions to medical science. Prof Padma secured her master’s degree in neurology from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1990 before starting her career with her alma mater. Srivastava served as the national President of the Indian Stroke Association during 2013-14. She is a former member of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) organising committee and a visiting professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of Massachusetts Boston. She also sits in many task forces of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and Biotechnology. She has published over 200 medical papers and articles, contributed chapters to books published by others and has served on the editorial boards of many journals. She is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), where she is also a council member.
Dr. Polly Roy
Dr. Polly Roy is a Professor and Chair of Virology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She received her PhD in Molecular Virology from New York University/Columbia University Medical School and continued to study RNA virology as a 3-year postdoc at the Waksman Institute, Rutgers University. She had a brief stint at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA and the University of Oxford. In 2001, she was associated with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has dedicated a significant part of her career to Bluetongue disease that affects sheep and cattle. Roy’s work has been globally recognised and she has received many awards including the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for service in Virus Research; Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Indian Science Congress General President’s Gold Medal, awarded by the Prime Minister of India.
Attend the Panel Discussion on July 28
Dr. Joyeeta Basu
Dr. Joyeeta Basu is an experienced medical professional skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Clinical Research, Medical Education, Medicine and is an esteemed member of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), American Medical Association (AMA) & Delhi Medical Council. She is the Co-founder & Director of Doctor’s Hub that aims to promote community health and elevate the standards of preventive healthcare. She has graduated from Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi.
B Santhanam
B Santhanam Founder MD of Saint-Gobain Glass India, was instrumental in the Group’s expansion to create a pan-India manufacturing footprint. He is responsible for Flat Glass businesses in Egypt and Malaysia. He is also on the Board of Titan Co. Ltd. and the Indian Institute of Information Tech Design & Manufacturing. He is an elected Member of the National Council of CII since 2006 and was the Chairman of the CII Southern Region (2013-14). He has been a founding champion of the “Indian Women Network” (IWN) as part of the diversity agenda of CII, and is a Founder Director of IIT Madras Research Park. Santhanam obtained his B.Tech in Civil Engineering (1978) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Post-Graduation in Management (1980) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Management Board at Grindwell Norton, a Saint-Gobain Group Company. He has been conferred with the “Champion of Humanity Award” by the Hindustan Chamber of Commerce in 2015.
Dr. Mahesh Balsekar
Dr. Mahesh Balsekar is a senior consultant in paediatrics at SRCC Children’s Hospital and has been a practising paediatrician for over 30 years, specializing in neonatology, preventive paediatrics, and obesity. He is an honorary paediatrician at Breach Candy Hospital and Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital. Dr Balsekar has a particular interest in new-born care and public health. He is a medical advisor to St. Jude’s India – an NGO for childhood cancer patients, and is on the board of ‘Project NEEDS’ – an NGO which assists low-income rural school children. He is especially interested in public health education and has authored a book ‘0 to 2, Baby and You: A Pediatrician’s Handbook of Practical Parenting’. Dr. Mahesh Balsekar has MBBS, MD (Paediatrics) as well as DCH (Paediatrics) degrees. Assessment of critically ill children and handling high-risk neonate textbook high pregnancy are some of his areas of expertise. In addition to his work, Dr Balsekar has several papers to his credit.
Kiran Manral
Kiran Manral is an award-winning author, columnist and mentor. She has been a journalist with The Asian Age, The Times of India & Cosmopolitan, and Consultant Ideas Editor with SheThePeople TV. In 2000, she became a freelance journalist and, from 2005, a blogger creating “Thirty-six and counting” and “Karmickids”. At their height, both were considered to be among the most popular blogs in India. She then turned to writing, publishing ‘The Reluctant Detective’ in 2011. She has also authored ‘Once Upon a Crush’ (Leadstart, 2014), ‘All Aboard’ (Penguin, 2015) & ‘Karmic Kids – The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You’ (Hay House, 2015). She was awarded the Women Achievers Award by the Young Environmentalists Association in 2013. The Indian Council of UN Relations (ICUNR), supported by the Ministry for Women and Child Development, Government of India, awarded her the International Women’s Day Award 2018 for excellence in writing. ‘The Kitty Party Murder’ was shortlisted for Popular Choice Award at the JK Papers Times of India AutHER awards 2021.
Indermit Gill
Advisory Board member, Kautilya; VP for Equitable Growth, World Bank
Indermit Gill is a Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, where he co-edits the blog ‘Future Development’. He is also a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Duke University, where he was Director of the Duke Center for International Development until 2018. Gill worked at the World Bank from 1993 to 2016, where he held several leadership positions, including Director for Development Policy in the Office of the Chief Economist, Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia, Acting Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific, and Staff Director for the 2009 World Development Report on Economic Geography.
Shobana Kamineni
Shobana Kamineni was named Executive Vice-Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals, a pioneer of private healthcare in India, in 2014. A member of the founding family, she has been Director since February 2010. Shobana continues to helm the Apollo Global Projects Consultancy that steers the planning, design and execution of new projects and continues to be a Whole Time Director on the Board of Apollo Munich Health Insurance. She also heads Apollo Pharmacy, India’s largest pharmacy chain with a pan-India network of over 2000 stores. As an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Shobana was elected as Vice-President for 2015. She also serves on the Advisory Council of the National Cadet Corps (NCC). Passionate about cultivating a culture of wellness, Shobana had championed the establishment of ‘Billion Hearts Beating’, an NGO dedicated to educating Indians about preventing heart disease and staying heart-healthy. Shobana holds a B.A. in Economics from Stella Maris College, Chennai and an accelerated degree from Columbia University, New York. An avid sportsperson, she was a national level squash player. Shobana has been a recipient of prestigious national awards for entrepreneurship and leadership.
Dr. Naushad Forbes
Dr. Naushad Forbes is an Indian engineer & businessman. He is Co-Chairman of Forbes Marshall, India’s leading steam engineering and control instrumentation company, and was appointed the President of CII for 2016-17. He is an active votary of energy conservation in industry and has founded the annual Cll Energy Efficiency Summit and Awards for Excellence in Energy Management. He was visiting faculty at Stanford University from 1987 to 2004. He serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of several companies and is currently Chairman of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. He supported the establishment of the Forbes-Marshall Energy Efficiency Centre at IIT-Bombay in 2016. He has several publications to his credit, including Forbes N. and D. Wield, From Followers to Leaders: Managing Technology in Newly Industrializing Countries. He was instrumental in developing courses in Technology and Policy in Newly Industrialized Countries and the Management of Technology in Firms in Newly Industrialized Countries. He has held several positions in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
CK Ranganathan
CK Ranganathan Chairman & Managing Director, CavinKare Pvt. Ltd., one of India’s leading diversified FMCG majors with brands in personal care, foods, dairy, and beverage, has been elected as Deputy Chairman of CII Southern Region for the year 2020-21. CK Ranganathan is an active member of CII. He was the Chairman of CII Tamil Nadu State Council for the year 2009-10. He has also held positions in CII Southern Region since 2009 and was Chairman of Foodpro 2019. Mr Ranganathan is a former President of TiE – Chennai Chapter (2019-21). He is the current Vice President of the All India Management Association. A pioneer of innovation, CK Ranganathan has shaped the company to create innovative products by combining the best of nature and technology to improve the lifestyle of consumers. He was conferred the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Economic Times in 2004. He was also the Winner of the 2018 “ICIS World Surfactants Awards” for an outstanding contribution to the Surfactant Industry globally. CK Ranganathan’s endeavour of philanthropy and giving back to society has also extended to the field of education. Notable among them is the CK School of Practical Knowledge and the CK College of Engineering & Technology, an MBA institute in Cuddalore that provides world-class professional education to people in the rural and coastal regions of Tamil Nadu.
Attend the Panel Discussion on July 3
Abhinav Bindra
Abhinav Bindra is India’s first individual gold medallist at the Olympics in the men’s 10m air rifle event at Beijing 2008, a crowning glory in Abhinav Bindra’s stellar sporting career. Drawing inspiration from shooters on television, Bindra went to the 1998 Commonwealth Games as a 15-year-old and then travelled to the Sydney Olympics in 2000 as the youngest Indian participant. He won bronze at the 2001 Munich World Cup, setting a then-junior record score. He is the first Indian to have held concurrently the world and Olympic titles for the men’s 10-meter air rifle event, having earned those honours at the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships & 2008 Summer Olympics. Bindra has also won nine medals at the Commonwealth Games and three gold medals at the Asian Games. With more than 150 medals in his 22-year career, he has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian honour. He also served as a goodwill ambassador for the Rio 2016 Olympics Indian contingent, having been appointed to that post by the Indian Olympics Association (IOA). On September 5, 2016, he announced his retirement, and in 2018, Bindra was bestowed with the prestigious Blue Cross, the ISSF’s highest honour. He launched the Abhinav Bindra Foundation, an initiative to make athletes stronger and more aware of using sports science and technology. He was part of the International Sport Shooting Federation (ISSF) and International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Athlete Commissions where he has brought participants’ issues to the fore and helped them in their development. He has published his autobiography titled ‘A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold’, and a Bollywood biopic is also currently in the works to showcase the career of the ace shooter on the silver screen.
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M. Sri Bharat
President of GITAM
M. Sri Bharat, President of GITAM (Deemed to be University), holds an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University. He also holds a joint MBA/MA degree from Stanford University. Bharat strongly believes in the need for a world-class public policy school and Kautilya is born out of this belief. With Kautilya, Bharat would like to reinvent public policy in India and beyond, by empowering next generation policy leaders with evidence-based pedagogy and experiential learning.
Prateek Kanwal
Co-Founder, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Prateek Kanwal, Co-Founder of Kautilya School of Public Policy, did his Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) from the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the prestigious World Bank scholarship for his work in the areas of education reform and social innovation. He is currently the Head of Strategic Partnerships at Educate Girls, a non-profit organization with operations in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan. He is also the Founder of Citizens for Public Leadership (www.cplindia.org).
Sridhar Pabbisetty
Founding Director, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Sridhar Pabbisetty, Founding Director of Kautilya School of Public Policy, has been working in public policy and governance over the last decade. Before working on public policy, he has worked in technology, innovation and management consulting for a decade. He has served as the COO, Centre for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore, and as the CEO, Namma Bengaluru Foundation, where he was able to bring in innovation in the delivery of public services and improve urban governance. He has also served as the Advisor to Government of Karnataka’s Sakala Mission and served on various Government appointed committees for Sustainability and Lake Governance.
Indermit Singh Gill
Vice President for Equitable Growth, World Bank & Prof. of Public Policy
Indermit Gill is a Non-resident Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, where he co-edits the blog ‘Future Development’. He is also a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Duke University, where he was Director of the Duke Center for International Development until 2018. Gill worked at the World Bank from 1993 to 2016, where he held several leadership positions, including Director for Development Policy in the Office of the Chief Economist, Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia, Acting Chief Economist for East Asia and the Pacific, and Staff Director for the 2009 World Development Report on Economic Geography.
Attend the Panel Discussion on July 20
Priyanka Chaturvedi
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Priyanka Chaturvedi is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra, and Deputy Leader of Shiv Sena. She has also contributed columns and blogs for various online sites and print editions of leading newspapers and magazines. She is also a regular on television on various issues as a National Spokesperson. She is a member of Parliament Standing Committee – Commerce & Industries, and Consultative Committee for External Affairs.
K Ganesh
K Ganesh is a successful serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits. In 2000, Ganesh started CustomerAsset, a pioneer in BPO/Call centre space, which was later acquired by NYSE-listed ICICI Bank and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. GrowthStory, a venture-builder platform set up by Ganesh and his wife, Meena, has promoted some of India’s most disruptive start-ups, including Portea Medical, Big Basket, Fresh Menu, Home Lane, AcadGild, HouseJoy, Social Frontier and more. Ganesh actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups. His angel investments include LittleEyeLabs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), delyver.com (acquired by BigBasket in 2015), DealShare, Oto Capita, HackerEarth, CredR. Ganesh was the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd. Ganesh is a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University. He was part of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and was founder-director at IIM Calcutta Innovation Park & Incubation cell. He has been recognized as one of the “Iconic Entrepreneurs of India” in a document published by the National Knowledge Commission, Government of India and was a nominee for The Economic Times’ Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in 2015.
Rathin Roy
Managing Director, Research and Policy, ODI
Rathin Roy is Managing Director, Oxford Development Institute (ODI). He was formerly the Director and CEO of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and Former Director IPC-IG, UNDP, Brazil. He has also served as the Public Resource Management Advisor, and the Acting Cluster Leader, Inclusive Development, in the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. On invitation from the Government of India, he also served as the Economic Advisor to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, a Constitutional body of the Government of India.
Radhicka Kapoor
Radhicka Kapoor is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Before joining ICRIER, she worked at the Planning Commission and the International Labour Organization, Geneva. Over the last five years, she has worked extensively on the various facets of India’s labour market, particularly in the informal sector, the impact of technological changes on the world of work, and the measurement of employment and unemployment. She has authored several research papers, reports and articles in leading newspapers on these subjects. Radhicka has co-edited a book, “Towards a Just, Dignified and Secure Future of Work: Lessons from India”. Her broad areas of research interests include poverty and inequality, labour economics and industrial performance. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master’s degree from Cambridge University and a Bachelor’s degree from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Dr. Rathin Roy
Dr. Rathin Roy is ODI’s Managing Director (Research and Policy). His policy interests and research mainly focus on fiscal and macroeconomic issues pertinent to human development in developing and emerging economies. Dr. Roy was formerly the Director and CEO of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) in New Delhi. He has previously worked as an Economic Diplomat and Policy Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with postings in London, New York, Kathmandu and Brasilia. He has also served as an Economic Adviser with the Thirteenth Finance Commission, New Delhi, in the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India. Dr. Roy has written extensively on intergovernmental fiscal issues, fiscal marksmanship, macroeconomic conditionality, and IMF Article-IV policy analyses. He holds a PhD and an M.Phil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MA in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. He has taught at the Universities of Manchester and London.
Rathin Roy
Managing Director, Research and Policy, ODI
Rathin Roy is Managing Director, Oxford Development Institute (ODI). He was formerly the Director and CEO of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and Former Director IPC-IG, UNDP, Brazil. He has also served as the Public Resource Management Advisor, and the Acting Cluster Leader, Inclusive Development, in the Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy (BDP), UNDP. On invitation from the Government of India, he also served as the Economic Advisor to the Thirteenth Finance Commission, a Constitutional body of the Government of India.
Navtej Sarna
Former Indian Ambassador to the US & Israel
Navtej Sarna was India’s Ambassador to the United States till Dec 2018. As a professional diplomat since 1980, Sarna also served as India’s High Commissioner to the UK, Ambassador to the State of Israel and Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs. He has the distinction of being India’s longest serving foreign office spokesperson, having held that post for six years. In the earlier years of his service, he served in various diplomatic posts in Moscow, Poland, Bhutan, Iran, Washington and Geneva. Navtej Sarna is also an established author of fiction and non-fiction. His work includes the novels ‘The Exile’ and ‘We Weren’t Lovers Like That’, the short story collection ‘Winter Evenings’, non-fiction works ‘The Book of Nanak’, ‘Second Thoughts’ and ‘Indians at Herod’s Gate’, as well as two translations, ‘Zafarnama’ and ‘Savage Harvest’. He contributes columns and comments regularly to several Indian newspapers and journals. His reviews and short stories have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, London Magazine and the BBC.
Nidhi Razdan
Visiting Faculty, Kautilya & Former Executive Editor, NDTV
Nidhi Razdan is Senior Journalist and Former Executive Editor, NDTV. She worked with NDTV for nearly 21 years, where she became Executive Editor. She reported extensively on politics and foreign affairs, from places as diverse as Pakistan, POK, Afghanistan, Iran, China, Tibet and Africa. Nidhi anchored NDTV’s prime time flagship news shows “Left, Right and Centre” and “The Big Fight”. She won the International Press Institute (IPI) Award in 2019 and has been a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Journalism Award for her reporting on Jammu and Kashmir. Her first book was published by Penguin in 2017.
Dilip Cherian
Political Campaign Advisor, Communications Consultant
Dilip Cherian is India’s Image Guru, a political campaign advisor and a cutting-edge policy professional. He actively guides political & policy advocacy and understands the Indian bureaucratic system. Dilip is the Co-founder of and Consulting Partner for Perfect Relations, established in the early 1990s. The company advises CEOs on external communications and public policy. It is South Asia’s largest image management consultancy. Dilip also writes a widely syndicated column on bureaucracy called ‘Dilli Ka Babu’.
Steve Jarding
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Steve Jarding is an American and international educator, lecturer, writer, and political consultant who taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of government from 2004 – 2019. While there, he was voted “Teacher of the Year” by students in 2016. In addition, his teaching was recognized as “Exemplary” by Kennedy School alumni, and his course on Campaign Management was twice nominated for the “Most Influential Course” Award. His research focuses on political campaign management and messaging and on a new paradigm of political communication that he developed at Harvard and with thousands of trainees around the world. Over a 40-year career, he has lectured, trained, or consulted in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe and he has been recognized as one of the most successful political campaign managers and consultants in America compiling an impressive list of winning US Senate and gubernatorial races.
Steve Jarding
Former Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Steve Jarding is an American and international educator, lecturer, writer, and political consultant who taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of government from 2004 – 2019. While there, he was voted “Teacher of the Year” by students in 2016. In addition, his teaching was recognized as “Exemplary” by Kennedy School alumni, and his course on Campaign Management was twice nominated for the “Most Influential Course” Award. His research focuses on political campaign management and messaging and on a new paradigm of political communication that he developed at Harvard and with thousands of trainees around the world. Over a 40-year career, he has lectured, trained, or consulted in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe and he has been recognized as one of the most successful political campaign managers and consultants in America compiling an impressive list of winning US Senate and gubernatorial races.
Ram Mohan Naidu
Member of Parliament, 17th Lok Sabha
Ram Mohan Naidu is an Indian politician, and a Member of Parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 & 2019 Indian general elections as a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate. He is also the National General Secretary of the TDP and the Leader of the Party in the Lok Sabha.
Dr. Anjali Mohan
Urban & Regional Planner
Dr. Mohan’s research and professional practice over the last 27 years straddles development, institutional and policy frameworks, urban planning and management, and information and communication technologies and development. She has successfully completed several planning assignments in her individual capacity and as part of multi-disciplinary teams. Dr. Mohan has also designed and delivered several training and capacity building programmes, both for state and non-state actors, primarily focusing on planning, heritage-led planning and attendant (e)Governance arrangements.
Cdr. Ashok V M Kumar (Retd.)
Former Navy Officer, Consultant on Human Trafficking
Cdr. Ashok V M Kumar (Retd.) is Regional Director – Investigation & Law Enforcement Development, at International Justice Mission. He was an Officer commanding ships in the Indian Navy, and later held positions with the Coast Guard, Marine Police Force and Naval Police Investigations. In his work, fighting trafficking crime syndicates, he has been directly involved in the rescue of over 3600 women and children from contemporary forms of slavery. Cdr. Ashok assists and provides training to many organisations, as an expert consultant.
Dr. Ashwin Mahesh
Social Technologist, Urbanist and Entrepreneur
Dr. Ashwin Mahesh is a social technologist, urbanist and entrepreneur based in Bangalore, India. After a 15-year career as a polar climate scientist and astronomer, he switched to social enterprise, focused on urban development and governance. He is Founder & CEO of Mapunity, which builds urban social networking platforms and tools for development initiatives. He is also Co-founder of Lithium, which launched the first fleet of electric cars in India. He is Co-founder and Editor of the national public affairs magazine, India Together. He has been an advisor to many initiatives of state & national governments in India. He was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs in 2009.
David Sunder Singh
Advocate & Human Rights Lawyer
David Sunder Singh is practising since 2002. After his LL.B., he did his M.A in Human Rights, Duties & Education, and an LL.M. in Labour and Administrative Law. He has been involved in the rescue of bonded labourers and has pursued PILs to secure rights for vulnerable persons. He writes on related issues and is a trainer with various State bodies.
Glenn Kramon
Lecturer in Management, Stanford School of Business
Glenn Kramon has been an editor for The New York Times for more than a quarter-century. Reporters whom he has supervised and edited have won 10 Pulitzer Prizes, and have been finalists for the Pulitzer 25 times. His projects have included series about the overlooked problem of concussions among young athletes; the dangers of distracted driving; the safety and environmental hazards of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks; cheating on taxes, and loopholes and inequities in the tax code; medical treatments used despite a lack of evidence that they work; the myths and truths about genetically modified foods; the ways the United States is and is not moving toward a more secure energy future, and environmental devastation in China. He also introduced a system to ensure that Times editors become good managers, and authored a handbook on running the newsroom. Earlier he served as business editor of The Times, and wrote about the business of health care and health insurance.
Glenn Kramon
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Glenn Kramon has been an editor for The New York Times for more than a quarter-century. Reporters whom he has supervised and edited have won 10 Pulitzer Prizes, and have been finalists for the Pulitzer 25 times. His projects have included series about the overlooked problem of concussions among young athletes; the dangers of distracted driving; the safety and environmental hazards of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks; cheating on taxes, and loopholes and inequities in the tax code; medical treatments used despite a lack of evidence that they work; the myths and truths about genetically modified foods; the ways the United States is and is not moving toward a more secure energy future, and environmental devastation in China. He also introduced a system to ensure that Times editors become good managers, and authored a handbook on running the newsroom. Earlier he served as business editor of The Times, and wrote about the business of health care and health insurance.
Jayanth Gudimella
Finance Professional & Strategy Consultant
Jayanth is a finance professional with over 18 years of diverse experience across global corporations (JP Morgan, CRISIL-S&P Global, SBI Capital Markets) in the areas of financial analysis, credit rating, IPO management and structured finance. Currently, he is based out of Hong Kong and runs his own consultancy firm engaged in financial advisory, business strategy and fund raising. He helps start-up companies and medium size enterprises in devising their strategy roadmap and helps them raise capital. Jayanth is deeply passionate about education reforms and teaching. He is engaged with many educational institutes and helps them in designing academic processes and operational strategy.
Dr. Jayanthi Ranjan
Director, Hyderabad Business School
Dr. Ranjan is currently Director of GITAM University’s Hyderabad Business School. She has over 26 years of teaching, research, consulting & training experience. She is a certified Design Thinking evangelist and also consults companies on Big Data Analytics. In her academic career, Dr. Ranjan has built departments, modules, programs, and schools. She is a published author and contributor to global publications. She has co-created innovative teams, and has travelled the world for joint teachings, international collaborations, research project funding-related discussions, international exchanges, MoU partnerships, co-branding partnership talks, and conference paper presentations.
Madhuri Xalxo
Advocate & Human Rights Lawyer
Madhuri Xalxo has been serving with International Justice Mission (IJM) towards strengthening the implementation of laws and policies on the issue of bonded labour and labour trafficking. Prior to joining IJM, Ms. Xalxo practiced in Sessions Court of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. She has also had a brief teaching stint at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and National Law University Odisha, Cuttack, respectively.
Piyush Tewari
Founder & CEO, SaveLIFE Foundation
Piyush Tewari is the Founder and CEO of SaveLIFE Foundation, a non-profit organisation best known for getting India a Good Samaritan Law, and for developing an award-winning model for reducing fatalities on Indian highways. Piyush serves on the Boards of Directors of Change.org, YKA Media, and Avanti Fellows. Piyush is a recipient of the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise, and in 2019, was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He has been featured by The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time Magazine, among others. In 2016, he was recognised by GQ as one of the Most Influential Young Indians. Prior to founding SLF, Piyush served as the Managing Director of the Calibrated Group, a US-based private equity fund. Previously, Piyush was as a Program Manager at the India Brand Equity Fund, an initiative of the Prime Minister of India.
Dr. R Balasubramaniam
Development Scholar, Author & Public Policy Advocate
Dr. Ramaswami Balasubramaniam (Balu) is a development scholar, author, public policy advocate, leadership trainer and activist. After spending 26 years in development work among rural and tribal people, he pursued academic degrees in leadership, organisational development, and public policy. His books ‘Voices from the Grassroots’ and ‘I, the Citizen’ are a compilation of narratives and reflections of a development activist and are now globally acclaimed. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM), a public policy think tank. Inspired by the message of Swami Vivekananda, he sees his life’s mission as building a resurgent India by inspiring leadership in the youth of the country.
Siddharth Raja
Seasoned Corporate Lawyer
Siddharth is a Founder Partner at full-service law firm, Saakshya Law. A seasoned corporate lawyer, Siddharth focuses on private equity and venture capital transactions; and on cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions. Siddharth has served as an elected Governor on the Board of the Bangalore International Centre (BIC). He was also a member of the Karnataka Government’s Bangalore Tourism Advisory Committee. Siddharth is also a trained and certified professional mediator. Siddharth serves as an Independent Director on several Boards, including Direct Dialogue Initiatives, Nasmyth India, and Namma Ooru Parampare.
Dr. Ali Adil
Founding Assistant Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Dr. Adil’s research and experience span across public, private, and non-governmental domains and interdisciplinary subject areas focused on transactional spaces at the nexus of energy studies and social sciences. He has previously worked with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Adopting a socially constructive approach, Dr. Adil conceives teaching as an excursion in creating new imaginaries, incorporating existing knowledge of our world with creativity and intellectual novelty that students carry into the classrooms.
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M. Sri Bharat
President of GITAM (Deemed to be University)
M. Sri Bharat, President of GITAM (Deemed to be University), holds an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University. He also holds a joint MBA/MA degree from Stanford University. Bharat strongly believes in the need for a world-class public policy school and Kautilya is born out of this belief. With Kautilya, Bharat would like to reinvent public policy in India and beyond, by empowering next generation policy leaders with evidence-based pedagogy and experiential learning.
Catherine Stace
Career Strategist, Max Bell School of Public Policy, McGill University, Canada
Catherine Stace is a Career Strategist that heads Career Services at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, in Montreal, Canada. Driven by the belief that youth should have access to high quality career development and experimental learning opportunities, Catherine sits on the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers’ national board, heads the Canadian Public Policy Careers Community of Practice, and sits on numerous regional youth employment committees. Catherine has chaired several national and regional conferences and symposiums; most recently, she Co-Chaired a virtual national conference ‘Engaging Post-Secondary Talent: Strategies for Today and Tomorrow’. Catherine is a recipient of the McGill University Principal’s Award, and the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers’ Award of Merit.
Ram Mohan Naidu
Member of Parliament, 17th Lok Sabha
Ram Mohan Naidu is an Indian politician, and a Member of Parliament to the 17th Lok Sabha from Srikakulam (Lok Sabha constituency), Andhra Pradesh. He won the 2014 & 2019 Indian general elections as a Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate. He is also the National General Secretary of the TDP and the Leader of the Party in the Lok Sabha.
Dr. Mukul Saxena
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Dr. Mukul Saxena is a soldier and a scholar. An alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune, he served in the Indian Army for more than two decades before taking premature retirement in 2017. Alongside his military career, he has an equally strong academic and public policy profile. A PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, he is a Master’s in Public Administration, Harvard University, USA. He is also an LLM in International Human Rights Law, University of Essex, UK, a Draper Hills Democracy Fellow, Stanford University, a Chevening Gurukul Fellow for Leadership and Excellence, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom). He has strong interdisciplinary experience with a cross section of law and policy in specialized areas of international human rights law, the law of armed conflict, international law of peacekeeping, human rights and development, national security laws, child rights and refugee law.
Attend the Webinar on Mar 23.
Attend the Info Session on Apr 7.
Nidhi Razdan
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Nidhi Razdan (Moderator) is an award-winning journalist, author and the former Executive Editor of NDTV. She has carved out a niche for herself in the television and media industry, with a career spanning 22 years and has been felicitated with the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the International Press Institute Award, among others. Nidhi has reported extensively on national politics and foreign policy from an expansive geographic terrain including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, China, POK, Tibet & Africa. Currently, she is engaged as Director – Strategic Programmes and Outreach at GITAM University.
Priyanka Chaturvedi
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Priyanka Chaturvedi is a Member of Parliament from the Shiv Sena. She started her political career in 2010 and served as the National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress. She has been a columnist for Tehelka, Daily News and Analysis, and Firstpost. Her philanthropic efforts include work in the space of child education and women’s empowerment. In 2015, she was nominated for and participated in the Observer Research Foundation and Zeit Stiftung’s programme, Asian Forum on Global Governance.
Jagdeep Chhokar
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Jagdeep Chhokar is the founding member of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), which has been working to improve democracy and governance in India since 1999. He is the founding Chairman of the Aajeevika Bureau, a group that works on migrant labour. He was formerly the Professor, Dean, and Director-in-Charge of, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. With a PhD from Louisiana State University (USA), he has over 25 years of experience as an academician and has taught globally at Universities in Australia, France, Japan and the US.
S Y Quraishi
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
S Y Quraishi is the former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India and the author of the recently launched book, ‘The Population Myth’. During his electoral term between 2006-12, he introduced several innovative electoral reforms, founded the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management to professionalise election management, and shared it with the emerging democracies of the world. As a promoter of youth development, he has contributed to several youth-centric missions and has made special contributions to policy and program development in the health, women and child development sectors.
Lalitha Kumaramangalam
Founding Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy
Lalitha Kumaramangalam is an Indian politician, who is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and former chairperson of the National Commission for Women. She has extensive experience in working towards the empowerment and advancement of women from the vulnerable and underprivileged sections of society. She has worked on a range of issues such as healthcare and HIV/AIDS prevention, the LGBT community, migrant and urban slum women. Ms Kumaramangalam holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Madras University and also runs an NGO, Prakriti
Attend the Panel Discussion on Apr 14.
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Amitabh Mattoo
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Amitabh Mattoo is Professor of International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Melbourne. A former Vice Chancellor, he has a Doctorate from the University of Oxford and he has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford & Notre Dame. He has been a member of the National Knowledge Commission & the National Security Council’s Advisory Board. He is the President of Indian Association of International Studies, serves on the Board of PixStory and the Australia India Institute, and was Chair of the Board of Miranda House. Amitabh Mattoo chairs the Australia-India Leadership Dialogue, and founded and chaired the Chaophraya Dialogue. He has been awarded the Padma Shri for his contribution to education & public life.
Navtej Sarna
Former Indian Ambassador
to the US and Israel
Navtej Sarna is a former Indian diplomat as well as an author and columnist. Ambassador Sarna’s last diplomatic appointment was as India’s Ambassador to the United States during 2016-18 when he guided India’s engagement with the US during the first two years of the Trump Administration. Sarna earlier served as India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom at the time of the Brexit referendum. From 2008 to 2012, Sarna was India’s Ambassador to Israel and contributed significantly to the maturing of this critical relationship. Earlier in his career, Sarna served in various bilateral and multilateral diplomatic capacities in the Soviet Union, Poland, Bhutan, Geneva, Iran, and Washington DC.
Suhasini Haidar
Journalist & Diplomatic
Affairs Editor, The Hindu
Suhasini Haidar is the Diplomatic Editor of The Hindu, prior to which, Suhasini was Foreign Affairs editor and prime time anchor for CNN-IBN (2005-2014), where she presented the signature show ‘WorldView with Suhasini Haidar’. In 2015, she was the recipient of the most prestigious Indian print journalism award, ‘Prem Bhatia Award’. She has won a series of awards for her work in television as well. Through her 26-year reporting career, she has covered the foreign affairs beat for over a decade, and captured the most challenging stories & conflicts from the most diverse regions, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Libya, Lebanon and Syria.
Attend the Panel Discussion on Apr 29.
Dr. Jaya Prakash Narayana
Journalist & Diplomatic
Affairs Editor, The Hindu
Dr. Jaya Prakash Narayana is a former Indian public administrator and a columnist. He is the Founder of the Lok Satta Party and is General Secretary of Foundation for Democratic Reforms (NGO), an independent public policy think tank and research-resource centre that works towards areas such as political and electoral reforms, good governance, and judicial reforms. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, and has been awarded Rotary Manav Seva Award 2002 and Bharat Asmita Jana Jagran Shreshta, in the area of public awakening.
Himanshu Jha
Former Indian Ambassador
to the US and Israel
Himanshu Jha teaches in the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. Himanshu has recently published a book titled ‘Capturing Institutional Change: the Case of the Right to Information Act in India’ (Oxford University Press). Himanshu has published widely in academic journals, edited books and contributed his views in popular media. Prior to his academic engagement, he worked in the developmental sector in India where he focused on blending academic, socially-relevant and action-based research with active advocacy at various policy levels.
Anjali Bhardwaj
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Anjali Bhardwaj is a social activist working on issues of transparency and accountability. She is a co-convenor of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) and a founding member of Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) that works to build a vigilant citizenry based on the right to information. Anjali was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs in 2009 for using the RTI Act to ensure transparency, accountability and responsiveness in the functioning of elected representatives. She was presented the Honour Roll of Lady Shri Ram College in 2011 for promoting transparency and accountability in governance and has been recently awarded by the US Government’s newly-instituted International Anti-Corruption Champions Award.
Moshik Temkin
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Moshik Temkin, associate professor of history and public policy, joined the Harvard Kennedy School faculty in 2009. Previously he taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of the modern United States in global and comparative perspective, with a focus on the connections between history and public policy, he is particularly interested in the interaction between Americans and non-Americans, the effects that American politics have had on the wider world, the roles that international politics have played in American society and policymaking in the United States, and the dynamics created when American and international politics come into contact, or conflict.
He is the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (Yale University Press, 2011).
At the Harvard Kennedy School, he convenes the Harvard Seminar on History and Policy and is the co-founder and co-director of the Harvard Initiative on History and Public Policy.
Attend the Panel Discussion on May 4.
Dr. Pradeep Gupta
psephologist and CMD of Axis My India
Pradeep Gupta is a first-generation entrepreneur and founder with over 27 years of experience, and a career that extends across the media industry and market research. A Harvard-educated learning enthusiast, Pradeep Gupta is a renowned psephologist and the Chairman and Managing Director of Axis My India, leading market research and media house. Well-versed in the art of decoding probability and odds with spot-on accuracy, Mr Gupta has successively predicted electoral victories and defeats with unerring precision. Predicting election outcomes since 2013, Pradeep Gupta has an enviable scorecard of successfully predicting 48 of 52 exit polls. Pradeep Gupta, through his venture, has transformed how exit polls are perceived in the country, through a pioneering technique that allows for granular analysis of every seat polled for.
Dr. Rommel Tickoo
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
During his medical tenure spanning 22 years, Dr. Rommel Tickoo has worked with esteemed hospitals of Delhi like Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. He did his M.D. in Internal Medicine and M.B.B.S degree. He was part of the elected panel of eminent medical experts by the Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare set up in 2009 to formulate guidelines against the spread of Influenza A – H1N1 virus (Swine Flu) in New Delhi. He was also a panel doctor for Immigration Health Check – Australia, New Zealand and the U.K., and has a robust media presence.
Dr. Vishal Rao
Prof International Relations,
JNU & Melbourne
Dr. Vishal Rao is presently the Dean at HealthCare Global (HCG) Cancer Centre, Bangalore. He is a TEDx speaker and inventor of the Aum Voice Prosthesis, a $1 speaking device for throat cancer patients – an innovation that has been considered among the 100 global social innovations across the globe. He is a member of the consultative group to Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India. He is the recipient of the Judy Wilkenfeld Award for Global Excellence in Tobacco Control 2017. He is an international advisor to World Health Organisation Tobacco Free Initiatives (Bloomberg) partners, in collaboration with state and Union government to implement the WHO FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco Control) through the National Tobacco Control Program. He has been a visiting faculty to John Hopkins University leadership programs.
Attend the Book Talk on May 17.
Moshik Temkin
Fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and Intl. Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Moshik Temkin, associate professor of history and public policy, joined the Harvard Kennedy School faculty in 2009. Previously he taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at Columbia University. A specialist in the history of the modern United States in global and comparative perspective, with a focus on the connections between history and public policy, he is particularly interested in the interaction between Americans and non-Americans, the effects that American politics have had on the wider world, the roles that international politics have played in American society and policymaking in the United States, and the dynamics created when American and international politics come into contact, or conflict.
He is the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial (Yale University Press, 2011).
At the Harvard Kennedy School, he convenes the Harvard Seminar on History and Policy and is the co-founder and co-director of the Harvard Initiative on History and Public Policy.
Dr. Menaka Guruswamy
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Dr. Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court. Through her constitutional litigation practice, she has successfully sought reform of the bureaucracy in the country through fixed tenure, defended central government legislation that mandates that all private schools admit disadvantaged children, and overturned Section 377 of the IPC that criminalised same-sex relations.
In her private law practice, she also litigates in the areas of commercial law and white collar crime. Her criminal law defence practice includes cases like Augusta Westland and 2G Spectrum. In her commercial practice, she has represented large multinationals and public sector companies.
Dr. Guruswamy has a Doctorate in Law (D.Phil) from Oxford University, a Masters in Law (LL.M) from Harvard Law School and a basic law degree from the National Law School of India, Bangalore. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and a Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law. She has been visiting faculty at Yale Law School, New York University School of Law and University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She was the B.R Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, New York from 2017-2019.
She was on Foreign Policy magazine’s list of 100 most influential Global Thinkers for 2019 and with Arundhati Katju on Times Magazine’s 2019 list of 100 most influential people for their work on the decriminalisation of homosexuality. She has been published in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the American Journal of International Law, and the Indian Express.
Attend the Info Session on May 24.
Bharati Chaturvedi
Bharati Chaturvedi is an environmentalist, writer and Founder & Director at Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, an internationally awarded non-profit that focuses on issues of urban poverty, consumption, and sustainable livelihoods for those working in the informal sector. Most recently, she was a part of the Expert Committee on Plastic Waste, set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and helped finalise the rules for plastic waste handling. She was also a part of the task force for social security for the informal sector, set up by the Ministry of Labour and Employment. In September 2014, Bharati was awarded the Women Grassroots Entrepreneur of the Decade, and in 2012 she was awarded the US Secretary of State’s Award for Innovation for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. She is the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Johns Hopkins Alumni “Knowledge for the World Award”. She has previously received the LEAD fellowship and is a fellow at the Synergos Institute, New York. Bharati is a columnist and is on various government committees for policy making.
Dia Mirza
Dia Mirza is an award-winning actor, producer, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals. As a champion of nature, Dia Mirza dons many hats. Mirza, who had won the title of Miss Asia Pacific International in 2000, today, has become the voice of environmental and wildlife conservation in the country. Among several UNEP campaigns and initiatives, her key contributions include the Circular Fashion campaign and #BeatPlasticPollution that helped in highlighting the issue at the highest levels and led to a clarion call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India Single-Use Plastics free by 2022. Dia is the Eco-Ambassador for Panasonic and is on the board of the Coca-Cola Foundation that works towards rural development. She won the Green Award at IIFA 2012 for spreading awareness about environment-related issues.
Arun Krishnamurthy
Arun Krishnamurthy is an environmental activist who initiated the campaign of cleaning various lakes across India and is the founder of the international non-profit, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) that takes the water conservation movement forward. Arun was previously working at Google before quitting the job to dedicate himself to this cause. He, along with the organisation, have successfully restored nearly 141 water bodies across 15 States. He is now involved in beach clean-ups through EFI’s Samudhra project. He was chosen among the five people for the prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2012, for scientific lake restoration in Chennai and was the youngest to win the award. Among many others, he received the Jane Goodall Institute Global Youth Leadership Award in 2010, Google Alumni Impact Award in 2011 and was named by CNN as one of the Environmental Heroes to inspire in 2021.
Licypriya Kangujam
Licypriya Kangujam is a nine-year-old climate advocate. She founded The Child Movement to campaign for a nationwide law to curb India’s high pollution levels and to make climate-change literacy mandatory in schools. Kangujam began raising her voice to combat climate change and disaster risk reduction when she was barely six years old. She is one of the youngest climate activists globally and has addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2019 (COP25) in Madrid, Spain asking them to take immediate climate action. Licypriya has received the World Children Peace Prize 2019; she was honoured with the title ‘Rising Star’ by the Earth Day Network and the SDGs Ambassador Award 2019 at Chandigarh University by Dainik Bhaskar in collaboration with NITI Aayog. She has been a TEDx speaker over six times and addressed the TEDxSBSC held at the University of Delhi and TEDxGateway held in Mumbai.
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 5
Syed Akbaruddin
Retired IFS officer, Fmr. Permanent Rep. of India to the UN
Syed Akbaruddin joined the Kautilya School of Public Policy on 1 June, 2021, following a distinguished diplomatic career spanning more than three decades.
Entering the Indian Foreign Service in 1985, he retired in April 2020, upon completion of his tenure as the Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. He was the Official Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs from 2012 to 2015.
He is among the few Indian diplomats who has the distinction of also serving as an international civil-servant in a United Nations entity. From 2006 to 2011, he worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. He was the Head of the External Relations and Policy Coordination Unit and later also the Special Assistant to the Director-General of the IAEA. He has also served as the Consul General of India, Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2004.
Having served as Counsellor at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad (1998-2000) he is well versed in key issues between India & Pakistan. Also, he has worked at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations as First Secretary (1995-98). He was a member of the UN’s apex body, the Advisory Committee on Administrative & Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) during 1997-98.
Since his retirement he has written and spoken extensively on global public policy issues. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Australian National University.
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 5
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
Founding Professor,
Kautilya School of Public Policy
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza is Founder of Mantraya; Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College, Goa; Board Director at Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo; Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.; Member, Board of International Studies, Goa University; Research Fellow at WeltTrends-Institut für internationale Politik, Potsdam; International Advisor for Nordic Counter Terrorism Network, Helsinki; Editorial board member of Small Wars & Insurgencies (UK) and Adviser for Independent Conflict Research and Analysis, London.
As Adviser, Independent Directorate of Local Governance, Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; International Election Observer for audit of Afghanistan’s Presidential Runoff elections in 2014; Senior Transition Consultant, United Nations Mine Action Service and External Reviewer for Action Aid International, she has worked for more than a decade in various provinces of Afghanistan.
Dr D’Souza has previously been Visiting Research Associate at the School of Business & Governance, Murdoch University, Perth; Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore; Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses, New Delhi; Fulbright Fellow at The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. She has an Executive Education from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, Washington, D.C.
Dr D’Souza’s research interests and expertise include: Post conflict stabilization of Afghanistan; Countering terrorism; Women, peace and conflict resolution; India’s foreign, maritime and security policy. She has conducted field research in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Africa, Jammu & Kashmir and India’s North East.
She has contributed chapters to edited books, international peer reviewed journals, encyclopedias, and media including The Wall Street Journal, The Strait Times (Singapore) and others. Among her most recent published work are edited books titled Countering Insurgencies and Violent Extremism in South and South East Asia (UK: Routledge), Afghanistan in Transition: Beyond 2014?, co-edited books, Perspectives on South Asian Security and Saving Afghanistan.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist who is currently a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC. He was formerly a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International and Founder & Executive Director of Toxin Alert, the first geo-social network and public alert system for drinking water toxic contamination. In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic risk of COVID-19. He focuses his efforts on analyzing COVID-19 trends, stopping COVID-19 misinformation, advocating for public health, and improving health policy. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet. A Google Tech Talk keynote speaker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, he has worked with the World Health Organization and European Commission. He was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Young Leader Award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award from Harvard College.
K Sujatha Rao
K Sujatha Rao is an exemplary leader in public health, and has served the Indian government in several capacities, from serving as the secretary of family welfare in the State of Andhra Pradesh to working her way up as director, joint secretary, and finally as the Union secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for the Government of India. While in her position as Union secretary, Ms. Rao launched the country’s first-ever national program for non-communicable diseases and has worked as the Director General of the National AIDS Control Organization in India. Ms. Rao has represented India on boards of the WHO, the Global Fund, and UNAID. Ms. Rao is also a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 11
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 11
Yamini Aiyar
Yamini Aiyar is President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, a public policy research think tank. Previously, a senior research fellow and founder of the Accountability Initiative, Yamini is credited with pioneering one of India’s most extensive expenditure tracking surveys for elementary education. Yamini’s work focuses on action research aimed at strengthening mechanisms for citizen’s engagement in local government. She was a member of the decentralization team at the World Bank that provided policy support to strengthen Panchayati Raj in India. She has published widely in academic publications and the popular press and writes regularly on current affairs and policy matters in mainstream Indian newspapers. Yamini is an alumna of the London School of Economics, St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University, and St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
Shaheen Mistri
Shaheen Mistri is an Indian social activist and educator. She is the founder of Akanksha Foundation, an Indian non-profit educational initiative. She is also the CEO of Teach for India, aiming to provide education to all children across India by building a pipeline of leaders committed to ending educational inequity. Shaheen has also created projects like the Maya Musical, the Kid’s Education Revolution. She has designed platforms for student voice and partnership and TFIx, a year-long incubator program for passionate entrepreneurs who are willing to adapt Teach for India’s model to their context and region in rural areas. Shaheen has been an Ashoka Fellow, a Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, and an Asia Society 21 Leader. She is the author of Redrawing India and Miss Muglee Children’s Books and has pursued education from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and the University of Manchester.
Raghav Chadha
Raghav Chadha is a chartered accountant and the youngest spokesperson and member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Delhi Jal Board and MLA from the Rajendra Nagar assembly constituency in Delhi. In his early career, he has worked with accountancy firms, including Deloitte and Grant Thornton. He found his calling to join the Anna movement when India Against Corruption began to take its course in India. When AAP won the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election with a thumping majority, Chadha, at the age of 26, was appointed as AAP’s national treasurer. He pursued Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and pursued higher studies from the London School of Economics. He is also a state-level badminton player.
Prateek Kanwal
Prateek Kanwal did his Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. He was awarded the prestigious World Bank Scholarship for his work in education reform and social innovation. He is currently the Project Director, Ekatrit at Educate Girls, and the Founder of Citizens for Public Leadership. Prateek has worked with the erstwhile Planning Commission on the Aadhar (UIDAI) project. He published a working paper on linking the Aadhaar card to student scholarships. Prateek had started his career as an analyst with CRISIL ratings and briefly was part of Teach For India. Overall, Prateek has over 11 years of experience in the development sector and public policy. He is deeply passionate about education reforms, social innovation, entrepreneurship, politics, and sports.
Attend the info session on June 26
Syed Akbaruddin
Dean, Kautilya; Former Permanent Representative of India to the UN
Syed Akbaruddin joined Kautilya following a distinguished diplomatic career spanning more than three decades. Entering the Indian Foreign Service in 1985, he retired in April 2020, upon completion of his tenure as Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations. He was also the Official Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of External Affairs from 2012 to 2015. He is among the few Indian diplomats who have the distinction of also serving as an international civil servant in a United Nations entity. From 2006 to 2011, he worked at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna. He was the Head of the External Relations and Policy Coordination Unit and Special Assistant to the Director-General of the IAEA. He has also served as the Consul General of India, Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, from 2000 to 2004. Having served as Counsellor at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad (1998-2000), he is well versed in critical issues between India & Pakistan. Also, he has worked at the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations as First Secretary (1995-98). He was a member of the UN’s apex body, the Advisory Committee on Administrative & Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), during 1997-98.
Manika Raikwar
CMO, GITAM; Former Managing Editor, NDTV
Manika Raikwar graduated from Miranda House and did her Master’s from the Mass Communication Research Centre at the Jamia Millia University in Delhi. At NDTV, she was responsible for gathering news inputs from across the country and ensuring what goes on air is accurate, fast, and credible. She joined NDTV in 1996 after a stint with Newstrack, India’s first video magazine, as a researcher & reporter. In her 24 years as a journalist, Manika has donned many hats – reporter, anchor, editor. She has anchored the 8 pm news, covered a wide array of issues from the Gujarat Earthquake to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, and has also interviewed many national and global icons from Yuval Noah Harari to Vishwanathan Anand and Roald Dahl.
Amitabh Mattoo
Prof. of Disarmament Studies at JNU; Prof. of Intl. Relations at University of Melbourne
Professor Amitabh Mattoo is presently Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne. He co-chairs the Australia India Leadership Dialogue and was the Foundation Director of the Australia Institute and serves on its Board. He was till recently Chairman of Miranda House, the top ranking college in India and was an Advisor with Cabinet Rank to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He was awarded the Padma Shri for his contribution to Education and Public Life in 2008.
Prof Mattoo was a Commissioner of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well-being. Professor Mattoo has been a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India and the National Security Council’s Advisory Board. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Governing Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and Chaired the Jammu and Kashmir State Knowledge Initiative; and is the current President of the Indian Association of International Studies.
From 2002-2008, Professor Mattoo was the Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and he has been a visiting Professor at Stanford University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 17
Deepika Sharma
Deepika Sharma is an educationalist with over 27 years of experience in the industry. Ms. Sharma is renowned for her strong leadership skills. Before joining Grand Columbus International School, she headed some of the best institutions like DPS Aravali International School and others. Ms. Sharma started her career at DPS Mathura Road as a teacher and worked in the aviation and hospitality industry for some time. She has graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.
Raghavendra Yadav
Raghavendra Yadav is a Grade 11 Student from Mumbai. His father is a delivery exec – he comes from a poverty struck locality in Mumbai. He’s been a Teach For India Student for over 7 years. He’s secured admission in the esteemed UWC College, Canada and is all set to pursue his dream. Despite coming from an under-resourced community, he’s always aspired for excellence. He’s a young entrepreneur and works closely with other children in his community to build student leadership.
Attend the Panel Discussion on June 29
Shalini Bakliwal
Shalini Bakliwal is an entrepreneur & mother of two. She is a graduate from Lady Shriram College (Delhi Univ.) and post-graduate in developmental therapy for the neurologically impaired. She has worked with children and adults with disabilities at The Spastics Society of Northern India as the Head of the Job Development department for 10 years. Subsequently, she worked with the Vasant Valley School and also with the Shri Ram School as the Head of the Special Needs department. As an entrepreneur, she started two ventures in 2012 and 2021.
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M. V. Rajeev Gowda
Former Member of Parliament; Chairman, Congress Research Department
Rajeev Gowda is an Indian politician and academician. He represented Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha from 2014-20. He is Chairman of the Indian National Congress party’s Research Department and one of its national spokespersons. He has served as Professor of Economics and Social Sciences and Chairperson of the Centre for Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has been Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was a Director of the Central Board, Reserve Bank of India from 2011-14. He co-founded the Resurgent India Trust, MentorTogether and the Karnataka Quiz Association.
Anil Swarup
Author, Retired IAS Officer
Anil Swarup is an Indian author and retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the 1981 batch of Uttar Pradesh cadre. Mr. Swarup, in his 38-year career, has served in various capacities, and later went on to become the Secretary to the Government of India. A successful bureaucrat, Anil Swarup, is known to believe in getting things done, despite the challenges.
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Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist and health economist who is currently a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC. He was formerly a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International and Founder & Executive Director of Toxin Alert, the first geo-social network and public alert system for drinking water toxic contamination. In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic risk of COVID-19. He focuses his efforts on analyzing COVID-19 trends, stopping COVID-19 misinformation, advocating for public health, and improving health policy. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet. A Google Tech Talk keynote speaker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, he has worked with the World Health Organization and European Commission. He was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Young Leader Award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Derek Bok Distinction in Teaching Award from Harvard College.
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Faye D’ Souza
Award-winning journalist
Faye D’Souza is an award-winning journalist, who has changed the way news is covered on Indian Television by focusing the audience’s attention on the issues that matter to the citizens rather than those that fuel the emotions of partisan debates. Faye’s calm, researched style of hosting news shows prioritizes information over opinion. Her focus on accountability of government, responsible taxation, safety of women and children, education, health and urban development has also resulted in several policy changes that have proven that a journalist can still bring about improvements in the status quo.
Faye is the journalist of the millennials – young, fresh and brutally honest. Faye was the youngest woman journalist in India to have led a national news channel as its Executive Editor. Post her exit from television, Faye has begun her entrepreneurial journey and will soon launch her own digital news platform — targeted at the young, urban Indian audience.
