Shri Suresh Prabhu is a veteran politician and diplomat who has held key positions such as the
Union Minister of civil Aviation, Railways, Commerce & Industry among others. He has also served
as India’s Sherpa to the G7 and G20. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession, and is a member
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He has been a Member of Parliament
(Lok Sabha) for 4 consecutive terms from 1996 to 2016, and later a member of Parliament (Rajya
Sabha) since 2016. He is also serving as the Founding Chancellor of Rishihood university.
Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
Shri Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra since July
2016. Dr Sahasrabuddhe is the President at Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). He
looks after the Good Governance, Central and State Government Program Coordination and Policy
Research Department at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)as its National Vice President.
Shri Sushil Modi
Shri Sushil Kumar Modi is a former Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister of Bihar. He is
currently a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Bihar.
Shri MJ Akbar
Shri M. J. Akbar is a former Union Minister of State for External Affairs, and is a
distinguished writer who has authored several internationally acclaimed books, mainly on the
Indian subcontinent’s complex history and the turbulent interaction between faith and
definitions of nationalism. Shri M. J. Akbar has also had an illustrious career as a journalist
and editor. In 1976, he launched, as Editor, India’s first weekly political news magazine,
Sunday, which quickly became a household presence. He started two daily newspapers: The
Telegraph in 1982 and The Asian Age in 1994. He has served as the Editorial Director of India
Today, Headlines Today and as the editor of the Deccan Chronicle and The Sunday Guardian. Shri
M. J. Akbar entered public life in 1989, when he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kishanganj,
Bihar. He went back to the media in 1993, and returned to public life in March 2014, when he
joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and became the party’s national spokesperson. He was
elected as
MP to the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand in July 2015. In July 2016, he was elected for another term
as MP from Madhya Pradesh.
Shri Swapan Dasgupta
Shri Swapan Dasgupta is a Former Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India’s
Parliament. He is one of India’s most widely read political columnists for the past three
decades. Having worked in almost all the leading publications in India in senior editorial
positions, he has been an independent columnist since 2003. In 2015 he was awarded the Padma
Bhushan by the President of India.
Shri Jayant Sinha
Shri Jayant Sinha is a second term Member of Parliament from Jharkhand, India. Mr. Sinha won his
Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019 with record margins. Previously, Mr. Sinha served on
India’s Council of Ministers from 2014 to 2019; first, as the Minister of State for Finance and
then as the Minister of State for Civil Aviation. Prior to his career in public service, Mr.
Sinha was Partner at Omidyar Network (ON) and the Managing Director of Omidyar Network India
Advisors, where he led overall investment strategy and operations in India from 2009 to 2013. As
a global thought leader, Mr. Sinha has been published in the Financial Times, Times of India,
Economic Times, Indian Express, Business Standard, Harvard Business Review, and the McKinsey
Quarterly. He has pioneered new thinking on
platform-based businesses, innovation-driven entrepreneurship, Climate Change, and sustainable
development.
Amb Preeti Saran
Ambassador Preeti Saran is currently a Member of the UN’s Committee on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (CESCR). She was formerly worked as Secretary (East) at the Ministry of External
Affairs, Government of India. She joined the MEA in 1982, and has most recently served as
Ambassador of India to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. She has also undertaken diplomatic
postings to Toronto, Geneva, Cairo, Dhaka and Moscow. In New Delhi, she has served as Joint
Secretary (SAARC/North), Deputy Secretary/ Director (Establishment) / East Asia, and Under
secretary (ICCR/AMS).
Amb Amar Sinha
Ambassador Amar Sinha is a career diplomat who joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1982. He is
an Economics Graduate from Patna University and worked with the State Bank of India for over two
years before joining the Indian Foreign Service.
Shri PVSLN Murthy
Shri PVSLN Murthy is the Chairman and Managing Director of North Eastern Development Finance
Corporation Ltd. (NEDFi). He has previously served as a Chief General Manager and Chief Strategy
Officer of the State Bank of India, and brings with him around 40 years of development and
commercial banking experience.
Lt Gen Arun Sahni
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C. Sheela Reddy
Prof. C. Sheela Reddy is the Principal of Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. She has
previously served as the Chair Professor, Dr. Ambedkar Chair in Social Justice, Indian Institute
of Public Administration (IIPA) from 2016 – 2021.