Gagan Sethi has 30 years of experience in organizational development, capacity building and advocacy at local, national & international levels in diverse cultural settings in Asia.

After graduating in Physics from Delhi University, she completed her post-graduation in PM & IR from XLRI, Jamshedpur and worked as an HR professional in the corporate sector before becoming the co-founder and CEO of Pravah in 1993.

She subsequently co-founded ComMutiny–The Youth Collective. Both organisations have significantly shaped the youth work field in the country by leading from the front and developing world class designs and high impact interventions including the 5th Space Framework.An Ashoka Fellow and among the finalists of the Jubilant Schwab Award (SEOY- 2016), she was also awarded distinguished Alumni XLRI 2015. She is currently working on a mission to develop an eco-system of multi-sectoral institutions called the Varta Leap Coalition, which is working to promote the vision of ‘Every Youth a Jagrik and Every Space Nurturing Jagriks’ to build the narrative of  youth leadership based on values of justice, equality, liberty and fraternity at scale.

As a passionate advocate, she has been part of policy making as a member of Boards and steering committees of a number or organisations and collectives at National and International levels.She is the co-author of ‘Ocean In A Drop – Inside Out Youth Leadership’ (Sage 2013) and was part of anchoring an Asia-wide research as part of the International Baseline Study of Youth Work in the Commonwealth.

Dipa Sinha is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Before joining AUD, she worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court, Centre for Equity Studies and Public Health Research Network, and is actively involved with the Right to Food Campaign.

Dipa has done her MA in Economics from JNU, MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health.

Dipa was a member of the Project Team for the report on Nutrition and Food Systems (Committee on World Food Security, FAO). Apart from being an adviser to various organisations working on Right to Food and Nutrition, Dipa is a Member of the Governing Board of State Health Resource Centre (SHRC) in Chhattisgarh. She is also a member of the Governing Boards of Centre for Equity Studies and Public Health Resource Society in Delhi.

Dipa’s articles on social justice issues appear regularly in the Indian media.

Shankar Venkateswaran is a part of the founding team of ECube Investment Advisors that is setting up a fund to invest in publicly listed companies and help them improve their sustainability/ESG performance. He also advises companies and NGOs on matters relating to corporate sustainability and sustainable development. His last full-time position was as the chief of Tata Sustainability Group (TSG) which was tasked with providing guidance, thought leadership and support on sustainability and corporate responsibility matters of the $ 100 billion Tata group of companies.

For over a decade, Shankar’s work has focused on corporate sustainability. He set up and led TSG in bringing emerging sustainability ideas (such as natural and social capital valuation, circularity and sustainable supply chains) to the Tata group, assisting group companies integrate sustainability into core business and helped curate and execute the group’s disaster response, volunteering and skilling initiatives. He joined the Tata group after working with the UK-based think-tank and consultants, SustainAbility, and the global firm of management consultants, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he advised several companies on sustainability strategy and reporting.

Prior to this, he spent around 15 years in social development with the international NGO, ActionAid and the American India Foundation (which he helped establish in India and served as its first Executive Director – India). While at ActionAid, he also set up Partners in Change, a non-profit that pioneered corporate sustainability and CSR advisory services in India.

Shankar spent the initial 12 years of his career in the consulting firm, A F Ferguson & Co. (now Deloitte) where he worked with companies and governments on a wide range of management issues. He has held board positions with several non-profits in India and overseas. He was a part of a two-member panel that drafted the National Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct, released by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in March 2019. He is also a member of a committee that is developing the Business Responsibility Report aligned with these guidelines.

Shankar is an engineer and an MBA, and is committed to working with young people to increase their understanding and practice of the role of business in society. He is an amateur stage actor, an enthusiastic weekend tennis player and dabbles in writing.

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