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G. N. Bajpai
Mr. Ghyanendra Nath Bajpai is a renowned finance economist and a visionary. Mr. Bajpai was the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Earlier Mr. Bajpai was Chairman of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). Mr. Bajpai has served/continuous to serve as non-executive chairman and director on corporate boards in India and abroad and received awards for contribution to business. Mr. Bajpai has been chairman of the Corporate Governance Task Force of International Organization of Securities Commissions and the chairperson of the Insurance Institute of India, (III).
Currently he is Non-Executive Chairman of Dhanlaxmi Bank, Future Generali Life & Non-life Insurance Companies, Dalmia (Bharat) Cements and Future Ventures in addition to being Director on the Boards of several others including Kingfisher Airlines, Usha Martin etc. He is on the Governing Board of National Insurance Academy. Currently, he is Hon. Professor Middlesex University, London.
Mr. Bajpai was a member on Board of Directors at General Insurance Corporation of India, ICICI, Unit Trust of India, UTI Bank (now Axis Bank), Tata Chemicals, JSW, National Housing Bank, Indian Railway Finance Corporation, India International Insurance Ltd., Singapore and Ken-India Ltd. Nairobi (Africa) etc. He was also Non-Executive Chairman of National Stock Exchange, Stock Holding Corporation of India, LIC Housing Finance Ltd, and LIC International EC Bahrain and LIC Nepal Ltd. Mr. Bajpai has served on the Board of Indian Institute Management, Lucknow.
He has been a visiting faculty at leading institutes of Management and Training and is being regularly invited to speak at seminars in India and abroad. He has delivered lectures including at London School of Economics (LSE), Harvard University and MIT and also addressed OECD & IMF seminars. He has written three books: The Securities Market, Marketing of Insurances, and How to Become a Super Successful Salesman.
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Amitabha Sadangi
Amitabha Sadangi is a social entrepreneur and the first CEO of IDEI where he works towards unleashing potential of smallholder famers and leading them to prosperity. After completing his post graduation degree in Labour & Social Welfare with an additional degree in Law, Amitabha abandoned a promising career in a government agency to focus on issues of poverty & development. Amitabha is the founding member of World Entrepreneurship Forum and Promoter of West Venture India Pvt Ltd. Amitabha is regular speaker at several international forums on poverty reduction, water and issues of development.
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Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, a Ph.D in Economics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. He joined the Delhi Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute as a Lecturer in 1983. He became a full-time Professor in 1991. He took over as founder-director of IDF in July 2002. He has published widely in journals on development economics, international trade, industrial organization, regulatory economics and finance. He has also co-authored and co-edited a number of books in economics and finance. He is the Chief Editor of the journal of Emerging Market Finance and is the President of two professional societies, the society for Economic Research and Financial Analysis (SERFA) and the Society for the Promotion of Game Theory and its Applications (SPGTA). He has been on many government committees and consulted with various ministries and private business.
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Ajay Sud
Ajay Sud, a lawyer by profession is admitted to the Bar at Delhi and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered of Accountants of India. He has experience of over twenty eight years providing professional support in law, taxation, regulatory and management advisory services to national and international organisations with special focus on Voluntary Sector Organisations. Formerly, Executive Director and Senior Advisor, International Development Services at KPMG India, he is a founder and member of the Governing Boards of prominent not-for-profit institutions such as The Prince of Wales Bhumi Vardaan Foundation, Access Development Services, Sesame Street Workshop India Trust and Foundation for MSME Clusters.
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Sanjiv Phansalkar
Sanjiv Phansalkar received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and taught management and marketing courses for a number of years at the Institute for Rural Management at Anand (IRMA). He is a well-known author on business subjects, and consults with government, businesses and non-profit organizations. He has worked with IDEI both as a consultant and as an advisor to SDC. He is familiar with the IDEI's programme and is much appreciated by the intellectual communities. Mr. Phansalkar was Professor in IRMA, Anand for more than dozen years and was the Director with International Water Management Institute and is now with Sir Dorabji Tata Trust as the Programme Leader.
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Roda Mehta
Roda Mehta is a distinguished name in the Advertising industry. An alumni of Miranda House (Economics Major), Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (specialization in Operations Research) and Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program), her career spanned 27 years in Media and Advertising for which she was recognized with Lifetime Achievement awards across the country when she left the industry at the age of 48.
She began her career with the country’s largest advertising agency “Hindustan Thomas Associates” and moved to Ogilvy Benson & Mather to resurrect the agency under local management. At 26, she was asked to lead the media function for the agency and concurrently invited to represent the function on the Management Committee of Bombay Office. In 1980, the agency sent her to its London offices with the aim of bringing international standards in Brand Planning and Research to the Indian operation. On her return in 1981, she was promoted as Director and appointed to the Board of the Indian company. Her role expanded to Agency management, strategic planning, international client service, conceiving and building profit centers for servicing client’s growing needs, and social marketing. Since 1998, Roda has committed herself to providing professional corporate strategic skills to the development world.
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Suresh Subramanian
Suresh Subramanian serves as the COO of IDEI. Suresh has been with IDEI since 1995, and has held a number of leadership positions. Prior to IDEI, Suresh completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and had a tryst with non-profits working with livelihood issues of smallholder farmers. Suresh directs all functions of the organisation including operations. Suresh also works closely with the CEO on strategy building and resource mobilisation.
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