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. Professor Balram Bhargava , Secretary, Department of Health Research, (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), Government of India and Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) joined on 16th April, 2018. Prof. Bhargava is Professor of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and also serves as the Executive Director for Stanford India Biodesign Centre, School of International Biodesign (SiB). Professor (Dr) Balram Bhargava is an outstanding cardiologist, one of the foremost leaders in biomedical innovation, public health, medical education and medical research.

Professor Bhargava has excellent leadership qualities; and has established the India-Stanford Biodesign programme, a unique interdisciplinary fellowship programme to foster innovation, design in low cost implants/devices. This programme has led to the establishment of the School of International Biodesign (SIB) at AIIMS and development of 30 low cost medical devices leading to 10 startups. Four of the low cost devices are in the Indian market and one device has been approved by the USFDA. He developed the indigenous Platinum Iridium coil coronary stent and has been instrumental in clinically evaluating and establishing the use of two other laser cut medicated Indian stents. These low cost indigenous stents have benefitted several thousand patients. The philosophy of the programme has been “More for less for more” with a mandate to promote Global Affordable Need Driven Healthcare Innovation (GANDHI)

He set up the c-GMP Centre for Excellence for Stem Cell Studies, at AIIMS which has initiated treatment of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy; this has benefitted number of no-option heart failure patients waiting on the cardiac transplant list.

He is currently developing the Chest Compression Device for Sudden Cardiac Death patients; funded by the Wellcome Trust, London and is providing leadership for creative disease prevention, early detection and transport system for sick cardiac patients. This programme mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-attack Initiative) is in the process of early diagnosis and treatment of heart attack patients by trained motorcycle first respondent paramedics. (ICMR)

He is an innovator par excellence with innovations touching everyday lives with very huge social impact for which he has started the Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM). He has published several papers on the harmful cardiovascular effects of chewing tobacco and is evaluating the continuous blood pressure of DTC bus drivers in Delhi. He has led two major trials in India funded by the NIH, Bethesda, USA which has changed clinical practice. He has pioneered several techniques in interventional cardiology.

He has been awarded the SN Bose Centenary award by the Indian National Science Congress and National Academy of Sciences Platinum Jubilee Award, Tata Innovation Fellowship and Vasvik Award for Biomedical Technology Innovation, Ranbaxy Award and the OP Bhasin Award in the field of Health and Medical Sciences. He is the Founding, Editor in Chief of the British Medical Journal Innovations (BMJi). He has been awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ high civilian award by the Honourable President of India and the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea International Prize for research in Life Sciences at Paris.

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 former 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.