- People -
Chintan Vaishnav
Chief Advisor
Mission Director - Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog. Senior Lecturer - MIT
PVM Rao
Chief Advisor
Mehra Chair Professor MechE, Head Department of Design - IIT Delhi
Yukta Kumari
Sr. Associate, Communications and Logistics
JIIT Noida, India
Andrew Ngure
Outreach
Graduate Student - Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Aseem Saini
Research and Design
IIIT Jabalpur, India
Shubham Deshmukh
Partnerships and Outreach
IRMA, NIT Nagpur
Manish Misra
Senior Advisor, Innovation and Tech
Chief Innovation Officer - Panasonic
Anjani Bansal
Senior Advisor
Deputy Director - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Manohar Paluri
Senior Advisor, Technology
Director - Artificial Intelligence at Facebook
Barbara Bulc
Senior Advisor, International Relations
Founder and President, Global Development
Founding member - United Nations Innovation Working Group
Pradyumna Vyas
Senior Advisor, Innovation
Former Director - National Institute of Design, India.
Madhav Chavan
Mentor to the core team
Co-Founder and President, Pratham
Samir Sathe
Senior Advisor, SME
Executive Vice President - Wadhwani Foundation
Shalander Kumar
Senior Advisor, Agri-Tech
Principal Scientist - ICRISAT
Piyush Verma
Founder and CEO
MIT Tata Fellow '20, Founding Head - MIT India Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erika Elizabeth Desmond
Research and Documentation
MBA Candidate, MIT Sloan
Niharika Gupta
Partnerships and Communications
CEPT University, India
David Maina
Operations and Strategy
Graduate Researcher - DUSP '20, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Armando Moncada
Research and Product Development
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arushi Jain
Partnerships and Outreach
Babson College, Massachusetts
Mark Kahn
Senior Advisor, Venture Capital
Managing Partner, Omnivore
Harvard Business School
Laurie Lane Zucker
Senior Advisor, Impact Investment
Founder and CEO - Impact Entrepreneur
Ratna Mehta
Senior Advisor, Program Management
Global Head - Wadhwani Catalyst Program,
Wadhwani Foundation
Joost Bonsen
Senior Advisor
Lecturer, MIT Media Lab,
Founding Program Director - MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heramb Hajarnavis
Senior Advisor, Investments
Founder and Managing Partner, Sea Link Capital
Ex - MD at Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, MIT
Ashish Khetan
Senior Advisor
President & CIO - Indigram Labs Foundation
Sudhindra V
Senior Advisor, Innovation and Tech
Chief Design Officer - IBM India
Ashwin Gopinath
Associate Director
Asst Prof. MechE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-founder - Palamedrix,
Ex- Google X, Moonshot Factory, Caltech
Esha Sahai
Outreach Partner
MIT Sloan
Mona Vijaykumar
Research Associate
Graduate Student - SA+P, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diego Arenas
Research Intern
Sophomore MITII - Inclusive Innovation Grant Fellow, MIT
Paul Ihim
Tech and Product Development
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diyakshi Deora
Communications and Logistics
IIT Delhi, India
Padmanabhan Anandan
Senior Advisor
CEO - Wadhwani AI,
Founder - Microsoft Research India
Naveen Jha
Senior Advisor
Former CEO, Deshpande Foundation
Venkat Maroju
Senior Advisor, Agri-Tech
CEO - SourceTrace
Hemendra Mathur
Senior Advisor, Partnerships
Venture Partner - Bharat Innovation Fund, Co-Founder Think Ag
Ishita Agrawal
Senior Advisor, Program Management
Program Director - Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt of India
Jinesh Shah
Senior Advisor, Investment
Managing Partner - Omnivore
