MBBS (Kolkata), MRCP (UK), Mersey Deanery PhD – University of Manchester – 2009. Dr Agrawal was the winner of the international Ray Clause memorial award. He is an experienced Gastroenterologist with extensive clinical and research interests. After undertaking his advanced clinical and research training in Liverpool and Manchester where he completed a PhD, he is the clinical director for his service and has been a consultant for over 12 years.
Hrithik is a native of Kolkata and completed his higher secondary education in the city. He moved to the US for his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University outside of Chicago. He got interested in international development during his studies and subsequently worked at the Economic Growth Center at Yale and was Professor Sendhil Mullainathan’s field research analyst for a variety of projects in India. Hrithik also served as an Overseas Development Institute fellow at the National Treasury of the Government of South Africa as a Senior Economist in the Economic Policy division. After attending Harvard Business School for his MBA, Hrithik worked with the senior leadership of BRAC as Special Advisor on their social enterprise strategy.
Anirban is the CEO and Founding Member of Amplo Global Inc., an AI-led Industry 4.0 risk management product company that powers AmploFly4.0, a platform that enables organizations to measure, assess and manage risks. He is also a founding member of a couple of non profit organizations named SurIndia.Org, and MomSundarban.org. He also played a key role in ApneAap.org in the past implementing certain operational strategies focusing on anti-sextrafficking, women’s empowerment and edu-tech. He earned his engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, in Electrical and Electronics, and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he specialized in strategy and marketing
Shantabhanu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia and a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. Born and raised in Kolkata, he is a graduate of St Lawrence High School, Calcutta Medical College and the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research, Chandigarh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Edinburgh and Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, UK. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society and the College of Canadian Cardiovascular Society. He is the Founder – Director of the Hearts of BC, a non-profit which is engaged in Research and Education to improve outcomes of Cardiac Arrest. His research interests include congenital heart disease and heart rhythm disorders. He is motivated in bringing in positive change by education, research and innovation in medicine, making the scalable use of technological advances in every society.
Joyeeta is an educator with over 20 years’ experience, founder principal
of a CBSE K-12 school, mathematics teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum
designer, designer of learning management systems, leader of
innovations group and digital transformation group in a leading chain of schools. She is an avid traveller, writer, debater, motivational speaker, theatre actor and mother. Experiential learning, art integrated learning and framing of incisive questions in creating lifelong learners are her pet projects.
Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta is an Asian Indian scholar, activist, wife and mother. A social activist since early 1970s, she co-founded Manavi in 1985. It is the first organization of its kind that focuses on violence against South Asian women in the United States. A part-time teacher and full-time community worker, she has written extensively in the areas of ethnicity, gender, immigration, and violence against women. Her books include: A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America, Body Evidence: Intimate Violence Against South Asian Women in America, Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life and Mothers for Sale: Women in Kolkata’s Sex Trade.
Roy Chowdhury is the Headmaster of a Higher Secondary School in one of the remote islands of Sundarban Delta, West Bengal since 2014. He is an educator, a leader, a writer, and a social entrepreneur fuelled by passion and experiences working as a Government textbook Developer and a content developer for various government initiatives.. His many academic and social initiatives helped transform an old dilapidated school into an eco-friendly model of co-ed school for Hingalganj Sundarban region. His recent initiative has been to extend the experience of digital classrooms to the marginalized children of
Sundarban through a customized mobile toto van. He is working consistently to empower, educate, and take care of the environment of Sundarban.
Devi works at Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Oncology within global medical affairs. She earned her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and has been working in the healthcare space for many years. She lives in Belle Mead, New Jersey with her husband and her son. Devi has been associated with Kolkata Foundation for the past 2 years and is primarily interested in working on initiatives geared towards the betterment of healthcare of the underprivileged community in West Bengal.
Shubhomoy is a financial analyst with over 25 years’ experience in several leading Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Blackrock and Moody’s. His research has been focused on the healthcare sector for most of his career. He is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and IIM Kolkata, and lives in NJ with his wife and two children. Shubhomoy has been associated with Kolkata Foundation for the past 4-5 years and is currently focused on developing and implementing sustainable and scalable projects in the Healthcare sector to serve the underprivileged in Bengal.
Sarada retired from his 33 years long corporate career as Global R&D/innovation Vice President at Huntsman Corporation. Earlier his many years at The Dow Chemical Company, culminated in being Global R&D Director. Sarada is passionate about fostering a new innovation environment addressing societal needs and implementing sustainable solutions through collaboration. Now Sarada devotes his time developing new platforms to foster growth at the bottom of the economic pyramid and mentoring future leaders. He loves traveling across the globe, particularly to the rural areas, and enjoys the inner nature of various cultures. Apart from his native Bengali, Hindi and English, Sarada also speaks Italian & Dutch.
Mitra is a passionate school leader with over 25 years of experience who firmly believes that excellence stems from a passion for the work one does. With a specialisation in Theoretical Physics in her Masters, she has taught at various levels, including at a teachers training college. She was a lecturer of Physics for 16 years in Mumbai before taking up the current position of Principal 8 years back. Her core work areas are curriculum designing, reimagining assessments and pedagogies, and teacher training. Creating a difference in whatever she does is the purpose of her life. Reading, travelling, trekking, music and movies are her other interests. A mother to two lovely ladies aged 20 and 18, Mitra is a nature person who is strongly drawn toward spirituality, the philosophies of Swami Vivekananda and our Vedic teachings.
Paroma co-leads Brattle’s Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment practice and is a Senior Consultant in the Washington, D.C. office of The Brattle Group. Prior to joining Brattle, she was the Chief Economist of Wireless Telecom at the US FCC. Prior to that, she had a joint appointment at the Economics Department and International Business School at Brandeis University. She is a founding member of Ta Thoi, a premier South Asian cultural organization in the DMV area, and is also on the board of Mayur Dance Company. She is also an actor/writer/director/dancer of South Asian origin and her goal is to bring South Asian content and women’s empowerment issues to the mainstream audience through the performing arts.
Mrittika has an MS and Ph.D. in Communication Studies from The Ohio State and Northwestern respectively. She has worked in research and development for healthcare organizations such as The World Health Organization (WHO) in Cairo and Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, and consulted with nonprofits focused on education such as NAGPS. Mrittika founded her consultancy called Write Matters in 2019, and works with nonprofits in the US and India, developing organizational strategy with the board and leadership, researching funding opportunities, and preparing grant applications. In her career, she has consulted on more than $3.5 Million in funding and partnerships.
By profession a special educator, Sudeshna Sinha has been largely involved in establishing experimental elementary schools in Kolkata – developing curriculum, appropriate pedagogy, materials, books and assessment tools. Currently heading Shikshamitra, an education resource center for teachers, her strong focus has been teachers’ training at the elementary level to motivate, support, and create good teachers. Designing methods and materials for effective teaching- learning and finding solutions to problems encountered, especially in the area of languages, are her specializations. Writing and preparing books and documents for teachers and children in lucid language have been her other areas of interest. She has worked and continues to work as resource teacher and advisor for various schools and nonprofits in WEst Bengal.
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