Sanjay Sarma

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.

Samir K. Brahmachari

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.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

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

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.

Gagandeep Kang

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.

DHARAMPAL FELLOWSHIP
Tue, 10/04/2022 - 15:43 5 Min Read

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.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Tue, 10/04/2022 - 15:41 5 Min Read

Established in 2020, the Science & Technology (S&T) Policy vertical at the Centre for Civil Society is dedicated to driving transformative change in the field of science and technology through policy research, stakeholder engagement and outreach.

Mission 

BOLO ENGLISH
Tue, 10/04/2022 - 13:26 5 Min Read
Bolo English Awards 2024: Celebrating Educational Excellence

The Centre for Civil Society has been running project Bolo English to promote the knowledge of the English language and speaking ability among students enrolled in low-cost private schools in India as this unfolds economic opportunities and accelerates social mobility.

Delhi Voucher Pilot
Tue, 10/04/2022 - 12:49 5 Min Read

We launched India's first School Voucher Project in Delhi on 28 March 2007 as part of our School Choice Campaign. To demonstrate the power of school choice, we awarded school vouchers worth up to INR 3600 per year to 408 students in 68 wards of Delhi.

Research Management in India
30 Sep 2022 1 Min Read

Very few STEM research institutions in India have dedicated assistance mechanisms for efficient management of their research projects. The field of Research Management (RM) has emerged as a tool to create an enabling research environment in this context.

 

Research Management in India

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