Nandshankar Meta (Author)
The first Indian headmaster of an English-medium school in Surat, and later Diwan of Bhuj, Nandshankar Mehta (1835-1905) was a strong advocate of social reform. Karan Ghelo, the first modern Gujarati novel and his only work of fiction, draws heavily on bardic chronicles and historic texts. // Tulsi Vatsal, a graduate of Oxford University, is an independent researcher, writer and editor. She has authored a number of books on Indian history and culture. Her latest book is Sahib, Bibi, Nawab: Baluchar Silks of Bengal 1750-1900. // Aban Mukherji is the author of Soonamai Desai of Navsari: A Biographical and Autobiographical Sketch. She is currently co-editing a nineteenth-century Gujarati text, Mumbaino Bahaar.
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Anil K. Khandelwal is a thought leader, author, and international speaker on leadership and governance. An acclaimed authority on HR and leadership in the banking sector, he is a rare transformation leader who moved from HR to the chief executive officer (CEO) position in two large public sector banks (PSBs). Transforming Bank of Baroda (BOB) (2005–08), in particular, from a staid PSB to one of India’s most valuable international banks won him many awards, including the Asian Banker Singapore’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2008). He has been an adviser to international consulting firms such as Accenture, Booz and Company, Hewitt and KPMG. An internationally recognized keynote speaker, he has trained over 5000 leaders in India and abroad.
Anil has authored/co-authored/edited seven books, including the bestselling Dare to Lead (2011) and CEO—Chess Master or Gardener (2018).
He lives in Mumbai and can be reached at akk1948@gmail.com
Twitter handle: @anugyaan
Website: www.anilkhandelwal.in
Shastri Akella holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His writing has appeared in Guernica, The Masters Review, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, PANK, The Common, and World Literature Review, among others. The Sea Elephants is his debut novel.
Dr Avinash Jhangiani is a leadership development coach and innovation culture consultant with more than two decades of work experience in the USA and India. He has served as the managing director and chief innovation officer of a global media company and the chief information officer of a large multinational company. At the forefront of driving disruptive innovation for global brands and businesses, Jhangiani won the Deloitte CEO’s Innovation Quest Award in the USA in 2006 for his idea on Enterprise Sustainability Services. Under his leadership at Omnicom, PHD Media won two Gold Lions at Cannes Lions in 2014-a historic moment for the Indian digital advertising industry.
As founder CEO and chief facilitator of Play2Transform Group, Jhangiani currently uses principles of human-centric design and play as a catalyst to accelerate change for organizations such as Amazon, HP, Essar, Deustsche Bank, among others. He also serves as expert faculty at Emeritus’ ISB and Wiley-IIM Lucknow Executive Education Programs, S.P. Jain, NMIMS, among others. He curated India’s first Book of Dreams, capturing over 10,000 children’s visions of India’s future, which now resides in the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Nagaraja Prakasam is a partner at Acumen, a New York-based, $100-million impact venture fund. He has served as an independent director in Guardian-a portfolio company of Acumen that works on microfinance in water and sanitation.
He is the co-founder and chairman of the Nativelead Foundation, which enables entrepreneurship in the non-metros of Tamil Nadu. This model has been replicated in the Malabar area of Kerala as MiZone/Malabar Angels. He is sought out by government and educational institutions and serves them in different capacities: an adviser; resident mentor at the N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; member of the Investment Committee, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Incubator; and mentor at the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has been featured in Forbes magazine as an investor engineering social change.
Nagaraja has spearheaded impact thinking in the Indian Angel Network (IAN) and co-founded IAN Impact.
Shivalik Bakshi was born in Amritsar. He is a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) engineer by profession. When not working in a laboratory, he likes to investigate the case of his missing uncle. He can be contacted by email at CaptainKamalBakshi@gmail.com.
Durreen Shahnaz has worked both in high finance on Wall Street and in microfinance in the back streets of rural Bangladesh. Following stints as an investment banker, development worker, educator, media executive and social entrepreneur, Shahnaz founded a pioneering impact investment firm that brings together investors, development agencies, and entrepreneurs to advance sustainable development and empower millions of women. Shahnaz has appeared on the Forbes 50 over 50 list and received the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Business. Shahnaz holds degrees from Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Singapore.
Zac Sangeeth is one of the world’s youngest historians. He is the author of World History in 3 Points (Hachette, 2022) and More World History in 3 Points (Hachette 2022), now translated into more than ten languages. He is a SCM Youth Fellow and a winner of the India Reading Olympiad. As a public speaker, he has spoken in forums such as the Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum.
