Vijay Chandru (Ph.D., MIT) is a computer scientist and a healthcare entrepreneur. Recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, he has served on the WEF’s Industry Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti is the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus at Harvard. He was formerly the John L. Armstrong Professor and Founding Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. In his capacity as an American scientist, public policy leader and academic administrator, he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry.
Thomas Barlow serves as a distinguished adviser on knowledge investment, research policy, and analytics to a range of technology-intensive companies, government agencies, and universities globally.
He is the author of three books on science and innovation, and publisher of the Barlow Report, a biennial resource for higher education institutions in Australia and East Asia. He has also been the science policy adviser to the Minister for Education, Science and Training in the Australian Government.
Dr. Sivaram, a distinguished alumnus of IIT-Kanpur (MSc) earned his PhD in Chemistry and DSc (h.c) from Purdue University, USA and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Currently, he is an Honorary Professor and INSA Senior Scientist of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the Vice President Open Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide.
Professor Samir K. Brahmachari completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is the largest publicly funded organisation involved in scientific and industrial research with 37 constitutional laboratories across India.
Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan is one of the seven founders of Infosys and served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. In 2014, Kris co-founded Axilor Ventures, a venture capital platform for young entrepreneurs.
Kris is recognized as a global business and technology thought leader and was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is a first-generation entrepreneur and global business leader with over four decades of experience in biotechnology. Fueled by her passion, she started her biotech journey in 1978 from her garage in India.
Today, that journey is changing lives for the better across the globe. She is regarded as an unconventional thinker with many firsts to her credit. Under her aegis, Biocon delivers on the promise of making medicines accessible and affordable to millions of patients worldwide.
Dr Gagandeep Kang (FRS) is a Professor of Microbiology in the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences of the Christian Medical College in Vellore. She currently serves on the Board of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
The Dharampal Fellowship Program is aimed at empowering affordable/budget private school teachers through training, networking sessions, and one-on-one interactions with education experts. It is an endeavour to provide teachers with the right techniques, skill set, and pedagogical tools for ensuring quality education to children in India.