August 9, 2016 Speaker Profiles

National CSR Summit Towards Effective CSR Innovations – Approach and Application

Session I ’s Development Challenges – Can CSR spur transformative solutions

Chandrajit Banerjee Director General Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Government of India. He is the Co-Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has the Governing Council, Overseas Indian been with the CII for over 28 years and has been Facilitation Centre (OIFC), a not-for-profit the Director General there since May 2008. As public private initiative of Government of India Director General, he is responsible for overall and CII, established in 2007. He is a Member of operations of CII. Prior to his appointment as the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Director General, he held several senior Council on India. Chandrajit is a Member of the positions in CII. Chief Minister’s Advisory Council, Madhya Pradesh and also a Member of the Board of He is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with Governors of Indian Institute of Management specialization on Economics of Planning and (IIM), Ranchi. He is an advisory board member Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Earlier, he did his Graduation from St. Xavier's Investment Council (CWEIC). College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons). He has been honored with the -India Chandrajit has been responsible for important Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier Wen areas of work including the sectoral verticals - Jiabao for his contributions towards the manufacturing, services, agriculture and life development of bilateral ties between India and sciences sectors and the SMEs. He has led key China. He has also been conferred with the policy work of CII in the areas of economic decoration of Knight Commander of the Order policy, financial services and corporate of Queen Isabella by His Majesty the King of governance (he was also the First Executive Spain in recognition of his most meritorious Director of the National Foundation of achievements and exceptional contributions Corporate Governance -NFCG, an organization towards promoting relations between India and set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Spain. Government of India). He continues to be in the Board of Trustees and Governing Council of He is also the Secretariat for several bilateral NFCG as a Member. Earlier, Chandrajit has CEOs forums. These include forums with served as Head of CII’s regional operations in , , Russia, Canada, , the Northern, Southern and Western Regions. , Myanmar, , Pakistan, among others. Over the years he has worked out of the CII- Headquarters in New Delhi for several years and With 66 offices, including 9 Centres of has also been based at Kolkata, Chennai, Excellence, in India, and 9 overseas offices in Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He was Australia, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Germany, Singapore, UK, and USA, as well as Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool institutional partnerships with 312 counterpart Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA), which is organizations in 106 countries, CII serves as a a state-of-the-art centre for training, conventions reference point for Indian industry and the and trade fairs. international business community.

He is in various advisory committees of the

Mukund Rajan Co-Chair, CII National Committee on CSR 2016-17; Member – Group Executive Council and Brand Custodian and Chief Ethics Officer Tata Sons Ltd.

Mukund Rajan serves as a Member of the Group one of the principal telecom industry Executive Council at Tata Sons Ltd., and is the associations in India. He currently serves as a Tata Brand Custodian and Group Spokesperson. Non-Executive Director on the boards of Additionally, he serves as Chief Ethics Officer Lakshmi Machine Works, Tata SIA Airlines and of the group and oversees CSR activities as TCS Foundation, and is a member of the Chairman of the Tata Global Sustainability Advisory Board of the Tata Opportunities Fund. Council. He is the Chairperson of the FICCI Environment Committee and serves as the Co-Chair of the CII Mukund joined Tata through the Tata National Committee on CSR. He is also a Administrative Service (TAS) in January 1995. member of the National Advisory Boards of two He was assigned to the office of the then youth networks, AIESEC India and ENACTUS. Chairman of Tata Sons, Mr Ratan Tata, in 1996, where he served for twelve years. In 2007, the World Economic Forum honoured him as a Young Global Leader. He was also part In January 2008, he was appointed Managing of the inaugural class of the CII-Aspen Institute Director of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra). He India Leadership Initiative. subsequently moved to Tata Capital in 2010, where in his last role, he was the Head of Private He graduated from the Bachelor of Technology Equity Advisory and Managing Partner of the program at the Indian Institute of Technology, advisory team of the Tata Opportunities Fund, a Delhi in 1989. He received a Rhodes private equity fund sponsored by the company. Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he completed a Masters and Doctorate in He has served on the boards of various Tata International Relations. His doctoral dissertation companies including Tata Teleservices, Tata titled “Global Environmental Politics – India Communications, Roots Corporation and Piem and the North-South Politics of Global Hotels. He was also President of the Association Environmental Issues” was published by the of Unified Access Service Providers of India, Oxford University Press in 1996.

Venu Srinivasan Chairman & Managing Director TVS Motor Company

Venu Srinivasan is the Chairman of Sundaram- (JUSE), and the Japanese Quality Medal in the Clayton Group which includes TVS Motor year 2002. In the same year, TVS Motor Company and companies that manufacture Company was also conferred with the Deming automotive components in India. Prize.

He has an engineering degree from the College In recognition of his contribution to of Engineering, Chennai and a Master’s Degree manufacturing, R&D, technology and quality in Management from Purdue University, USA. excellence, he was conferred with “Doctor of In recognition of his contribution to Science” by the University of Warwick, UK in management, he was conferred with “Doctor of the year 2004. Management” by his alma-mater, Purdue University in 2014. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, the oldest IIT in India, conferred upon him, He has held various important positions in the “Doctor of Science” in the year 2009. Indian Industry, such as Chairman of National Safety Council, Government of India; President, He was bestowed with the Ishikawa-Kano award Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for the in the year 2012 by the Asian Network of year 2009-10; President, Society of Indian Quality, the apex body for quality in Asia which Automobile Manufacturers for the period 1999- covers 18 countries including Japan, China, 2001. India, Korea and Thailand.

Some of the recent awards conferred on Mr. For his contribution to Leadership and Srinivasan include: “Goodwill Envoy for Public Management, Mr Srinivasan was conferred with Diplomacy” by the Republic of Korea in 2015; JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award by the “Honorary citizen of Busan City”, Korea’s 2nd All India Management Association in the year largest city, in 2014; Honorary Commanding 2005, and the Jamsetji Tata Lifetime Officer of Korean Naval Vessel, ROKS Choi Achievement award by the Indian Society for Young, in 2014; The “Padma Shri” award in Quality in the year 2004. 2010 by the President of India, for his valuable and outstanding contributions in the field of He is also the Managing Trustee of Srinivasan trade and industry; The distinguished civilian Services Trust (SST) – engaged in honour “Order of Diplomatic Service Merit” transformation & empowerment of over 3000 (Heung-In Medal) in 2010, conferred by the villages in rural India affecting over 1.6 million President of the Republic of Korea, in people. SST has received multiple awards recognition of his valuable contribution in including: Times of India Social Impact Award promoting Korea-India bilateral relations. on Advocacy & Empowerment in Corporate category (2011); Golden award on Readers Under his leadership, Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. Digest Pegasus Corporate Social Responsibility was awarded the Deming Prize in 1998 by the Award (2008); Silver award on Pegasus Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers Corporate Social Responsibility Award (2007).

Anshu Gupta (Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner 2015); Founder, Goonj

Popularly known as the “Clothing Man” and He is an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow apart from recipient of 2015 Ramon Magsaysay Award, being a member of the Humanitarian Crisis Anshu Gupta has studied mass communication Council of the World Economic Forum and has and has masters in Economics. Starting as a been listed by the Forbes magazine as one of freelance journalist, Anshu left a corporate job India’s most powerful rural entrepreneurs. in 1998 and founded Goonj with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it Anshu brings to the table an instinctive empathy among the list of subjects to work on for the and connect with people by dignifying the act of development sector. giving. In the macro picture, he has identified some basic needs outside the radar screen of the Under his leadership Goonj has taken the development sector and the civil society, that too menacing growth of urban waste and used it by structuring imaginative solutions using urban efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale rural waste. development work. By creating a barter between two new currencies; labor of the beneficiaries An entrepreneur at heart, avid traveler, and old material of cities, he has built the photographer and a journalist by training, genesis of a parallel economy which is not cash he often pens prose and poetry, giving vent to based but trash based. his feelings and opinions on the issues that bother him about the world around him.

Louis-Georges Arsenault Representative for India UNICEF

Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF managed one of UNICEF’s largest Representative to India, is responsible for the humanitarian operations, including the overall coordination, development, coordination of relief and rehabilitation formulation and management of the UNICEF services to hundreds and thousands of women, Country Programme of Co-operation. He leads children and men displaced by war. He the policy dialogue and advocacy with the lobbied against the recruitment of children as government and other partners for the soldiers, and despite the Taliban’s edicts enhancement of the survival, protection, against girls’ education and women’s right to development and participation of children and employment, initiated several projects to women in national development efforts and provide employment opportunities for women the achievement of the Millennium and education for girls as well as arranging Development Goals. private schooling for them. He joined UNICEF in Mali in 1995 as Deputy Representative Prior to his current position, Louis served as where he led with the Government the first UNICEF’s Director of the Office of UNICEF Country Programme informed by a Emergency Programmes from March 2008, rights based approach to programming. where he led the institutional support to countries facing humanitarian situation be it Prior to joining UNICEF, Louis worked for conflict or natural disaster. The portfolio the Canadian University Services Overseas included increasing the efficiency (policy and (CUSO) as Regional Director for West Africa procedures) of UNICEF’s overall based in Togo. In the mid-eighties he was humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction, Director of the Canadian International peace building, humanitarian policy and Development Agency-supported bilateral advocacy. Louis was the UNICEF project on Integrated Water Supply and representative in Bangladesh from October Sanitation, covering the maritime region of 2005 to February 2008. He was responsible for Togo. During his tenure, water supply conceptualizing, developing and implementing coverage rose from 25 to 75 per cent and the country programme. Prior to that he served immunisation coverage rose from 7 to 70 per as the Deputy Director, Programme Division cent. Prior to that, he worked with another in UNICEF New York where he provided Canadian non-governmental agency, Canada leadership in the Organization’s efforts in World Youth, which promoted non-formal developing a new strategic plan aimed at education for young children, with a focus on achieving the Millennium Development Goals international cooperation through youth as well as overseeing UNICEF technical exchange and community based development sections. in Senegal and Morocco. In the late seventies, he served as a volunteer with SUCO, a From 2001 to 2003, Louis served as the Quebec-based Canadian NGO in Upper Volta, UNICEF Representative in Phnom Penh, in a community-led integrated development Cambodia. He managed the country project. programme and collaborated with the Royal Government of Cambodia to integrate Louis is a national of Canada. He programmes for children at the national level. graduated in International Public His work to prevent trafficking and sexual Administration from the l’EcoleNationale exploitation of children led to the formulation d’ AdmistrationPublique de Montreal in of a national law and a moratorium on inter- Canada. country adoptions. As UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan from 1998 to 2001, he

Pratima Kirloskar Co-Chair, CII National Committee on CSR 2016-17; President—Innovations (Society) Kirloskar Brothers Ltd.

Pratima Kirloskar has made contributions a part of ASSOCHAM, on the national biotech towards the development of Pune city in the group as a co- chair. areas of education, healthcare, showcasing of technology and entrepreneurship. She works in She was one of the founder members of the close coordination with the Pune Corporation to Indus Entrepreneurs, Pune Chapter and its help citizens. With a team of citizens a first President for two turns. TiE also runs a monsoon line, www.ourpune.com was set up in nurture programme for entrepreneurs which she July 2007 to help the Pune Municipal actively participates in mentoring entrepreneurs. Corporation receive complaints from citizens concerning roads. Pratima is one of the founder members of the animation and gaming committee in the Maratha In the arena of education, she serves as a Board Chamber Of Commerce, Pune. She is also an Member or Trustee of education foundations active member in the Confederation of Indian including – Pune Pratham, Symbiosis Industry and the Young Indian Group. International School and on the standing committee of the Pune Police Public School, (a She serves on the National Committee of Design subsidized school for children of police in CII as well as the National CII Innovation constables). She currently runs a the Vikas Committee member, startup and Charitable Trust that runs a 70 year old school entrepreneurship sub-committee. She heads the and a 70 year old primary healthcare centre in western region sub-committee of the CII Family Kirloskarwadi, helping 4 villages and 40 schools Business Network. She currently is the Co-Chair in the area. The school is the only English on the National CSR Committee for CII. medium school in the Kirloskarvadi/Palus/Ramanandnagar area and She started the Innovations society to help caters to all the nearby villages. innovative entrepreneurs with high technology products, to connect up with larger companies. She is a trustee on a Japanese NGO called Ashta Her work is in innovative technologies across No Kai which helps women and children in 7 verticals. Technologies from ice cream making villages in Maharashtra. The NGO works to to stem cell banking. In 2011 a not-for-profit all empower women and educate their children. Women’s company was setup in Bhilavadi to Many self help groups have been started. empower rural women while the product they make is supplied to urban women. In the area of healthcare, she has helped to foster collaboration across a range of entities - Biotech Her background is in Commerce from Research Institutes, Pharmaceutical Sydenham College, Mumbai. She has done companies, practicing doctors, Engineering Advanced Computing from CDAC Pune, a Colleges, various Institutes in Pune, Government course in patenting from University of of India Ministries, and Embassies of foreign Michigan, USA and, an executive MBA from countries (including USA, UK, France, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria). She was

Session II Is India ready for funding innovation through CSR?

Praveen Chakravarty Strategic Advisor, BSE and Director BSE Institute

Praveen Chakravarty is a Senior Fellow at IDFC and implemented a CSR Exchange called Institute, a think-tank of the IDFC Group. Samman, a first of its kind. He has also worked with the Unique Identity Authority of India Previously, he spent two decades as an (UIDAI) and the National Skills Development investment banker in India and the US. He is Agency (NSDA). currently a member of the Primary Markets committee of the Securities & Exchange Board He is the Founding Trustee of IndiaSpend, of India, an independent Director in the TVS India’s first non-profit data journalism initiative. Group of companies and BSE Institute. He also He is a prolific writer with many published co-founded Mumbai Angels, India’s largest opinion pieces in all leading mainlines and angel investing group. publications.

Praveen, in his capacity as an strategic advisor to the Bombay Stock Exchange, conceptualised

Shardul S Shroff Executive Chairman Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Shardul S. Shroff is the Executive Chairman at boards of Indian companies and has advised on Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co with over some of the most significant transactions 35 years of extensive experience in mergers & including the IDFC Bank demerger, acquisitions and corporate law, banking & restructuring of the Vodafone group, and several finance, and projects & project Finance. spectrum acquisitions.

He has over three decades of experience in He is a recipient of the National Law Day strategic alliances and takeovers, divestments, Award from the President of India in November spin-offs, joint ventures, private equity, capital 2009. markets, and commercial contracts. He is also a leading authority on legal matters related to He has been awarded the Chambers Asia Pacific media law, technology law, corporate Award for Excellence for “Outstanding governance, policy and regulatory practices. He Contribution to the Legal Profession”, in 2012. has been instrumental in developing these practice domains in the firm. He has recently been recognized as “Star Lawyer” by Chambers and Partners in their Shardul has been appointed on significant rankings released for 2016.

Mamta Binani President The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

Mamta Binani is the President of the Institute of mentor and counsellor to young professionals & Company Secretaries of India for the year 2016. students. She also serves as an Independent She is the second lady President of ICSI in its Director on few of the boards. illustrious history of 47 years. She has been the Chairperson of the Eastern Mamta is a commerce graduate and a Fellow India Regional Council of The Institute of Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries Company Secretaries of India in 2010. She has of India and has also done LLB. She is a been the first lady to have held the position, meritorious student throughout her education amongst all the 3 professional Institutes, namely career. She was an All India Topper in the The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Intermediate Examinations of The Institute of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India and Company Secretaries of India, amongst all the The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, in lady candidates in India and had ranked 14th on the Eastern Region. She also holds various an All India. In the Final Examinations, she positions in prestigious chambers of commerce, stood all India first in the subject 'Company NGO’s and professional associations. Law'. She has received various medals, certificates and awards including the D.L. She has been conferred with the "Bharat Nirman Majumdar's Silver Medal. She is practising as a Awards" in the year 2010 for "Excellence in Company Secretary for over 18 years now. Professional Services" and is the first company secretary to have received this prestigious She is a facilitator for some very prestigious award. She also received the "Tejaswini Award" programmes conducted by the Professional in the year 2010. She was conferred with the Institutes of India. She is a regular and ‘Hello Kolkata’ award for exemplary work in acclaimed speaker in the professional forums on social sector. “Wah Zindagi” has featured a subjects of academic interest including inter- telefilm on her journey which is widely viewed personal & communication skills. She takes in YouTube. keen interest in delving into corporate and professional issues and is consulted on various She writes for leading journals and magazines contemporary matters by the industry. She has and contributes articles and papers in various been an empanelled trainer with ICICI Bank house journals of professional institutes, on Limited, where she facilitated training in soft topics of varied interests. She has served as the skills up to the chief managerial level on an All Vice- President of the Institute of Company India Basis. She is associated with the financial Secretaries of India for the year 2015. sector, education sector and is an experienced

Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey Vice President Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)

Nilesh Shivji Vikamsey is Vice President of the Standards for the Indian Insurance Market of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India IRDA, Committee on Road Map for Risk Based (ICAI) for the term 2016-17. He was elected as Solvency Approach in Insurance of IRDA, First the Vice President of the ICAI by the 23rd Chairman of the then newly formed Corporate Council of the Institute in 2016. He has served Members Committee of The Chamber of Tax the ICAI and the profession as a Central Council Consultants (CTC) and also on the Managing Member since 2010. He is widely commended Council of CTC in 2007-08, Project and credited for his key role in student uplift Implementation Committee to pursue the activities and conceptualization and devising of implementation of ‘Accrual Accounting’ in the a new futuristic CA Curriculum. Ministry of Road Transport & Highways constituted by Ministry of Road Transport & He has been elected to the Central Council for Highways and Ministry of Shipping, Merger & three consecutive terms (2010-13, 2013-16, Acquisition (M&A) Council constituted by 2016-19). He has also been noted for his ASSOCHAM. distinguished contributions in the capacity of Vice Chairman of Corporate Laws and Nilesh is noted for his work as Chairman of Corporate Governance Committee, Committee Education & CPD Committee of South Asian on Accounting Standards for Local Bodies, Federation of Accountants (SAFA) and as Committee on Banking Insurance and pension, Representative of ICAI on the Committee for Committee on Information Technology and Improvement in Transparency, Accountability Board of Studies in the past. He has also and Governance (ITAG) of SAFA. Currently, he effectively served the cause of the accountancy is the technical advisor of ICAI nominee to the profession as a member of 27 ICAI committees SMP Committee of IFAC. during his tenure as Council Member so far. As the Vice President of the ICAI, he is now the A resident of Mumbai, he has actively partnered Vice-Chairman of all the Standing Committees in the growth of the nation and the profession as of the ICAI, the Member ex-officio in all Non- member and first Chairman of the Qualified Standing Committees of the ICAI and Joint Audit Report Committee (QARC) of SEBI, and Editor of The Chartered Accountant journal. as a member of Committee on Disclosures and Accounting Standards (SCODA) of SEBI, LLP He has also been closely associated with and Committee of Ministry of Corporate Affairs contributed to Indian Merchants Chamber, (MCA), Committee Constituted by Ministry of WIRC of ICAI, The Chamber of Tax Corporate Affairs pertaining to certain issues Consultants, Bombay Chartered Accountants raised regarding applicability of foreign Society, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & investment in the LLPs, Committee for Industry. He has also been a Member/Convenor Digitization of Balance Sheet & Annual Reports of more than 15 Study Groups formed by the filed with MCA through MCA-21, Working ICAI. Group for developing Indian Specific ACORD

Shankar Venkateswaran Chief—Tata Sustainability Group Tata Sons Ltd.

Since January 2014, Shankar Venkateswaran has specializing in corporate sustainability and CSR. been the chief of Tata Sustainability Group He has also set up the India office of the which has been tasked with providing guidance, American India Foundation and served as thought leadership and support on sustainability Executive Director, India, Director of think-tank and corporate responsibility activities of the $ and consultancy, SustainAbility, before joining 100 billion Tata group of companies. Before PwC. joining the Tata group, Shankar was with PwC India as Director of Sustainability. Shankar has held board positions with several non-profits in India and overseas. He was also a A mechanical engineer and an MBA, he has member of the Guidelines Drafting Committee about 35 years of experience working in the for the National Voluntary Guidelines for corporate and social development sectors. Responsible Business notified by the Ministry of Shankar started his career in mainstream Corporate Affairs, Government of India and is management consulting before going on to set currently a part of a two-member panel updating up Partners in Change, a pioneering non-profit these guidelines.

Anil Gupta Professor Centre for Management in Agriculture IIM, Ahmedabad

Anil Kumar Gupta is a professor at the Centre present; Professor, Centre for Management in for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute Agriculture, IIMA 1981 - present; Member, of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). He is also advisory board, Global Innovation Centre, the founder of Honey Bee Network. Anil is a UNICEF, New York (2015-2016);Member, Governing Board Member at the Indian Institute Board of Directors in EdCIL (India) Limited of Management, Ahmedabad, holds a Ph.D. 2013 - present ; Member, National Innovation (Management), Kurukshetra University India, Council, Chaired by Adviser to Prime Minister MSc. Biochemical Genetics 1974 Haryana (2010-2013); KasturbhaiLalbhai Chair in Agricultural University, Hisar.Fellow, National Entrepreneurship, IIMA (2003-2008); Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Fellow, the Chairperson, Ravi J Matthai Centre for World Academy of Art and Science, California Educational Innovation, Indian Institute of 2001. Management, 1993-1994; Chairperson, Research and Publications, IIMA, 1990-92. His mission is to expand the global and local space for innovations at the grassroots level; link The following are honors: Best Researcher at ideas in informal and formal sector, ensure IIMA, 2015, Humanistic Management Lifetime recognition, respect and reward creative people; Achievement Award by the Humanistic create knowledge networks for augmenting Management Network, at the 73rd Annual innovations and unfold creative potential of meeting of the Academy of Management, USA, individuals, institutions and societies August 2013; Ph.D Honoris Causa, San Martin through frugal, flexible and friendly empathetic de Porres University, October, Peru; Doctor of innovations; facilitate Festival of Innovation Letters from Central University of Orissa, July, (FOIN) through NIFindia.org, hosted by the 2012; Hermes Award (May 2012), European office of President of India (March 12-18, 2016). Institute for Creative Strategies and Innovation, His research includes work in the following Paris; Padam Shri, 2004, civil award by The areas: sustainable agriculture, ethical issues in President of India; Adjudged as one of the fifty conservation and prosperity of biodiversity, most influential people in the field of intellectual building global value chain to get the creativity property rights around the world in 2003, its due; support to Honey Bee Network and link Managing Intellectual Property (July-August technology youth with the problems of MSME, 2003, Issue 131), Adjudged as one of the Star informal sector to address social unmet needs, Personalities of Asia, Business Week, July, support social innovation through a facility. 2001, apart from several other national and international honours. Member of many His positions have included: Exec. Vice Chair, governmental and corporate bodies, Prof. Gupta National Innovation Foundation (NIfindia.org); is a widely published author. His new book can President, SRISTI (Society for Research and be found Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and here: http://www.amazon.in/Grassroots- Institutions) 2003-present; Editor, Honey Bee, Innovation-Minds-Margin- 1990 – present; Secretary, Gian.org, 1997- Marginal/dp/8184005873

Bhaskar Chatterjee Director General Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)

Bhaskar Chatterjee is presently the Director involved with a number of micro and macro- General and CEO of the Indian Institute of economic measures. He was also a part of the Corporate Affairs. This is an autonomous team responsible for shaping India’s response to organization under the Ministry of Corporate the global economic crisis of 2009. Affairs, Government of India. It acts as a think tank, a resource centre, a hub for advocacy and In 1990, Bhaskar authored his first book – a path dissemination, a training and a learning centre, breaking work entitled “Japanese Management – and a focal point for the subject of corporate Maruti and the Indian Experience”. Thereafter, affairs which encompasses the entire gamut of in 2009, he wrote his now famous “Human corporate governance, corporate finance, Resource Management – A Contemporary Text” competition law, corporate law and CSR. which has gone into its fourth revised and enlarged edition. Bhaskar is a widely acclaimed management practitioner, theorist and teacher. He has written His widely acclaimed book, “Leadership India – and lectured over many years on issues of social Leading Change, Changing Lives”, was released and sustainable development, corporate at the World HRD Congress in February, 2011. responsibility and human resources. Today, as the Director General & CEO of the As Secretary to the Government of India in the IICA, he is helping to shape the contours of the Department of Public Enterprises, he prepared subject of Corporate Affairs and preparing and wrote the first comprehensive guidelines on strategies for capacity development, knowledge CSR for the public sector. In the process, he dissemination and quality research. was able to make CSR a part of the yearly assessment of public sector enterprises. Shortly, Under his leadership, the IICA is rapidly after this pioneering effort, he put together a evolving as a repository of knowledge which dedicated task force and prepared the first fosters cutting edge research, acts as a consultant comprehensive guidelines on sustainable and solution provider, provides training and development for this sector. He has since capacity building facilities and is establishing spoken and lectured widely on both these partnerships with some of the best academic subjects at many national and international fora. institutions of the world. Over time, this unique institute will play a pivotal role towards the He was invited to deliver the prestigious Darbari holistic study and harmonized treatment of Seth Memorial Lecture by The Energy and issues impacting corporate regulation, Resources Institute (TERI) in August 2012 and governance and functioning in the context of is a member of the TERI Advisory Board. emerging national and international trends.

He joined the Indian Administrative Service in He has most recently authored his latest Book 1975 and has held many distinguished positions. entitled “Sustainable Futures - Imperatives For In 2008-09, he was Principal Adviser in the Managing The Social Agenda”. Planning Commission. Here he was deeply

Session III In Conversation

Anil Agarwal Founder and Group Chairman Vendata Resources Plc.

Anil Agarwal is the founder Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc, which is a globally With an eye on long-term value creation and a diversified natural resources group, with focus on sustainability, he has led Vedanta’s operations in India, Zambia, Australia, Namibia, community programmes, which are run in Ireland, South Africa & Liberia. Under his partnership with the various government dynamic leadership, Vedanta has grown agencies and NGOs and supported by a strong into an integrated producer of zinc, lead, team of CSR professionals, focus on Education silver, copper, aluminum, iron ore, oil and gas and Childcare, Health & Nutrition, Women and power. Today Vedanta has a talent pool of Empowerment and over 70,000 employees. improving Livelihoods. Vedanta has benefitted about 2.8 million people globally in FY 2015- Anil has been a pioneer in taking an Indian 16. business global, and led the listing of Vedanta Resources plc on the London Stock Exchange in During the 10th anniversary celebrations of the 2003. At the time of flotation, Vedanta was the company's successful listing on the London first Indian company to gain a primary listing on Stock Exchange, Anil announced to pledge 75% the London Stock Exchange. Vedanta was also of his personal wealth to philanthropy. This heralded as the second largest listing on the speaks volumes of his continuous effort to help London Stock Exchange and the third largest create a conducive environment for job creation IPO of all time, in the Metals and Mining and to eradicate poverty in India. Industry. Vedanta’s subsidiary Vedanta Limited is also listed on the NYSE. At the time He has been felicitated as the E&Y Entrepreneur of its conclusion, this was the largest ADR of the Year 2008; won the Lifetime offering in the US by an Indian company. Achievement Award 2009 from the Mining Journal, one of the most reputed international The Chairman’s aim is to partner India’s growth magazines; and awarded as the Business Leader through exploring the vast potential of India’s of the Year 2012 by the Economic Times for his natural resources. In the last decade, Vedanta outstanding success. The Bombay Metal has invested over US $30 billion in India, in Exchange Ltd has conferred the title of organic growth projects and has made Dhaturatna to him in 2015. He was the winner of significant contributions to the Indian economy, Entrepreneur of the Year award, at the sixth as one of the country’s largest taxpayers. annual Asian Awards this year.

Session IV CSR – An Expense or an Investment

Amir Ullah Khan Director Aequitas Research & Advisor Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Amir Ullah Khan is a Development Economist, Policy Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Amir has earlier worked as Editor at Foundation and Visiting Professor at the Indian Encyclopedia Britannica and Director of the School of Business in Hyderabad. Amir has a India Development Foundation. He has served PhD in Business Studies from Jamia Millia as a member of the Post Sachar Evaluation Central University. He graduated from the Committee headed by Prof Amitabh Kundu that Institute of Rural Management in Anand submitted its report to the Government of India (IRMA) and earlier from the Osmania in September 2014. He is now a member of the University College of Engineering. He is on the Comission of Inquiry set up by the Telangana Governing Board at the Welham Girls School, Government to study the socio economic Aequitas Consulting, Digital Empowerment conditions of inequality in the state. Foundation and the Presidency University.

Vaishali Sinha Director ReNew Power Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Vaishali Nigam Sinha is a Director on the Board Vaishali earned a degree in Bachelors of Arts of ReNew Power, India’s leading renewable from Delhi University and a Masters in Public energy company. The company is committed to Policy from Columbia University’s School of leading the change in India’s current energy International and Public Affairs in New York. portfolio by delivering cleaner and smarter While at Columbia, she received the prestigious energy choices and thereby reducing India’s American Association of University Women carbon footprint. Under the ambit of ReNew scholarship. India Initiative (RII), Vaishali drives the corporate social responsibility initiatives at the Currently, she is the co-chair, Regional company. Committee on CSR & Gender Equality at CII Northern region. She is also a member of the Vaishali is also the Founder and CEO of Nominating Committee of the first Justice JS iCharity, an 80G certified, non-profit online Verma Award for Women’s Empowerment, platform which brings together those who want which is sponsored by Ananda, the Coca-Cola to give and those who are committed to working India Foundation and a member of the CII in the social sector. iCharity enlists NGOs National Committee on CSR. She is a strong operating in India and provides them with a advocate of equal participation of women in platform to showcase their work and reach out to economic activities especially at the grass-roots. donors. The aim of iCharity is to bring She is an accomplished classical Indian dancer, transparency and professional standards to the enjoys travelling and is passionate about social Indian non-profit sector. impact and wants to make “giving” a way of life in India. Vaishali started her career on Wall Street as an investment banker at J.P Morgan. After stints in She is a recipient of the CSR Leadership Award New York and London, she returned to India in 2015 at the National Awards for Excellence in 2003 where after several years in banking, she CSR and Sustainability and prestigious Women became a social entrepreneur. Leadership Award at CMO ASIA, Singapore.

Rajender Singh CEO DLF Foundation

Rajender Singh is the CEO of DLF Foundation, handholds them from 6th standard to professional the philanthropic arm of the DLF Group. Before colleges. In addition they have also launched a joining the DLF Foundation in 2009, he was comprehensive community development heading the largest arm of the Indian Army as programme namely Village Cluster the Director General of Infantry. It was his Development Programme, which also includes inbuilt desire and longing to use his expertise healthcare, educational and other miscellaneous and experience for the upliftment of the community development initiatives like Swachh marginalized societies that made him join the Campaign as part of the same. development sector after an extremely distinguished career in the army spanning 40 Before joining the Foundation in 2009, Rajender years. was heading the largest arm of the Indian Army as the Director General of Infantry. He is a As a social innovator, Rajender with his highly decorated professional soldier, who a strategic vision and social entrepreneurship recipient of PVSM (country’s highest expertise has been instrumental in expanding the distinguished service award) and many other programmes of DLF Foundation from its awards for acts of bravery and distinguished infancy stage in 2009, to a foundation with large services. He was appointed the Force scale social interventions. Under his patronage Commander of the UN Peace Keeping Forces in CSR initiatives of the DLF were duly recognised Ethiopia & Eritrea from 2004 to 2006 (One of when they were conferred the prestigious the 14 Indians ever to be given this honour by Golden Peacock Award 2010 for CSR. One of the UN since its inception). During his tenure, their major programmes relates to skill the UN was able to bring lasting peace in the development which aims to train and help region and also launched a number of employ 1 million youths pan India in next 10 developmental programmes for the assistance of years by opening 250 skill development centres war torn communities. This campaign was to impart job linked training. DLF Foundation is greatly appreciated in the region and helped a also running and supporting 63 schools for the great deal in rebuilding lives of the population in underprivileged in, rural areas of Rajasthan and the war torn region. A known scholar on security Haryana. Besides this, the Foundation has also and developmental issues, he is on the guest launched a very innovative Nurturing Talent faculty of many institutes and has been Programme which targets bright slum dwellers delivering talks on various security and and rural under privileged students and development issues.

Harish Krishnan Executive Director Public Affairs & Strategic Engagements Cisco India and SAARC

As the Executive Director, Public Affairs & Chairman of corporate social responsibility of Strategic Engagements, Harish leads Cisco’s American Chamber of Commerce in India strategic engagement with National and State (Northern Region). Harish is also the co-founder Governments of India on wide range of policy of Public Affairs Forum of India. issues that concerns Cisco in India - as an investor, globalization hub, and seller and as a From 2003 to 2007, Harish was an Executive in corporate citizen. Harish also serves on Cisco’s the Governmental Program function of IBM India 3.0 board which looks at transformational specially focused providing leadership to IBM’s project and strategic issues on a 3-5 year engagement with the Government of India on horizon. Harish is based in New Delhi, India and innovation, global resourcing & HR issues. has been with Cisco since May 2007. Prior to joining IBM, Harish worked for over 11 Harish actively participates in public policy years with the Confederation of Indian Industry forums in India and is a member of the (CII) – India’s Premier Industry organization— Confederation of Indian Industry’s National in a variety of roles. In his last role as CII’s Director for Information Technology, Harish Committee on Telecom and Broadband, and worked with CEOs of corporate India on issues USIBC’s digital task force, Chairman of affecting the IT& BPO industry. manufacturing focus group of Manufacturing Association of Information Technology,

P. Balaji Director-Regulatory, External Affairs & CSR Vodafone India Ltd

P. Balaji is the Director-Regulatory, External sales, marketing, strategy, operations, and Affairs and CSR of Vodafone India. An product management. He has been associated Executive Committee member at Vodafone with start-up and turn-around ventures of TATA India, Balaji leads the company’s Regulatory, group, AT&T, Ericsson, Lucent and Sony during Public Policy & Government Relations this period and has held senior leadership activities. He spearheads the External Affairs positions in these companies. function overseeing Corporate Communications and Reputation Management. He administers the Balaji was the Chairman of several Corporate Social Responsibility and the taskforces/expert groups set up by the Vodafone Foundation in India. He leads a team Department of Telecommunications and focusing on advocacy for industry issues. Planning Commission on Policy Matters. He was a member of National Council of apex Prior to Vodafone, Balaji was in the mobile industry chambers like CII, FICCI and devices industry as Managing Director of Nokia ASSOCHAM and Co-Chairman of their and Sony Mobile Communications, India. He Telecom National Sub-Committees. He is the has extensive experience in the telecom former President of Telecom Equipment technology/equipment sector. He held leadership Manufacturers Association (TEMA) and roles in Ericsson India, was on the executive Northern Region Chairman of the Telecom board of India operations and handled diverse Export promotion council. roles in marketing, strategy, sales, technical solutions, communications, corporate affairs and An Electronics Engineer from IIT Roorkee, business development. He made significant Balaji did his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad in contributions to the global strategy formulation Marketing, Finance and Strategy. He was for the group. selected for the leadership program of Tata group and worked closely with senior leaders in Balaji has over 24 years of experience in the Tata group. Telecom & IT, in diverse functions including

Session V Dare to be different – Be Innovative with your CSR

Subhi Quraishi CEO & Co-Founder ZMQ

Subhi Quraishi is the CEO of ZMQ, a This project is now in phase II and is being Technology for Development company. He is a implemented in Mewat district of Haryana as a T4D expert by profession and a game designer fully-digital district for TB management, and applied mathematician by training. Subhi compliance, and diagnosis and demand Quraishi has recently been selected as a member generation on the ground. Please refer to: of the newly-appointed WHO Global Task Force www.freedomtb.org/ebook/index.html on e/m-Health on Tuberculosis. He has developed a game based learning and behavior Subhi has currently implemented MIRA change model called Real-World Risk Reduction Channel –Mobile Channel for Rural Women for in a Risk-Free Gaming Environment. This model RMNCHA+ to provision specialized health has been successfully applied in many health services to rural women. Having implemented in based behavior change games by ZMQ. Haryana, this program is being scaled in Afghanistan and Uganda under the Millennium Having graduated from open-ended IEC Alliance program. Please review the link: dissemination approach using mobile phones, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v38PuEk- Subhi has devised a model called OHM@BoP - 99c Organized Human Networks at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which implies to identify organized Under his new initiative, Mobile for All, Subhi rural networks where mobile technology can be is advocating for “Universal Right to implemented successfully. Subhi has established Connectivity” as a “Right to Life”, for an independent center for excellence - Mobile delivering lifeline services that is providing free for Development - a lab to design scalable and basic life-line services like primary healthcare, replicable social development applications for health communication, disaster information, and BOP target group. The lab develops practical emergency services to people especially and sustainable solutions to connect people and unreached, under-privileged, rural and women. enable development using mobile phone and emerging technologies in various domains like Subhi is recognized globally for his T4D models healthcare, education & training, skills and practices. He is a serial entrepreneur, development, poverty alleviation, livelihood technnovator and a prominent speaker on generation, micro-finance, climate change and Technology for Development and Games for disaster preparedness. Development. He is also a winner of World Business and Development Leadership Award Under the Freedom TB initiative, Subhi is instituted by UNDP and ICC. His articles and currently working on a new approach of works are regularly published in the newspapers management of TB treatment and self reporting and magazines. He is fluent in English, Russian, of compliance by patients called Mobile Active Hindi and Urdu. Subhi has done his Masters in Compliance System. Computer Engineering with specialization in simulations and gaming technology.

Amit Doshi Head – Consumer Marketing & Digital India Lenovo India

Amit Doshi heads Consumer Marketing and Amit is credited with having nurtured Digital at Lenovo South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, NutriChoice in its formative years. NutriChoice Bangladesh). In his current role, Amit leads the is now one of India’s premier health brands. At brand mandate across the PC and smart devices Lenovo, Amit has been a part of the brand’s categories for Lenovo in the region. He is based transformation from a PC only technology brand in Bangalore and is responsible for brand to one of the fastest growing smart phones development and marketing communication brand, led by disruptive work in Digital and across traditional and digital media. With nearly Social media. He was awarded the Star Youth 13 years of rich experience, Amit has worked Achiever Award by the Youth Marketing Forum across the FMCG and Technology industries. in 2013 and has been a part of creative and Amit started his career with Perfetti Van Melle media projects that have won Effie Awards, and later spent close to a decade at food major Emvie Awards and Abby Awards. Britannia – one of India’s most loved and trusted brands. In his career, he has done stints across sales, key account management, innovation and brand marketing disciplines.

Franz Gastler Executive Director & Co-Founder Yuwa India

Franz Gastler is a Minnesota native living in a years ago with the USA Cup and continues to tribal village in Jharkhand since 2009. He is grow. This year, the goal is to help the YUWA cofounder of Yuwa, an NGO using football and girls to raise funds to build their school by education to empower girls in communities showcasing their exploits at the Donosti Cup in where six in ten girls drop out of school and Spain. become child brides. Yuwa teams are the first teams ever from India to compete at the biggest 'Girls playing football' is symbolic of every girl tournaments in Spain and USA, and have in India taking control of her destiny. Franz bagged a bronze in Spain. Franz and Yuwa have holds a BA and MA in International Political won awards from Nike, NDTV, Time Now, Economy from the University Professors People Magazine, Yahoo! and Beyond Sport, Program at Boston University and certificates in and been featured extensively in the Indian negotiation and mediation from the Program on mediaThe Lenovo YUWA partnership started 2 Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Asha Kumari Captian Yuwa, Football Team

15-year-old Asha Kumari, from Hutup village in Cup, this year. Asha joined Yuwa in 2010 at Jharkhand, is class 9 topper at Yuwa School and age 9, and is now coaching a Yuwa team was voted captain of Yuwa's team that traveled herself. to Spain's largest football tournament, Donosti

Lee Kironget Innovations Lead UNICEF India

Lee Kironget, PhD is the Innovations Lead for He has successfully led programs in Georgia, UNICEF India. Jamaica, Cambodia Brunei, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. He was also the Lead Lee has led the advisory for the UN and The Project Manager for CITI Group Asia and World Bank to over 16 different countries and ShoreCap Exchange in Japan and US line ministries in Asia, Africa and Europe. More respectively. Earlier in his career, he headed the recently he advised the governments of the Automation and IT Unit for UNDP. UK and the US on repurposing private sector technology for government and humanitarian He has degree in Engineering and Robotics and operations. PhD in Financial Risk Management and Regulation from Frankfurt School of Business.

Michael TS Lindenmayer Entrepreneur in Residence Toilet Board Coalition

Michael co-founded Toilet Hackers. He co- He is an Associate Fellow at the University of created the world’s first global sanitation Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a hackathon in partnership with the World Bank. Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Blum Center on Developing Economies. He has written two Michael concentrates on generating growth books and is a contributor to Forbes strategies, impact investing, human centered design and collective impact.

Michael started his career in finance. He worked at Morgan Stanley in their London and New York offices. He became an entrepreneur and built up ventures in the wellness and real estate sectors in the US, UK and Latin America.