Governing Board

Kiran Karnik

Chairperson

Kiran Karnik is the former President of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), India's premier trade body and Chamber of Commerce for the information technology software and services industry.

Mridula Bajaj

Vice Chairperson

Mridula Bajaj is a specialist in Child Development with more than three decades of experience in programme, research and training. She is currently Executive Director of Mobile Creches, an NGO that works with children on construction sites.

Shankar Jaganathan

Board Member

Shankar is an independent, non-executive director on the Board of several Indian companies and NGOs. He worked with Wipro Limited for 18 years between 1985-2003 and headed the Technology Initiatives Program and Academic and Pedagogy function in the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation working on elementary education in the country.

Moumita Sen Sarma

Board Member

Moumita Sen Sarma, a Chartered Accountant by training has served the Financial Services sector for the last 21 years in several capacities.

Farah Naqvi

Board Member

Farah Naqvi is a Member of the National Advisory Council and a committed activist and writer. For over two decades she has been involved in democratic interventions on issues of minority rights, gender rights, justice, communalism and violence against women.

Ammu Joseph

Board Member

Ammu Joseph has been an independent journalist, author and media watcher for last three decades. She began her career in Mumbai in the mid-1970s as a reporter and sub-editor in Eve's Weekly and Star & Style, and became editor of the Sunday magazine of The India Post in the mid-1980s.

Somasekhar Sundaresan

Board Member

Somasekhar Sundaresan is a partner with J. Sagar Associates, a large national law firm in India and heads the firm's securities law and financial sector regulatory practice.

Rohini Somanathan

Board Member

Rohini Somanathan is Professor of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. She received her Ph.D in 1996 from Boston University and has held faculty positions at Emory University, the University of Michigan and the Indian Statistical Institute before joining the Delhi School of Economics in 2005.

P. S. Krishnan

Board Member

P. S. Krishnan has been an outstanding champion of the deprived social categories of Indian society. In his three decades long period as an IAS officer, he has been vigorously and consistently working for the advancement and empowerment of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Backward Classes (BC).

Neelam Deo

Board Member

Neelam Deo is a 1975 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who served as India’s Ambassador to Denmark and Côte d'Ivoire, with concurrent accreditation to Sierra Leone, Niger & Guinea.