Advisory Council

Prof. Anil K Gupta

Visiting Faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad

Prof. Anil K Gupta conceived the first two session of National Conference on Social Innovation. He is now a Visiting Faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad and a Distinguished Visiting Faculty at IIT-Bombay.

Prior to that he was professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the founder of Honey Bee Network. Besides, He is the Vice-chairman of National Innovation Foundation and a fellow of the world academy of Art and Science. He was awarded Padma Shri in the year 2004.

Chairperson of Thermax Ltd

Ms. Meher Pudumjee is the Chairperson of Thermax Ltd. since October 2004. Ms. Pudumjee represented India at the Asian Business Women’s Conference in Osaka in 2006. The World Economic Forum in

2008 selected her as a Young Global Leader for her professional accomplishment, commitment to society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. She was selected CEO of the Year, 2009 by Business Standard.

Ms. Pudumjee served as the Chairperson of Pune Zonal Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Managing Trustee of the Collective Good Foundation

Mr. Luis Miranda is the Managing Trustee of the Collective Good Foundation. He is the Chairman Centre for Civil Society and CORO. He has been

involved in setting up two successful companies – HDFC Bank and IDFC Private Equity. He was earlier a partner at ChrysCapital and has worked at HSBC, Citibank, KPMG and Price Waterhouse. He is a member of the Global Advisory Board of Chicago Booth. Luis advises and supports many not-for-profit organisations in India, using his networks to help these organisations.

Independent Director at NPCI

Mr. Satish Pradhan is currently an Independent Director at NPCI. He retired as Advisor, Tata Sons Limited in 2015. He was the Chief of Group Human Resources at Tata Sons from April 2001 to May 2013.

Prior to joining the Tata Group in 2001, he was with ICI Plc in London at their Head Office leading the Organisation Design & Development function.
He has also been on the Governing Council of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) from 2002, and is Adjunct Faculty.

Head, NCL Innovations

Dr V Premnath is currently the Head, NCL Innovations and is the founder director of Venture Center – a technology business incubator on NCL campus. Dr Premnath is also a Scientist in the Complex Fluids and

Polymer Engineering Group at NCL. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Hon. Director and Trustee of Pune International Centre

Mr. Prashant Girbane is Hon. Director and Trustee of Pune International Centre. He has 15+ years of experience. He has worked with multilateral agencies like United

Nations Organisations, advised Commonwealth Secretariat. He has also worked with TATA Consultancy Services based out of London, UK with global responsibility. He is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He is also the Member Secretary of this advisory panel.

Advisory Council

Prof. Anil K Gupta

Visiting Faculty at IIM-Ahmedabad

Ms. Meher Pudumjee

Chairperson of Thermax Ltd

Mr. Luis Miranda

Managing Trustee of the Collective Good Foundation

Mr. Satish Pradhan

Independent Director at NPCI

Dr V Premnath

Head, NCL Innovations

Mr. Prashant Girbane

Hon. Director and Trustee of Pune International Centre

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