Vikram Lal, former Chairman of the Eicher Group, was born in 1942 in Delhi. He did his Senior Cambridge from the Doon School in 1957, after which he went abroad to study mechanical engineering at the Technical University Darmstadt in West Germany. He joined Eicher, the family company established by his father, in 1966. Eicher started as the first tractor manufacturer in India in 1960, and eventually branched out into light commercial vehicles in 1986, and then into heavy vehicles. Amongst oth...

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Kamal Kant Jaswal served in the Uttar Pradesh Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service for over 36 years till October 2004. Kamal Jaswal holds degrees of Master of Science in Geology from the University of Lucknow, M.Phil. in Economics and Management of Public Enterprises from the University of Paris XI and L.L.B. from the University of Delhi. During his career in the IAS, Kamal Jaswal held a number of important positions in the field as well as the State and Central secretariats. He als...

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Mr Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003. He studied at St. Xavier’s High School and Elphinstone College in Mumbai. In 1962 and 1965, he obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Bombay and a master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science respectively. In his early days of career, from 1965 to...

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Birendra Prasad Mathur is a former member of the Indian Audit & Accounts service (IA&AS) and has held the post of Dy Comptroller & Auditor General, Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser, Ministry of Steel & Mines, Joint Secretary and Addl Financial Adviser, Ministry of Defence and Accountant General, Maharashtra. He had also served as an Adviser, Government of Afghanistan. Dr Mathur has also done a stint as Director, National Institute of Financial Management and had been Vi...

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Dr. Vipul Mudgal has been a journalist and academic in India, the UK, and South East Asia for over 30 years. He joined Common Cause as the Director and Chief Executive in 2015. He has been the Resident Editor of Hindustan Times in Jaipur and Lucknow, an India Today Correspondent in Chandigarh, South Asia Editor of Asia Times in Bangkok, and a BBC journalist in London and Delhi. He specialises on insurgency, extremism and terrorism and writes extensively on the perils of extrajudicial methods ...

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Ashok Khosla is Chairman of the thirty-year-old Development Alternatives Group. Headquartered in New Delhi, the DA Group was among the first civil society organizations set up to address the issues of sustainable development as a whole. It also pioneered systematic innovation of technologies for rural applications, the concept of social enterprise, creating business-like approaches for eradicating poverty and conserving the natural resource base. Concurrently, Ashok is President of the Intern...

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Prakash Singh has been a very distinguished police officer of India with an excellent track record for combating terrorism in the turbulent parts of the country. He served – and occupied the highest positions – in the most volatile areas of Nagaland, Assam, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Kashmir. The Government of India, in recognition of his contribution to national security, awarded him the ‘Padmashri’ in 1991, An expert on internal security, Singh has given lectures all ...

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Lalit Nirula is a second generation member of a family that had been in the Hotel and Restaurant industry for 76 years. The business, Nirula’s, which he joined in December 1967, has successfully brought new non-traditional food products, innovative concepts and modern work culture in the Hospitality field for the first time to India.  The Company was considered leaders in their field of family foods, being the largest Indian owned restaurant chain in the Indian sub-continent when he w...

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Mr. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is an independent journalist and an educator. His work experience, spanning 35 years, cuts across different media: print, radio, television and documentary cinema. He is a writer, speaker, anchor, interviewer, teacher and commentator in three languages: English, Bengali and Hindi. His main areas of interest are the working of India’s political economy and the media, on which he has authored/co-authored books and directed/produced documentary films. He lectures on...

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Anjali Bhardwaj- co-convenor, National Campaign for Peoples’ Right to Information (NCPRI) and founder, Satark Nagrik Sangathan (SNS) --- Society for Citizens’ Vigilance Initiative, studied for an MSc degree in Environmental Management at Oxford University and did her MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has been closely associated with the Right to Information movement in India since 2000. The NCPRI played a pivotal role in campaigning for a...

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Sanjay Bhasin is a graduate of Electronics and Communications Engineering from IIT Roorkee and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA.   He is currently Chief Operating Officer of solar energy company YouSolar Inc. (http://yousolar.com/). Sanjay has global corporate experience of working in information technology (IT), telecom and solar industries for over 30 years. He has lived and worked in India, USA, Finland, England and Indonesia.   Sanjay has ...

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Nikhil Dey, was born in Bangalore in 1963. He was educated in India and the USA (12 th std from Thomas Jefferson High School, Fairfax County Virginia USA). He has a Bachelor's Degree from Osmania University and a degree in law from the University of Delhi. After working briefly with the Kheduth Mazdoor Chetna Sangathana in Madhya Pradesh, he joined Aruna Roy and Shankar Singh in 1987 to go to Devdungri, in Rajsamand District in Rajasthan. All three of them, along with many ...

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Dr Govind Bhattacharjee, a retired officer of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service and a former Director General at the Office of the Comptroller & Auditor General (C&AG) of India, New Delhi, is currently a Professor of Practice at the Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management, an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Finance where he teaches Public Finance and Public Policy. During his career spanning over three decades, he has served in various capacities in In...

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