Board of Advisors
June 25, 2021
TP Sreenivasan is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, Vienna and Governor for India of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna. His previous postings were as India’s Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia; Deputy Chief of […]
June 25, 2021
Hormis Tharakan is former Chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency (designated as Secretary (R) in the Cabinet Secretariat, Govt of India). He is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Kerala cadre […]
June 25, 2021
Dr M. Ramachandran is a former Secretary to the Government of India at the Ministry of Urban Development. He is a distinguished former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1972 batch, with an illustrious career spanning 38 years in […]
June 25, 2021
Venu Rajamony was Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 2017-2020. He was also the Permanent Representative of India to the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and responsible for India’s relations with the International Court […]
June 25, 2021
Devi Prasad retired from the Indian Economic Service (IES) of Government of India after an illustrious service of over 30 years (1982 to 2014). He was the Founding Director of Fiscal Policy Institute, Bengaluru, Government of Karnataka and had served […]
June 25, 2021
Mr Balagopal is the former Chairman of the Board of Federal Bank Ltd. He is also a Trustee of Anaha Trust; Member of the Governing Council of the Centre for Management Development, Trivandrum; Member of the Advisory Board of Fourth […]
June 25, 2021
Prof K C Abraham retired as Professor of Political Science from the Department of Economics at Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi, Kerala. He is an orator and writer of contemporary regional and national political and social issues and also serves as […]
June 25, 2021
Dr Parth Shah is the Founder-President of Centre for Civil Society (CCS), a New Delhi-based market-liberal think tank that advances social change through public policy. Parth’s research and advocacy work focuses on the themes of economic freedom, choice, and competition […]
June 25, 2021
Dr G Gopa Kumar is the former Vice-Chancellor of the Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod. A leading political scientist and psephologist, he specialises in the areas of International Relations, Comparative Politics and Indian Politics. He has published 12 books and […]
June 25, 2021
Sandip Ghose is a Business Leader, with over three decades of experience in senior leadership roles across industries – ranging from Consumer Goods (FMCG), Media, Cement and Jute. A Chartered Accountant by qualification, he joined Hindustan Lever (as it was […]
June 25, 2021
Susan Zielinski is former Managing Director of Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation (SMART), which is a project of the University of Michigan. She co-founded and directed Moving the Economy (MTE), a Canada-wide ‘link tank’ that works to catalyse […]
June 25, 2021
Dr. Lawrence Prabhakar Williams is Author, Researcher & Professor, International Relations & Strategic Studies, Formerly with the Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College. His books are Growth of Naval Power in the Indian Ocean Region: Dynamics and Transformation (2016), […]
June 25, 2021
Alex Thomas is the Managing Director of Tierra Food India Pvt Ltd. He co-founded Neptune Readymix Concrete Private Limited in 2003, which was later on acquired by RDC Concrete. Alex has also been active in various industry associations and in […]