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Hon Dr S Jaishankar is the Minister of External Affairs in the Government of India. Earlier Dr S Jaishankar was President – Global Corporate Affairs at Tata Sons Private Limited from May 2018. He was Foreign Secretary from 2015-18, Ambassador to United States from 2013-15
Ambassador to China from 2009-2013, High Commissioner to Singapore from 2007-2009 and Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2000-2004. He has also served in other diplomatic assignments in Embassies in Moscow, Colombo, Budapest and Tokyo, as well in the Ministry of External Affairs and the President’s Secretariat.
Mahendra Nath Pandey Union Minister of Skill Development and Enterpreneurship, Government of India Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), world's largest political party.
Development between 2016 and 2017 where he focused on making quality education accessible for all citizens, he was re-elected by the masses in the second term of Narendra Modi 2.0 government and was then appointed as Cabinet Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in May 2019.
Appointed as the Secretary of State for the Home Department on 24th July 2019. Prior to this she was elected as the MP for Witham in May 2010 currently still holding this parliamentary constituency. She was previously Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from July 2014 to May 2015
She then became Minister of State for Employment from May 2015 to July 2016. More recently from July 2016 to November 2017 she held the role of Secretary of state for International Development. Outside of Politics in 2013 the Prime Minister appointed her as the first ever UK Indian Diaspora Champion. After attending a comprehensive school in Watford,
An IAS officer of 1985 batch, Mr Girish Chandra Murmu has an extensive experience of 34 years in Policy planning and Policy making, Land Revenue Administration, Rural Sector Development, Regulatory and Law & Order Administration
In addition, he also has two and a half years of experience in the Banking sector before joining the Indian Administrative Service. In the early stage of his career, he served as District Collector across Gujarat for around seven years and then as the Commissioner of Geology & Mining and as the Managing Director of Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) gaining acquaintance in Mineral and Mining sector.
Ashu Khullar is the Chief Executive Officer, Citi India and Regional Head for South Asia. Ashu is responsible for all of Citi's businesses in India and has oversight of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In India, Citi employs approximately 18,900 people and serves close to 2.5 million customers ranging from top corporate houses, multinationals,
including foreign exchange, investment banking, cash management, trade, credit cards, e-commerce banking and distribution of mutual funds. In addition, ,
Weijian Shan is chairman and CEO of PAG, a Hong Kong based private equity firm with $38 billion in capital under management. His firm invests throughout Asia and beyond. Prior to PAG, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.
he was a partner of TPG, and co-managing partner of TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital). Previously, Shan was a managing director of JP Morgan, and an assistant professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Yamini Aiyar is the President and Chief Executive of CPR. Her research interests are in the field of social policy and development. In 2008, Yamini founded the Accountability Initiative at CPR.
Yamini is a TED fellow and a founding member of the International Experts Panel of the Open Government Partnership. She is an Alumna of the London School of Economics, St. Edmund's college Cambridge University, and St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
Praveen Akkiraju was most recently Managing Partner at the Softbank Vision Fund where he lead the Enterprise and SaaS investment practice. He currently serves as Board Advisor at Team8, a Startup foundry and venture fund.
He is passionate about mentoring and investing in entrepreneurs who are building great product companies in the areas of Automation, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software and SaaS.
Salil Gupte is President of Boeing India and the senior in-country executive, who integrates and advances Boeing’s activities in India across its three business units: Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Global Services, and Boeing Defense, Space & Security,
leading a team of 3500 employees across New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Chennai. Previously, Gupte was vice president of Boeing Capital Corporation,
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