Management

She is one of the first graduates from IIM Ahmedabad, and has been a director of various companies. From 1973 she has played a leading role in environment conservation as CEO of WWF India, Vice President for 20 years of the Bombay Natural History Society and as a member of the Govt of India’s National Committee for Environmental Planning & Co-ordination, National Conservation Strategy Committee and National Board for Wildlife. She was Chair of the Working Group on Ecological Foundations for Sustainable Agriculture, Government of Maharashtra High Level Expert Committee. She is also President of an educational trust running schools for over 3500 rural children. Dilnavaz has retired from business responsibilities to focus on these interests.

Naira has done LLB from Mumbai and LLM from Columbia Law School. She is an independent Legal Council enrolled with the bar council of Maharashtra and Goa and the New York state bar. She mainly practices on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court with a special focus on arbitration, both domestic and international. She was vice president of the Columbia International Arbitration Association and editor of the American Review of International Arbitration.      Naira Jeejebhoy is a Trustee of educational trust running schools and vocational training in Deolali, Nashik district of Maharashtra.

Nidhi has completed Economics Honours from Shri Ram College of Commerce and an MBA from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. She worked with Aon (then Hewitt Associates) for a decade. Thereafter in HR with Teach for India wherein she worked on recruiting, training and placing the first cohort of TFI Fellows. She is currently Co-Founder at Peel-Works Pvt Ltd – a grocery-focused B2B ecommerce company.

Dr. Rupal Dalal (MD, FAAP, IBCLC) is an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. She is also the Founding Medical Director of the Foundation for Mother and Child Health (FMCH) and Project Leader at Health Spoken Tutorial at IIT, Bombay. Training UNICEF Fellows on the technicality of Maternal Infant & Young Child Nutrition and guiding them on research topics on various nutrition projects all over India. She has 14 years of experience working in urban slums and rural and tribal areas of India to prevent malnutrition. Her research interests are in Maternal, infant & young nutrition, early childhood outcomes, the importance of correct breastfeeding techniques, behaviour change of caregivers through counselling and training.

Ms. Madan did her Masters in Economics and PGDP from IIFT New Delhi. Thereafter pursued a career in International marketing and handled geographical areas like the Middle East, Far East, Europe and Srilanka. After two decades of corporate life switched to the development sector and joined BNHS, thereafter headed Light of Life Trust working in the field of education. Her passion is to see sustainable social models scaled up in critical need areas. Taught Social Entrepreneurship students at Tata Institute Social Sciences (TISS) and advocates similar models for sustainability.

Dr. Shelgaonkar has done her PhD in Medical Pharmacology. She works as free Lance policy maker in prescription monitoring, ADR, drug-drug interactions, infection control, generic prescriptions, medication error, patient counselling, on-line procurements, research activities and Intellectual property rights. She has also developed a medical software for clinical pharmacology, she has Worked for Care hospitals, Nagpur as clinical pharmacologist for NABH approval – 1 year. She was also an Associate professor at ICRI, (Institute of Clinical Research affiliated to Cranfield UK) Mumbai – 18 months and Lecturer (Selection Grade) at Institute of Diploma in Pharmacy, Nagpur- 25 years.

He is an agriculture scientist and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA) based in Hyderabad. CSA works on developing and promoting locally adapted and sustainable farming practices such as organic farming, non – pesticidal management, open source seeds, ethno-veterinary practices, water conservation etc related to ecological and economic sustainability. CSA was instrumental in designing and establishing the Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture model.

He is currently working as Senior Research Scientist at GISE lab, Computer Science Department, IITB. Prof. Shah is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and has worked as faculty at VJTI, Mumbai for almost three decades. He has worked on several projects related to e-governance, ICT, technology transfer, etc and has conducted various workshops and training for Government of Maharashtra, NGOs and Government of India. His expertise lies in digitisation and QGIS mapping.

Dr. Upma Diwan has done M.Sc (Home Science) and Ph.D. in “Contribution of Women in the Social Transformation of Korku Tribals”. She also did a three months fellowship with the British Council. She has immense experience in the social development sector and had worked with various projects and programs like Pecs Program (Emic Singapore DFID), Canadian Embassy Project, “Swashakti” (Word Bank), etc. She was also associated with Mission Samridhi’s “Cluster Development Program” in Chennai and in “Sudha Sangini” project which works in 12 target areas for women empowerment. Dr. Diwan has also been associating with various organizations, like the Institute of Regional Analysis (IRA), Madhya Pradesh Voluntary Health Association, Kisan Mitra Madhya Bharat, Child Rights Alliance, Central India Agrarian Livelihood Crisis, Water Partnership (IWP), Magan Sangrahalaya, etc. She is the Chairman of Satpura Integrated Rural Development Organization (Sirdi).

Pramod Shinde, has completed his BA, PGDCJ, MSW and MBA. He has 16 years Experience in Health sector. Pramod is working in   Anemia & Nutrition as a Trainer for communication, Gender, Team Building, health  from last 7 years.  He is experienced journalist who has worked in regional newspapers like Sakal, Deshonnati. He is also theater artist.

Aditi has done masters in communication and media from SNDT Pune. She is working in social development sector since a many years.  Her core areas includes creating IEC materials, coordination, communication, media management. She is a trained video editor. She has a experience of working with children , old aged people and communities. She likes to be associated with various social development programs.