Yashas Suhas Bhand
Director, Five elements environment ventures Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Yashas Bhand is a second-generation entrepreneur with a zeal for research and technology development to cater the environmental issues. He competed is post-graduation in environmental biotechnology from Mumbai, followed with post graduate diploma in business law and entrepreneurship from NUJS, Kolkata in 2013.

With his inclination towards solid waste management and to understand the gap between knowledge and implementation, he went to purse a certification course in solid waste management planning from UN escorted-IHE, delft, Netherlands in the year 2015. He began his career in 2013, wherein he was given a task to establish an environmental in-house R&D vertical (five elements environment ventures) for family owned venture, organic recycling system Pvt Ltd.

From 2013 to 2015, Five elements environment ventures carried out various R&D activities, such as catalyst development for thermal based technologies, waste characteristic projects, various studies on feed-stock for bio-gas production and training programs for post graduates and researcher.

After, his learning from Netherlands, he put himself on task on mitigating the gap between planning and implementation on solid waste management planning by spearheading FEEV towards knowledge and capacity in the field of solid waste management and joining, Organic Recycling Systems for developing technologies through his passion towards research.

Since 2016, he has served on various positions in Organic Recycling System, from heading new technology development for the company to heading the operation department.

He played a key role in development of the decentralization of the bio-gas technology and creating the product line YASASU Green and establishing a separate vertical Yasasu EMS Pvt Ltd.

Currently, he leads Five elements environment ventures Pvt Ltd. as a director and drives the team for creating training modules and implementing workshops for officials, consultants and other stakeholders on the waste management sector and as also heads YASASU EMS Pvt Ltd., looking after complete engineering, project execution and technology development.

Henk Siebren de Jong
Executive Vice President, Chief of International Markets

Henk Siebren de Jong was appointed Chief of International Markets in April 2017 with responsibility for the results of all Philips activities (with the exception of North America and Greater China). He is also a member of the Board of Philips Capital N.V.

Henk joined Philips in 1990. His most recent role was Market Leader in Latin America. Henk led major transformations across the region, delivering consistent profitable growth in frequently challenging local environments. He drove productivity implementing LEAN and led a more a customer-centered and solutions-based approach in our Personal Health and Health Systems businesses. Prior to that he held a number of leadership roles in businesses in Europe and Asia.

Henk holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and is fluent in Dutch, English, Spanish and Portuguese. He is teaching digital transformation management at ISE Business School in São Paulo and IESE Business School in Barcelona.

DBSSR Sastry
Head Energy Division of Ramky Enviro Engineers.

Mr. DBSSR Sastry is a Head Energy Division of Ramky Enviro Engineers. He joined Ramky Enviro in 2007 and part of endeavors of Ramky in WTE sector. He was engaged in Integrated MSW Management facility consisting of Composting, RDF, Waste to Energy and Secured Landfill for 600 TPD capacities at Mavallipura in Bangalore; development, Execution, and operation of Integrated MSW Management facility comprising of Composting and Secured Landfill at Kottayam, Kerala; development , Implementation & Operation of 6.0 MW Green Field Waste to Energy Plant at Vijayawada; development of Greenfield project for manufacture of Lactic acid & related salts through anaerobic fermentation process; and development of Greenfield project for manufacture of Vitamins as 100% EOU.

He has worked in chemical process industries for over 15 years in various capacities and joined the waste management sector in 2000. He is a graduate in chemical engineering from Andhra University and has done masters in Environment Management from JNTU Hyderabad.

Roshan Lal Tamak
Executive Director &CEO, DCM Shriram Limited

heads the Sugar business at DCM Shriram Limited as its Executive Director & CEO. He has been in the industry for more than three decades and brings with him diverse experience in sugar and allied sectors that include setting up green field projects, acquisitions and management of operations. Mr. Tamak spearheaded transformational practices in Indian Sugar industry during his tenure with reputed corporates such as Balrampur, Dhampur, Mawana and Olam International. He has been instrumental in successfully championing technological breakthroughs, significantly improving agricultural productivity and introduction of good management practices. He brings in experience of successfully running of partnerships with multi lateral agencies, global FMCG majors, civil society organizations and development banks for furtherance of sustainability initiatives.

Mr. Tamak's contribution to the sugar sector has been recognized nationally and globally with many accolades. He has been actively involved in various capacities in leading Industry forums such as Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Sugar Mills Association, and Sugar Technologists Association of India besides being members in Global Board of Directors & Technical Advisory Board of Bonsucro, London.

He has been honoured with following awards in recognition of his contribution to industry:

"Frost & Sullivan Certificate" for Operational Excellence in Leadership.

"Bonsucro Global Award-2019" for Inspiring Sustainable Partnerships.

"Sustainability in Action Award" by Olam International, Singapore.

"Best Partnership Award 2018" by Solidaridad, Utrecht, Netherlands.

"Industry Excellence Award 2018" by Sugar Technologists Association of India (STAI).

"Lifetime Achievement Award 2019" by Society for Sugar Research & Promotion.

"Engineering for Excellence" by Sugar Technologists Association of India (STAI)

"Rashtriya Udyog Award" for contribution in industrial development.

"Professional of the Year 2010-11" by Sugar Technologists Association of India (STAI).

"Sustainability – Executive of the Year 2015" by Parivartan.

Besides an avid reader, he is widely travelled across the globe and is exposed to best global practices in the industry. He underwent high level management and leadership training programs in reputed institutes such as Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Ahmedabad, Tata Management Training Centre, Pune and Asia-Pacific Corporate Coach Institute, Singapore.

Bama Balakrishnan
CFO, Northern Arc

Bama Balakrishnan is the CFO of Northern Arc Capital, a leading Non-Banking Finance Company, Northern Arc is a pioneer in the field of financial inclusion by serving as a crucial link between mainstream capital markets investors and small and mid-sized high-quality last mile lending institutions and businesses.

Bama has previously served as the Chief Risk Officer leading the risk function since 2012. Bama has been instrumental in strengthening the risk management approach to sharpen risk assessment of clients, and their portfolios as well as building the ability to assess dynamically the impact of risk events. Prior to Northern Arc Capital, Bama worked with ICICI Bank for 10 years starting off in the structured finance team and moving on to lead teams in corporate and investment banking in India, USA and Singapore. She has experience originating, structuring and executing complex bilateral and syndicated financing transactions for medium and large corporates across products such as cross border acquisition financing, asset financing and resource financing. She graduated with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and has a bachelor's degree in commerce from University of Madras. She is also a CFA charter holder.

Vikram likes wine and enjoys cooking and good food. Both he and his wife Geetanjali golf regularly and spend a lot of time travelling and exploring. His daughter Manasi partners him in business.

Mr. Vikram S. Kirloskar
President, CII (2019-20), Chairman and MD, Kirloskar Systems Ltd and Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor

Graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Class of 1981.

4th Generation member of the Kirloskar Group started in 1888. The Kirloskar Group manufactures Pumps, Engines and Compressors and other related products.
He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Kirloskar Systems Ltd. and Vice Chairman of Toyota Kirloskar Motor.

He lives in Bangalore, Karnataka State, and is responsible for partnering the Toyota group and starting a major automobile manufacturing industry in the state. For this he has been recognized by the Government and presented with the "Suvarna Karnataka" award.

Vikram started working in the family business after College, initially in Production Engineering. He designed and developed many processes and machine tools early in his career.

He was involved in opening the import licensing for capital equipment while serving on the Government's Development Council for Machine Tools in the late 1980's. He has also served as the President of The Central Manufacturing Technology Institute in Bangalore. He continues to serve on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He also serves on the Govt. of India Development Council for Automobiles and the National Council for Electric Mobility. Mr. Kirloskar is also President, Automotive Research Association of India and the Past President of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. He is also involved in many activities at MIT and served on the Visiting Humanities Committee and Educational Council.

• Member, Board of Trustees, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
• Chairman, Global Innovation & Technology Alliance
• Member, STS* Forum Council, Japan (*Science & Technology in Society)
• Member, Advisory Board, Aisin Seiki Co. Ltd., Japan

Vikram has considerable experience in all aspects of manufacturing, having developed at least 25 Greenfield sites over the last 30 years.

Vikram likes wine and enjoys cooking and good food. Both he and his wife Geetanjali golf regularly and spend a lot of time travelling and exploring. His daughter Manasi partners him in business.

DEEPAK PAREEK
CEO & FOUNDER, DIGIAGRI TECHNOLOGIES TECHNOLOGY PIONEER & EXPERT – DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

Deepak is a well-decorated serial technopreneur who created the most respected AgriTech companies, Digi Agri and MyCrop and in past founded one of the most innovative Social Data Analytics platform, HnyB and Angel Incubator for enterprising startups in social sector, HnyB Tech-Incubations

Digi Agri uses cutting-edge technologies including Machine Learning, Blockchain, Geo Spatial Technology, Computer Vision, Mobile Technology, Drones and Internet of Things for improving profitability and productivity of small and marginal farmers on one hand and providing valuable insights to agriculture ecosystem participants (Agri-Input Companies, Agri-Finance Companies, Government Agencies and NGOs to name a few) on the other. Digi Agri is currently engaged in different activities across 8 countries (India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, Iran, UAE) serving thousands of farmers.

Initiatives undertaken by Digi Agri & MyCrop under Deepak's leadership has Increased Productivity of Farmers, Reduce their Cost of Cultivation, Enhanced Quality of Output, Catalysed Sustainability of Cultivation and hence increased Income of thousands of farmers.

Deepak was honoured as Technology Pioneer 2018 by World Economic Forum and is currently a member of various World Economic Forum communities including Future Food and Industry 4.0. Deepak is also member of Expert Panel of World Economic Forum on Digital Transformation. MyCrop is amongst youngest organisation to be honoured by World Economic Forum, an honour given to organisations like Twitter, Google, Airbnb and Mozilla in past. Deepak was also amongst top 100 Social Entrepreneur listed by National University of Singapore and DBS Foundation. MyCrop was also winner of AI for Good, Nasscom, amongst top 10 Startups in Indonesia and India, honoured by National University of Singapore & AliPay, 60 Technology Start-Ups at Rise – Hong Kong, and top 500 innovative StartUps at Pioneers – Vieena.

Deepak is a regular speaker of global repute with honour of speaking at events of high repute including World Economic Forum ASEAN - Hanoi, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of Champions (Mini-Davos) – Tianjin, AP AgriTech - Visakhapatnam, ASEAN Marketing Forum – Jakarta, Geospatial World Forum – Hyderabad, Sustainable Food Systems – Bangkok, Better Rice Initiative – Vietnam, NGTech - Salt Lake City, Vibrant Gujarat – Gandhinagar, IT-FINANCE AFRICA – Kenya and ITU Americas – Brazil.

Deepak is a technopreneur and is mentoring many Start-Ups in agriculture technology space in areas including Business Planning & Development, Technology & Innovation, Strategy & Product Management, and Technology Roadmaps & Business Models. He is very well connected in start-up ecosystem and works closely as an evangelist and mentor with not for profit organisations and incubators including Indigram Labs Foundation, Grow Asia, KIIT, t-Hub, AIC - Banasthali, and BoPHUB.

Deepak is a well-published author with seven published books on technology and business. He also writes articles on technology areas including User Experience & Adaptive Designs, Cyber Security, Robotics & Drones, Big Data & Predictive Analytics, Autonomous Systems & Artificial Intelligence, Wireless & Internet of Things, Mobile & Web Applications, SATCOM & Telecom, and Social Media & Cloud Computing.

Deepak has been profiled by reputed publications/media including Forbes, Nikkei, Channel News Asia, YourStory, Nasscom Research, Inc42, Business Insider to name a few.

Deepak has 20 years of diverse exposure working across 34 countries on various projects.

Career Chronology

CEO & Founder, DigiAgri Technologies Private Limited, India (AgTech Company), Apr 2019 – Current
CEO & Founder, MyCrop Technologies Private Limited, India (AgTech Company), Aug 2016 – Apr 2019
CEO & Founder, HnyB Tech-Incubations Private Limited, India (TechIncubator), Aug 2015 CEO & Founder, HnyB Technologies Private Limited, India (IT Product Company), Jan 2012 – Aug 2015
Group President, Sayona Group (Diversified Group in Environment, IT, FMCG, Retail), India & UAE, Aug 2010 – Jan 2012
CEO, Ezi Ventures Limited, (Virtual Education Technology Provider subsidiary of Infinium), India, Dec 2009 - Aug 2010
Business Head, Infinium (India) Limited (Satellite Communication Technology & Services Provider), Aug 2008 – Dec 2009
Chief Consultant, Resource4Business (Management Consulting, Research & Advisory), India & USA, Oct 2005 – Aug 2008
AVP & EA to CEO, Midas Communication Technologies (Telecom Technology), India & Singapore, Jan 2004 to Sep 2005
Sr. Manager (Head - Line of Business), TATA Honeywell (IT & Automation Technology), India, Jan 2001 to Jan 2004
Chief Manager, Export Import Bank of India (Financial Institution), India, Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

Education

BE, Electronics with specialisation in Telecom, from one of the top Indian institution, Regional Engineering College {REC/NIT} and MBA from Regis University, USA.

Mr. D. Paul Schuilwerve
Chief Executive Officer & Country Head Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A., India.

Based in Mumbai, Paul joined Rabobank on December 1, 2017 as Chief Executive Officer & Country Head for Rabobank India and is a member of Rabobank's Asia Management Committee.

Paul started his career at the Corporate & Investment Banking Group of Bank Mees & Hope in 1986. Since 1995, he embarked upon an international career with secondments in Hong Kong/Shanghai, London and Singapore. Prior to joining Rabobank, he was responsible for Corporate Banking International with ABN AMRO.

Paul has a long history and comprehensive experience of international corporate and commodities banking. His banking knowledge, cultural understanding of Asia including China, Southeast Asia and India have accumulated since the mid 1990's over a number of senior and management roles with MeesPierson, Fortis Bank and ABN AMRO. Paul further has extensive experience with regulators such as the DNB/ECB, MAS, HKMA, FCA/BoE and RBI.

He was Director and Chairman of Singapore Flyer Pte Ltd., from 20102014 and has held various board positions focused on international trade. Amongst these EVO Fenedex, International Chamber of Commerce Netherlands, and the Netherlands Council of Trade Promotion. He is further a member of advisory board ESE Marketing Master Program of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and recently joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - Water Leadership Group in India.

Paul graduated from the Erasmus University Rotterdam with a MBA and a thesis in "Theatre Marketing, a challenge for artist and marketeer". Throughout his career he has published and presented various papers at conferences. The latest in Feb 2019 at the Erasmus University titled: CSR / ESG: Purpose and profit.

Mr. Nikhil Murarka
Head of Engineering Husk Power Systems

Mr. Nikhil Murarka is currently working as the Head of Engineering and Innovation at Husk Power systems. He completed my graduation from IIT Kharagpur in 2009 with specialization in mechanical engineering. He has over 10 years of professional experience with specialization in systems engineering, renewable energy and product management. He is currently spearheading various projects at HUSK with focus on lowest LCOE, Intelligent controls, engineering and operational excellence. He has great passion for waste to resource projects and have been instrumental in upgrading the biomass gasification system design achieving best in class operational efficiency along with automated process management at the same time ensuring EHS compliance as per IFC standards. He is also leading product development projects in the field of IOT, machine learning with a focus on real time monitoring and control. In the past, he has worked with various multinational companies in diverse fields ranging from automotive, FMCG, Pharma, Food and beverages etc. providing technical consultancy and managing projects to provide state of the art solutions in the field of process automation and efficiency optimization for production, assembly, packaging lines.

Mr. Rajneesh Chopra
Global Head, VA TECH WABAG Ltd.

Mr. Rajneesh Chopra is the Global Head – Business Development in VA TECH WABAG Ltd, a leading MNC offering life cycle solutions to industries and municipalities in water and waste water treatment. WABAG has its presence across 4 Continents and has a successful track record of executing projects in 30 countries.

He is on the board of various subsidiaries and joint ventures of WABAG actively contributing to ensure growth and profitability of these entities. Mr. Chopra is responsible for Corporate Strategy and Strategic alliances with Global players, Developers and concessionaire globally. He is also involved in Policy advocacy with key decision makers and governments to make water and waste water Projects more sustainable and is responsible for large project development for WABAG Group

Mr. Chopra holds a bachelor's degree in Science from University of Delhi, India and possess over 3 decades of professional experience in water and waste water management in consumer, industrial, municipal and desalination segments. He has a proven track record of managing business, building new business and turning around businesses successfully back on profitable growth.

Prior to current assignment as Global Head - Business Development, he was heading the OPERATIONS BUSINESS GROUP of WABAG. Under his leadership WABAG witnessed exponential growth in revenues, profits, customer acquisition and satisfaction. He was instrumental in building a strong team and expand the operations business of WABAG to new geographies in Middle East and South East Asia. Also he has served reputed organizations in Water and other industries in the past.

A proven leader in water sector Mr. Chopra is an Executive Committee Member of Industry bodies like FICCI, CII etc. and an integral part of water and waste water task forces. He is a prolific speaker and has presented several papers in various National and International forums. His articles have appeared in various business and water publications on new water technologies & sustainable water management.

Dr Vinod Tare
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Dr Vinod Tare is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and Management at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and also held Sir M Visvesaraya Chair Professor established by the Ministry of Water Resources, GoI. He is a Civil Engineer, obtained his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Environmental Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and subsequently did post doctoral research at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Dr Tare began his professional career with a short tenure at the Engineers India Ltd and subsequently chose to serve the academic world and engage in research and development activities. He has guided numerous masters' and doctoral dissertations, and published many reports and papers in conference proceedings and journals of international repute. He was the Chairman of the International Conference on Water – Harvesting, Storage and Conservation (WHSC-2009) and First, Second and Third India Water Impact Summit held in 2012, 2017 and 2018 respectively at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Dr Tare has served on numerous National and International Panels and Committees on various issues and is consultant/advisor to many government organisations, NGOs, Industries, and Institutions. He has developed nature-friendly toilet systems has been successfully piloted for passenger trains in Indian Railways, for communities, house boats, large congregation such as Kumbh Mela, etc. and has a huge potential for deployment for public use. Dr Tare was the leader of the consortia of seven IITs for the preparation of Ganga River Basin Management Plan (GRBMP).

He is the founding head of the Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (cGanga) at IIT Kanpur supported by the Ministry of Jal Shakti (formerly Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India.

Dr Harsh Vardhan
Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, at present Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India, was a practicing ENT surgeon before entering public life in 1993. He was elected to the Delhi Assembly that year from Krishna Nagar constituency in east Delhi and went on to retain that seat in all five elections in 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013. In 2014, he contested the Lok Sabha election for the first time and was elected from Chandni Chowk, Delhi.

Fondly called "Doctor Saab" by supporters and opponents alike, Dr. Harsh Vardhan is known for disarming simplicity in his personal life and transparency at the work place. When he was Minister in the Delhi government (1993-98), the people found him remarkably accessible and officials respected him for his hands-on style of functioning. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee once said of Dr. Harsh Vardhan: "He joined politics with the laudable objective of using his considerable medical knowledge and experience for serving the common man".

As Health Minister in the Narendra Modi government for five months, he initiated many reforms in the public health system of the country. He took over as Minister for Science &Technology and Earth Sciences in November 2014 with the confidence of the Prime Minister who earlier held this portfolio. He is committed to set a roadmap for the implementation of the "Make in India" programme by building a robust R&D infrastructure and promoting synergies between industry and scientific research institutions.

Dr Alberto Masoni
Research Director – INFN Directors Board INFN National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Alberto Masoni is Research Director at INFN, the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, director of INFN Cagliari Department and member of INFN Directors Council. Since 1985 he is also scientific associate at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics). His publications record exceeds 400 scientific papers, with more than 80.000 citations (H index 95). He directed several large computing infrastructures initiatives, among them he was member of the management board of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Project, the largest grid computing infrastructure worldwide, developed for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He coordinated several EU Research Infrastructures Projects dedicated to S&T cooperation with India and was also the Project director of one of the Six Joint Research Projects of Particular Relevance selected within the frame of the Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between Italian and Indian Governments for the years 2012-2015.

Prof Andrea Rurale
Director International Program in Arts Management
Bocconi University

Andrea Rurale earned a Degree from Bocconi University and a PhD in Marketing from Universitat de València. He teaches Marketing in Bocconi University and is Director of the Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA) and Director of the International Program in Arts Management (taught in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bejing and Milan). He conducted research and training projects with important enterprises. His research activities focus on cultural marketing, on consumer behaviour, on experiential marketing, on CRM and on marketing communication. He is the author of books and articles on the subject. His works have been published in Psychology and Marketing. He is Regional President for Lombardy of FAI Lombardia (Fondo Ambiente Italiano), the Italian National Trust and President of the Monteverdi Conservatory in Cremona.

Arun Bhalla
Managing Director
Dalmia Cement

Professional Profile:
Accomplished professional with over 40 years of experience in large scale management and engineering industry. Strong Techno-commercial expertise with hands on experience in Project planning, execution and contract management for EPC contracts. Proven vast experience in Sales, Marketing and Business Development functions with effective financial management skills and cost control.

Professional Experience:
Having started my career with BHEL, Haridwar in 1975, remained associated with the following companies:

Dalmia Bharat Cement Limited, (September 15 to Present)

Executive Director- Captive Power Plants
Responsible for overall management of captive power plants of the company, optimizing cost of power for cement units by initiating open access, bringing economic value addition by selling surplus power.

Jindal India Thermal Power Limited (2014 /2015)
CEO& Director - Power Sales
Overall responsible for development & progress of power plant on commercial aspect, setting up of Power Sales Team, sales of JITPL power on Long Term Basis.

Shree Cement Limited (2010/2014)
Chief Executive - Power Business Development
Responsible for setting up of Power Trading arm by securing a category-I Trading License and trading of SCL power and Third Party Power.

PTC India Limited (2006/2010)
Executive Director - Business Development, Operation & Commercial
Responsible for managing Operations & Commercial activities of the Power Trading Business of the company. Demonstrated excellence in building strong brand equity for PTC's advisory services in areas like regulatory issues, distribution reforms, facilitating open access amongst others.

Hyundai Unitech Electrical Transmission Limited 2001/2003)
Managing Director
Spearheaded turnaround in Operational and Financial performance (outperforming the industry performance) weathering the vicissitudes of recession in the power sector with higher capacity utilization and corresponding sales.

Tata Honeywell Limited (1992/2001)
VP Business Development
Formulation and Implementation of Business Strategies and Operational Plans in a highly competitive environment and pursue business opportunities in new and emerging markets.

Others:

• Member of 'Power Committee' of ASSOCHAM.
• Active participant in various Industry forums like CII, FICCI in Energy/Power chapters.
• Have been an Independent Director and Audit Committee Chairman of Indo-Tech Transformers, Chennai (a PROLEC-GE Company) during 2009-2015.

Educational Background:

• Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing & Sales Management in 1980
• Master of Engineering (ME) in Advanced Electronics & Control Systems in 1975
• Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electrical Engineering in 1973

Prof Antonio Capone
Dean of the School of Industrial and Information Engineering
Politecnico di Milano

Antonio Capone is Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), where he is deputy Dean of the School of Industrial and Information Engineering, coordinator of the Master program in Telecommunication Engineering, director of the Advanced Network Technologies Laboratory (ANTLab), and member of the strategic agenda team POLIMI 2040. His expertise is on networking and his main research activities include radio resource management in wireless networks, traffic management in software defined networks, network planning and optimization. On these topics he has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers (h-index = 43 on Google Scholar). He serves in the TPC of major conferences in networking, he is editor of IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, and Computer Communications, and he was editor of ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking and Computer Networks. He is senior member of the IEEE.

Prof Ashutosh Sharma
Secretary
Department of Science & Technology Government of India

Prof. Ashutosh Sharma is the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India since January 09, 2015. He was a professor (1997-), an Institute Chair Professor (2007-) and the Head (2003-05) of Chemical Engineering, and the founding Coordinator of Nanosciences Center and Advanced Imaging Center at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. Ashutosh received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNYAB; 1988) working with Prof. Eli Ruckenstein—a recipient of the US Medal of Science, his MS from the Pennsylvania State University (1984) and B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1982).

Ashutosh has served on the Governing Boards/Councils of over 15 prominent scientific institutions in India and has had a broad international experience as a research faculty at SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine (1988-90), visiting faculty at University of Texas at Austin, University of Western Ontario, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the World Class University Program of South Korea and as a Member of the European Research Commission.

Ashutosh's research contributions are highly interdisciplinary, spanning a wide range in nanotechnology; carbon based nanocomposites and MEMS/NEMS in energy, health and environment; functional interfaces; micro/nano-mechanics of soft matter; nano-patterning and nanofabrication; colloid and interfacial engineering; biomaterials & biosurfaces; wetting, adhesion and thin polymer films;-- areas in which he has published over 300 peer reviewed papers, filed over 10 patents, given over 100 invited or key note conference presentations and mentored a nanotechnology startup.

Ashutosh is a recipient of numerous honors and awards including the inaugural Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, TWAS Science Prize of the World Academy of Sciences, Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation, J. C. Bose Fellowship, Bhatnagar Prize, Homi J. Bhabha Award of UGC, The Syed Husain Zaheer Medal of INSA,Distinguished Alumnus Awards of IIT Kanpur and SUNY Buffalo and the Life-time Achievement Award of the Indian Science Congress.

Ashutosh is an elected Fellow of The Indian National Science Academy, The Indian Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Sciences, India and Indian National Academy of Engineering, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials. He has also served on the Councils of the first two. He is has been an associate editor of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Proceedings of Indian National Science Academy and ASME Journal of Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing and has been on the editorial boards of several journals: Carbon; ACS Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research; Current Science; Nanomaterials and Energy; Chemical Engineering Science; Journal of Colloid and Interface Science; Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and Indian Chemical Engineer.

Ashutosh's other interests are in ancient history and philosophy, poetry and art.

Alberto Fioravanti
Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer

As an expert of new digital technologies and with his continuous pursuit of innovative solutions and services, Alberto Fioravanti founded Inferentia in 1988 with Enrico Gasperini. In the 90s the company became the first new media agency in Italy that specialised in providing services for online marketing. In 2000 Inferentia was listed on the New Market of the Italian Stock Exchange,  initially beginning – at first under the name of Inferentia DNM then Fullsix – a European leader in the sector. He has held various positions within the company over the years, from CTO to Chief Executive Officer, finally assuming the role of CEO of e.Fluxa, an Inferentia Group company specialising in outsourcing services and solutions.

In 2004, he became a Founding Member – with Enrico Gasperini, Gabriele Ronchini and Gabriele Gresta – of Digital Magics and he has held the position of Executive Director. Digital Magics is a certified incubator of innovative digital startups whose content and services possess high technological value. The business incubator Digital Magics took part in the birthing process and launch of more than 50 initiatives, which contributed to the development of the entire online sector in Italy, creating the foundation for the generational renewal of the national parterre of entrepreneurs and overseeing all areas of expertise in the digital market. In July 2013, Digital Magics was listed on AIM Italy, Alternative Capital Market for small and medium-sized Italian companies with high growth potential, organised and managed by the Italian Stock Exchange.

In 2008 he was a founding member of the startup 4w MarketPlace, the main Italian AdNetwork  operating in online advertising with the leading publishers and media agencies. In April 2015 it closed a capital increase of 25% in the shareholder structure, for a value of about 2.1 million Euro, by the Dada Group (through the transfer of the company ProAdv/Simply).

In 2014 he founded the startup Premium Store (development and business management of EDICOLA ITALIANA) and he became its Chairman.  EDICOLA ITALIANA is the online newsstand for Italy's premium publishers – thanks to an agreement exclusively with the Consorzio Edicola Italiana, founded by Caltagirone Editore, Gruppo 24 ORE, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, La Stampa-ITEDI, Gruppo Mondadori and RCS MediaGroup.

On November 30th 2015 he was appointed Executive Chairman of Digital Magics.

On December 12th 2017 Alberto Fioravanti (Chairman) was also appointed Chief Technology Officer of Digital Magics, with the responsibility to address the issues relating to the technological choices at the base of the activity of projects and startups selection.

Mr Alessandro Durante
Director External and International Relations of ANIMA Confindustria Meccanica Varia

Born in Milan, 51 years old, in the past 25 years I've been actively working in the External Relations and Communications arena while since 2014 I have added Strategic International Affairs.

Experienced Press Officer and Strategic Communication Consultant for Italian and International Companies I am currently part of ANIMA Confindustria Meccanica Varia, the Federation of Mechanical and Engineering Industry within Confindustria, since september 2007. In occasion of EXPO MILANO 2015 in charge of coordinating ANIMA presence, initiatives and projects during the International Event.

I've had the opportunity of taking care of brand as Unilever, Nestlé, Lavazza, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo,Panasonic, Merloni Group and many other before being part of The Coca-Cola Company in Italy in occasion of Turin Olympics Games 2006 with special focus on Crisis Communications and Obesity Issues.

Content Director and columnist for L'Industria Meccanica, Federation ANIMA's Magazine dedicated to explore technological solutions and business opportunities all over the world for italian manufacturing companies.

Mr Alessandro Zanini

ACTIVITY: Since 1999 member of Scientific Comitee of ElEn and since 2004 Conservation technologies division manager

TITLES: Since 1999 Ordinary Member of the "Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria", Since 2001 Member of AIAR, Since 2006 Revisor Member of the Istituto Italiano di Preistori e Protostoria, Since 2009 advisor of Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, since 2009 advisor of Assorestauro, since 2011 Vicepresident of Assorestauro, since 2013 President of Assorestauro

PUBLICATIONS: 70 publications on archaeologic topics, 11 publications on conservation topics

FORMATION: 1984 Laurea in Classic Letters, PhD and Post PhD in Archaeology

LECTURES: Since 2002 contract professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Palermo.

Mr Ajay Prakash Sawhney
Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India

Mr. Ajay Prakash Sawhney was earlier Additional Secretary in the Petroleum Ministry, with the charge of Chairman and Managing Director of PSU explorer Oil India.

Mr. Sawhney is a Mechanical Engineer and an IAS Officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre (1984 batch). He has handled various assignments in the State of Andhra Pradesh, covering land administration, law and order and quasi-judicial functions, rural development, health & family welfare, communication & information technology, e-governance and elections etc.

He played a lead role in the Total Literacy Campaign taken up in Nizamabad district in the early nineties. He has also catalysed the establishment of the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad and its emergence as one of the premier institutions in computer science education and research in the country. He has spent more than ten years in assignments relating to information technology and e-governance and has led the formulation of innovative policies and implementation of several major e-governance, communications and broadband projects. He has also worked as the Principal Secretary to Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh after the reorganization of the state of Andhra Pradesh.

He has also held important positions in the Government of India as Joint Secretary Training in the Department of Personnel and Training and as the President and CEO of the National e-Governance Division, which assists the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in the implementation of the National e-Governance Plan.

Mr Amitabh Kant
CEO, NITI Aayog

Mr Amitabh Kant is presently CEO, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). NITI is a Government of India institution for catalysing the development process, nurturing an overall enabling environment by working in partnership with States, by being a Knowledge hub and a Think Tank by facilitating implementation.

Mr. Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 Batch). He is the author of "Branding India – An Incredible Story" and has been a key driver of "Make in India", Startup India, "Incredible India" and "God's Own Country" initiatives which positioned and branded India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing tourism destinations. Mr. Kant also conceptualized and executive the "AtithiDevoBhavah" – "Guest is God" campaign to train Taxi Drivers, Guides, immigration officials and make them stake holders in the tourism development process.

Till March, 2016 Amitabh Kant was posted as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) – Government of India. He was also the Chairman of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and National Productivity Council. Mr. Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed.

Mr. Kant did his schooling from Modern School, Delhi, graduation in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens, Delhi University and M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a Chevening Scholar. He has undertaken the Mid Career Programme of Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He has been the recipient of many awards and honours.

Mr Anand Kumar
Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India

Kerala cadre IAS officer (1984 batch) Mr Anand Kumar has been appointed as the Secretary, New and Renewable Energy. Mr. Kumar also served as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Tourism. He has also served as the Managing Director, National Highways Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited in 2014.

He is an M.Phil from University of Delhi and MBA from University of Queensland, Australia. During his career he has held many important positions in tourism, infrastructure, industry, biotechnology, finance, revenue, elections and governance sectors under the state and federal governments.

During initial stages of his career, he served as District Collector and Magistrate of Idukki and Calicut districts in Kerala. He was assigned challenging duty of managing the relief camps on Iraq-Amman border and repatriation of Indians during KuwaitIraq war of 1990. While in Kerala Tourism, he was part of the team which launched 'God's Own Country' Campaign and planned introduction of houseboats in Kerala. He served as Deputy Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India and conducted landmark Bihar Legislative Assembly elections in 2005.

He was appointed as Chief Technical Adviser for Nigerian General Elections 2007 by UNDP. He has since acted as a resource person for UNDP on Elections and Governance having done assignments in Cambodia, Lebanon and Belgium.

In Infrastructure sector, Mr. Kumar scripted first Port Privatisation Policy for the country. He was Founding Managing Director of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL). In spare time, Mr. Kumar writes and paints.

Mr Alexandro Montanari
Regional Director Asia, Iguzzini

Mr. Montanari has completed e-Commerce Marketing Management Postgraduate Course from Chamber of Commerce, Bologna, Italy in 2000 – 2001. He has also completed Economic Sciences BA Honours from University of Bologna, Italy in 1992 – 1999.

Mr. Montanari joined as the Regional Director- Asia Pacificin 2012 at iGuzzini Illuminazione S.p.A., a leading international group,established in 1959, that operates in the architectural lighting sector. In this role he is in charge for all sales operations of the company in APAC Region. Earlier he worked as International Sales Director (2011 - 2012)at Martini S.p.A., which is a leading Italian architectural lighting manufacturer established in 1971.

He also served as the Managing Director of Targetti Poulsen Middle East Dubai, UAE (2007 – 2011); General Manager, Watt Electricals LLC Dubai, UAE (2005 – 2007); Marketing Manager, Nouran Trading LLC Abu Dhabi, UAE (2003 – 2005) and Export Area Manager (Middle East – Far East), Mareco Luce Srl Forlì, Italy (2001 – 2003). He was an exclusive importer in 1993 – 1999, importing Spanish competition boats, "ROGA" and "LENAM", into the Italian market and Sailing School Director in 1996 – 1999,managing the sailing schools of the Cervia and Cesenatico Yacht Clubs. He was also a freelance journalist in 1993 – 2000.

He represented the Italian Sailing Delegation in three World Championships and three European Championships and won the bronze medal during the European Championship in 1995 as skipper. He likes travelling, reading, sailing, diving and running.

Mr Andrea Guderzo
General Manager, Clivet Mideast Fzco

Born in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) Italy in 1973, Mr. Guderzo has more than 20 year experience in the HVAC industry, working for multinational Italian companies engaged in the research, development and commercialization of high efficiency and low environmental impact air conditioning systems.

In 2011 he joined Clivet SpA, an Italian company leader in sustainable comfort for every application and climate, as export area manager with the aim to export the European way to comfort worldwide. In 2013 he accepted the challenge to widen Clivet market in India and Middle East and moved with his family (wife and three children) to Dubai. In 2015 he became General Manager of Clivet Mideast Fzco, the Dubai based branch of Clivet SpA.

Dr Anil Koul
Director, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology

Dr. Anil Koul, prior to taking the charge of Director, CSIR-IMTech, was Senior Director & Head, Respiratory Infections Discovery group at healthcare multinational Johnson & Johnson. He has more than 16 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug discovery research and clinical development. He obtained his PhD from Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich, Germany and Delhi University.

Dr. Koul has been a key scientist in discovery and clinical development of SIRTURO (generically called Bedaquiline) - the first drug to be granted approved by United State's FDA and EU in last 45 years. Bedaquiline has been approved till date in more than 25 countries across the world including conditional approval in India. He is a recipient of "Johnson Medal", the highest R&D prize by Johnson and Johnson, 'The Philip B. Hofmann Prize' and 'Swiss-TB prize' by Switzerland's Society of Pneumology. He was also invited to European Parliament to present to members of Europe-India Chamber of Commerce on Bedaquiline and issues of global public health.

Dr. Koul has several publications; international presentations and more than 30 patents to this credit. He and his research team have also discovered several new drugs (currently in clinical development) for diseases ranging from viral bronchiolitis, novel antibiotics and animal health. Prior to J&J, he worked in Germany in a biotech company on the development of kinase inhibitors for oncology.

Dr. Koul is a visiting professor at Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is a member of India's Technical Advisory committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), constituted by Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Government of India. He is also a member of CII's Northern Region Committee on higher education.

Dr Aseem Chauhan
Additional President and Chancellor, Amity University

Dr. Aseem Chauhan is the Chancellor of Amity University and Additional President of the Ritnand Balved Education Foundation (RBEF). He is also the CEO of Amity Innovation Incubator and Amity Capital Ventures.

Dr. Chauhan has extensive experience in venture capital and leveraged buyouts. He was formerly with AEA Investors, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm in New York. Prior to this he was at Philadelphia Ventures, providing early stage venture capital to biotech and hi-tech start-ups. He has also been with Mercer Management Consulting providing strategic advisory to leading companies in New York, London and Hong Kong, and with JP Morgan in investment banking. Dr. Chauhan actively promotes entrepreneurship in India, particularly amongst youth.

Dr. Chauhan holds degrees in Engineering, Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumnus of the prestigious Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology.

Dr. Chauhan has contributed to a number of committees including the Government of India's National Committee for Biotechnology Policy, the CII National Committee for Higher, Technical & Vocational Education and the US-India Higher Education Cooperation Council. Dr. Chauhan was recently selected as part of the "Champions of Change" program of the Prime Minister which involves young leaders in policy making for the nation.

Dr. Chauhan is the President of the Indian National Football Club and the Founder and President of Amity United Football Club. He has also been on the FIFA Delhi Vision Board and is actively engaged in Sports Development in the Country.

Dr. Chauhan has received several awards and recognitions.

Mr Brijesh Datta
Executive Vice President & CISO
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

Brijesh Datta has more than 25 years in Telecom, IT and Information Security. An ex-Army Officer and an IIT Delhi Alumni with a Master's Degree in Computer Technology, he was instrumental in defining Cyber Security practices for the Indian Army in the late 90's when this was a nascent field. Prior to joining the corporate sector in 2010, he was leading the Army's Cyber Operation's centre for 7 years and was awarded the prestigious Sena Medal on behalf of the President of India for his efforts. Brijesh is presently the CISO of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, where he manages security of all Jio vertical's ranging from Telco, IT, Media, Jio Money and Payments Banking.

Prof. Balram Bhargava
Secretary, Department of Health Research & Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research

Prof. Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Department of Health Research, (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), Government of India and Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) joined on 16th April, 2018. Prof. Bhargava is Professor of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and also serves as the Executive Director for Stanford India Biodesign Centre, School of International Biodesign (SiB).

Prof. Bhargava has established the India-Stanford Biodesign programme that has led to the establishment of the School of International Biodesign (SIB) at AIIMS and development of 30 low cost medical devices leading to 10 startups. He developed the indigenous Platinum Iridium coil coronary stent and has been instrumental in clinically evaluating and establishing the use of two other laser cut medicated Indian stents. These low cost indigenous stents have benefitted several thousand patients.

He set up the c-GMP Centre for Excellence for Stem Cell Studies at AIIMS which has initiated treatment of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy; this has benefitted number of no-option heart failure patients waiting on the cardiac transplant list. He is currently developing the Chest Compression Device for Sudden Cardiac Death patients; funded by the Wellcome Trust, London and is providing leadership for creative disease prevention, early detection and transport system for sick cardiac patients. This programme mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-attack Initiative) is in the process of early diagnosis and treatment of heart attack patients by trained motorcycle first respondent paramedics.

He has started the Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM). He has published several papers on the harmful cardiovascular effects of chewing tobacco and is evaluating the continuous blood pressure of DTC bus drivers in Delhi. He has led two major trials in India funded by the NIH, Bethesda, USA which has changed clinical practice. He has pioneered several techniques in interventional cardiology. Apart from numerous prestigious awards, Prof. Bhargava has been awarded the 'Padma Shri' and the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Prize for research in Life Sciences at Paris.

Mr B. Parameshwar Babu
Managing Director, Param Projects Private Limited

Mr. Babu graduated in Instrumentation Engineering and began to establish a technology company (now known Param Projects Private Limited) in 1995. He is a visionary-cum-inventor whose initiatives led to the mushrooming of internet cafes in all over India. He created breakthrough software products like PPPshar that revolutionized internet growth in India and consequently his company gained international acclaim.His maiden product, pppshar has been ranked #1 amongst top 10 networking applications of the world by CNN.

Since 2015, he has been roped into the board of several startups founded by youngsters.

He ventured into telephony and voice communication technologies with the launch of software for PARAM Phone service. This software not only enabled small and medium companies in India to setup IVR(Interactive- Voice-Response) system but also benefited non-profit bodies/associations. His recent innovations in GIS mapping technologies has enabled millions of customers around the world to search, locate and book hotels via Internet.

B.E in Instrumentation and Control Engineering,he assumed the role of CTO in his company.

Dr B V R Mohan Reddy
Co-chair, CII Education Council &Executive Chairman, Cyient

Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur who has firmly placed India on the global map for leading-edge engineering, and research and development (ER&D) services by establishing Cyient (formerly, Infotech Enterprises) in 1991. His efforts have led Cyient to contribute more than $3 billion in cumulative exports from India to several Fortune 100 companies and have created direct employment for about 15,000 engineering professionals in 21 countries.

Dr. Reddy has served as the Chairman of CII, Southern Region. Dr. Reddy is the Founding Director of T-Hub, the largest start-up incubation center. He acts as the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Dr. Reddy has taken up several leadership positions to promote higher education in India and abroad. He serves as the Chairman, Board of Governors at IIT, Hyderabad; is a member of the Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, USA; and is the co-chair of CII's National Council on Education.

Dr. Reddy received India's fourth highest civilian award—the Padma Shri—in 2017 for his contribution to trade and industry in the country. He is the recipient of several awards and life time recognitions for his leadership, corporate excellence and institution building.

Dr. Reddy holds postgraduate degrees from IIT-Kanpur, and the University of Michigan, USA. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from JNTU-Hyderabad, JNTU-Kakinada, Andhra University, and KL University.

Mr Bhupesh Juneja
Director, Inox Group

Mr. Juneja has more than 35 years of experience in the area of Project Planning, Execution and Development, Strategic Planning, Business Operations, Project Conceptualization, Business Development, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Wind Resource, Power Trading and other activities like Land Acquisition and Government liaison.

He has been associated with Inox Group for over 12 years and has been a founding member in the development of wind business for the group. He has indepth knowledge of the Regulatory Environment at State and Central levels and combines technical skills with the commercial acumen to determine viable strategies for the company.

In the past he has worked with various organizations like Everest, Tractebel, Duncans, Thapar Group and KTI Technip.

Mr. Juneja is an MBA in Finance from FMS Delhi (1997)& Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Punjab University (1981).

Dr Calogero M. Oddo
Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa

Calogero Maria Oddo (1983) has a Ph.D. in BioRobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA), M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from University of Pisa (UNIPI). He is currently Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and he coordinates the Neuro-Robotic Touch Laboratory at The BioRobotics Institute of SSSA. He holds courses on Natural and Artificial Senses and Neuromorphic Engineering for BSc, MSc and PhD students at SSSA and UNIPI. He has over 70 conference and journal publications and a growing track record in integrating biorobotics and neuroscience, with particular interests in the study of the human sense of touch and on its artificial engineering, and in this field he authored high-impact publications. He has a H-index of 20 and a total of 1650+ citations. He has a growing portfolio of successful research grants and he was/is co-PI or WP leader within EU-H2020, EU-FP7 and National projects. He currently serves as member of the Advisory Board of the EFFECT EU-H2020-FET project and as Vice Chair of the Italy Chapter of the IEEE Sensors Council.

Dr Christian Greco
Director
Fondazione Museo delle Antichità Egizie

Christian Greco was born in 1975 at Arzignano (VI). He is an Egyptologist. He was a Lecturer in Egyptian funerary archaeology and archeology of Nubia and the Sudan at the University of Leiden, the main center of Egyptology in the Netherlands, and curator at the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, which houses one of the most important Egyptian collections in Europe. He has curated many exhibitions and installations, not only in the Netherlands, but also in Japan, Finland and Spain. He has developed important international collaborations, both as a member of research groups and with other museums, including the Vatican Museum and the Louvre. He was a member of the American epigraphic mission in Luxor. For several years he has been co-director of the Dutch archaeological mission at Saqqara. He has authored many publications, both educational and scholarly, in various European languages (Italian, French, English, Dutch and Spanish). In addition to being a highly specialized scholar, Dr. Greco has high technical and scientific competence and management skills, which he developed at the Foundation of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden as curator of the Egyptian collection (since 2009). Since June 17th, 2014 is a member of the Technical and Scientific Committee for Archaeological Heritage of MIBACT. Since February 2014 he is Director of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities Foundation in Turin.

Mr Chandrajit Banerjee
Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry

Mr. Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Mr Banerjee has been with the CII for about 3 decades and has been the Director General, CII since May 2008.

Mr. Banerjee is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with specialisation on Economics of Planning and Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. Earlier, he did his Graduation from St. Xavier's College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons).

As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII.

Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions in CII. Mr. Banerjee has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals - Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and the SMEs. He has led key policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and Corporate Governance (he was also the First Executive Director of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance -NFCG, an organization set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Government of India). He continues to be in the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of NFCG as a Member.

Earlier Mr. Banerjee has served as Head of CII's regional operations in the Northern, Southern and Western Regions.

Over the years, Mr. Banerjee has worked out of the CII-Headquarters in New Delhi for several years and has also been based at Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He was also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), which is a state-of-the-art centre for training, conventions and trade fairs.

He is an advisory Board Member of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) and Member of Board of the Global Innovation and Technology Alliance (GITA). Mr Banerjee is a Director in the Singapore India Partnership

Foundation (SIPF), the Managing Trustee of the National Foundation for Corporate Governance (NFCG) and a Director at the Invest India.

Mr. Banerjee has been honored with the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between India and China. Mr. Banerjee has also been conferred with the decoration of Knight Commander of the Order of Queen Isabella by His Majesty the King of Spain in recognition of his most meritorious achievements and exceptional contributions towards promoting relations between India and Spain.

Mr. Banerjee is also the Secretariat for several bilateral CEOs Forums constituted by the Government of India. These include Forums with Australia, France, Russia, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Japan, Sweden, South Africa among others.

With 65 offices, including 9 Centres of Excellence, in India, and 10 overseas offices in Australia, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Singapore, South Africa, UAE, UK, and USA, as well as institutional partnerships with 355 counterpart organizations in 126 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.

Dr Cesare Saccani
President, Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Saccani graduated in Political and Economic Sciences. He is an entrepreneur with 24 years of managerial experience in different industries.

He is the Managing Director of ICMQ India since 2008; Executive Director of Fagioli India Pvt Ltd since 2013 and President of The Indo- Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2017.

He is member of the Italian Association of Independent Directors (NED Community) and founder of Fondazione Etica.

He is EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) Assessor and Faculty and has deep knowledge of management systems.

Dr. Saccani is actively committed in the field of sustainability and CSR, he is leading EPD India Program Operator (EPD Italy Associated Partner) and other innovative certification schemes like Get It Green (eco product certification schemes for building materials) and Get It Fair (scheme to support the Responsible Sourcing and CSR policies in Garment and Apparel Sector).

Dr Cristiano Radaelli
Vice President Vicarius, ANITEC-ASSINFORM

Dr. Cristiano Radaelli is the Chairman of the Board, Metlac S.p.A. since June 2014.Global leader in market segment of pigments for paints for food containers.

Dr. Radaelli is known for hisinnovative leadership, managing global and multicultural teams. He is involved in coordination of change management projects, mergers and divestitures, global partnership agreements. He has international professional experience in management of global companies and of first level Italian Public Companies. He is a recognized public figure in the Italian digital society; relationship with major Italian and Eu institutions and top players of the high technology and innovative world. He has written various articles on economy, digital evolution, tourism and education. He is also a lecturer at Universities and Masters on digital communication, leadership and emotional intelligence.

He has received "Stella al merito del lavoro" by the President of the Italian Republic, "Cittadino benemerito" by the Major of Sesto San Giovanni, Italy and "Milano Produttiva" prize by the Trade Chamber of Milan.

Dr David Vannozzi
Director General
CINECA Interuniversity Consortium

David Vannozzi is the General Manager of CINECA Consortium. During the experience as advisor and company manager, I gained several experiences in project management, management of change, business process reengineering, lean management & six sigma. I have been working in the public sector for 10 years and I have developed a specific competence in managing the relations with the local bodies and central institutions (Ministries) and with the press. I took on different roles in public and private companies as Board of Auditors, member of the Board of Directors and member of the Board of Evaluation.

Mr D Peter Immanuel
Chief Executive Officer of Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council (AASSC)

Mr. D Peter Immanuel has comprehensive experience in the field of Aerospace and Aviation Management including coordination of multiple location operations spread-out over vast geographic area.

Mr. Immanuel holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Bharathiyar University. He also obtained his M Tech degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from IIT, Kharagpur. He is a fellow of IETE.

Mr. Immanuel is the first Chief Executive Officer of Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council (AASSC). AASSC is the apex skilling body in the emerging Aerospace and Aviation sector. It has been formed under the Government and industry led initiative of skilling Indian labour force through National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).

He has led the efforts to develop the National Occupational Standards for various Job Roles in Aerospace & Aviation Sector. He was instrumental in launching a Centre of Excellence for Aerospace Design in Bangalore through a German Multi National Company with an investment outlay of 5 million USD. He played a key role in setting-up an Aviation Skill Development Centre in Chandigarh with CSR support from AAI (Airport Authority of India) and active involvement of Ministry of Civil Aviation.

On completing his graduation, Mr. Immanuel joined the Indian Air Force as a commissioned officer. During his tenure in the Indian Air Force (IAF), in addition to his roles in various operational and strategic formations, he contributed in the training and transformational efforts by holding key assignments in the Air Force Establishments.

He was also an Associate Professor in Karunya University Business School.

Prof. DD Sarma
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science

Prof. Sarma obtained the M.Sc. (Physics) (1977) from IIT Kanpur and PhD (1982) from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He was a Research Associate in IISc (1982-83), and Guest Scientist at Kernforschungsanlage, Germany (1984-86). He worked as Lecturer (1986-89), Assistant Professor (1989-93), Associate Professor (1993-99) and Professor (1999- ), all at IISc. He was Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo (2001-02) and the Istituto di Struttura della Materia, CNR, Rome and Trieste (2002). He is a Member of the Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, IISc. He was MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman, Centre for Advanced Materials, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) for sometime. He has also been Honorary Professor of JNCASR, Bangalore, Adjunct Professor at TIFR, Mumbai, Adjunct Professor at IISER, Kolkata, and Senior Associate at SNBNCBS, Kolkata.

Prof. Sarma has worked extensively on physics and chemistry of materials with special emphasis on nanomaterials and strongly correlated materials. He has made significant contributions in the fields of electron spectroscopy, materials synthesis, and in understanding their electronic, magnetic, dielectric and optical properties combining a variety of experimental techniques with theoretical investigations. He established the Centre for Advanced Materials at IACS where a large number of faculty members interact on various aspects of research on advanced materials.

He has,to his credit, more than 480 scientific publications with more than 17,800 citations and an H index of 71 (Source: Google Scholar) involving experimental and theoretical studies covering broad areas of Solid State Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, Spectroscopy, Nanoscience and Energy Science and 9 patents.

Mr Dario Calogero
Chief Executive Officer, Kaleyra

Mr. Dario Calogero has almost 30 years of experience in ICT, with experiences spanning from Strategy to Marketing & Sales and General Management.

After graduating from Bocconi University with a strategic research on electronic payments at point of sale, Mr. Calogero joined Olivetti in the strategic market planning. Then, after a three years parenthesis in the Automotive in marketing and sales with Fiat Auto (now FCA), he worked forsix years in management consulting service with Projecta and PWC, focusing on Telco Strategy and Business Process Reengineering.

Later, in 1997, he went back to technology with Oracle, undertaking EMEA Business Development responsibility for interactive services on Digital Pay TV, based on the Liberate Technology software stack (DVB-MHP). This experience introduced him to the Silicon Valley hi-tech environment and in 1999 he founded Ubiquity, positioning the company right at middle of the Ubiquitous Computing paradigm, that was taking momentum at the beginning of the new millennium.

In 2018 Ubiquity and the acquired companies became an international group named Kaleyra. The Group provides mobile notification services for banks, e-commerce and any kind of small, medium and large enterprises, through a global platform. Kaleyra manages integrated and multi-channel mobile notification services such as messages, push notifications, e-mails, instant messaging, voice services. Kaleyra is one of the main players in its industry, with over 80 million euro turnover in 2018, with customers in over 30 countries, supported by 200+ employees based in Italy, India, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Washington and New York.

Inventing new services, innovating in the product/market/channel matrix, launching new business is what Mr Calogero does.

Mr Daniele Finocchiaro
President Research and Innovation Committee, Confindustria

Mr. Finocchiaro is currently Chairman of Confindustria's Technical Research and Innovation Groupand member of the enlarged Presidency Committee. Graduated in International Economics at the University Bocconi of Milan, he also obtained a Masters degree in Health Economics at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and spent 12 months at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for studies on the planning of the economic development of India.

He gained his professional experience in the pharmaceutical sector taking on the role of President and Managing Director of GlaxoSmithKline SpA.

Prof Emilio Paolucci
NETVAL Italian Network of Technology Transfer Offices of Universities and Public Research Organizations
Politecnico di Torino

Emilio Paolucci is full professor at Politecnico di Torino, where he teaches "Stategic Management" and "Hi-tech Entrepreneurship", Chairman of the Patent and of the Spin-Off Committees, and responsible of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation research Center. He was Vice Rector for Technology Transfer (2015-18) and is also board member of Collegio Carlo Alberto. His research interests include the role of IT in transforming existing value chains and changing value creation and value appropriation dynamics, the role of IT in transforming firms' organizational configurations, the changing role of TT practices and entrepreneurship education in fostering innovation in universities and regional ecosystems.

He co-founded a startup active in the energy storage, awarded with the Italian "National Innovation Prize", selected in 2011 as "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum, and currently listed on Euronext- Paris.

Prof Enrico Calleri
Sales Manager, Eurotech Spa

Prof. Enrico Calleri is part of Eurotech team for IoT business development since the beginning of 2016, currently covering the position of sales manager for south EMEA and India region. With several years of experience in the industry has worked for two other multinational companies. He holds a Master degree in Automation Engineering from Padova University and achieved his MBA at Tippie School of Iowa in 2013.

Dr Giulio Cesareo
President & CEO
Directa Plus

Giulio Cesareo co-founded Directa Plus February 2005. He began his professional career in 1982 in Italy working for Falck and Techint. From 1986 to 2004, he worked in the carbon and graphite field for UCAR and Graftech, reaching the positions of the President and CEO of the Italian company and Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Carbon and Graphite business unit. In his role at Graftech, Giulio managed business units in USA, France and Italy.

Giulio Cesareo was awarded a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, an MBA and an Executive MBA from Bocconi University of Milan and attended Strategic and Financial Management Programs at the Stanford University (USA). He is an Advisory Board Member in the National Graphene Association and he also serves as a Board Member of Fondazione Quarta, a non-profit organization focused on scientific research in areas of social activity.

Mr Gianfranco Berrutti
Vice President
UNIDI

Mr. Gianfranco Berrutti is the Vice President of UNIDI (The Italian dental Industry Association) as well as the General Manager of Major Prodotti Dentari S.p.A., one of the leading Italian manufacturer of dental materials.

Born In Torino, Italy, on October 23rd, 1968, Mr. Berrutti graduated in business administration in Milan at the "Luigi Bocconi" university on 1992. Soon after his graduation he moved to the USA where he worked as marketing assistant at the American Tooth Industries, a company specialized in manufacturing artificial teeth and located in Oxnard, California.

On 1995 he returned to Italy where he spent a couple of years at the Torino's branch of the Andersen Consulting company. On 1997 he joined Major Prodotti Dentari, his family company, in Moncalieri, where he is currently working as general manager.

Since 2002 Mr. Berrutti was elected as member of the board of UNIDI and started to take care of the foreign department of the Association.

On 2012 he was elected President of UNIDI for two years and reconfirmed on 2014 for a second mandate until June 2016.

During this period he planned an important project in Africa, where UNIDI started to organize on 2015 an International exhibition, to develop and support the presence of the Italian dental companies on the African markets. For this purpose he managed the IDEA (International Dental Exhibition Africa) company that was established in Senegal, Dakar, until the end of 2016.

Since 2016 Mr. Berrutti is Vice President of UNIDI and he has been very active in supporting the development of the foreign activities of the Association, targeting new markets and opportunities to help the Italian dental Industry expand its business worldwide.

Mr Giulio Pedrollo
Vice President, Confindustria

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova, Giulo Pedrollo attained a Master degree at the MIP, the Business School of the University("Politecnico") of Milan. Mr. Pedrollo is the CEO at Pedrollo SpA, a family company that is among the worldwide leaders in the industry of electric pumps for water movement. In 2002 he founded Linz Electric SpA, operating within the energy industry, specialised on the design and production of rotating alternators and welders. He has covered a variety of roles within the associative world: he was the Regional President of Confindustria's Young Entrepeneurs for the area of Veneto, former President of Confindustria Verona and is now Confindustria's National Vice President with the delegation of Industrial Policy. Among the most relevant appointments in the economic world, he is the CEO at BpM Bank.

Dr G Padmanabhan
Director, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials, Hyderabad

Dr. Padmanabham obtained his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University, Master's degree in metallurgy from NIT Warangal and Ph.D in Welding Technology from IIT Delhi.

Dr. Padmanabham started his professional career in 1987 as a Design & Development Engineer at Bharat Dynamics Limited, Hyderabad. In 1990, he moved to the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi and held several positions and was involved in formulation and implementation of national and international Science &Technology programmes, during which he played a key role in establishment of ARCI and the Centre for Laser Processing of Materials. He joined ARCI, Hyderabad in 2005 and made significant research contributions in the fields of Materials joining; Laser Processing of Materials; and Technology Transfer & Commercialization. He successfully led several technology development projects for various industrial sectors. In the field of laser processing of materials, his R&D spans materials joining, surface engineering, drilling and micromachining.

He has 80 research publications, 2 book chapters, 8 patents and 80 invited lectures to his credit. He is a reviewer for several international journals in Materials and Manufacturing technologies and member of the editorial board of journals in the field of materials joining and additive manufacturing.

Dr. Padmanabham is actively involved with several international and national professional bodies.

Dr. Gianluigi Angelantoni
Sole Director, Angelantoni Industrie S.r.l. & President, Archimede Solar Energy

Dr. Angelantoni, born in Todi (Perugia) on May 20th1944, is married and has one daughter. He is the sole director of Angelantoni Industrie S.r.l. and the President of Archimede Solar Energy S.r.l.

He completed high school at Gonzaga Institute of Milan in 1963, specializing in scientific studies and then attended two-years University course at the Faculty of Electrotechnics Engineering of Pavia.

In 1966 he started working in his family company (Frigoriferi Angelantoni), founded in 1932 by his father Mr. Giuseppe Angelantoni. Since 1994 he is the Managing Director of Angelantoni Industrie Group. The Group is constituted of 3 sub-holding companies Angelantoni Test Technologies (ATT), Angelantoni Life Science (ALS), Angelantoni Clean Tech (ACT) and one subsidiary Archimede Solar Energy (ASE).

Dr. Angelantoni is President of ANEST, the Italian Association for Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy and Vice President of Kyoto Club Italy; President of Research and Innovation Club of Confindustria Umbria; President of UTA, Umbria Trade Agency for 6 years and President of the CEEES - Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies for 3 year and President of Mechanical Industries of Confindustria Umbria.

In 2009, he won the National Award "Gentile da Fabriano" in the Economy, Enterprise and Society category. He has been awarded "Cavaliere del Lavoro" by the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, on May 22nd 2014.

Dr Gopichand Katragadda
Chairman, CII National Committee on Technology & Group, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Sons Limited

Dr. Gopichand (Gopi) Katragadda is the Group CTO and Innovation Head for Tata Sons. He also serves as a director on the boards of Tata Elxsi, Tata Communications, Tata Teleservices, Tata Autocomp Systems, and Flisom AG. He was the Chairman and Managing Director, GE John F. Welch Technology Centre; Chairman, GE-BEL and VP, Karta Technologies, San Antonio, Texas. He also was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas and served on the Board of Directors for Texas Public Radio. Dr. Katragadda is a Fellow of the IET. He is a GE Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Dr. Katragadda provides the voice of technology for various Industry bodies in India. He has authored a book on innovation "SMASH", published by Wiley.

Ambassador Kanwal Sibal
Former Foreign Secretary to Government of India
& Chairman, CII Task Force on Cyber Security

Kanwal Sibal, with 41 years of experience in diplomacy, is a former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He has been Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board from 2008 to 2010. He is on the Board of the New York based East-West Institute and member of the Executive Council of the Vivekanand International Foundation. He is an adviser to the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. He is also Chairman of the Forum of Strategic and Security Studies. He is an Editorial Consultant to The Indian Defence Review and is Foreign Affairs Editor of Force.

He was President of the Association of Indian Diplomats in 2011. He has written more than 500 Op-Eds and other articles for major national journals and periodicals on international affairs. He was made a Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Merite by the French President in 2004. In 2017 he received the Padam Shree award from the President of India. He has been decorated by Russian Foreign Minister on behalf of the Russian Foreign Ministry for Contributions to International Cooperation.

His book of poems "Snowflakes of Time" has been published by Bloomsbury in 2016.

Ms Kiran Nadar
Chairperson, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Ms. Kiran Nadar has established a global platform that showcases and promotes Indian art – The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi.

Ms. Nadar's continuously expanding, diverse art collection today comprises over 5000 artworks representative of all major phases of modern and contemporary Indian art, that are showcased in two KNMA spaces venues.

Established in 2010, KNMA is India's first private art museum that aims to exemplify the dynamic relationship between arts and culture, platforming India's most talented artists and bridging the gap between art and the public at large through exhibitions, publications, educational and public programs. KNMA is a not-for-profit organization that does not charge any fee for entry or for activities conducted by the Museum.

As the Chairperson and Founder of KNMA, Ms. Nadar has forged stellar collaborations with globally renowned museums including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Musée Des Arts Asiatiques, (Nice) and Musée Guimet (Paris) in a short span of seven years. KNMA has also worked with many state level museums.

Ms. Nadar is also one of the top Indian players of competitive Bridge and led her team to victory in Commonwealth Nations Bridge Championships 2018, bringing gold to India after 12 years. Mrs. Nadar also won Bronze in 2018 Asian Games in Mixed team event in Bridge.

She has been voted one of the 100 most influential people in the contemporary art world on the most established ranking in contemporary art, compiled by the UK based ArtReview. She was the Co-chairperson of CII Art Advisory.

Kiran lives in Delhi, India with her husband Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL and Chairman, Shiv Nadar Foundation.

Dr Lovneesh Chanana
Vice President (Digital Government)
SAP India Pvt. Ltd.

As Vice President for Digital Government, Dr. Lovneesh Chanana is responsible for driving the public policy and thought leadership engagements for SAP with Government and other stakeholders. His domain of responsibilities covers engagements related to policies such as cloud, IoT, cyber security etc. and key programs including digital India, make in India, Industry 4.0, smart cities, start-up India and skill India. He is also responsible for strategic public sector business support.

Dr. Lovneesh brings more than twenty-four years of wide-ranging IT and consulting experience to the role, with a track record of strategic engagements on IT in Indian Government. He has handled multiple consulting and IT implementation projects. He has also been contributing to capacity building of Government officials in India and has designed and developed training programs on various areas related to Information and communication technologies in Government.

He works closely with academia in facilitating a strong industry-academia connect. He has been a visiting faculty to Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee for their MBA students for the last 12 years. He has also taught at Indian Institute of Management Indore.

Before joining SAP, Dr. Lovneesh has held leadership positions with IBM, KPMG, EY and National Productivity Council of India.
He holds a Ph.D. with research focus on mobile governance. He holds a bachelor and post graduate qualification in Industrial Engineering.

Prof Luca Beverina
CRUI working group on industrial PhD
University of Milano-Bicocca

Luca Beverina was born in 1975 in Milano, Italy. He graduated in Materials Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca in 1999. He received his PhD in Materials Science from the same University in 2002. He later moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology for a one year Post Doc period. Later he came back to the University of Milano-Bicocca where in 2004 he got a permanent faculty position as assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at the same university. In 2014 he became Associate Professor in the same University. Prof. Beverina present research interests cover organic photovoltaics, electrochromism, rechargeable organic batteries, micellar synthesis with occasional excursions in photo- and thermoresists. He is the coordinator of the work group on industrial PhD of the CRUI association.

Luciano Martini
Director T&D Technologies Department
RSE – Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico

Luciano Martini is with RSE a National Research Centre located in Milano (Italy), where he is the Director of the "Transmission and Distribution Technologies" Department whose activities include, among others, HV lab testing, power electronics, plug-in electric vehicles, applied superconductivity, and pilot applications of smart grids. He has more than 25 years' experience on Research & Development activities dealing with innovative materials, renewable energies, superconductivity, and smart grids. He is the Coordinator of the EERA Joint Programme on Smart Grids, which includes 42 research organizations representing 17 European countries. Martini is Vice-Chairman of the IEA TCP ISGAN (International Smart Grid Action Network) and in the framework of Mission Innovation, he is the Italian co-leader of the Innovation Challenge on Smart Grids (IC#1) together with representatives from India and China.

Dr Luigi Crema
Head of ARES - Applied Research on Energy Systems, research unit,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Luigi Crema is Head of ARES - Applied Research on Energy Systems, research unit of FBK, CT Leader in Hydrogen Europe Research (FCH JU), Vice Chair Energy Pillar, Hydrogen Production, distribution, storage and vice President H2IT, Italian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association. Crema is coordinating the scientific activity on the Energy topic in FBK, where he is Head of a multidisciplinary team involved in research and innovation actions in the field of energy systems. He is the coordinator of several EU projects, including the FP7 DiGeSPo (Concentrated Solar Power), FP7 EDEN (Hydrogen Storage) and H2020 CH2P (Hydrogen production). He is a member of EERA Joint Programme Concentrated Solar Power, of Hydrogen Europe Research, member of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, At the National level, he is Vice President of H2IT and member of the National Extended Board on Energy research for H2020 set up by MIUR and MISE. He is involved in several projects and initiatives related to energy topics such as INSHIP (H2020-ECRIA project on solar thermal for industrial process heat), on Stirling dish technology, on hydrogen storage and high temperature fuel cells, on organic flow batteries. In this last topic, he is supporting an innovative start up incubated in FBK, Green Energy Storage, and involved in the Italian group for the SET PLAN, as well as involved in the European Battery Initiative. Through ITPAR programme he is collaborating with IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee on energy for rural communities.

Dr Luigi Raschella
Vice President, Chief Representative – India, Elettronica S.p.A.

Dr. Luigi Raschella' is the Vice President – Chief Representative India and Business Development Asia at ElettronicaS.p.A. since January 2017. Elettronica (ELT), founded in 1951, is a European leader in the production of Electronic Defence equipment.

His key responsibility is coordination and supervision of Elettronica activities in India. In this role, his responsibilities isto promote Elettronica & CY4GATE Systems and capability in the various domain and increase the footprint of Elettronica in India by establishing relationship with the armed forces, government authorities, research and development departments and public and private industries. He is working towards creating new opportunities in India and Asian countries andalso supporting the technical and sales departments in the finalization of the proposals and negotiations.

Prior to this, he was responsible for ELT Asia/America/Africa Sales & Programs Department (July 2013 – January 2017) and ELT Logistic Department (January 2009 – July 2013).

He began his career as an Installation Engineer (January 1981– October 1987) and worked in various capacities since then - as Sales Manager for the Eurofigther Program (September 2005 – January 2009), in Logistic Program Management (January 1998– September 2005), as Program Manager of Italian After Sales Programs (January 1992 – January 1998), Maintenance Engineer for Naval Programs (October 1987– January 1992).

Prof Marco Foiani
Scientific Director
IFOM The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology

Prof. Marco Foiani is the Scientific Director and Head of the Genome Integrity Laboratory of IFOM - The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation and co-founder of the IFOM-IEO Campus. His research interest focuses on the regulatory mechanisms that control genome integrity.

He was the founder and Vice-President of the European Nanomedicine Foundation (CEN). He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of AIRC and Full Professor in Molecular Biology at the University of Milan and Professor at the European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM). He is member of the editorial board of Cell and EMBO member.

Prof Marica Branchesi
Astrophysicist
Gran Sasso Science Institute
National Institute of Nuclear Physics

Marica Branchesi is assistant professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, and researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy. She is president of the commission of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics of the International Astronomical Union and member of the Gravitational Wave International Committee. She is a member of the Virgo Collaboration, where she served as co-liaison to coordinate the LIGO and Virgo collaborations' electromagnetic follow up program to send gravitational-wave alerts in low latency from 2014 to 2018. She was as Virgo astrophysicist in the panel who announced to the world the first gravitational-wave signal from the coalescence of two neutron stars (at the NSF international press-release). She was named Scientist in Nature's 10, the journal's annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2017. She was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2018. Her scientific interest lies in the (astro)physics governing emission, formation and evolution of black holes and neutron stars. Her research activity is aimed at developing the multi-messenger astronomy, which uses electromagnetic and gravitational-wave observations to probe the physics most energetic transient phenomena in the Universe.

Prof Massimo Osanna
Director General
Archeological Park of Pompei University of Naples "Federico II"

Massimo Osanna is the General Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii since 2014 and full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Naples "Federico II" since 2016. In Pompeii he encouraged conservation works on an urban scale as well as archaeological excavations employing modern technologies and methodologies. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Director of the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of Matera and from 2007 to 2008 Superintendent for Archeological Heritage of Basilicata. He was the Director of many archaeological projects in Italy and abroad. His research interests focus on Greek archaeology, archaeology of cult and reconstruction of urbanization in Southern Italy and Pompeii in the pre-Roman and Roman period. He wrote more than 100 papers and he is moreover the Director of the Collana di Studi e Ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei.

Prof Mauro Giacca
Director General
ICGEB International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Mauro Giacca, MD PhD, is the Director-General of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), an international organization in the United Nations system for advanced research and education, with laboratories in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa (www.icgeb.org). He is Full Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Trieste. His research interest focuses on the development of novel biotherapeutics for cardiovascular disorders, with particular reference to growth factors and microRNAs that induce cardiac regeneration after myocardial infarction. He also maintains a strong interest in the molecular biology of HIV-1 infection. He is the President Elect of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR), European Section and serves on the Boards of numerous scientific organizations internationally. He has published over 320 papers in peer-reviewed, international journals. He is also active in promoting scientific outreach for the general public. At its laboratories in Cape Town, the ICGEB runs research programmes at the forefront of international scientific excellence on topics of particular relevance to sub-Saharan Africa, in infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB), non-communicable diseases (cancer) and the regulation of GM products.

Dr Michele Lanzinger
CEO
MUSE Science Museum - Trento

MICHELE LANZINGER is Chief Executive Officer at the MUSE-Science Museum in Trento (Italy). Graduated in Geology and PhD in Anthropology, from 1988 to 1992 he was curator of the Geology and Human Palaeontology Department at the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (the previous natural history museum in Trento downtown).
Mr. Lanzinger promoted MUSE, the project for a new-concept museum devoted to science, nature and society. For this new museum Mr. Lanzinger planned the overall organization and supervised both the Feasibility Study and the Cultural Plan. He has been the project leader, responsible for the design made by the "Mixed Group" – a collaborative team made up of museum staff, architects of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop designers and museologists of the Natural History Museum in London. The new museum opened in 2013 in an area of urban redevelopment.

President of the ANMS (Italian Association of Scientific Museums) for two mandates and member of the board of Ecsite (European network of science centres and museums) from 2011 to 2016, he is currently member of the Italian national executive board of ICOM (International Council of Museums). He teaches Science communication at the University of Trento, Padua and Bergamo. He is and has been advisor and consultant for the development of the strategic & content plans for many Italian science museums (Bassano, Verona, Bologna, Parma, Turin) and many Parks and Nature interpretation centers.

Mr Marco Protti
Chairman ACARE Italia, AIAD

Marco Protti graduated in Physics in 1985 and he joined Leonardo Aircraft Division (formerly Aeritalia) in 1987.

He is currently the Head of Advanced Research and he has the responsibility to oversee the Division Innovation process including Research Projects definition and management as well as the industrial exploitation of the developed technologies.

He is the chairman of ACARE Italy, member of the General Assembly of ACARE, of the ASD R&T Commission, of the European Materials Modelling Council - Industrial Advisory Board (EMMC-IAB) and of the Governing Board of the Clean Sky JU.

Dr. Michele Geraci
Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Government ofItaly

Michele Geraci is Deputy Minister at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.He is a former Investment Banker and Electronic Engineer and an expert on Chinese economy. He was Assistant professor of Finance at Nottingham University Business School, China. He was also the Head of China at the Global Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor of Finance at New York University, Shanghai and at Zhejiang University. He lived in China from 2008 to 2018. His research work is aimed at governments, corporations and investors, offering non-academic, practical-oriented policy recommendations and investment advice. Topics of interest include monetary policy, income disparity, migration, urbanisation and European crisis, international trade, M&A.

Dr. Geraci was a regular contributor to China Daily op-ed and a columnist for Caixin Magazine and IlSole24Ore/Radiocor. Michele has been voted for four years in a row one of the top 50 Italian experts on Chinese matters by MilanoFinanza; one of the top 5 University of Nottingham media experts and has recently been awarded the title of Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell'Ordine Della Stella D'Italia) by President of Italian Republic, Mattarella. He also teaches courses on China's economy in Europe at LUISS (Rome) and Copenhagen Business School. He is the producer and host of a documentary on China's economy and had a popular blog with the goal to enhance the knowledge of China amongst European and Italian policymakers, enterprises and the general public.

Prior to China, Dr. Geraci was an investment banker based in London. Over more than a decade between London and Wall Street, he worked in Europe, Latin America, Eastern Europe in investment banks such as Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, DLJ, Schroders as co-head of European Telecom Research and Head of Latin America Telecom Research.

Before starting his career in finance, he worked as an electronic engineer in the Satellite planning manager division of British Telecom, London. He took part in the design of Eutelsat satellites that are used today to broadcast TV to Europe. Dr. Geraci holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, under the guidance and friendship of Prof Modigliani and Rudy Dornbusch and an undergraduate degree in electronic engineering from the University of Palermo, Italy, with one year spent at UCL as exchange student. He speaks Italian, English, Chinese as well as Spanish and some French.

Mr M S Unnikrishnan
Managing Director & CEO, Thermax

Mr. M. S. Unnikrishnan is the Managing Director & CEO of Thermax Limited, the energy and environment solutions major. The company has a global presence and operates in the areas of heating, cooling, power, water and waste management, air pollution control and chemicals.

He is a passionate advocate of a sustainable ecosystem of innovation and technology for national resurgence. He chairs the CII National Committee of Industrial Relations and is a member of the Development Council constituted by the Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India. He has chaired the Capital Goods Skill Council Committee under the National Skill Development Corporation. He also chaired the Skills Working Group of the BRICS Business Council in 2016.

He is a member of the AICTE Jury Committee for annual ranking of technical and management institutes of the country and is also a Co-Chair of the Apex Council to implement the "Prime Minister's Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research." He has been honored with the "Asia Innovator Award" at the CNBC Asia Business Leaders Awards, 2012.

He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur in 1982 and has completed his Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, USA. Mr. Unnikrishnan is known for his strategic and human relations skills and is a champion of green technologies.

Mr Manish Sinha
Chief Operating Officer, GMR Hyderabad International Airport

Mr. Manish Sinha is the Chief Operating Officer, RGI Airport Hyderabad. A senior airport professional with more than 26 years of experience, he started his career as Management Trainee with Airports Authority of India and has served at various airports within the country. He is also a cooperative member of CII – Telangana state.

Apart from being a subject matter expert in Airport Operations, he has contributed profoundly in the field of Project Management, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Master Planning, Business Excellence, Legal and Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Management and Service Quality. He is Certified Coach & Job Evaluator by Hay's Group and has been associated as a core member in succession planning, identification and grooming of TETs (Top Emerging Talents).

He played a key role in bringing the various innovation and technological interventions for maximizing the throughput and enhancing the predictability at RGI Airport Hyderabad. He played a key role in implementing the Carbon accounting & management system at GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL). Under his leadership Hyderabad Airport has been conferred with various awards, recognitions and certifications at both national and international level. GHIAL also had been conferred with "Excellent Energy efficient Unit" by CII for the five consecutive years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Mr. Manish Sinha is passionate towards social cause like community development, "joy of giving" and also encourages his team members to stand out for such noble cause.

Mr Massimo Beccarello
Deputy Director- Industrial Policy, Confindustria

Mr. Beccarello is a PhD in "Market Structures and economic behavior" VIII Cycle, University of Bologna (1995)with a dissertation on "The regulation of the natural gas market". He completed his Master of Science in Economics Queen Mary College University of Londonand a Degree in Economics and Finance from Faculty of Economics, Università Cattolica di Milano. His research interests includeenergy and enviromental economics, economics of regulation, privatisation policy and industrial economics.

He is a Professor of Industrial Economics and Competition Policy, School of Economics Science, University Milan Bicocca; Scientific Director of the del Research Center in Economics and Regulation, of Industry, Servicies and Public Utilities (CESISP) Department of Business and Law University of Milano–Bicocca. Scientific Coordiantor of reserch labs in Energy Economics and Circular Economy and Waste Management; appointed member of Italian Board of Consultation project Horizon 2020 on research area "Secure, clean and efficient Energy"; on consultation board of Ministry of Education, University and Research; Consultant of Confindustria (Association of Italian Industries) and Deputy Director for Industrial, Energy and Enviromental Policies.

Mr N. Raveeswaran
Head – Aerospace & Defence, Mahindra Group

Mr. Nagarajan's responsibilities in the Aerospace and Defence Sector of Mahindra Group includes strategic vision, business growth in the aerospace and defence sector and leading new businesses initiatives. Aerospace and Defence are major focus areas for the Mahindra Group under the aegis of "Make in India" policy of the Indian Government. Mahindra Aerospace and Defence Sector currently comprises multiple companies and divisions which are engaged in designing and producing a wide spectrum of products.

Mr. Nagarajan has post graduate degrees in Strategy and Operations and has undergone a post-graduate program in Management. He is lives in New Delhi with his wife and a son.

Dr Naresh Trehan
Chairman & Managing Director, Medanta Medicity

Dr. Naresh Trehan, an Indian national, is a renowned Cardiovascular and Cardiothoracic surgeon, a graduate from King George Medical College and subsequently trained and practiced at New York University Medical Center Manhattan USA from 1971 to 1988, where he obtained a Diplomat from the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Dr. Trehan is the Chairman & Managing Director and Chief Cardiac Surgeon, MedantaTM-The MediCity, a 1500 bedded multi super speciality institute, which offers cutting edge technology and state of art treatment facilities at an affordable cost. The Institute is governed under the guiding principles of providing medical services to patients with care, compassion and commitment.

Dr. Trehan founded the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre where he was the Executive Director. Escorts was conceptualised, created and managed by Dr. Trehan from November 1987 to May 2007.

Dr. Trehan has received many prestigious awards, including the Padma Shree and the Padma Bhushan Award, presented by the Government of India.

Dr Naresh Trehan was the President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery (ISMICS), Minneapolis, USA 2004-05 and has also received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from three prestigious universities.

Ms Nerupama Y. Modwel
Head, Intangible Cultural Heritage Division, Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage

Ms. Nerupama Y. Modwel heads the Intangible Cultural Heritage Division at the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). She has overseen the successful completion of a number of research, documentation and workshop projects on performing traditions in dance and drama, folklore, oral narratives and histories, and indigenous arts and crafts. She is coordinating an ongoing programme on studies of tribal communities across the country, cultural mapping of de-notified and nomadic communities of India and documentation of living culture of HRIDAY cities like Varanasi and Gaya. She has worked on, or contributed to, a number of publications including 'Documenting India's Intangible Cultural Heritage', 'The Soopa Shastra of Mangarasa III', 'Heritage, Conservation and Communities', and conceptualized, designed and edited numerous seminal works in the field of intangible heritage.

She has organized a number of international and national seminars on heritage issues such as 'Oral Traditions: Continuity and Transformations, Northeast India and Southeast Asia' (2016), 'Oral Culture: People, Poetics and Performance' (2017), and 'Himalayan Heritage: Community-led Economic Regeneration' (2017). She has also produced diverse INTACH films on intangible heritage, such as 'Gaya: Strings of Faith', 'Life in a Fistful of Rice', 'Jayatu Simhasta: The Ujjain Kumbh', 'Communities of Arunachal Pradesh', and 'Chikankari: Thread of Life'. Previously, Ms. Modwel taught at Delhi University and Rajasthan University. She read English Literature at St Stephen's College and Delhi University.

Mr Piergiorgio Borgogelli
CEO and Director General, ICE - Italian Trade Agency

Graduate in Business Administration at Bocconi University (1985), after an INSEAD Diploma in Advanced Management in Fontainebleau, Mr. Borgogelli began his professional career in TV & Broadcasting Division of Fininvest.

In 1988, he joined Ernst & Young as Supply Chain and Consumer Packaged Goods Practice Leading Partner, accountable for global sales and international account management team for client engagements.

In 1999, he moved to Fila Holding, where he works as Executive Senior V.P. Global Operations, accountable for international sourcing and manufacturing (mainly Far East), transportation and logistics, custom clearance, warehousing and distribution through international subsidiaries and distributors. He led several renovation processes in the international subsidiaries processes.

At the end of 2002 he joined Telecom Italia as Operational Planning & Client Management Director (2002), O.S.S. e V.A.S. Applications & Solutions Director (2004), Executive V.P. IT Management for Domestic Wireline (2005).

With Telecom-TIM merger in 2006 Borgogelli becomes Director for Service Creation and deals with the commercial launch of new converged services and special projects.

After serving as Executive V.P. – first for Service Creation Management, and then for Service & Process Creation, B.U. Domestic Market Consumer - he becomes Executive Senior V.P. for Application Development and Management in Telecom Italia Information Technology (TI.IT.).

He left Telecom Italia SpA in 2013 to join Expo 2015as Director of Supply Chain and Technology and Vice General Manager.Back in Telecom Italia at the end of Milan Expo, he becomes Technical Advisor to the Chief Information Officer for business transformation projects.

Since June 2016, he is the CEO and Managing Director of ICE-Agenzia - Italian Trade Agency.

Prof Prakash Chandra Ghosh
Professor, Department of Energy, Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Prof. Prakash C Ghosh is a Professor in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Dr. Ghosh received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany. He is the recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship from DST, Govt. of India and ERASMUS MUNDUS fellowship from European Union.

Prof. Ghosh has worked as a guest scientist in Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany from 2002 to 2004. He worked in National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India as a scientist from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Ghosh's research interests include low temperature fuel cells which include designing, modelling, fabrication and characterization of PEFC and HT-PEFC stacks. In addition to these he is also involved in solar hydrogen research and energy storage. Prof. Ghosh has more than 50 International Journal papers in the field of solar energy, fuel cells and hydrogen energy. He has also five awarded international patent and four filed patents in his name. He has participated in several national as well as international projects with several countries in the capacity of Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator. Prof. Ghosh has secured funding (>35 crore) as PI and Co-PI from DST for three projects and is also leading two Indo-UK projects (IMASE and IUCERCE) in the field of micro-grid and energy storage in the capacity of PI, funded by Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Mr P S Ramesh
Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, Dynamatic-Oldland AerospaceTM – India

Mr. P S Ramesh has served in various positions of seniority at Dynamatic Technologies Limited since 1999. His career spans over two decades, including a 12 year stint with the Quality Assurance Group of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) where he was responsible for the manufacturing & procurement activities of the Jaguar and the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), and a 5-year stint as the signatory of Certificate of Conformances for the Malaysian Aircraft Industry, where his customers included British Aerospace, Boeing, MAS and the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

A graduate in mechanical engineering, Mr. Ramesh holds a Masters degree in Aircraft Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Mr. Ramesh joined the Company in the year 1999 as Head of Quality and spearheaded the campaign for documenting procedures/ control plans and implementing ISO 9001 certification. He has been working with Dynamatic Technologies for over 18 years and has progressively moved ranks to become the Chief Operating Officer of Dynamatic HydraulicsTM, India. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Dynamatic-Oldland AerospaceTM, India.

Prof Pankaj Jalote
Distinguished Professor (CSE); PhD

Prof. Pankaj Jalote is Distinguished Professor (CSE) – IIIT-Delhi. Earlier he was the Director, IIIT-Delhi. He has also been an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland College Park, Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, and Head of Computer Science Department at IIT Kanpur. He has also been Vice President at Infosys for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for one year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months.

Prof. Pankaj Jalote is Distinguished Professor (CSE) – IIIT-Delhi. Earlier he was the Director, IIIT-Delhi. He has also been an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland College Park, Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, and Head of Computer Science Department at IIT Kanpur. He has also been Vice President at Infosys for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for one year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months.

He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of five books, some of which have been translated in Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc, and the Indian edition of his text on Software Engineering was adjudged the bestselling book by the publisher. His main area of interest is Software Engineering. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Intl. Journal on Empirical Software Engineering, and IEEE Trans. on Services Computing.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.

His research interests include software engineering, software quality, process improvement, service oriented computing, software architecture, Fault-tolerant computing

His teaching interests include Software Engineering, Advanced topics in Software Engineering, Quantitative Methods in Software Engineering, Component Based Software Engineering, E-Commerce, Object-Oriented Systems

Mr Rajesh Jha
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Adani Vizhinjam Port Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Rajesh Jha is currently the MD&CEO of Adani Vizhinjam Port Pvt Ltd. Mr. Jha is also the Director of Mundra Solar PV Ltd.

Mr. Jhais a B.Techin Metallurgy from IITRoorkee and was also the Executive Senate Councillor of the Students Association from 1985-86 to 1987-88.

Mr. Jha started his career with Tata Steel.His previous assignmentbefore Adani Group was with Utkal Alumina International Ltd.(Aditya Birla Group)as MD&CEO. He was the Vice Chairman of CII Odisha for the Year 2013-14.

Mr. Rajesh Jha is serving as a member of Surface coal gasification committee of NITI Aayog for the last two years.

Mr Ratish Nanda
Conservation Architect and CEO
Aga Khan Trust for Culture

He studied architecture at the TVB School of Habitat Studies, Delhi where he graduated with the Gold Medal. Ratish then did a master's programme in Conservation Studies focussed on the built heritage at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, England.

He heads the multi-disciplinary AKTC teams presently undertaking the two major urban conservation projects in India: the Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative, Delhi and the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park Conservation in Hyderabad. For AKTC, he was earlier responsible for the Baghe Babur restoration (2002-2006), in Kabul, Afghanistan and the garden restoration of Humayun's Tomb (1999-2003).

He has earlier worked for Historic Scotland in Edinburgh (1998-99) and also been responsible for several successful projects for INTACH Delhi Chapter (1995- 2000) such as the conservation of St James Church, ruins adjacent Sultan Garhi, monuments in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park.

Ratish has served as an ICOMOS expert to missions in Iran, Turkey and Nepal and lectured in over 20 countries including at ICCROM, Rome. He has authored over 50 articles and his major publications include, 'Delhi, the Built Heritage: A listing'- released by the Prime Minister of India; Delhi: Red Fort to Raisina; Conservation of Historic Graveyards (Scotland) and Rethinking Conservation: Humayun's Tomb.

Awards received by him include theChishtiIndia Harmony Award (2014), theEisenhower Fellowship (2007), the Sanskriti Award for Social and Cultural Achievement (2004), the 'Urban Hero' title by Prince Claus Fund, Aga Khan Foundation International Scholarship and the Charles Wallace ConservationFellowship (1997), among others.

Mr Ratul Puri
Chairman, Hindustan
Powerprojects Private Limited

Ratul Puri, Chairman, Hindustan Powerprojects Private Limited

Former Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum; part of key think tanks in India that are evolving solutions to usher energy sufficiency in India and the Chairman of Board of Hindustan Power, Ratul Puri has pioneered commissioning large scale solar plants in India. With his intrinsic knowledge of coal fired thermal and understanding of the clean energy, he has been advocating adoption of energy mix in India to address its energy demands. Ratul is a regular at World Economic Forum ( WEF) and is an engaged partner with the Forum and is also the Chairman of power committee of CII – Northern Region. He led the discussion on climate resilience during the WEF, 2016 and was the co-chair for the Energy track at the India National Strategy Day driving the innovate financing agenda.

Named CEO of the year by World Brand Congress (2014) & Asian Power Awards (2015), he has been acknowledged for his contribution to the infrastructure sector in India by The Economic Times (2014). Significantly, Ratul's name was featured amongst the top 21 young leaders in the country who could shape India's destiny in the 21st century. He has been recognized by the leading Industry bodies and media publications and is widely seen as the industry voice for the Indian power sector.

Dr Reba Chhabra
Head - Quality Control Diagnostics
National Institute of Biologicals

Dr (Mrs) Reba Chhabra is i/c Deputy Director Quality Control (Diagnostics), National Institute of Biologicals, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. She has been a pioneer contributor in the field of Quality Control Evaluation of Immunodiagnostic Kits for more than 20 years, resource person for NACO activities relating to conducting HIV EQAS & strengthening Quality management System. She has undergone international trainings at Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research Food & Drugs Administration (CBER/FDA), USA, at National Serology Reference Laboratory, Melbourne Australia. And also attended several national level trainings, conducted workshops and participated in WHO collaborative studies. Is a lead auditor for ISO 9001: 2008, member of Asia Harmonization Working Party Technical Committee (AHWPTC) working group AHWPWG1a-IVDD (In Vitro Diagnostic Devices) since September 2013.

Roberto Battiston
President
Asi Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

Roberto Battiston is born at Trento in 1956. Laurea degree at Scuola Normale of Pisa (1979). Doctorate University of Paris IX, Orsay, (1982). Chair of General Physics at the Engineering Faculty of the Perugia University, Faculty of Engineering, (1992 - 2012). Chair of General Physics at the Physics Department or the Trento University (2012- ). Laurea honoris causa Universtiy of Bucharest (2000), Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2017), Vladimir Syromyatnikov Award (2017). He has worked for over 30 years in international collaborations in the field of experimental physics and fundamental interactions: Strong interactions, Electroweak interaction physics, Search for antimatter and dark matter in Cosmic Rays.

Deputy spokesperson for the AMS experiment, already successfully flown during the STS91 Shuttle flight in June 1998 (2007- ) and installed on the ISS in 2011. Italian PI for the LIMADOU, to develop and energetic particle payload for the Chinese CSES satellite (2011-2014) to be launched in 2018 Coordinator of the SR2S EU project (2013-15) to develop active shielding techniques for interplanetary flights. President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) (2014-). Vice President of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAF) (2014-2017). Author of more than 420 papers published on international scientific journals. Organizer of several workshops devoted to space science and to advanced technologies (Trento 1999, Elba 2002, Washington 2003, Bejijng 2006, CERN 2012).

Mr R Subrahmanyam
Secretary, Department of Higher Education; Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India

Mr. R Subramanyam is the Secretary, Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The 1985-batch IAS officer from Andhra Pradesh cadre had been serving as Special Secretary in the department prior to his appointemnt in this role early in 2018.

Mr. R Subrahmanyam studied BA Economics from Madras Christian College, Chennai and MA (& M Phil) in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He studied MBA in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Studied M.Sc in Macro-economics from University of Bradford UK on Commonwealth Fellowship.

Earlier, he also served as Principal Secretary, Rural Development department Government of Andhra Pradesh. He worked as Commissioner Weaker Section Housing and MD of Andhra Pradesh State Housing Corporation implementing the INDIRAMMA housing programme aimed at creating a 'hut-free' State. He also worked as Director in Ministry of Textiles in Government of India in Delhi; Director of School education; District Collector of Hyderabad and East Godavari Districts.

Mr Rakesh Bharti Mittal
President, Confederation of Indian Industry and Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises

Mr. Rakesh Bharti Mittal is Vice-Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, one of India's leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri-food business, financial services and realty. Rakesh serves as Chairman-Bharti AXA Life Insurance, Bharti AXA General Insurance and FieldFresh Foods. Rakesh is also on the Board of Bharti Airtel and is Managing Director -Bharti Realty Holdings. Bharti has joint ventures with several global leaders: Singtel, AXA, Del Monte, SoftBank and Brightstar.

Mr. Mittal has been elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2018-19 and has been a part of the CII National Council since 1999. He has served as Chairman of various Councils: Agriculture, CSR, Public Policy and Membership. He is also a member of the India-Pakistan Joint Business Forum (IPJBF).

Mr. Mittal is a member of the Founders Circle -Brookings India, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). He has also served as member of the Society of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

A passionate advocate of right to good education and philanthropy, Mr. Mittal is the Co-Chairman of Bharti Foundation with leading initiatives in education and sanitation. Bharti Foundation provides free education and reaches out to over 2,50,000 children across 13 States.

Mr. Mittal serves on Boards of several educational institutions - Indian School of Business (ISB), Chairman -Advisory Council of Bharti Institute of Public Policy at ISB Mohali, Co-Chairman-Advisory Board of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management, IIT Delhi and Member of the Court, Bennett University. Mr. Mittal is also a member of the Governing Board of Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana.

Mr. Mittal has been awarded the Honorary Doctor of Civil Law Degree by Newcastle University, UK and is the recipient of the prestigious Horasis - India Business Leader of the Year 2016 (Internalization) and LMA - Entrepreneur of the Year Award 1992.

Mr. Mittal is also the Honorary Consul, Republic of Sierra Leone in India.

Mr Raimondo De Cardona
Diplomatic Counselor to the Italian Ministry of Culture

Born in Saint Louis (USA) in 1957, he graduated in Political Science at the University of Rome.

In 1988, he began his diplomatic career working in Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was then assigned, in 1990, to the Italian Embassy in Kinshasa (DRC)

In 1992, he was appointed Italian Consul in Brisbane (Australia) and in 1995 he was appointed Consul General in Bombay (Mumbai).

From 1998 to 2000, he served as Chief of Staff of the Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Foreigners in Italy.

From 2000 to 2005, he served as Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Italy in Belgrade.

He then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the position of Balkan Director.

He 2009, he was appointed Ambassador in Sarajevo and from 2013 to 2018 he served as Ambassador in Tunis.

In July 2018, he was appointed Diplomatic Adviser to the Italian Minister of Education, Universities and Research.

Mr Rakesh Sasibhushan
Chairman and Managing Director, Antrix Corporation

Mr. Rakesh Sasibhushan, is a distinguished space scientist and is the Chairman & Managing Director of ANTRIX Corporation, which is the commercial arm of ISRO. Prior to this assignment, he was the Director of ISRO's Propulsion Complex, at Mahendragiri, Tamilnadu from 2015 to 2016 and Deputy Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre heading the Composites Entity at the Vattiyoorkavu Campus of VSSC from 2011 to 2015. ISRO's CE20 cryogenic engine testing activities were completed at Mahendragiri under his leadership. He was also instrumental in setting up critical facilities for semi-cryo engine assembly & testing as well as optimizing the productivity of PSLV & GSLV engine & stage assembly activities at Mahendragiri.

He joined ISRO during 1984 in the area of Launch Vehicle manufacturing. He has set-up a Centre of Excellence in manufacturing and is credited with the creation of an Advanced Manufacturing Lab. He completed his MTech in Manufacturing Management while in service. He has three joint patents in the area of Advanced Manufacturing - in laser welding, metallic thermal protection systems and silica tile processing.

He is a recipient of ISRO team award 2011 and merit award 2012.

He is an avid naturalist and a life member of Bombay Natural History Society.

Mr Ramana SV
Senior Vice President, HCL Technologies Ltd.

Mr. Ramana brings in 30 years of rich experience from Technology and BPM Industries and currently with HCL Technologies. He is instrumental in transforming IT service into integrated IT Service delivery. Under his guidance HCL is driving transformational projects and focused IT Operations to enable digital experience to business users. He brings in huge experience in driving IT Operational excellence, delivering large technology transformations and driving significant cost productivity using best in class Processes and Tools. He is Six Sigma Green Belt certified professional.

Before joining HCL, he has worked with Genpact as CTO for 15 years. He has past experience at Telstra-VComm, CMC Ltd and NTPC Ltd. At Genpact, he was the Global Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, responsible for managing IT Infrastructure (Enterprise Computing, End User Computing, Networks, Security and Telecom) and IT Operations support with additional responsibilities of Information Security & Compliance and IT Sourcing at various periods.

He has a B.Tech (Electronics & Communications) degree from J.N.T.U, Kakinada, AP. He is also founder President of Other Service Providers Association of India (OSPAI), an association representing various ITES companies for accelerating growth of industry.

Dr S. Guruprasad
OS/Sc.'H' & Director General, (PC & SI) DRDO

Dr. S. Guruprasad obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mysore University and Masters Degree in Machine Design from Bangalore University. He did his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research areas include Blast & Impact Resistant Structures, Structural & Shock Dynamics.

Dr. Guruprasad joined R&DE(E), a DRDO Laboratory in 1986. He was a key member of the design team of Project Sarvatra, a multi-span Mechanical Military Bridging System. He also worked on Under Water Systems especially in the area of shock dynamics. As Project Director for the BrahMos Launchers and Ground Systems, he was instrumental in development of weapon complex elements for BrahMos. His efforts have resulted in design & development of Inclined Deck Mounted Launchers and Vertical Launchers for naval warships. These products and host of other support systems developed under his leadership have already been inducted in army and navy.

Dr. Guruprasad is an expert in Computational Structural Mechanics and Composite Structures. He has many technical publications to his credit in various National & International Journals and conferences. He has 30 patents to his credit, some of them international (USA, Russia etc.).

He was leading Research & Development Establishment (Engineers), a premier Systems Laboratory under DRDO, for past 5 years leading several important Development Projects in the Areas of Combat Engineering, Weapon Launch Systems, Advanced Composite Products, NBC Protection Systems and Robotic Systems.

He is currently taking care of Productionisation of DRDO developed Systems, Transfer of Technology, International Cooperation and interaction with Services in the capacity of Director General (PC&SI) at DRDO HQ.

Mr. S K Varshney
Adviser & Head - International Bilateral Cooperation, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Varshney is a Scientific Officer with Government of India, working with Ministry / Department of Science & Technology, Government of India since 1990. Presently he is working as Adviser & Head, International Bilateral Division of the Department and is responsible for facilitating bilateral scientific cooperation of India with partner countries.

He has worked as Counsellor (S&T) with Embassy of India in Moscow to facilitate bilateral scientific cooperation between India and Russia during April 2008 - June 2011. He has been contributing to promotion of international scientific cooperation as well as scientific – industrial cooperation. Mr. Varshney is actively involved in financial planning of the group.

Mr. Varshney completed M. Sc. (Geology) in 1984 from Aligarh Muslim University and was awarded University Medal for obtaining first position. He also pursued research at University of Delhi during 1985-1990 on Himalayan river systems, sedimentation, diagenetic and tectonic modifications. He was awarded Dr DN Wadia Research Fellowship in 1986 for his research on Himalayan Geology.

He is Life Fellow of Geological Society of India, Bangalore; Nepal Geological Society, Kathmandu and member of International Association of Sedimentologists, Oxford. He also has numerous certifications to his credit. Mr. Varshney also taught at Kurukshetra University in 1990.

Dr SSA Francesca Brancaccio
Founder, CEO and Technical Director, B5 Srl

Dr. Brancaccio was born in Naples on 16th August 1969. She has many qualifications including aDegree in Architecture (University of Naples Federico II) magna cum laude in 1985; Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Town Planning (Politecnico di Torino); Post Graduate Specialization in Restoration of Monuments (University of Naples) (auditeur libre at the Ecole de Chaillot, Paris); European Master in History of Architecture (University of Rome 3) and International Master in Cultural Heritage Managment (University of Rome Tor Vergata). Professor of History of Art (Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione). She is enrolled in the Register of the Council of the Order of Architects of Naples since 07/09/1955, n. 5708.

She is responsible for historical and archives researches, for analysis of decays, causes of degradations and disruptions and pathologies, surveying, for architectural and structural planning and work direction, management and coordination. She has been member of the commission at French Ministry of Culture for Reforming Education in the Universities of Architecture, member of the international scientific team for the design and work direction of the Architectural Consolidation and Reconfiguration of the UNESCO site Real Albergo dei Poveri in Naples (Italy) and member of the scientific committee of the French Ministry of Culture for the structural reconstruction of the north tower of Saint Denis Church (Paris). Her theoretical and practical training was structured through work experience in Europe (Belgium France and Italy) and in international field with experience as a senior expert and coordinator of architectural and structural restoration and consolidation and sustainable development projects (Uzbekistan, Turkey, Pompeii, Lebanon). She regularly holds lessons and lectures in Italian and foreign universities and post graduated institutions.

Since 2005 she is Founder, CEO and Technical Director of B5 S.r.l.

Mr Sanjaya Singhal
Chairman, Secure Meters Ltd.

Mr. Sanjaya Singhal, Chairman of Secure Meters Group, founded Secure and played a pioneering role in introducing electronic metering to address tamper, fraud and poor data quality within utilities. He is a recognised expert in the energy supply chain, electronic manufacturing and business strategy.

As Chairman of the Council of Advisors and the Board, Mr Singhal advises the business on strategy. His passions include Sanskrit, photography and teaching. He continues to mentor Secure team members both in technical areas and about how important living our values is for the business.

Mr Sanjeev Nikore
President- Strategic Initiatives, Tech Mahindra.

Mr. Nikore is President for Strategic Initiatives at Tech Mahindra. He is an industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in Management Consulting, IT and Technology Services. Prior to Tech Mahindra Mr. Nikore was the President of several industry verticals and emerging markets at HCL Technologies. He is also the co-founder of Infrastructure Managed Services at HCL Technologies. He started his career as a management consultant with the Indian arm of Ernst & Young.

Mr. Nikore has been associated with several important industry initiatives during the course of his career such as being a consultant to the Ministry of Environment, Government of India and UNIDO for phasing out ozone depleting substances in India and Africa; setting up the first fully digital stock exchange in India, National Stock Exchange of India; active participation in liberalization of telecom sector in India as President of VSAT Services Association of India during the liberalization phase in 2000-2002; remote management of power distribution networks in India-namely in two big states: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh; provision of electronic trading and distance education for remote villages in India and interactive distance education project for India Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Mr. Nikore is a member of the advisory board on ICT and eco-sustainability for World Economic Forum.

He is a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Benares Hindu University & MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.

Mr Shammi Gumbhir
Managing Director, Unicorn DenMart Group andSecretary, Association of Dental Industry and Trade of India (ADITI)

Unicorn DenMart Group is promoted by Mr. Shammi Gumbhir, Managing Director. He is an Engineering Graduate, with 31 years of experience in Indian Medical and Dental Industry & 7 years of experience of working with Japanese multinational company at the start of his career in professionally managed environment of Medical Industry and now developing business in Dental Industry with best in class SOPs. Today, the company is proudly associated with the largest number of global brands and has maintained the top position amongst top dental equipment companies in Indian dental arena. All the Brand Associations are exclusive in specialized products categories and maintains an unmatched confidence for technology sharing and enhanced sales & prompt service in Indian marketplace.

In addition to this Mr. Shammi Gumbhir is the Secretary of ADITI (Association of Dental Industry and Trade of India). ADITI is a forum where manufacturers, traders, importers and all others connected with the dental trade fulfilled a vital gap in the link between dental practitioners, academia, manufacturers and traders, apart from giving voice to the aspirations of all in representations and discussions with the Government.

Dr Shubnum Singh
Director-Medical Education, Medical Research & Advisor - Healthcare
Framework, Max Healthcare Institute Ltd.

Dr. Shubnum is an alumnus of Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi and has 38 years of experience in the medical profession ranging from a Pathologist, Allergist, and Administrator to Health care Policy Framework and Strategy.

A founder member of Max Healthcare Institute Ltd.,she has been actively involved in strategizing and developing different verticals of the business. As CEO of Max Institute of Health Education & Research, she was actively engaged in developing the educational and skilling vertical for the group. Currently as Advisor Healthcare Framework she provides strategic guidance to the group in various projects.

She is the Chairman of the Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC) and founder member of the Life Sciences Sector Skills Development Council which create a robust and vibrant eco-system for quality vocational skill development in the Healthcare space in India.

As a Clinical Allergist, her vision is to grow the discipline, build research capabilities within the scientific community in India by jointly conducting epidemiological research on childhood food allergy and atopy prevalence with Indian and overseas bodies.

She is a Life Member of the South Asia Association of Allergy, Asthma, Clinical Immunology (SAAAACI), Indian College of Allergy, Asthma & Applied Immunology (ICAAAI), American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI), Indian Academy of Allergy (IAA) & European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI). She has been a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Healthcare Council for the last 15 years.

Dr Suddhasatwa Basu
Director, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (IMMT)

Dr. Suddhasatwa Basu completed Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1993 (MS/Ph.D) and worked for four years (1994-1997) as a postdoctoral fellow and as a visiting faculty at University of Alberta, Canada. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1998. He is Professor (on lien), former Head of Chemical Engineering Department and Associate Dean Research & Development at IIT Delhi.

At present, he is the Director, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar. His broad research interests are in the area of energy materials and its application in hydrogen energy and fuel cell technology, water splitting, CO2 reduction and conversion to C2-C4 organics. He has published 182 articles in high impact factor journals (152) with H-index of 31, conferences (30) and 5 patents, one book and eight book chapters. He is working on sponsored research projects (worth $7 million) of DST, GAIL, DRDO, ONGC. The direct alcohol fuel cell technology developed by him holds promise as a power source for portable electronic equipment. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Science of Indian and Indian Chemical Society. He has received various awards for his research and publications.

Prof Stefano Debei
Head of CISAS "G. Colombo"
University of Padova

MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova, PhD in Space Sciences and Technologies at the Centre of Studies and Activities for Space "G. Colombo" in 1996. Full Professor teaches Measurement and Space Robotics courses for Aerospace Engineering MSc. Head of CISAS "G. Colombo" of University of Padova. Technical Manager of SIMBIOS-SYS for BebiColombo ESA Mission. Co-I of OSIRIS on board of the Rosetta ESA Mission. Member of Mars Exploration Program Advisory Group (MEPAG). Co-Pi of DREAMS, environmental and meteorological experiment for Exomars 2016. The research experiences are mainly devoted to: design and implementation of instrumental set-ups for calibration and testing, parameter identification on mechanical systems, conceptual and optimal design of instruments, automated mechanisms and robotics systems for autonomous labs mainly for Space application. He is author of more than 200 publications in international Journal and International Congress.

Mr Sunil Jain
CEO & ED, Hero Future
Energies Private Limited

Sunil Jain assumed the role of CEO and ED at Hero Future Energies (HFE) in the year 2013. He has over three decades of experience in the entire aspect of business in automotive, infrastructure & cleantech and manufacturing industry.

He specializes in creating new businesses and taking the start-ups to scale. Post his stint in Escorts Auto parts for a period of twenty years, he assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a start-up renewable energy development company, GREEN INFRA, a company incubated by IDFC PE. Under his able leadership, Green Infra successfully executed projects in renewable energy and developed several businesses across wind, solar PV and small hydro. He spearheaded growth to nearly doubling of the capacity y-o-y and built a positive company culture at Hero Future Energies.

Sunil has been involved in introducing new concepts of power selling in the Indian renewable sector especially wind. His passion about sustainability has been a major influencing factor in his life. He has been actively advocating for stable and meaningful policies to promote the cause of green energy. Sunil has consistent record of delivering extraordinary results in growth, revenue and operational excellence. His cumulative experience has been of setting up more than 2.5 GW capacity on ground. Characterized as visionary and strategist, he has assumed the thought leadership position in renewables sector in India.

He is the President of Wind Independent Power Producers Association (WIPPA), a pan India association representing all the leading IPP's in the country. He is also member of CII Renewable Energy Committee. He has been awarded Excellence Award in the year 2012 for his contribution to renewable energy and sustainability by "Energy and Environment Foundation". His academic research paper on "Sustainability and Renewable Consumption Obligation" has been presented at forums of international repute. He has been awarded for his outstanding contribution to Industry development at India Solar Week leadership awards 2017.

Dr Shekhar C. Mande
Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR); Director of the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune and Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Dr Shekhar C. Mande is the Director of the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune; Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), India. CSIR is one of the world's largest publicly-funded research and development organisations and is known for its contributions in diverse areas of science.Dr Mande is a leading structural and computational biologist and has more than 100publications to his credit.

After completing his M.Sc. in Physics from Nagpur University in 1984, Dr Mande obtained his PhD in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 1991. He started his postdoctoral research at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in the Netherlands in 1991 and joined as a senior fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA in 1992.

After returning to India, he joined the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, as a scientist and continued till 2001 when he was selected as a Staff Scientist at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad. In 2011, Dr Mande was appointed as the Director of NCCS, Pune, an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He also served in various advisory committees for the Government of India.

Dr Mande has several honours and awards to his credit. He is the fellow of all the three major science academies of India—the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), and the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS).

Prof Teodoro Valente
Deputy Rector for Research Innovation and Technology Transfer,
Rome University "La Sapienza"

Full professor of Materials Science and Technology at Rome University La Sapienza, actually Deputy Rector for Research Innovation and Technology Transfer. Director of the Department of Chemical Materials and Environmental Engineering and President of the National InterUniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology. Lecturer on Materials Science and Technology and on Aerospace Materials for the Degree on Aerospace Engineering at Rome University La Sapienza, Engineering Faculty. Research interest on technology transfer, surface engineering, materials for structural applications, materials recycling, process and materials modelling. Author of more than 160 papers and two international patents.

Ms Tarana Sawhney
Chairperson, CII Task Force on Art & Culture & Member, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art

Ms. Tarana Sawhney is a founding member of the NGO Khushii and on the Advisory Board of the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), which promotes emerging artists and associated art professionals. She has led the fundraising processes for the charities that she is associated with and supports the Public Art Project at India Art Fair annually. Ms. Sawhney is also a Member of the South Asian Acquisitions Committee of the Tate Modern Museum, London, and has been instrumental in recent collection of art from the region, which has formed a part of the Museum's permanent collection. She lives in New Delhi with her husband Tarun and her two children.

Ms. Tarana Sawhney is the current Chairperson for CII's Task Force for Art & Culture for 2018-19.

Mr Umang Das
Co-Chair, CII National Committee on Telecom and Broadband and Chief Mentor, ATC India

Mr. Umang Das is a special advisor for the Regulatory Affairs and related Industry matters at ATC India. Prior to this, he was with Viom Networks (Now ATC Telecom Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd) as Chief Mentor managing company's international ventures and forays into managed services in addition to Regulatory and Policy matters. Prior to this, he served as Managing Director & CEO of SREI Infocomm Services Ltd. Also, after having established the Telecom Business of Compton Greaves, he took over as the Managing Director of Spice Telecom and subsequently as Group President of Spice Global Businesses. His significant contributions to the telecom industry include establishing cellular mobile telephony business in the country and initiating the first mobile call in August 1995. Mr. Das is the Vice-Chairman of TAIPA (Tower & Infrastructure Provider Association) and also chairs the Infrastructure Sub-Committee of Telecom & Broadband in Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Mr. Das is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.

Prof V. Ramgopal Rao
Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao is currently the Director, IIT Delhi. Before joining IIT Delhi as the Director in April 2016, Prof. Rao served as a P. K. Kelkar Chair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and as the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay.

Prof. Rao has over 450 research publications in the area of nano-scale devices & Nanoelectronics and is an inventor on 40 patents and patent applications, which include 15 issued US patents. Eleven of his patents have been licensed to industries for commercialization. He is a co-founder of two deep technology start-ups at IIT Bombay (Nanosniff & Soilsens) which are developing products of relevance to the society.

Prof. Rao was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2003-2012 for the CMOS Devices and Technology area and currently serves on the Editorial boards of other journals. He is a Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electron Devices Society and interacts closely with many semiconductor industries both in India and abroad. He served as the Chairman, IEEE AP/ED Bombay Chapter and as a Vice-Chairman, IEEE Asia Pacific Regions/Chapters sub-committee for two terms. He was the first elected Chairman for the India section, American Nano Society during 2013-2015.

Prof. Rao is a Fellow of various reputed scientific and engineering professional bodies. Both academia and industry alike, has recognized Prof Rao's work with many awards and honors in the country and abroad. Prof. Rao is also a recipient of the Swarnajayanti and the J.C. Bose Fellowships.

Mr Vijay Chadda
Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Foundation

As the CEO of Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, Mr. Chadda has led the development of the organization and its education programs at primary, elementary and senior secondary standards. He has also been able to establish successful and replicable models of Public Private Partnership. The Satya Bharti School Program, provides free quality education to around 45,000 children from marginalized communities in rural areas, through its 254 schools across six Indian states. Learning and best practices of the Satya Bharti School Program have also been taken to Government schools, through the Satya Bharti Quality Support Program focused on mentoring Government schools to enhance the quality of education as well as the overall schooling experience.

Mr. Chadda has over forty-five years of professional experience in different fields. He has served in the Indian Army for twenty years and headed some of the leading corporates in the travel and hospitality industry. It was his innate desire to contribute to society in a meaningful and substantive way that drew him to the Foundation. A graduate from the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune and the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College Toronto, Canada; Mr. Chadda completed his M.Sc. in Defence Studies from Madras University.

Mr. Chadda is also the Chairman of the Managing Committee of Modern School, Barakhamba Road. He is a part of various National Committees in the area of Education, Skill Development and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and has also served on the board of significant Travel & Tourism Associations. Mr. Chadda is also on the Advisory Committee of leading schools and educational institutions.

Mr Vidmay Naini
Country Manager, eBay India

Vidmay Naini is the Country Manager of eBay India and is responsible for driving eBay's strategy in India. He is a seasoned executive with entrepreneurial drive and proven track record in conceptualizing and launching new businesses grounds-up across India and South East Asia.

Vidmay has over 17 years of consumer internet experience with deep experience in ecommerce, online payments, marketing, category management, cross border trade, trust & risk and strategic partnerships.

During his tenure at eBay, Vidmay has led multiple business units and has overseen eBay strategic partnership with Flipkart and also lead the reverse integration of the cross border trade business back with eBay Inc.

He is an avid sports fan, foodie and travel enthusiast. He is passionate about creating opportunities for communities in India and around the world through ecommerce.

Prof Vijay Chandru
Chairman and Managing Director, Strand Life Sciences

Prof. Vijay Chandru (PhD, MIT '82) is an academic turned entrepreneur. His academic career in data science spanned over two decades as a professor first at Purdue University and then Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

At IISc, Prof Chandru and along with his three colleagues pioneered the establishment of India's first 3-D printing laboratory which was spun off as a company (APDAP) for rapid prototyping in 1994. He was also the co-convenor of the Perceptual Computing Lab (PerCoLat) that had an R&D focus in data visualization, computer graphics and virtual reality applications on campus. PerCoLat spun off the Simputer and Strand Genomics. Prof Chandru is a fellow of the National Academies of Science and Engineering in India and a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum. He was awarded the Dewang Mehta prize for IT innovation from MCIT in 2001 for inventing the Simputer and the Hari Om Trust Award from UGC (2003) for his contributions to Science and Society. Prof Chandru is a founder and former Honorary President of ABLE (the apex body for the biotechnology industry in India) from 2009-2012. He serves on the vision groups for Biotechnology and Science & Technology and also on the board of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology.

As an entrepreneur, Prof Chandru is the Chairman and Managing Director of Strand Life Sciences. Since 2007, Strand has been a global leader

Prof Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
Director, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science

Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at Indian Institute of Science. Dr. Ravindranath joined the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, (NIMHANS) Bangalore in 1986. She served as Director at NBRC from 1999 to April 2009. She established the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC). In a short span of 3 years, she established a state-of-art institute in a remote location and initiated a unified approach to understanding the human brain, integrating mathematical and computational science. She networked 45 institutions around the country with NBRC with a goal to share resources and promote neuroscience research. She is an elected Fellow of all the 3 science academies in the country, namely Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India. She is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Neurosciences and Third World Academy of Sciences. She is a recipient of the many prestigious awardsa and fellowships including Padma Shri (2010). In 1986, she completed her Post-Doctoral training at the NCI, NIH, USA. Dr. Ravindranath obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Mysore in 1981.

Prof Vikram Kumar
Professor, IIT Delhi

Prof. Vikram Kumar is presently Dr Raja Ramanna DRDO Distinguished Fellow at the Solid State Physics Laboratory, Delhi. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi.

His research interests include the understanding of electronic defects and interface states in silicon, III-V and II-VI semiconductors, photovoltaic devices and nanotechnology. His work on electronic defects in semiconductors was recognied with the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1992. As the Director of the Solid State Physics Laboratory, he has contributed towards the development of technology of materials and devices some of which have reached production stage. He led his team for setting up GaAs Enabling Technology Centre (GAETEC) foundry for pilot production of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) that is supplying devices to various users including defence and space. His team has also developed the technology for growth of single crystals of CdZnTe and GaAs and supplied device quality wafers. He also contributed to the development HgCdTe based PV and PC infra-red detectors.

At NPL he initiated programmes on silicon and organic solar cells. At IIT Delhi, he has coordinated the setting up of the Nano-scale Research Facility. He has contributed as chair or member of several committees of DST, MNRE, DEITY, DRDO, MHRD and other scientific agencies. His appointments include Faculty, IISc, Bangalore (1977-1992); Director, SSPL (DRDO) (1992-2003); Director, NPL (CSIR) (2003-2009) and Faculty, IIT Delhi (2009-2017).

Mr Vincenzo De Luca
Director General - Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr.Vincenzo De Luca took office on 1 February 2016 as Director-General for the Promotion of the Italian Economic System after having served in the same Directorate General as Deputy Director-General and Central Director for the Internationalisation of the Italian Economic System and of the autonomous local authorities (since January 2014).

He has been a career diplomat since 1989 and has been given several assignments at the Foreign Ministry and at the diplomatic representations in Khartoum, Tunis, Paris (at the permanent Representation at the OECD) and in Shanghai. He has a long-standing expertise in the internationalisation of the economic system of the public and private sector, both in Central Offices, in the capacity of Diplomatic Advisor of the Ministries of Industry, Transports and Economic Development, and in large corporations like ENI and ENEL, where he served as Vice President for Institutional International Relations. During the past few years, he played a relevant role in the organisation of the EXPO Milano 2015 as President of the Foreign Ministry's Task Force, capitalising on his experience as Consul General in Shanghai.

Prof. K.P. Singh
Prof. K.P. Singh, the 22nd Vice-Chancellor of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Prof. K.P. Singh, the 22nd Vice-Chancellor of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar has been given additional charge of the Vice-Chancellor of Maharana Pratap Horticultural University, Karnal, which came into being under Haryana Act. No. 32 of 2016. He took over the charge as Founder Vice-Chancellor of this newly established University on 6th January 2017. An eminent scientist in the field of Biophysics, Prof. K.P. Singh is a person of positive outlook and firm determination.

Being the first Vice-Chancellor, Prof. K.P. Singh shall endeavour to frame the university in shape to meet the demands of academic excellence and cutting edge research in Horticulture and allied sciences as per mandate and objectives of the Act. There is need to speed up the erection of infrastructure closely on land measuring 118 acre provided at village Anjanthali, Distt. Karnal. Since the said land is presently lying with open area, the required infrastructural facilities have to be created for making this new University functional. The University has set up its Camp Office at CCS Haryana Agricultural University Campus, Hisar on 21st January 2017.

Prof. K.P. Singh, born on June 1, 1968, completed his M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry with flying colours from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Further, he has done research on the structure elucidation of biomolecules, nanosignaling, targeted drug delivery and nanobiosensors at Technical University, Bratislava (Slovakia), Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia (Europe) and Cranfield University, U.K. He has about 17 years of rich experience in administration, institution building, teaching and training, research and development, and international cooperation.

Before joining as Vice-Chancellor on July 15, 2016 at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Prof. K.P. Singh was working as Professor and Head of College of Basic Sciences and Humanities at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. Prof. Singh has also served on various key positions like Director, Uttarakhand Council for Bio-Technology, Department of Science, Technology and Biotechnology, Government of Uttarakhand and Director of G.B. Pant - Cranfield Research Centre at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar.

As the Director of Uttarakhand Council for Bio-Technology (UCB), Prof. Singh contributed immensely to its overall development. Under his dynamic leadership, UCB established Centre of Excellence for Mountain Biology with state of the art laboratories in the areas of nano-biotechnology, bioinformatics, molecular diagnostics, tissue culture etc. At UCB, Prof. Singh was instrumental in establishing international academic collaboration with USA, Australia and U.K. At G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Prof. Singh's arduous efforts bore fruits when Biophysics Unit, of which he was the Head, established state of the art laboratories of international levels in the fields of nanobiotechnology, nano-biosensors, nano-medicine, nano-fertilisers etc.

Prof. Singh has wide exposure to international programmes and also in handling international projects. He is widely travelled and has visited United Kingdom, USA, Slovakia and Croatia. He has been a visiting faculty to National Cancer Institute, USA; Stanford University, USA; Howard University, USA; Cranfield University, UK; Ruder Boskovich, Croatia; and Technical University, Bratislava. He has also participated in several international programmes/ seminars/conferences as chairperson of technical sessions, group leader, invited speaker and delegate. He is also recipient of many awards including Young Scientist Award by

Prof. Ranjan Bose
Prof. Ranjan Bose is the Director of the Institute. Prior to joining IIIT-D, he was Microsoft Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi.

He has also served as the Head of Bharti School of Telecom Technology and anagement and as the founding Head of Center of Excellence in Cyber Systems and Information Assurance at IIT Delhi.

He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

He is the author of the book Information Theory, Coding and Cryptography (3rd Ed.). This book has an international edition and has been translated into Chinese and Korean. He is the national coordinator for the MHRD Mission Project on Virtual Labs, which enables students all over the country to perform laboratory experiments remotely. He has also contributed to the National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) and the National Pedagogy Project. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Access and Computers & Security (Elsevier), and has been the Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal of Education. He has also been on the Security Advisory Board of GSTN.

He is the recipient of the URSI Young Scientist award, the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) Young Engineers Award, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers, the BOYSCAST Fellowship and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award. He is Fellow of IET (UK) and Humboldt Fellow (Germany).

Jinesh Shah
Jinesh Shah, Managing Partner, Omnivore

Jinesh co-founded Omnivore with Mark Kahn in 2010. Previously, he was Vice President and CFO at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India's leading venture capital funds. Earlier in his career, Jinesh worked in corporate finance roles for Datamatics (leading Treasury/M&A), Patni Computers (initiating the IPO process), and HCL Technologies (founding the BPO business).

Jinesh is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Food Systems Innovation and a member of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Agriculture & Food Processing Committee.

Jinesh is a Chartered Accountant with a B.Com from R A Poddar College and an MMS (Finance) from JBIMS.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
CEO and Founder, The Next Web (Tech accelerator)

Boris is the CEO and founder of TNW. He's also a serial entrepreneur who founded not only TNW but also V3 Redirect Services (sold), HubHop Wireless Internet Provider (sold), TwitterCounter and pr.co. Boris is very active on Twitter as @Boris and Instagram: @Boris.

Inge Wijnja
Head of Government Relations, The Next Web (Tech accelerator)

Inge is Head of Government Relations at TNW X and got deeply involved in the international tech and startup ecosystem during her time working for 4YFN in Barcelona. She likes to build lasting relationships with international communities and help governments to grow and boost their tech ecosystem. She has a strong international network and loves to see connections coming to life at events.

Ramesh Ramachandran
Ramesh Ramachandran is Senior Vice President - Strategy and Farming as a Service at Mahindra and Mahindra.

As strategy head of the $4B Farm Equipment Sector he is responsible for strategy development and implementation and for identifying and incubating new revenue opportunities, both organically and inorganically. As business head for Farming as a Service he is responsible for Samriddhi (a 200+ outlet channel that sells advisory and crop inputs), Trringo ( a farm equipment rental service), My Agri Guru ( an app based advisory service) and Maati (precision farming solutions based on advanced digital technologies such as AI, IoT and Robotics). Ramesh is on the board of 3 agri tech start ups - one each in India, Switzerland and Canada.

With agriculture poised for great change, he is closely involved in leveraging emerging technologies and developing new business models to increase the prosperity of small landholders, a role he finds deeply rewarding.

In all, Ramesh has 26 years of experience in innovation, marketing, strategy and P&L management. This includes 9 years with Unilever's ice cream and Frozen Foods business in a variety of UK and European roles as well as 6 years in the London office of a boutique commercial innovation and venturing consultancy where he helped Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients innovate and grow both by creating new brands and businesses from scratch as well as repositioning existing ones. He also has 6 years of early work experience with Shell in India where as part of the India start up team he worked in sales, marketing and business development to set up some of their initial businesses reporting eventually to the MD.

Ramesh has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, an MMS from S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research and a B.Sc. (Hon) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.

Anil B Jain
Mr. Anil Jain has served as Managing Director of Jain Irrigation Systems Limited (JISL) since 1992.

Mr. Anil Jain has served as Managing Director of Jain Irrigation Systems Limited (JISL) since 1992. He has since steered the growth of the company from INR 0.35 billion to INR 70 billion (approx. USD 1.1 billion in 2017). He joined the company's management team in 1984 and worked in the New York office between 1987 and 1991, leading its international marketing from there. Thereafter, he returned to India and took charge of the Company's overall functioning as Managing Director and CEO.

Mr. Jain is a veteran professional with over 30 years of experience in core strategic areas such as finance and banking,domestic and internationalmarketing, strategic planning, horizontal and vertical expansion, and change management. He along with his three brothers, enabled JISL's successful global expansion to 126 countries. JISL has become the only Indian agricultural corporation with its origin and foundation in rural India to offer a richly integrated product and services basket that benefits the entire value chain of stakeholders.

Being an advocate for the cause of small and marginal farmers across the world, Mr. Jain has driven JISL's multifold progress while keeping the small farmer at the fulcrum of all its objectives and activities. He works zealously towards the issues of food security, water security and energy security. Innovative entrepreneurship is his chosen tool for creating sustainable impact in agriculture, natural resource management, food processing, renewable energy, and related areas. Under his leadership, JISL has positioned itself at the forefront of cutting edge innovation in the field of agriculture to provide cost effective solutions to the farmers that improve their productivity and prosperity.

Mr. Jain has represented Indian Agriculture and Agriculturists at various National & International Forums such as G-8, G-20, IFC-World Bank, WEF, Grow Africa, FAO, ASSOCHAM, Bombay Chamber of Commerce etc. Today, he leads various organizations in different capacities to pursue the concept of creating shared value in global agriculture and food chain.

Having evolved as a visionary entrepreneur and businessman of global stature as well as a compassionate human under the mentorship of his father and the Founder Chairman of JISL, Dr. Bhavarlal H. Jain, Mr. Anil Jain is widely hailed as one of the youngest and most dynamic representatives of innovative Indian entrepreneurship in the international space.

He is an avid reader. His belief in integrated practices such as non‐violence in thoughts and actions, equanimity and conservation, in business as much as in personal life, has led him to undertake many a philanthropic, social and cultural cause. He follows a modest lifestyle both at work and home.

Mr. Jain has a degree in commerce from Pune University (1984) and a degree in law from Mumbai University (1986).

AT PRESENT, MR. JAIN IS ALSO ACTING AS:

• Director, Gandhi Research Foundation - Jalgaon
• Director of PAPSAC-HBS (Private & Public Scientific, Academic & Consumer Food Policy Group‐Harvard Business School), U.S.A.
• Chairman, Steering Committee to Create Shared Value in Agribusiness – ACTION PLATFORM
• Member, Food Processing Education Committee (FPEC), Government of India
• Member, WBCSD CEO Council
• Member, India‐Israel CEO Forum
• Member, Society & Board of Governors of IIM - Sambalpur (Ministry of HRD-Delhi)
• Member of Board of Governor, IIT-Jodhpur
• WBCSD - Food, Land & Water Program Board

Suresh Jadhav
Dr.Suresh Jadhav, M.Pharm., Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd.

Dr.Suresh Jadhav, M.Pharm., Ph.D. is the Executive Director of Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. His 46 years technical expertise includes QC/QA/cGMP/GLP/GCP techniques, inspections of laboratories and validation of various production and quality control processes, pharma/toxicological screening of various drugs, toxins & venoms etc. & drugs pricing. He successfully led the project of development and introduction of Meningococcal A Conjugate Vaccine in Sub-Saharan African belt, the development of Seasonal & Pandemic Influenza Vaccines and also played major role in acquisition of Bilthoven Biologicals, The Netherlands, and Praha Vaccines, Czech Republic. Being associated with DCVMN since its inception, Dr.Jadhav was its President for 5 years.

He held the positions of GAVI Board / Alternate member as also member of GAVI PPC. He is also member on European Vaccine Initiative, FastVac, and Health Innovation in Practice Board etc. He is closely associated with various advisory committees e.g. Task Force of Sabin Vaccine Institute, WHO IVR-IVAC and Decades of Vaccines (DoV) etc. Dr.Jadhav is also affiliated with several Indian universities, AICTE, UGC, State Directorate of Technical Education etc. He is the Chairman of Expert Committee on Vaccines and other Biologicals and also a member on the Scientific Body of Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission. He has participated in several collaborative studies for making revisions in international reference standards for WHO, NIBSC, NVI/RIVM etc. and has published more than 100 technical papers in national & international journals, with extensive travel throughout the globe. He has to his credit two patents in his name. Ranked at 7th position amongst World's 50 most influential people in Vaccines surveyed by Vaccinenation of Terrapinn. He is conferred with IPA Pune Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 by Indian Pharmaceutical Association.

Dr. Gopichand Katragadda
Dr. Gopichand Katragadda is the Founder and CEO of Myelin Foundry, an AI company with a vision to transform human experiences and outcomes in wellness and media & entertainment. He is also an Independent Director of Bosch India Limited.

Till January 2019, Gopi was the Group Chief Technology Officer and Innovation Head of Tata Sons. At Tata Sons, he facilitated the development of pioneering products and services, strategic technology collaboration, and innovation across the $100 Billion Tata Group. Previously, as the Chairman and Managing Director of GE India Technology Centre, he helped grow GE's largest R&D Centre – the John F. Welch Technology Centre, to be amongst the world's leaders in intellectual property generation.

Gopi is the immediate past Chairman of the CII National Technology Committee and the CII Western Region Innovation Taskforce. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. He is a GE Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Gopi helped establish the Advanced Materials CoE at IIT-Madras and the Advanced Manufacturing CoE at IIT- Kharagpur. He has framed the CII-Tata Communications Digital Transformation CoE. Gopi also set up and managed the ongoing Tata research collaborations with Harvard and Yale.

Gopi has authored a book on innovation titled "SMASH," currently in its second edition. He has over 30 journal publications, five patents, several invited presentations and citations of his research work. Gopi holds a BE degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University and MS, PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Iowa State University.

Dr. Rajesh Jain
Dr. Rajesh Jain is Managing Director of Panacea Biotec, a leading Biotechnology Company employing over 2,500 people.

Some of his key contributions are:

• Chair Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Biotechnology for 2019-20.
• Co- Chair -Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), National Committee on Biotechnology for 2017-18. Past Chairman for 2011-12 & 2012-13.
• Recipient of India Innovation Award in 2016 and 2015 (Top 50) by Clarivate Analytics (Formerly Thomson Reuters)
• Hon'ble Member of Indian Pharmacopeia (IP) Expert Working on Vaccines and Immunosera for Human Use of in the year 2017.
• Vice President – Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2017-19.
• Member-Research Council of CSIR–Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI), Lucknow
• Startup India: Board Member for Innovation and Incubation Foundation - Delhi Pharmaceuticals Sciences and Research University.
• Member of Academic Council of DPSRU for three years w.e.f. Sept., 2018.
• External Member of the Board of Studies in Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Clinical Pharmacy and Hospital Pharmacy of DPSRU for three years w.e.f. Sept., 2018.
• Member "DPSRU Vision 2030".
• 31 granted patents and 33 under prosecution.
• Dr. Rajesh Jain's commitment and actions towards making affordable vaccines for mass population across the globe were appreciated and valued by GAVI and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation during the pledge conference in June 2011 & in January, 2015. Mr. Bill Gates has himself lauded the efforts of by Dr. Rajesh Jain towards this noble cause.
• Released following two Position papers:
  • CII recommendations for Guideline Changes in Vaccine Approval Procedures
  • The Make in India Imperative – Position Paper on Regulatory and Policy Changes required for Sustained competitiveness of the Indian Vaccine Industry.
• Dr. Rajesh Jain is amongst Top 40 Global most influential persons as per the list put together by World Pharmaceutical Frontiers published in SPG Media, London.

Nitin Puri
Nitin Puri is Group President and Global Head- FASAR (Food & Agribusiness Strategic Advisory & Research), at YES BANK, India's fourth largest private sector Bank.

The Food & Agribusiness sector is fueling the growth of Emerging India and YES BANK has identified this as a focus knowledge banking sector, wherein it has undertaken various thought-leadership initiatives besides providing cutting-edge advisory and innovative financing solutions across segments in the food and agricultural value chain.

FASAR amongst others, focuses on advisory, policy & research initiatives across key sub sectors & thematic areas. FASAR has worked extensively on numerous strategic advisory projects for clients across the multinational, corporate, government & multilaterals space, besides being active in a number of key research, policy and knowledge forums of national & international importance.

Nitin has completed his Mechanical Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra followed by an MBA in Agribusiness Management from Institute of Rural Management, Anand and an Advanced Management Program in Agribusiness from Cornell University, Ithaca. Prior to YES BANK, he has worked in senior management positions with leading organizations in India including ITC, Aditya Birla Nuvo, MCX& Reliance Retail.

Member - CII-National Committees on Agri and Food Processing

Engaged with various Government, Regulatory & Industry forums:

• Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI)
  • World Food India-2017 (Banking Partner)
• Ministry of Agriculture
  • Private banking sector representative in 'Capital Investment & Agri Credit Theme Group' as part of Agriculture 2022 initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture and NITI Aayog
• Dept. of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce & Industry – Knowledge Partner to Indus Food 2018
• Participation in various State Investment summits - AP, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Assam, Haryana, Rajasthan
• Participation in various international thought leadership forums in agribusiness and food processing
• Actively engaged in nurturing & mentoring the AGTECH Startup ecosystem in India:
• Mentor - YES SCALE AgriTech
• Dept. of Science and Technology (DST)
  • a-IDEA (Technology Business Incubator) under DST and ICAR 'AGRI UDAAN' startup accelerator program (Banking Partner)
• FSSAI – Partner for 'Eat Right Startup Awards'

Sagar Kaushik
Sagar Kaushik is a graduate in Agriculture Sciences with MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has over 35 years of experience in the Agriculture Inputs Industry. Now works for UPL Ltd., which is amongst the top 5 leading companies globally in the agrochemical sector. Major initiatives from UPL have been to make innovative solutions that are relevant for both large and small holding farmers. UPL is globally engaged in reducing postharvest losses with intervening technologies and specialized services thereby making food value chain more robust for increasing farmers' income.

Prior to joining UPL 8 years ago, Sagar was working for Bayer Crop Science at multiple leadership positions in the area of crop management, global research, product development, including global regulatory processes. Sagar has been part of the global research committee and global development committee of large multi-national companies during his tenure of working outside India i.e. Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Japan.

Sagar is currently the Chief Operating Officer at UPL, which is present in 130 countries worldwide, and he has led an international team on new products, new technologies, including their acceptance by multiple stakeholders. Sagar has been closely working with international bodies in the area of MRLs pertaining to overall food safety.

Sagar has been closely working in several key projects in the area of agrochemical product defense, stewardship during the application on farm and industrial occupational health to support chemical and environment safety.

Sagar frequently represents food and agriculture sector on behalf of Indian Industry as a part of trade associations (CII, FICCI etc.), accompanying bilateral government forums / delegations between India and other countries.

Sagar has joined several events like WEF - Davos, IFPRI - Washington, AGRA, Rockefeller Foundation, Food Challenge-Rabo Bank - Singapore etc.

Dr. Shiv Kant Shukla
Dy. General Manager, BCIL, New Delhi

Dr. Shiv Kant Shukla has made remarkable contribution in the area of commercial plant tissue culture and biotechnology. Dr. Shukla did his Masters and PhD in Biotechnology. He is currently working as the Dy. General Manager in Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL), New Delhi an organization created as initiative of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India. He has served BCIL for more than 13 years in various capacity i.e. Dy. Manager, Manager, Assistant General Manager and now Deputy General Manager. Prior to BCIL, he was heading one of the leading commercial plant tissue culture unit in central India. He has more than 20 years of diversified experience covering research, production of tissue culture plants, field extension, quality management, biotech parks, technology transfer, administration and management of science projects.

Dr. Shukla is managing prestigious international and national long-term projects of Government of India which includes Indo-Africa Project on Plant Tissue Culture and National Certification System for Tissue Culture Plants (NCS-TCP). In addition to the above international and national projects, Dr. Shukla is also working with many Indian States for setting up of Biotechnology Parks and Incubators. Dr. Shukla has been felicitated as Professor (Hony.) by Amity University. He is also recipient of various awards and appreciation for his significant contribution in biotechnology and plant tissue culture which includes "Rashtriya Gaurav Award" & "Certificate of Excellence" and Certification for Recognition from Professional Bodies. He has also been felicitated by the State government of Chhattisgarh for his contribution towards promotion of plant tissue culture India. Dr. Shukla has more than 50 publications and chaired/delivered significant number of invited/key note speech at national and international forum.

Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad
Dr. Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad graduated in Chemical Engineering from NIT Durgapur and later obtained his PhD in Biochemical Engineering from IIT Delhi. After obtaining his PhD, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Biotechnology, IIT Guwahati. Later he got Marie Curie Fellowship and joined School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University as Research Engineer. There he was responsible for developing a process technology for the treatment of personal care product wastewaters. His technology has been adapted by L'Oreal and currently they are using it in many of their production plants in different countries.

Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi. Primarily, his research team is working on the development of energy efficient centralised/decentralised treatment systems for treatment of conventional and emerging contaminants present in the environment. His team is also working on the goal of protecting our water bodies with the collaboration of different international partners from UK, USA, Netherlands, Germany, Brazil and China. His research on antibiotic resistance in the environment and particularly in the Ganga River got attention from national and international media houses. He is a member of Global AMR forum established by CDC (US). His team is trying to map the abundance of different emerging contaminants in Delhi as well as major rivers in India such as Yamuna and Ganga. He is also involved in Central Pollution Control Board's Ganga River Basin rejuvenation initiative. His team is working for making a detail inventory map of pollutants present in the entire Ganga River. As a National Green Tribunal and Central Pollution Control Board taskforce member, he is responsible for helping the Government to take necessary actions to reduce pollution and protect Indian water bodies.

Dr Henk Bekedam
Henk Bekedam is the WHO Representative to India; he took up his role on 27 November 2015. He is a Dutch national and a medical doctor by training. He acquired his MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1996.

Prior to his arrival in India, Dr Bekedam was the WHO Representative to Egypt where he took up his position in 2013. He and the team focused WHO's support on scaling-up treatment and prevention of hepatitis C; strengthening the response to the largest outbreak of avian flu in humans and maintaining Egypt's polio free status. In addition, WHO facilitated a White Paper that outlines a clear path for Egypt to move towards Universal Health Coverage, including steps towards a comprehensive health insurance system for all Egyptians.

Dr Bekedam was for six years the Director of Health Sector Development in the WHO Western Pacific Region. He led a team that provided policy support to 37 countries and areas in Universal Health Coverage, health planning, financing, human resources, information systems, pharmaceuticals and service delivery. Antimicrobial resistance and the establishment of the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies with other development partners were among his key responsibilities.

Dr Bekedam was the WHO Representative to China from 2002 to 2007. His team was instrumental in supporting China successfully contained the SARS outbreak in 2003. His other areas of work included: Avian Influenza, food safety, AIDS, tuberculosis, tobacco control, and chronic diseases. Additionally, WHO advised China on health sector reform, helping to overcome challenges of inaccessibility, poor quality of services and rising costs.

Prior to his time in China, Dr Bekedam worked in Cambodia for six years. He led a health sector reform project, working with Ministries of Health and Finance, State Council and partners to rebuild the health system in post-Khmer Rouge period.

Before his work with WHO, Dr. Bekedam was seconded to governments in Africa from 1988 to 1995. Initially based in Zambia he moved to Malawi in 1991, where he headed the southern regional health office,covering half of the country's population and one million Mozambican refugees.

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam is a Faculty of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras and Head of the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), an R&D centre of IIT Madras. After his PhD and postdoctoral training in US in medical devices for 8 years involving implantable devices for restoring biological functionality in blindness and paralysis, he returned to India with the goal of developing affordable medical technologies in the country. Since 2009, he has successfully built an ecosystem of technologists, clinicians and industry, culminating in setting up of Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) in 2011. HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country with over 200 engineers, doctors, researchers, students and entrepreneurs working with more than 30 medical institutions, industries, government agencies, in developing and commercializing affordable healthcare technologies. Till date four such technologies have become commercially successful products in the areas of ophthalmology and in-vitro diagnostics, with several other products in the pipeline.

Henk Ovink
Henk Ovink was appointed in 2015 by the Cabinet of the Netherlands as the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. As the Ambassador for Water, he is responsible for advocating water awareness around the world, focusing on building institutional capacity and coalitions among governments, multilateral organizations, private sector and NGO's to address the world's stressing needs on water and help initiate transformative interventions.

Henk Ovink is also Sherpa to the High Level Panel on Water, installed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and President of the World Bank Jim Kim with 11 Heads of State / Heads of Government including Prime Minister Rutte from the Netherlands to catalyze change in water awareness and implementation.

Furthermore, Henk Ovink is Principal for Rebuild by Design, the resilience innovation competition he developed and led for President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. In January 2018 Henk Ovink was awarded for his 'global water work' an honorary membership of the Royal Instítute of Engineers of the Netherlands.

Henk Ovink teaches at the University of Groningen, the London School of Economics and at Harvard GSD. His last book "Too Big. Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change" explores the recovery work post Hurricane Sandy as an opportunity to learn from. www.nai010.com/en/too-big

Mr. Dinesh Kumar
Executive Director of Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy, UNDP

Lisette Heuer
Lisette Heuer studied Civil Engineering at TU Delft and graduated in 1997. She started working at Province of Northern Brabant in 1998 and moved to Royal HaskoningDHV in 1999. Lisette has a 20-year track record in line management and innovation in the water sector with special focus on flood resilience. She currently holds the positions of Global Director (Flood) Resilience, Global Water Strategy Director and is member of the global Business Line Water Management Team. Her experience has largely been gained within Royal HaskoningDHV where she has covered parallel roles as Business Development Director, Director Advisory Group, Technical Director and COO in Water as well as account management for universities. Lisette is member of various committees focusing on sector needs in scientific research and education of universities ao for civil engineering, built environment, climate change and sustainable development. She is now focusing on driving further business growth in Royal

Haskoning DHV; particularly in (flood) resilience for highly complex urban environments via innovation and digital solutions.

Mr Hein Mollenkamp
Managing Director at Water Alliance

Hein Molenkamp has helped positioning the Water Alliance as one of the leading global water clusters. As a unique partnership of private and public companies, government agencies and competence centres, the Water Alliance helps to introduce innovative ideas from entrepreneurs to the (inter) national market. Water Alliance is based at Water Campus Leeuwarden, which offers a unique research infrastructure and is a meeting point for scientists and companies from all over Europe.

Mr. Lex van Dijk
Lex van Dijk is founder and CEO of BLUE-tec from the Netherlands. BLUE-tec is an engineering and construction company in the field of innovative watertechnologies with a focus on membrane processes.

Lex van Dijk graduated in 1990 from Wageningen University. After being a researcher at the Wageningen University he worked for a few years as a constultant. In 1996 he started his own company Triqua, one of the frontiers in membrane bioreactor technology. After he sold this company in 2006 he started the company Sustec, dealing mainly with sludge treatment and developed innovative thermal hydrolysis process. In 2014 Lex van Dijk started BLUE-tec.

Mr.Stephan Bochem
Stephan Bocken has been the Chief Executive Officer of Paques since October 1st, 2013.

Stephan graduated with first class honours in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, specializing in wastewater treatment. He also has an MBA from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Upon graduation, Stephan started his career as a Project Enginee r with Ciba Specialty Chemicals in Basle, Switzerland, a company for which he worked for nearly 20 years. Here Stephan took on a series of successive roles including product management, regional sales management and ultimately leading several global Business Units, viz. Polymer Additives and the Business Unit Paper. Subsequent to Ciba and prior to Paques, Stephan was the CEO of the Fiber and Environmental Solutions division of Voith Paper for 7 years.

Stephan is a result-orientated, people manager who considers innovation of paramount importance.

Mr. Pradeep Kumar
Environmental sustainability project management professional experienced over 22 years in Plant Biotechnology, Microbiology, sustainable environment management Protection and Restoration projects in lakes, waterbody, canal restoration, integrated River mitigation & slope stabilization, Flood management solutions. Land protection and reclamation, dump site green capping by using natural substrates, Vetiver and Beneficial Microbes (BM) through Bioremediation, Phytoremediation and Bio-engineering techniques for re-build the ecosystem and increasing the ecological foot-prints by climate friendly interventions for climate change impact reduction initiatives and practical applications in India and abroad.

Vikas Goyal
Mr. Goyal has been practicing (and still learning) Integrated Water Resources Management for last 25 years after completing my Bachelor and Masters' Degree in Civil Engineering with specialization in Water Resources Engineering.

He has been working in water sector encompassing sub-sectors such as water resources and natural resources development, flood management, water management, water supply and sanitation, addressing integrated water management related aspects.

His wide-ranging experience includes: Water-sector Policy Development, Water Resources and Flood Resilience, Disaster Risk Management; Public Private Partnership (PPP) in water sector projects; Project Management; Procurement and Contract Management; Risk identification, allocation and pricing; and varied aspects of water and urban development related projects.

He has actively handled projects in both "Brownfield" and "Greenfield" Infrastructure Development Sector, announced by current Government viz.,

• Water Resilient "Smart Cities"
• Integrated Water Management in "AMRUT" Project for Tier-2 and Tier-3 Cities.
• Smart Water Infrastructure Development for new greenfield cities under "Industrial Development Corridor".
• Basin and City level Integrated Water Management under "National Mission on Clean Ganga".
• State-of-the-art monitoring Infra, sustainable and resilient basin water management under "National Hydrology Project".
• Resilience Action Plans for Disaster Risk Reduction to address "Urban Flooding" in Cities.

Professor Servaas A. Morré
Professor Servaas A. Morré is working on Chlamydia trachomatis infections for almost 25 years, with a central focus on female infertility and women's reproductive health and health policy. He is a serial entrepreneur in the field of (infectious) disease diagnostics, human biomarkers and personalised medicine to generate new application in health care systems. Coordination of large international EU funded consortia, in which mostly SMEs take place, is the basis for his translational output. He is Director of the Institute of Public Health Genomics (IPHG) in Maastricht the Netherlands; he is Professor Host-pathogen Genomics in Public Health at IPHG; he is Head of the Laboratory of Immunogenetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; he coordinates for over 10 years the Dutch Chlamydia trachomatis Reference Laboratory (Amsterdam); finally since 2015 he is Professor of Biotechnology and Immunogenetics at SHUATS University, Allahabad, India. All activities focus on developing new diagnostics to be implemented in health care systems including health policy approaches.

Dr Nico Verdonschot
Prof.dr.ir. Nico Verdonschot is scientific director of the Technical Medical (TechMed) Centre of the University of Twente which is a leading Innovation H ub impacting healthcare by excellent Research, Innovation and Educational programs. It is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, ranging from re search labs, preclinical testbeds and simulated hospital environments.

Bart Geerts
Bart Geerts is CEO and founder of Healthplus.ai, a growing AI start-up based in Amsterdam. He has a background as a cardiac-anaesthetist, intensivist and clinical pharmacologist. He is also an associate professor and co-supervises a team of over a dozen researchers at Amsterdam UMC.

His focus with Healthplus is to enable patients and health care professionals to be more proactive in their management of disease and health by using existing data and machine learning.

Bart has worked at Scyfer with Prof Max Welling, hospitals in Leiden (LUMC), London (UCLH) and Amsterdam (AMC and OLVG), and the World Health Organisation. Bart also studied Biomedical sciences in Leiden and he has an MBA from IE University in Madrid. He worked in hospital administration, and still does clinical work every week.

• Task Force For Applied Research
• Yusuf Goedbloed, Healthy Village Concept
• Rob Neeter, Careanimations

Namita Taneja Krul
Registered Nurse turned Financial Analyst and Entrepreneur, Namita Krul is the Founder of Meri Body (meaning 'my body' in Hindi), a social enterprise working towards educating millions of (semi)literate women in India through mobile technology on female body literacy and healthcare. After obtaining her MBA from the Erasmus University in 2010, she applied theoretical business models to real-world social problems. New Yardsticks (consulting company on women empowerment) and Co-Founding WORK+SHELTER (a non-profit ethical unit that trains women in New Delhi, India) were the logical result.

Namita is recognized for her contribution to the economic empowerment of women. She's a winner of The International Alliance for Women's 2013 World of Difference 100 Global Award and Nominee of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Distinguished Alumni Award 2014. In October 2017, she participated at the Ideation Lab in Sohna (Haryana) with the FHI360 (Family Health International) to develop new contraceptive technology ideas for the future.

Bart has worked at Scyfer with Prof Max Welling, hospitals in Leiden (LUMC), London (UCLH) and Amsterdam (AMC and OLVG), and the World Health Organisation. Bart also studied Biomedical sciences in Leiden and he has an MBA from IE University in Madrid. He worked in hospital administration, and still does clinical work every week.

• Task Force For Applied Research
• Yusuf Goedbloed, Healthy Village Concept
• Rob Neeter, Careanimations

Mr. Frans van den Boom
Frans van den Boom PhD MBA, has more than 30 years leadership and management experience in professional international, multilingual and cross-cultural organizations, ranging from start-ups to mature organizations. He has unique experience in working with state and non-state actors in high, mid and low-income countries and working at the interfaces of political outreach, public policy development, resource mobilization, public health and health (services) research , planning and evaluation, and communication. He has long-term experience in research, analysis and evaluation, project and program management; leading grant making organizations and resource mobilization efforts

Dr. van den Boom has served as the Vice President, Country and Regional Programs and Executive Director Europe of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) for 10 years, responsible for vaccine preparedness and community mobilization programs, the social and behavioral sciences program, and resource mobilization .

He also served as Executive Director Policy, Planning and Evaluation at Qatar Foundation R&D, and Executive Director of the Dutch Top sector Life Sciences and Health. He joined the Human Vaccines Project in July 2018 as Executive Director Europe

Gideon Kersten
Gideon Kersten is Chief Scientific Officer at the Institute for Translational Vaccinology (Intravacc) in Bilthoven, The Netherlands. He studied at Leiden university (bachelor in Pharmaceutics, master in Biochemistry) were he graduated in 1985. In 1990 he obtained a PhD at the university of Utrecht on subunit vaccines. He was employed at the Institute for Public Health (RIVM), the Netherlands Vaccine Institute and currently Intravacc, mostly as department head. Since 2012 he holds a chair as professor in vaccine delivery at Leiden University in the Drug Delivery Technology division. In 2017 he became CSO of Intravacc.

His research interests are in the area of vaccine delivery and formulation, like adjuvant development, needlefree vaccination and antigen stabilisation. Antigen characterization and effect measurements are other areas of attention. This includes physico-chemical characterization, immunochemical analysis and transcriptome and proteome analyses after immunisation.

He is author of more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals plus 8 book chapters and has supervised 6 PhD theses.

Ernst Soethoust
Ernst Soethout DVM PhD, managing director of Virtuvax, holds a PhD in Immunology from Utrecht University. He has had positions in R&D of increasing gravity at the Netherlands Vaccine Institute and was finally responsible for business development, intellectual property and licensing at Intravacc, the national institute for vaccine research of the Netherlands. Dr. Soethout is a specialist in pre-clinical and clinical development of vaccines and is former advisor to EMA, London for marketing authorization of vaccines. Virtuvax provides strategic advice, technology and expertise for the development of vaccines and biologicals. Since its inception in 2016, Virtuvax has served Big Pharma, governments and biotech companies in the development of new vaccines.

Mr. Wim van der Poel
Wim H. M. van der Poel, DVM, PhD, is a senior scientist at Wageningen Bioveterinary Research and special Professor of 'Emerging and Zoonotic viruses' at Wageningen University. He is a principal investigator within the Netherlands Centre of One Health (NCOH), member of the Project Management Board of the European Joint Program One Health (EJP One Health) and coordinator of the EPIZONE European Research Group, the network on epizootic animal diseases research. Previously he has worked at the Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The research work of Prof. Van der Poel involves at least three main areas: New and emerging viruses, Foodborne and Zoonotic viruses, including Hepatitis E virus, and 'Global One Health'. Prof. Van der Poel has (co)-authored more than 140 scientific research papers.

Frans Vlaar

Mr. Joris Den Bruinen
Mr. Joris den Bruinen, General Director of The Hague Security Delta (HSD). He was personally involved in the setup of the HSD foundation, almost 5 years ago. Den Bruinen has a background in strategy and consulting in both the public and private sector and was previously the advisor of the Mayor of the Hague. He is very much energized and engaged in creating connections, relationships and building the ecosystem that in the end has the objective to create a secure society.

Ms. Eveline Vreede
Eveline Vreede is affiliated to TU Delft where she is manager of the TU Delft Safety & Security Institute. The institute, although established in 2013, is already rooted in many decades of experience in safety and security research at various faculties of TU Delft. It is the need for more integrated approaches that has brought different fields together in one institute. Furthermore, she is Managing Director of the Cyber Security Academy.

The Cyber Security Academy is a conjunction of TU Delft, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Science for executive education and expertise in the field of Cyber Security. Both institutes enhance interinstitutional and public private collaboration. From 2014 to 2018 Eveline was Executive Secretary of 4TU.NIRICT. This institute brings together ICT related research, innovation and education of the four universities of technology in The Netherlands: TU Delft, TU/Eindhoven, UTwente, and Wageningen University. She has been involved in setting up academic partnerships with institutes in Singapore, China and India. She has a background in (intercultural) communication, marketing, and European public policy. She previously worked for a startup and in consultancy & project management. Delft University of Technology is a public university. Key tasks include providing scientific education, conducting scientific research, transferring knowledge to society and promoting social responsibility.

Mr. Jeroen van Erp
Jeroen van Erp graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands in 1988. In 1992, he was one of the founders of Fabrique in Delft, which positioned itself as a multidisciplinary design agency. He established the interactive media department in 1994, focusing upon developing websites for the world wide web - brand new at that time

Under Jeroen's joint leadership, Fabrique has grown through the years into a multifaceted design agency. It currently employs more than 100 staff of artists, engineers and storytellers working for a wide range of international clients: from Amsterdam Schipshol Airport to the Rijksmuseum, from the Design Museum and Tate Modern in London to the city of Agra in India, from Giant Bicycles in Taipei to the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Fabrique develops visions, helps its clients think about strateg ies, branding and innovation and realises designs. Preferably cutting straight through the design disciplines, so that the traditional borders between graphic design, industrial design, spatial design, architecture and interactive media are sometimes barely recognisable. In the bureau's vision, this crossmedia approach will be the only way to create apparently simple solutions for complex and relevant issues. The bureau also opened a studio in Amsterdam in 2008 and one in Rotterdam in 2012.

Jeroen is currently partner and innovation strategist. He is also the chair of the Dutch Creative Council and a board member What Design Can Do. In November 2015 he was appointed as a professor of Concept Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology.

Mr. Sourabh Gupta
Sourabh Gupta graduated in architecture, from the School of Architecture, CEPT University at Ahmedabad in India. With the insight provided there by the best in the realm of architecture, coupled with a stint in urban design from the architecture school at TU delft, the Netherlands and most importantly, propelled by a compulsive need to travel, explore and design, Sourabh initiated studio archohm. Having won and executed a series of design competitions and commissions, archohm has grown in leaps and bounds in the last decade and a half. Today, its portfolio has a stimulating mix of typologies, scales and sectors of architectural works, infrastructure, furniture and product design, design research and system design. Having transcribed a full circle with its own design education and publication extension, it strives to be a one-stop-shop for almost everything in the world of design.

The studio's inter-disciplinary nature attracts an eclectic mix of people from backgrounds in architecture, urban design, product design, graphic and academia to induce a novel and unconventional character and a perspective to design.

As an experie nced firm, albeit with a young and energetic brigade which Sourabh leads from the front, the onus of going beyond the brief and getting to the root of issues in order to make a deeper impact through meaningful design experiences is engrained in archohm's DNA. There is an ever growing sensitivity towards a gamut of social, environmental and ecological questions resulting in credible, viable, and innovative responses in all typologies of work but particularly in the public, institutional and infrastructure sectors. However, at forty-two his vision and a keen eye for detail enables him to design a city and a chair on the same day, with the same fervor. Sourabh's continued initiation and mentoring of archohm initiatives such as the design village (a design school), design factory India (an experience design wing), archoforum (workshops with iconic rms), the archotour (the intense ten day annual expedition to design destinations) and the archohmeter (the periodic design newsletter) speaks of his genuine desire to indulge the design community, the academic fraternity and the industry in meaningful dialogues and form global collaborations. Apart from his contribution to national and international design events, forums and publications, Sourabh is the recipient of many prestigious international and national accolades in almost all spheres of his works.

Dr. P.K.S. Sarma
Dr. P.K.S. Sarma – General Manager & Head Technical (Discovery & Product Development), Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), e-mail: spakala.birac@nic.in, Ph: 011-24389600

Dr. Sarma has seventeen years of industry research and six years of science management experience. His expertise includes Identifying discovery compounds/technologies that are of commercial and social benefit, due diligence for early stage technologies, anticipating future needs in priority areas and plan for research & translational activities, strategizing translational activities from research to product development and providing networking support to industry, funding agencies and academia. Prior to joining BIRAC, Dr. Sarma worked as Director-Medicinal Chemistry/Synthesis at Jubilant. He obtained his Ph.D from University of Hyderabad & Post-doc from Queen's University, Belfast. His domain Expertise includes Medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, methodology development, parallel synthesis, total synthesis of natural products & process development and has functional expertise in leading and collaborating on multi-disciplinary discovery teams. His accomplishments include ~80 patent applications, 10 publications, three reviews and three poster presentations in ACS meeting. Dr. Sarma's name was mentioned in the inaugural edition of Marquis's Who's Who in Asia

Saurabh Shah
Saurabh has MS in Electrical Engineering and MBA in Marketing from University of California, Irvine. He worked in various Engineering and Marketing capacities for Western Digital Corporation in Orange County, California. He was a Senior Business Consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers where he worked on strategy and technology solutions to some of the largest corporate houses in India. Later, he was the Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Deccan Aviation, Bangalore where he headed new business initiatives, aircraft leasing and acquisition.

At Excel Industries, Saurabh heads the business of Municipal Solid Waste Management.

Mr. Rajan Wadhera
President – Automotive Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
President – Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM)
Former President – Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)
Chairman - CII National Committee on Technology
Chairman - CII National Committee on Future Mobility & Battery Storage

Rajan Wadhera is the President of Automotive Sector of Mahindra and Mahindra. He is a Member of the 'Group Executive Board'. He is also the President – Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). Also holds the position of Chairman of CII National Committees on Technology and Future Mobility & Battery Storage.

Rajan is a B.Tech & M.Tech from IIT- Bombay and a Graduate of the Advanced Management Programme from the Wharton Business School, USA.

He has over 37 years of diverse experience in various facets of automotive as well as farm equipment sector like Research & Development, Technology, and Sourcing & Operations.

Under his leadership, as Chief Executive of Technology, Product Development and Sourcing of Auto and Farm Sectors, at Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd, Rajan led the development of projects like 'XUV 5oo', 'e2O', 'Xylo', 'Thar', 'Maxximo' , 'Genio', 'Quanto', New Generation Scorpio', 'Jeeto', 'TUV3OO' ,'Arjun NOVO' & KUV100. He was instrumental in setting up an offshore Engineering and Development Centre for Auto Sector, the North American Technology Center (NATC), at Detroit. Rajan was also institutional in establishing the Mahindra Research Valley (MRV) at Chennai.

Rajan is the Former President of "Automotive Research Association of India" (ARAI), the leading Homologation and Certification authority in India.

Rajan is the Chairman of the Board at Mahindra Graphic Research Design (MGRD), Mahindra Heavy Engines Limited (MHEL) & Mahindra North American Technical Centre (MNATC). He is also a Director on a holding Company of Pininfarina, Mahindra Automotive North America (MANA) & Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd.

Rajesh Kumar Singh
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh is General Manager at the Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd., Pune, India. Gennova is a leading biotechnology company dedicated to the research, development and commercialization of safe, efficacious and affordable biotherapeutics to address the cardiovascular, renal care and oncology markets across the globe.

He started his career as a Fermentation Technologist at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India and then went to complete his PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), DESY Hamburg, Germany. At EMBL, as a part of TB Structural Genomics Consortium, he worked towards solving structure of targeted proteins by using X-ray crystallography methods. After two years of Post Doc at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Greifswald, Germany, he joined the National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR), Pune, India in the year 2008. All his works were published in the peered reviewed journals of international repute.

He has been with Gennova since 2011 and is responsible for Regulatory Affairs and the upstream process development of biotherapeutics and vaccine development program in close collaboration with both national and international academic and industrial partners, especially for malaria, HPV, leishmaniasis and tuberculosis.

Dr. Neeraj Sharma
Secretary, Technology Development Board Ministry of Science and Technology, GoI

Dr. Neeraj Sharma has also steered Department's flagship programme, Swarnajayanti Fellowships, to nurture young scientists for conducting world class research in the country.

Presently, Dr. Sharma has been given the responsibility of Secretary, Technology Development Board which is an autonomous Board under the Ministry of Science and Technology. The Board has a mandate to support commercialization of indigenous technologies in the country. He is Heading the Technology Development and Transfer Division, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Drugs and Pharmaceutical Research Programme, National Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) Compliance and Monitoring Authority of the Department. In past, Dr. Sharma has also Headed the Planning, Budget and Coordination, State S&T Programme, Policy Research Divisions of DST.

Dr. Sharma has been instrumental in preparation of the 11th and 12th Plan documents of the Department of Science and Technology. He has also prepared the Strategy and Results Framework Documents for the Department. He has been interacting with a large section of the stakeholders, be it students, scientists and institutions, to design new policies, programmes and strategies for taking the country march ahead in science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Sharma is a member of the Technology Mission for Indian Railways which has been formed to identify technology problems and find indigenous solutions for the Indian Railways.

He has served the Department of Science and Technology for more than two and a half decades in his capacity as a Scientific Officer. He has been instrumental in promotion of Innovation, Incubation and Techno-entrepreneurship promotion in the country besides supporting R&D and Technology Development and Commercialization. A Post Graduate (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Ph.D. From University of Rajasthan, Dr. Neeraj Sharma is an engineer from MLS University, Rajasthan.

Rohtash Mal

Highlight:s :

• 40 + years in large Indian Corporates
• Multiple Industries : Agri-Machinery, Agriculture, Telecom, Automobiles, Paper, Chemicals, Switchgear
• Different business stages : Executing greenfield projects, managing steady growth businesses, and delivering turnarounds
• Organization Building : Four startups and two turnarounds
• Varied shareholding structures : Foreign JVs, Publicly listed, State owned, Private family owned
• Strong relationships in Industry and Government
• IIT (1976 ) and IIM (1979)

Current

• Chairman, EM3 AGRISERVICES PVT LTD. Founder of a large scale start up in the Agri Tech and Agri Services space.
• CMD, EQUITIGRO. Turnaround Management Consulting.
• Co-Founder, AGRIBATOR Technologies, an Indo Israel Agri Tech JV
• Member of the Executive Advisory Committee of Simon Business School, University of Rochester
• Member of the Confederation of Indian Industries, (CII) Agricouncil
• Member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) National Committee on Technology
• Charter Member, Indian Angel Network & TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)

Past

• Executive Director & CEO, Escorts Limited (Agri Machinery Group)
• Chief Executive Officer, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Bharti FieldFresh Limited / Bharti Delmonte Foods
• Chief General Manager Sales and Marketing, Maruti Suzuki Ltd.
• Senior Vice President, Ballarpur Industries Ltd.
• Director / Representative of Khosla Ventures, USA in Indian Start-ups
• President of Tractor Manufacturers Association of the CII

Andrew Murfin
Andrew Murfin is General Manager Advanced Biofuels in Shell New Energies. In his current role, he has global accountability for the delivery of an advanced biofuels manufacturing business. Andrew has led this business since 2013, after joining the team to lead commercialisation of 2nd Generation ethanol in 2009. He has over 25 years' commercial, project and technology implementation experience.

Prior to his current role, Andrew was in Canada, developing a proposed project to deliver a cellulosic ethanol facility in conjunction with government funding and technology providers. Previously, he was Project Director of the now operational $3bn London Array offshore wind project in the UK.

Andrew has worked in the renewable energy field since 2001 and joined Shell in 2003. Prior to joining Shell, he held a number of senior positions in UK electricity and gas utilities.

He spent much of his early career in a range of commercial, mergers and acquisitions, new business development and trading roles in the UK utility industry. Andrew has a first degree in Electro Mechanical Engineering, is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Chartered Engineer.

Ashutosh Kumar Sinha
Leading technology adoption and sustainability in agriculture and Agribusiness. For close to two decades, Ashutosh has been in rural markets, agribusiness, entrepreneurship and startup space playing multiple roles. He has led businesses in agri inputs, dairy inputs, renewal energy and rural distribution with a focus on long term ecosystem creation and sustainability. He has worked with industry leaders like ITC- Zeneca ( Now Advanta), Godrej Agrovet and British Petroleum before starting his own firm Villgro Marketing (Now Vliifarm Agrisolutions) dealing in rural distribution and product development for sustainable agriculture, dairy, water and energy. After a profitable exit from Villgro Marketing he is currently leading Agribusiness vertical of LT Foods ( Daawat Brand Basmati rice) and setting up stage for building competitive advantage to them by creating sustainable agriculture and sourcing supply chain. He has also established a fertilizer business for the company

Ashutosh is passionate about teaching and loves to share his experiences in management colleges and other forums. He is also a mentors and advisor to some of the startups in agriculture and technology sectors

Arabind Das
Arabind Das was the Chief Operating Officer of Godrej Tyson Foods Limited, India's premier poultry & vegetarian products manufacturer and marketer with strong value-added brands such as Real Good Chicken and Real Good Yummiez till recently (15th July 2019).

Currently he is enabling and suporting companies that are planning to enter India under the Program "Make in India", companies operating in India and looking for diversification, expansion, turn around through his newly established company Inspirare Consulting LLP. He lends support to few Trusts and NGOs those working with marginal (Adivasi) farmers to enhance value.

He has more than 35 years of experience in Business Management and Operations Management in Processed Foods, Dairy, Poultry, and Retail businesses. Arabind has held wide range of leadership positions in India and overseas with leading companies such as Godrej Tyson Foods Ltd, Cadbury's, Unilever, Dabur and Aditya Birla Group.

Associated with State, Regional and National Level institutions – CII, FSSAI, and MOFPI, is a policy influencer, does policy advocacy and a speaker in the field of Allied Agriculture – Dairy, Poultry, Marine, Fisheries, DFI, Proceed Food Industry and Food Safety. A sought-after invitee to various International Trade Forums to engage with international business houses through Consulates and High Commissioner Offices in India.

Currently, he is the Chairman, CII National Committee on Allied Sectors in Agriculture (Dairy, Poultry, Fisheries) (2018-19, 2019-20), Member, CII National Agriculture Committee (2018) and Member, CII National Processed Food Industries Committee (2016-18) and Convenor, CII Maharashtra State Rural – Urban Connect Forum 2019-20

A Gold Medallist in M Sc (Dairy Tech) from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. He has been trained on TPM by JIPM, Japan and was instrumental in turning around many operations and businesses in India and Overseas.

He is an avid reader, a foodie and loves to cook in his leisure time. He is married with two kids and lives in Mumbai with his wife.

Contact details: Cell No. +91 9833899034, E mail: arabind_das@yahoo.com & das.arabind@gmail.com . Address: Flat no 103, Block "D" Athena, Majiwada , Eastern Express Highway, Thane (West), Maharashtra, PIN-400601.

Gagandeep Kang
Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, An Autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi

Tel: 0091 129-2876400, Fax 0091 416-2282486, Email gkang@thsti.res.in On sabbatical from the Christian Medical College, Vellore until August 2019

Education and Fellowships

• FFPH 2016, Faculty of Public Health
• FNA 2016, , Indian National Science Academy
• FNASc 2013, National Academy of Sciences
• FASc 2011, Indian Academy of Sciences
• FAAM 2010, American Academy of Microbiology
• FRCPath 2008, Royal College of Pathologists
• MRCPath 2000, Royal College of Pathologists
• PhD Microbiology 1992-1998, Christian Medical College, Vellore
• MD Clinical Microbiology 1988-1991, Christian Medical College, Vellore
• MBBS 1981-1987, Christian Medical College, Vellore

Employment

• 2016-present: Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
• 2012-2016: Institute Head, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College
• 2008-2016: Head, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College
• 2008-2012: Vice-Principal (Research), Christian Medical College
• 2000-present: Professor, Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College
• 1998-2000: Visiting Scientist, Health Protection Agency, London, UK and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
• 1996-1998: Reader, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College
• 1991-1996: Lecturer, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College

Experience

• Research investigator (current annual grant support >2,500,000 US$)
• Associate faculty, Dept of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Adjunct Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Director, Vellore, NIH International Clinical Research Fellowship Program
• Faculty for training programs in research ethics and scientific writing
• Member of task force/advisory committees, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Science and Technology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, International Vaccine Institute, World Health Organization, Wellcome Trust.
• Author on over 300 research articles, epidemiology to molecular pathogenesis studies

Membership in Professional Societies

• Royal College of Pathologists
• Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists
• Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists
• Indian Society for Gastroenterology
• Hospital Infection Society-India
• American Society for Microbiology
• Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology
• American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• Indian Society for Clinical Research
• American Academy of Microbiology
• India Clinical Epidemiology Network

Honors and Awards:

• 2017 42nd Sir Edward Mellanby Memorial Oration, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR- CDRI) Lucknow
• 2016 Laureates – Infosys Science Foundation Prize in Life Sciences
• 2016 Fellow, Faculty of Public Health
• 2016 Fellow, Indian National Science Academy
• 2015 Dr. S.C. Parija Oration Award, Indian Academy of Tropical Parasitology
• 2014 Ranbaxy Research Award2013 for Medical Research
• 2013 Fellow, National Academy of Sciences.
• 2011 Dr. Y.S. Narayana Rao Oration Award 2008, Indian Council of Medical
• 2011 Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences
• 2010 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
• 2009 Abbott Oration Award, Indian Society for Gastroenterology
• 2006 National Award for Woman Bioscientist of the Year, Government of India
• 2005 The Lourdu Yedanapalli Award for Excellence in Research
• 1998-1999 Dr. P.N. Berry Fellowship
• 1988-1991 National Talent Scholarship for M.D. Microbiology
• 1981-1987 National Talent Scholarship for M.B.B.S.

Current research grants

• WHO Reference Laboratory (Kang – Study Co-ordinator, 2010-2018). Rotavirus Surveillance in India and in the SEA Region.
• Fogarty International Center, USA (2005-2021). Building enteric infectious disease research capacity in India.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2014-2018). Family Health Research Platform.
• Fogarty International Center, USA (2013-2018). Tufts-CMC Framework Program for Global Health Innovation.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2014-2018). Early implementation of rollout of rotavirus vaccine in the public health system under monitoring.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2014-2018-NCE). An Integrated Human Enteroid Model of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction.
• Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi (2015-2018). Impact of maternally derived antibodies and infant microbiota on the immunogenicity of rotavirus vaccines in African, Indian and European infants.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2015-2018). Susceptibility and development of protective immunity to norovirus in a South Indian birth cohort.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2015–2018–NCE). Rotavirus correlates of protection
• CDC Foundation, USA (2015–2019). Impact assessment study of rotavirus vaccine linked to the National Rotavirus Surveillance Network and Intussusception Surveillance Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (2017–2023). Testing the feasibility of integrated approaches to interrupt the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths (STH).
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2017–2020). National Surveillance System for Enteric Fever in India
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2017–2020). Indian Surveillance and impact studies – new state roll out.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (2017-2020). Building the clinical research ecosystem in India.

Publications

Original research publications in peer reviewed journals – 269 (both international and national journals), Review articles – 42, Case reports – 3, Book chapters – 15.

Complete list of Published Work in my bibliography:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/gagandeep.kang.1/bibliograpahy/44914768/public/?sort=dat e&d irection=ascending

Anindya Chowdhury
A Mechanical Engineer and MBA by training, Anindya Chowdhury has been an energy sector professional for over thirty years.

Anindya has been with Shell for over twenty years and has been involved in several LNG led developments in India – one of which (Hazira LNG) is now an operational business. Earlier in his career with Shell, Anindya was cross posted to the headquarters of Shell International Gas in London where he was involved in mega project developments and strategy in the Middle East and South Asia. On return to India, Anindya was tasked with governance and strategy related to Shell's Gas & Power business in India, particularly the Hazira LNG venture and new business developments.

In previous roles, Anindya was responsible for business development for Shell Global Solutions' commercial services focusing on Indian National Oil Companies and later on leading Gas and LNG business development in India for Shell.

Since November, 2016 Anindya has been tasked with managing the Energy Transitions Programme for Shell in India.

During the course of his career, Anindya has acquired rich learnings by experiencing firsthand, business development in the evolving economic environment of the energy sector in a growing economy. Anindya has previously worked with leading international consulting firms and energy companies in India.

Suchismita Sanyal
Suchismita Sanyal is currently the General Manager, Computational Science at Shell Technology Centre Bangalore, leading a team of 40+ researchers in delivering computational solutions to Shell. A metallurgist by training, Suchismita brings in 18+ years of corporate R&D experience with GE and Shell and specializes in delivering advanced computational solutions for accelerated discovery of materials and system designs, for energy transition applications and beyond. Her other passion includes exploring innovation tools for project excellence: Suchismita is a trained level-3 expert in TRIZ (Russian acronym for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) methodology. She has 5 Patents and 15+ peer-reviewed journal publications to her credit. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, Suchismita has been involved in driving technical women's network activities across Shell and GE. She is active in external forums such as the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and serves as the Program Director for the SWE Bangalore Chapter, in addition to being an invited member for the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Women's Network.

Saikat Datta
Saikat Datta is currently the South Asia Editor for Asia Times in charge of coverage across India. Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. He is also a Strategic Advisor to NullCon, India’s biggest cybersecurity community. He was also a Policy Director with the Centre for Internet & Society, India till September 2018.

He has also worked for two years as Vice President & Head of De-risking Strategies for Reliance Global Corporate Security, an associate company of Reliance Industries Ltd, working on cybersecurity and counter terrorism projects.

Umesh Chopra
A very seasoned professional with over three decades’ experience in very senior leadership roles in "Power and Energy" sector having worked with the leading MNCs and Power Companies of the world (including BHEL, GE, Reliance et.al). Very rich experience in Strategic Management, Business Operations, Sales & Marketing, Technical Services, Business Development and Strategic Business Alliances, Key Account Management and Project Management . An Illustrious career of over thirty-seven years in the Power and Energy Sector. Currently CEO of Jindal Urban Infrastructure Ltd. which includes its “Waste to Energy business “.

Dr Sunil Kulwal
Dr Sunil Kulwal, CEO of Fertiliser Business of Grasim Industries Ltd, is a Doctor of Philosophy in Management from Pune University and a Rank Holder Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Dr Kulwal is a Chevening alumnus, a recipient of the Rajiv Ratna National Award for the Best Chief Executive and has been conferred Paul Harris Fellow Title by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.

He has a wide ranging experience in leadership positions across various industries and geographies. Before moving to fertilizers business, he worked as CEO of white cement business of UltraTech Cement Ltd, CEO of Aditya Birla Minerals Ltd in Australia and CEO of Chemicals business of Grasim Industries Ltd.

He has a demonstrated track record of turning around businesses through participative management culture and through strategic direction. He has presented various papers in international conferences across the globe. He has served as Vice President of Alkali Manufacturer’s Association of India, as member of the Global Mercury Assessment Working Group of United Nations Environment Programme, as member of Management and Systems Division Council of Bureau of Indian Standards, and as member of Executive Council of The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia.