- People -
Chintan Vaishnav
Chief Advisor, Board Member
Mission Director - Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog. Senior Lecturer - MIT
Andrew Ngure
Director of Outreach, Africa program
Graduate Student - Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Mona Vijaykumar
Research Associate
Graduate Student - SA+P, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aseem Saini
Research and Design
IIIT Jabalpur, India
Niharika Gupta
Partnerships and Communications
CEPT University, India
Yukta Kumari
Sr. Associate, Communications and Logistics
JIIT Noida, India
Anjani Bansal
Senior Advisor, Board Member
Deputy Director - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Naveen Jha
Senior Advisor, Board Member
Former CEO, Deshpande Foundation
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
Madhav Chavan
Senior Advisor
Co-Founder and President, Pratham
Jinesh Shah
Senior Advisor, Investment
Managing Partner - Omnivore
Ishita Agrawal
Senior Advisor, Program Management
Program Director - Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt of India
Piyush Verma
Founder and CEO
MIT Tata Fellow '20, Founding Head - MIT India Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PVM Rao
Chief Advisor, Board Member
Mehra Chair Professor MechE, Head Department of Design - IIT Delhi
Erika Elizabeth Desmond
Research and Documentation
MBA Candidate, MIT Sloan
Armando Moncada
Research and Product Development
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shubham Deshmukh
Partnerships and Outreach
IRMA, NIT Nagpur
Diyakshi Deora
Communications and Logistics
IIT Delhi, India
Padmanabhan Anandan
Senior Advisor, Board Member
CEO - Wadhwani AI,
Founder - Microsoft Research India
Manohar Paluri
Senior Advisor, Technology
Director - Artificial Intelligence at Facebook
Hemendra Mathur
Senior Advisor, Partnerships
Venture Partner - Bharat Innovation Fund, Co-Founder Think Ag
Heramb Hajarnavis
Senior Advisor, Investments
Founder and Managing Partner, Sea Link Capital
Ex - MD at Goldman Sachs, Harvard Business School, MIT
Joost Bonsen
Senior Advisor
Lecturer, MIT Media Lab,
Founding Program Director - MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venkat Maroju
Senior Advisor, Agri-Tech
CEO - SourceTrace
Aarti Chandna
Senior Advisor, Impact Investment
Partner - Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, SV2
Ashwin Gopinath
Associate Director
Asst Prof. MechE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-founder - Palamedrix,
Ex- Google X, Moonshot Factory, Caltech
David Maina
Operations and Strategy
Graduate Researcher - DUSP '20, 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
Arushi Jain
Partnerships and Outreach
Babson College, Massachusetts
Manish Misra
Senior Advisor, Innovation and Tech
Chief Innovation Officer - Panasonic
Mark Kahn
Senior Advisor, Venture Capital
Managing Partner, Omnivore
Harvard Business School
Ashish Khetan
Senior Advisor
President & CIO - Indigram Labs Foundation
Pradyumna Vyas
Senior Advisor, Innovation
Former Director - National Institute of Design, India.
Samir Sathe
Senior Advisor, SME
Executive Vice President - Wadhwani Foundation
Sudhindra V
Senior Advisor, Innovation and Tech
Chief Design Officer - IBM India
Barbara Bulc
Senior Advisor, International Relations
Founder and President, Global Development
Founding member - United Nations Innovation Working Group
