Ms. Sudha Pillai,
Member Secretary, Planning Commission
Ms. Sudha Pillai is presently the Member Secretary, Planning Commission. She completed BA Honors in English Literature from Panjab University, Chandigarh, where she was awarded with a gold medal for securing first rank. Thereafter she did Masters in Public Administration (MPA), from Kennedy School Harvard
University, USA. She speaks fluent English, Hindi, Punjabi, Malayalam & French. She has held several important senior positions in Government of India and State Government of Kerala: District Collector, Trivandrum, Director, Ministry of Industry, Deptt of Industrial Development, Government of India; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice & Company Affairs, Department of Company Affairs, Government of India; Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Kerala; Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Kerala Finance Corporation, Trivandrum; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India; Principal Secretary, Finance, Government of Kerala; Addl. Secretary, M/o Mines,
Government of India; Addl. Secretary, M/o Panchayati Raj, Government of India; Secretary, M/o Labour & Employment, Government of India; Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India
Mr. Manoj Kumar,
CEO, Naandi foundation
Topic: Child Malnutrition in India: A non-communicable and preventable disease
A Robert McNamara Fellow of the World Bank, Manoj has been CEO of Naandi Foundation since December 2000. Under his leadership Naandi has evolved into a new hybrid not-for-profit organisation that has eminent business leaders at the helm, over 6000 professional workforce and a unique revenue model of outsourcing poorly run government programmes for the poor.
In the last one decade Naandi has succeeded in reaching out to 5 million poor in India and this includes feeding 1.1 million hungry children every day, providing safe drinking water to over 3 million rural people, imparting education in over 1700 government primary schools and running the largest organic coffee cooperative in the world with 12,000 indigenous people reclaiming denuded Eastern Ghats for sustainable coffee cultivation.
As a core member of the Citizens’ Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition, Manoj has been working to understand the issue in all its complexity in order to provide solutions to it. Manoj has had a chequered career, working with the government, in banking, microfinance and international aid before taking over the leadership of Naandi Foundation. Having taken Naandi to a scale and prominence that makes it one of the top notch not-for-profit organisations of the country, Manoj is now busy breaking down this organisation that he built, into separate for-profit social business ventures.
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Dr. Ramana Reddy E V, IAS
Secretary, Health & Family Welfare,
Govt. of Karnataka
Dr. Ramana Reddy E V, is an IAS officer and is currently the Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of Karnataka. He graduated in Agriculture and followed it up with a post-graduate degree in Agriculture and a Doctorate in Agronomy. He has held several Important senior positions in State Government of Andhra Pradesh: Asstt Commr, Land Revenue Management & District Administration; Joint Director, Human Resource Development Elementary Education; Project Dir; Human resource development; Director CADRE Mines & Minerals; Director, Communications & Information Technology and several others. He has received the ISRO Merit Award.
Mr. Samar Halarnkar,
Resident Editor, Hindustan Times
Topic: The Empathy Deficit and how the media can help
Mr. Samar Halarnkar has an M.A. in Journalism from University of Missouri-Columbia, USA (1992-
94) and a B.Com from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India (1982-87) He has received many fellowships and awards: In 1993-Fellowship of the Science Journalism Centre, University of Missouri-Columbia, in 1994-Fellowship of the Science Journalism Honors Program, American Society for Microbiology, in 1999-Fellowship of the Tata Energy Research Institute (India) and Institute for
Sustainable Development (Winnipeg, Canada). In 2001 he received the Polestar National Award for Technology Reporting. He is Editor-at-large in, The Hindustan Times. He is a columnist and a writer on
poverty, diversity, technology and internal-conflict issues (December 2009 to present).
He was, Guest lecturer, Basics of journalism. Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India in 1992 and instructor in ethics of journalism and basic reporting skills. He has also taught at the University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.
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