Our Board
and help bring out the best in us.
Arjun Bhagat
Founder, IMAK News and Entertainment
Founder and CEO of IMAK News and Entertainment, a TV production house. Focussed on protecting India’s greens and fighting climate change. Uses communications strategy to help non-profits to create bigger impact.
Ritu Prasad
Entrepreneur - Organic food and accessiblity
An MBA from Sydenham’s Institute of Management, Mumbai. Now an organic farmer, green entrepreneur, focussed on making safe food available to all. Overpriced basic nutrition is a pet peeve. On a wheelchair since 2005, also supports the disability sector.
Alok Chopra
Director, Aashlok Hospitals Fortis Associate, Safdarjung Enclave
Trained and worked as a top cardiologist. Has moved on to wider medical horizons. Now a leading proponent of functional medicine which embraces bioregulatory, cardiometabolic and lifestyle aspects, often overlooked by most doctors.
Rajesh Thadani
A forest ecologist with a PhD from Yale University.. Worked in the development sector, helping vitalize non-profits and set up for-profits for women in the Himalayas. Founder, CEDAR-Centre for Ecology, Development and Research.
Vineeta Mukherjee
Masters in Development Studies with a specialization in Gender, Women and Development from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague. Experience in senior level positions in local and international non-profit organizations and a donor agency. Specially interested in women’s health and movements.
Sudha Shastri
An MBA from IIM, Calcutta. Founder of Inputs, an HR advisory firm and career coach. Committed to making the non-profit workplace happy, safe and efficient.
Ravi Singh
Publisher of independent publishing house, Speaking Tiger. Passionate about storytelling, climate change and sustainability.
Bharati Chaturvedi
Founder and Director, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
Master’s from SAIS, John’s Hopkins University. Environmentalist, writer and birder. Columnist at the Hindustan Times, author of Finding Delhi (Penguin India). Also the founder-director at Chintan.
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Our Advisory Group
Dr Pallavi Pant
Holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of Birmingham, UK, and is focused on combatting air pollution in developing countries. . Leads the Global Health Program at the Health Effects Institute. Promoting women in science is a commitment.
Dr Aman Luthra
Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University. Assistant Professor, George Washington University. An environmental and an economic geographer, Research has focused on livelihoods in the informal economy of waste and recycling in urban India.
Pranay Lal
Undergraduate degree in microbiology from University of Mumbai and Masters in Environmental Sciences and Forestry from Oxford University. Deeply interested in Public Health. Author of two award-winning books Invisible Empire : The Natural History of Viruses and Indica : A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent.
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