Mr. Subramanian Ramadorai, CBE is the advisor to the Prime Minister of India in the national council on skill development, Government of India. He is also the chairperson of the Governing Board of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Bharathidasan Institute of Management, chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati and Tata Elxsi. Earlier, he was CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services from 1996 to 2009 & Vice – Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services till 6 October 2014 transforming TCS from a company with $400 million revenues and 6000 employees to one of the world’s largest software and services company with more than 200,000 employees working in 42 countries and revenues over US$6.0 billion.

Mr. Jairam Ramesh is an Indian economist and politician belonging to Indian National Congress, and a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. He was formerly Union Minister for Rural Development, Environment & Forests, and Drinking Water & Sanitation. He graduated in 1975 with a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and in 1977 with an MSc in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a founding member of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and is a member of the International Council of the New York-based Asia Society.

Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal is an Indian politician who has represented Paschim Champaran constituency of Bihar since 2009 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While in office, Jaiswal has been a member of Consultative Committee on Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Committee on Health and Family Welfare, Committee on Estimates and a member of the governing body JIPMER, Pondicherry. He is also a member of the Governing Body of AIIMS, Patna and the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare.

Mr. Prem Das Rai is an Indian politician from the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party and in 2009; he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He has the distinction of being the first Member of Parliament with both Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management degrees. He is also a former Eisenhower Fellow (2000) from India. He is the Founding Chairman of the Ecotourism and Conservation Society of Sikkim and CEO (north-east) of BASIX. At BASIX, one of India’s largest microfinance and livelihood promotion institutions, he implemented microfinance initiatives for Sikkim and other northeast states by working with farmers, villagers and non-governmental organisations.

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian Pediatrician and clinical scientist known for her works in Tuberculosis. She is currently the Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary of Department of Health Research at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Prior to this assignment, Dr. Swaminathan was Director of National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) in Chennai. She holds many professional memberships and serves on many national committees of the health ministry, DBT, DST and national institutes like AIIMS and Indian Institute of Science.

is Chairman of the Foundation for Ecological Security, which works on strengthening the processes of ecological restoration across local, regional and national landscapes including different categories of lands and most importantly with a variety of community institutions. Dr. Patel is also the Chairman of the Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute. Dr. Patel was the Chairman of National Dairy Development Board from 1998 to 2014, the organisation which steered India’s cooperative dairy movement and led the country to becoming the largest milk producer in the world.

Dr. K.J. Ramesh is the Director General of India Meteorological Department. He was previously an advisor at the Ministry of Earth Sciences on atmospheric sciences and climate. Prior to that worked at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting. He holds a Ph.D in numerical modelling from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and specializes in atmospheric sciences. Dr. Ramesh has worked with the government on disaster mitigation and management along with climate change and as a scientist for the Department of Science Technology was also a part of a working group on Disaster Management for the Planning Commission.