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Rajnish Jain

Dr. Rajnish Jain is Secretary at the University Grants Commission (UGC), which is the highest regulatory agency for higher education in India. Under his stewardship, the UGC has made significant advances in promoting quality higher education and implementing the National Education Policy 2020 in areas of multidisciplinary and holistic education, governance and curricular reforms, internationalization, skill education, digitalization of higher education, along with increasing access and promotion of gender and social equity in higher education. For over 33 years, Dr. Jain has made significant contributions as a teacher, researcher, trainer, administrator, and policymaker. Before his appointment as Secretary of UGC, he was a Professor at the Institute of Management Studies at Devi Ahilya University, Indore, and Nirma University, Ahmedabad, among other institutions. He has developed several academic courses and programs and has organized management development and training programs for organization of the public and private sector. His research and publications are in quality education, value-based education, services management, strategic management, and customer experience. He has guided 15 PhD research scholars. He represented India in numerous bilateral and multilateral forums for effective external stakeholder relationships and strategic engagement with foreign countries.

Home Institution: The University Grants Commission was established by an Act of Parliament in 1956 and is a statutory body under the aegis of the Indian Ministry of Education. The organization is responsible for coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of higher education in the country. India has a large postsecondary education system with more than 1,000 universities and over 42,000 colleges. The number of students enrolled in higher education is currently about 40 million across India. The UGC undertakes initiatives for access, equity, quality, affordability, accountability, excellence, and internationalization in higher education. It provides regulatory architecture, policy frameworks and guidelines, along with financial support to higher education institutions, faculty members and students. The UGC’s main office is in New Delhi, and it has six regional centers in Bhopal, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Guwahati, and Bengaluru.

Sanyogita Chadha

Dr. Sanyogita Chadha is a Professor of Fashion Design and the Regional Director at Pearl Academy, Bengaluru, Karnataka. She has a PhD in Anthropometry and has over three decades of experience in the fashion industry and academia. Dr. Chadha has held leadership positions at Karnavati University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and at the Gurukul School of Design, Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is a Board Member of Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, Gujarat, and she is on the Advisory Board at STYLUMIA, an Artificial Intelligence Company that offers analytics solutions for the fashion industry. She has been a jury member for PhD candidates at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, a federal public institute established in 2006.

Home Institution: Pearl Academy is an autonomous institution in the field of creative education with schools of design, fashion, contemporary media, and creative practice. With campuses in Delhi, Jaipur, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, the institution has received awards and recognition for design education from business organizations and the media. There are currently over 3,000 students enrolled across its four campuses.

Tanita Abraham

Ms. Tanita Abraham is an independent consultant who has been working in the higher education space for around a decade. She works with universities and graduate programs to help shape them, lay a strong foundation for governance, and build them sustainably for the future. She helped set up the office of faculty and research at Ashoka University, among other projects in its first five years of inception.

Ms. Abraham completed the Young India Fellowship in 2014, a program that inspired her to work in higher education and to help other learners get the best out of their classroom experience. She also worked as a journalist with The Hindu at the Hyderabad desk and graduated from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. She completed her bachelor’s degree from Christ College, Bengaluru in English, psychology, and journalism.

Through her Fulbright-Nehru Master’s fellowship at Harvard University, Ms. Abraham hopes to understand the foundations of higher education better and further the work around access and inclusion in India.

Nadimpalli Siva Kumar

Dr. Nadimpalli Siva Kumar is Senior Professor at the School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH), Hyderabad, Telangana. Supported by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the German Research Foundation, Dr. Kumar developed and coordinated the first international research training group in Molecular and Cellular Glycosciences with the University of Muenster, Germany. He is also coordinating EU supported projects: “Internationalization and Virtual Exchange: Borderless Between EU and Asian Countries” and NAMASTE, and NAMASTE+ supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). His areas of research include protein biochemistry, cell, and molecular biology, glycobiology, and bio-nanotechnology. He received his master’s in biochemistry from Andhra University and his Ph.D. from CFTRI, Mysuru, Karnataka.

Asima Sahu

Dr. Asima Sahu is Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack. She has more than three decades of teaching and research experience. Her research areas include South Asian affairs, gender studies, Indian political processes, development studies, and nuclear non-proliferation. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Hyderabad, her M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and her Ph.D. from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. She has published nine books and several research articles in peer-reviewed journals and has participated in several national and international conferences. In addition to successfully completing research projects sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Dr. Sahu is an Assessor at NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) and visits different higher education institutions for their accreditation evaluation.

Anil Kumar Tripathi

Dr. Anil Kumar Tripathi is Professor of Biotechnology and Director of the Institute of Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. At BHU, Dr. Tripathi was instrumental in establishing a DST-supported state-of-the-art Sophisticated Analytical Technical Help Institute (SATHI) and a BIRAC-supported Bioincubator for Nurturing Entrepreneurship for Scaling Technologies (BioNEST). Since their inception, he has served as Coordinator of both SATHI-BHU and BioNEST-BHU. Dr. Tripathi obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in botany from Banaras Hindu University and has published 92 peer-reviewed articles. His research focus on genetics, genetic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic biology of a plant growth promoting bacterium. He is a recipient of the prestigious J C Bose National Fellowship in addition to several other national awards and grants.

Prabin Kumar Panigrahi

Dr. Prabin Kumar Panigrahi is the Dean (Faculty) and Professor of Information Systems at Indian Institute of Management Indore. Prior to this, he was the Chair of Post Graduate Programme and Chair of Executive Post Graduate Programme of the institute. He holds his master’s from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His current teaching and research interests include Emerging Technologies, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Social Inclusion in Information System, Cyber Security, and Artificial Intelligence. Prabin has various professional honours, awards, and fellowships both internationally and nationally across teaching, research, and industry. He has published several research articles and cases in peer reviewed international journals and case repositories of repute. He is also a member of the editorial board for some international journals. Prabin is also member of high-level committees in state, central government, and corporate bodies.

C. Krishna Mohan

Dr. C. Krishna Mohan is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, and has served as Dean of Public and Corporate Relations at the institute. He was also the founder Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. He received his M.Tech. from NITK Surathkal and his Ph.D. from IIT Madras. Dr. Krishna Mohan heads the Visual Learning and Intelligence Lab at IIT Hyderabad, working in the research areas of video content analysis, computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He serves as a reviewer for several reputed international conferences and IEEE journals, and is Senior Member of IEEE; Member of ACM; AAAI Member; Life Member of ISTE; and Fellow of IEI, IETE, and TAS.

Elizabeth Joseph Abba

Dr. Elizabeth Joseph Abba is Associate Professor at the School of Sustainability and Associate Dean of International Programs, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She serves as a member of the joint board of Xavier-Emlyon Business School , Alumni Association and is the MAGIS Exchange Program Liaison at XIM. She also coordinates the Sustainability Discovery Program, an immersive and first-hand learning experience for students to understand sustainable communities. Dr. Abba is also an adjunct faculty member at the Division of Environmental Health, San Diego State University (SDSU). Her research interests include fine particles speciation and source apportionment, health-effect linkages due to air pollution, indoor air quality measurement, community development, and sustainability management. She was awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Scholarship (2008-09) that supported her nine-month stint at SDSU. Since 2013, she has been hosting SDSU undergraduate students on study abroad programs in India. She earned her Ph.D. in environmental management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai.