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Mr. J. C. Chaudhry is the Chairman of Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL). Besides education, he has a deep interest in Numerology also. He has been practicing Numerology for the last 32 years. He has studied thousands of cases as his hobby and provided solutions.

Mr. Sam Pitroda is an internationally respected telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policymaker who has spent 50 years in information and communications technology (ICT) and related global and national developments.

Credited with having laid the foundation for India’s telecommunications and technology revolution of the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda has been a leading campaigner to help bridge the global digital divide. During his tenure as Advisor to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Mr. Pitroda led six technology missions related to telecommunications, water, literacy, immunization, dairy production, and oilseeds. He was also the founder and first Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission. In these plural roles, Mr. Pitroda helped revolutionize India’s development philosophies and policies with a focus on access to technology as the key to social change.

As a way to induce the second phase of India’s technology revolution, in 2005 Mr. Pitroda headed India’s National Knowledge Commission (2005-2009) to provide a blueprint of reform for the knowledge-related institutions and infrastructure for the 21st century in the country. 

Mr. Pitroda has also served as Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He served as the Chairman of the Smart Grid Task Force, as well as the committees to reform public broadcasting, modernize railways, deliver e-governance, and other developmental activities. 

Mr. Pitroda is a Founding Chairman of five non-profit organizations, including the India Food Bank, the Global Knowledge Initiative, and the Institute of Transdisciplinary Health. He is also a founding Commissioner of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Digital Development and Chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s m-Powering Development Board, which looks to empower developing countries with the use of mobile technology.

In addition, Mr. Pitroda is a serial entrepreneur, having started several companies in the United States. He holds around 20 honorary Ph.D.’s, close to 100 worldwide patents, has published five books and numerous papers, and lectured widely all over the world. He lives in Chicago with his wife.

Mr. Rajesh Agrawal is the Deputy Mayor of London for Business. Born in India, he moved to London in 2001. As an entrepreneur, he founded RationalFX in 2005 and Xendpay in 2014, both companies utilizing technology to reduce the cost of international money transfers for businesses and individuals.

He is passionate about promoting entrepreneurship and creating opportunities for young people. He was appointed Chair of Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme in 2015 and has been a Patron of the Prince’s Trust for many years.

Shri Devender Singh is the former Additional Secretary, Lok Sabha, Parliament of India. He holds a master’s degree in English literature and Bachelor’s degree in law. A Legislative Officer of the 1985 batch, he has been closely associated for over three decades with the yin and yang of the Indian Parliament, its intricate processes and procedures, and the mechanics of parliamentary scrutiny and oversight. He is known for his deep analytical insight, professional competence, and wide knowledge of different political and parliamentary systems. As the principal draftsman of some of the most acclaimed reports of the Public Accounts Committee and the Estimates Committee, the two premier financial committees, and other prestigious committees of Parliament, he made a distinct contribution in servicing the committees and earned all-around encomium from the Chairmen and the committee members.

Shri Ashish Chauhan is the MD & CEO of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), the first stock exchange in Asia. He is one of the founders of India’s National Stock Exchange (“NSE”) where he worked from 1992 to 2000. He is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India due to his work at NSE. He was instrumental in setting up India’s first fully automated screen-based trading system and first commercial satellite communications network. He also created several path-breaking frameworks, including the Nifty index, NSE certifications in financial markets, etc.

Ms. Aakanksha Tyagi is Senior Commissioning Editor for academic books at Springer Nature India. A Daulat Ram College alumnus, she holds M.S. in Environmental Studies from Delhi University and PG Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy. She is actively looking out for book ideas that bring forth recent research trends, engage the scientific community, educate researchers, and are commercially viable with a long shelf life.

Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska has a Ph.D. in humanities, and she specializes in International Relations (with particular emphasis on the European Union) and Communication in public institutions. An  EU expert, government consultant, and academic fellow graduated from the Warsaw University (Italian studies), University of Paris-Sorbonne (history and political sciences), and the PWST (State College of Theatre) in culture history. An alumnus of two Ph.D. programs: in Poland (Polish Academy of Sciences) and abroad (SSSS, Italy), Dr. Bonikowska completed a specialization program at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at the Columbia University in New York (Fulbright Scholarship). She is the author of more than 150 publications and tutor of over 100 BA, MA, and post-graduate thesis.

Shri. Arvind Mehta, IAS (Himachal Pradesh, 1984) has served as Secretary in 15th Finance Commission, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.

Ms. Bhavna Vij Aurora is a veteran journalist with over 30 years of experience working for various media houses of this country and has extensively written on politics and government and has also engaged in in-depth investigation stories, including that of judiciary and railways. Currently, she is the Senior Political Economy Adviser at the British High Commission. Previously, she was the Political Editor of Outlook Magazine from 2016 to 2021.