IRC 2021
Going Forward | Rural 2025
Bharti Gupta Ramola
Former Markets Leader, PwC India. Independent Director on the boards of HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd., SRF Limited, and Feedback Infrastructure Pvt Ltd. She serves on the Governing Body of Lady Shriram College, the Board of Villgro Innovations Foundation, and the GP Advisory Board of Unitus Impact fund
Sanjiv J Phansalkar
Chairperson - TRIF, Director- VikasAnvesh Foundation, Former Programme Director, Tata Trusts
R. Venkataramanan
Founder and CEO Karkinos Healthcare. Advisor to the Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, former Managing Trustee of the Tata Trusts
Soumitra Pandey
Partner and Head, Mumbai Office, Bridgespan
Mainstreaming Gender
Suneeta Dhar
Independent Gender Advisor,
Former CEO, Jagori
Sarojini Ganju Thakur
Independent Gender Advisor,
Former Additional Secretary, Govt of Himachal
Pradesh
Madhu Krishna
Deputy Director,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Sanjay Srivastava
Professor at Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London and Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
Women Collectives
Anjani Kumar Singh
Senior Program officer,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Samik Sundar Das
Senior Rural Development
Specialist with The World Bank
Nita Kejriwal
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Rural Development
Anjini Kochar
Director of the India
Programme at the Stanford Centre for International Development (SCID)
Productive and Clean Energy
Dhruvi Shah
CEO,
Axis Bank Foundation
Charanjit Singh
Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Rural Development
Harish Hande
Founder, SELCO,
Ramon Magasasay Awardee
Pariphan Uawithya
Director Power & Climate and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, The Rockefeller Foundation
Circularity in Agriculture
Srivalli Krishnan
Senior Program Officer,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Santosh Singh
Director,
Intellecap Advisory
Aparna Bijapurkar
Partner,
Boston Consulting
Group
Baskar S Reddy
Executive Director,
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
Ashok Kumar
Director,
Transforming Rural India Foundation
Melissa Ho
Senior Vice President,
WWF-US
Data and Governance
Deepali Khanna
Vice-President,
Asia Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation
Srijit Mishra
Professor, IGIDR
Swapnil Shekhar
Co-founder, Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Fellow, Development Intelligence Unit
Opportunity for Rural Youth
Madan Padaki
Founder & CEO 1Bridge; Managing Trustee Head Held High Services , Co-Founder GAME, Strategic Advisor, YuWaah, UNICEF India
Alice Gugulev
Managing Director,
Global Development Incubator
Alkesh Wadhwani
Director, Poverty Alleviation,
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Aliva Das
Lead, Employability & Entrepreneurship, TRIF
Alka Upadhyaya
Additional Secretary, MoRD, CEO, DAY-NRLM
Reimaging Universal Health Access
Jayantilal Satia
Senior Adv i sor, Publi c Heal th Foundat ion of India (PHFI)
Neeraj Jain
Country Director,
PATH
Neelima Khetan
Visiting Fellow
Centre for Social and Economic Progress (formerly Brookings India) and Nous Development Advisories
Locality Development Compacts
Zulfiquar Haider
Chief Strategy & Program Officer Azim Premji Foundation
Harsh Singh
Program Advisor, UNDP Director- Markets Solution to Inclusion
Medha Gandhi
Country Lead, Family Planning Policy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Michael Walton
Senior Lecturer, Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School
Communication for Better Society
Lyndee Prickitt
Director,
VillageSquare.in
Shareen Joshi
Associate Professor,
Georgetown University
Navneet Anand
Founder, GreyMatters
Julia Lowe
Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Smarinita Shetty
CEO, India Development Review
Technology for Rural
Srikanth Nadhamuni
CEO, Khosla Labs and Chairperson, Novopay
Hemendra Mathur
Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund
Sunandan Madan
Co-founder, Dhwani Rural Information Systems
Neha Verma
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Intelehealth
Kate Kuo
Program Officer, Digital Farmer Services, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Making of New Ruralscape
N N Sinha
Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development
Hari Menon
Country Director, Gates Foundation
Anurag Behar
CEO, Azim Premji Foundation
Isabel Guerrero
Co Founder, IMAGO Professor at Harvard