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Pratap Bhanu Mehta, the previous President of the Centre for Policy Research, is a political scientist who has taught at Harvard University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the New York University School of Law. His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy and international affairs. Dr Mehta has served on many central government committees, including India’s National Security Advisory Board, The Prime Minister of India’s National Knowledge Commission and a Supreme Court...
A regular commentator and columnist on the economy, Swaminathan Aiyar has been called "India's leading economic journalist" by Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution. He is currently Consulting Editor of The Economics Times and a research scholar at The Cato Institute. He has been editor of two of India's biggest economic dailies, Financial Express in 1988-90 and The Economic Times in 1992-94. For two decades, he was also the India Correspondent of The Economist, the British weekly. He has been...
Abhishek Bachchan is a Indian film megastar, producer and youth style icon. He has received over 47 awards since his career began in 2000, including three Filmfare awards, six Screen Awards, five IIFA awards, and four Stardust Awards for acting. He also won a National Award as producer for ‘Paa’. In 2006 he received the "Yash Bharati Samman", from the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the state's highest award. Bachchan made his acting debut in the drama film ‘Refugee’ (2000). He became...
Pranav Mistry is a renowned scientist and inventor. Mistry’s contribution to the fields such as Wearable Computing, Augmented Reality and Gestural Computing puts him in the elite list of pioneers and inventors that shape the future of digital world. For his contribution to the advancement of digital computing technologies, Mistry has been honored by many prestigious international awards. He was awarded the 2009 ‘Inventor of the Year’ Award by Popular Science. He was also named to the MIT TR35 as one...
Chetan Bhagat is a renowned Indian youth icon, author, screenwriter, and columnist. Time magazine named him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World 2010”, Fast company as one of the “100 most Creative People in Business 2011”, Forbes India as one of the “Top 100 Celebrities of India 2012”, and India Today included him in the “Power List 2013”. Bhagat is the author of five bestselling novels, ‘Five Point Someone’ (2004), ‘One Night @ the Call Center’...
Shobha Rajadhyaksha, also known as Shobhaa De is one of India’s most popular writers. She is a bestselling novelist, a columnist, scriptwriter, socialite and former model. De is considered to be one of the most influential voices in India, she was on the 2010 Readers’ Digest List, “India’s Most Trusted People”, and the 2010 list of "50 Most Powerful Women in India” published by the DNA Newspaper. She was also featured on the 2010 list of "India’s 50 Most Beautiful",...
In August 2011 Kasper Holten was appointed Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. In 2000 he was appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera. At the age of 27 he was then the youngest ever Artistic Director of a national opera house in the world. He continued to lead the Royal Danish Opera for 11 years, and has been recognised by international critics for leading the Royal Danish Opera into the league of major...
General VedPrakash Malik served as 19th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. He has received the AtiVishishtSeva Medal and the ParamVishishtSeva Medal for distinguished service to the Indian Army and to the nation; He was Army Chief during Kargil War. As Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Malik had dual responsibility of being an “advisor” to the Government as well as commander of over a one million strong Indian army and managed all its functions to fulfill its national...
R Gopalakrishnan studied physics at Kolkata University,engineering at IIT Kharagpur and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been a professional manager from 1967. He has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as MD of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, as director of Tata Sons and several Tata companies. He serves as an independent director and non – executive chairman of Castrol India and also as an independent director of Press Trust...
Professor Sugata Mitra is a professor of education and innovator who won the inaugural $1 million TED Prize in 2013. He has been credited with more than 25 inventions related to cognitive science and education technology, but is best known for the Hole in the Wall computer, a 1999 experiment that placed a basic computer three feet above the ground in a deprived area of New Delhi slum to evaluate the local children’s ability to teach themselves how to use...
Jeroen van der Veer is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. He is the current Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Equinor ASA (Norway). Van der Veer was Non-executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell 2009-2013. Previously, he was CEO of Shell since 2004. Before that he was President of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company since 2000, having been a Managing Director since 1997. As CEO, van der Veer led Shell through major change. In 2009-2010 Jeroen van der Veer...
Arun Shourie is among India's best known commentators on current and political affairs. Born in Jalandhar, Punjab (1941), he studied at St. Stephen's College in Delhi and then obtained his doctorate in Economics from Syracuse University, USA. Among other portfolios, he held the office of the Minister of Disinvestment, Communications and Information Technology in Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet. He was acclaimed as a “Star of Asia” by Business Week in 2002, as “The Business Leader of the Year” by...
Utz Classen is one of Germany’s most charismatic business leaders and turnround experts. He has held senior management positions with some of Germany’s most prominent companies, across a number of industry sectors. He is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Syntellix AG, Member of the Supervisory Board of AWD Holding AG, Honorary Professor at the University of Hanover, Institute of Controlling, Professor of Management at the GISMA Business School, Hanover and Member of the "Consejo de Administración“, R.C.D. Mallorca...
Gurcharan Das is an author, management guru and thought leader. He was CEO, Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning). He graduated with honors (phi beta kappa) from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP) where he is featured in four case studies. He is on a number of boards and is a regular speaker to the managements of the world’s largest corporations. After a 30-year career in business, he took early...
Meleveetil Damodaran is a thought leader, business executive and former government official. He is presently Advisor and Chief Representative in India for the ING Group of Netherlands. He served as the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India's financial markets regulator, from February, 2005 to February, 2008. Prior to this, he served Head of IDBI, a development finance institution which he converted to a bank. He was also Chairman of Unit Trust of India, then India's...
Shaukat Aziz was Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2004-07. He presided over a period of impressive domestic economic growth and successfully tackled many of the challenges presented by the global economy. In 1999 Mr. Aziz was appointed Pakistan's Minister of Finance with responsibility for Finance, Economic Affairs, Statistics, Planning and Development. As Finance Minister of Pakistan, he implemented financial reforms that spurred Pakistan's economy into a period of unprecedented growth. Much of the success was attributed to Aziz's ability to bring...