Dr Venkatesh is Professor Emeritus at St John’s Medical College Bangalore as well as CEO and the Director of the Foundation for Quality India (FQI). He is also the Director of the National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI). He is the current National Chairman of the Indian Society for Lead Awareness and…

CHAIRPERSON, M S SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Dr Soumya Swaminathan currently serves as the Chairperson of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in Chennai. She was most recently WHO’s Chief Scientist and before that, Deputy Director-General for Programmes. As WHO’s inaugural Chief Scientist, Dr Swaminathan built the Science division with a focus on research, quality assurance of norms and standards and digital…

CHAIR i-LEAP & DISTINGUISHED FELLOW, PAHLE INDIA FOUNDATION AND FORMER CEO, AYUSHMAN BHARAT

Dr Indu Bhushan is a former Indian bureaucrat and economist. He was the first CEO of Ayushman Bharat, an Indian government agency providing national healthcare coverage to the low-income population of the country. His career spans over 40 years and across a multitude of sectors. He received his B.Tech from IIT-BHU and his Postgraduate Diploma…

Dr. Kumar, former Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, recently resumed his chairmanship of Pahle India Foundation, a not-for-profit policy think tank, established by him in 2013. Dr. Kumar’s career has spanned academics to government to corporate chambers and multilateral institutions. The wide range of experience, combined with his intellectual depth, as reflected in his substantial…