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Speakers
Smt Daggubati Purandareswari is the
Minister of State for Higher Education. Smt
Purandareswari is B.A. (Literature) and Graduate
in Gemology Educated at South Indian Educational
Trust and Women College (Chennai) and
Gemological Institute of India. In 2004, she was
elected to the 14th Lok Sabha. She
has served as the Member, Committee on Food,
Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution. She
has also been Member of Personnel, Public
Grievances, Law & Justice Committee. She is a
keen political and social worker.
 Dileep
Ranjekar, the Chief Executive Officer of
Azim Premji Foundation, is a science Graduate
and has a Post Graduate Diploma of Business
Management as well as Master’s degree in
Personnel Management and Industrial Relations
from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
He was appointed from campus by Wipro and became
the Corporate Executive Vice President Human
Resources.
Dileep provided leadership to the various
innovative people practices in Wipro
Corporation. During his leadership, Wipro was
assessed world’s first PCMM (People Capability
Maturity Model) Level 5 organization by the
Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie-Melon
University.
When Azim Premji decided to launch initiative to
make tangible impact on key social issues
especially through Universalization of
Elementary Education, Dileep was an integral
part of the initiative right from its
conception. Azim Premji Foundation has a vision
to “significantly contribute to achieve quality
universal education that facilitates a just,
equitable and humane society” and the Foundation
is operational since 2001.
The Foundation is focused on contributing to
systemic changes such as building accountability
for quality education by demonstrating that
comprehensive quality education can be achieved
in rural Government schools. The Foundation
believes that technology can play a significant
role in quality education by providing
alternative pedagogy as well as by building
capacity among the components of education
delivery system.
The Foundation has over 250 professionals and
several hundred volunteers working towards
realizing its vision through the Foundation’s
current engagement with over 16,000 schools
across 16 Indian states.
 Professor A K Shiva Kumar
is a development economist. In addition to
serving as an advisor to UNICEF - India, he is a
member of India's National Advisory Council.
Professor Kumar earned his postgraduate diploma in
management from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad, and his M A in Economics
from Bangalore University. He also holds a
master's degree in public administration and a Ph
D in political economy and government from
Harvard University. He teaches economics and
public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and
is a visiting professor at the Indian School of
Business in Hyderabad. He has focused his
research on poverty and human development,
social sector analysis, and the impact of
development policies on children and women. He
has been a regular contributor to UNDP's Annual
Human Development Reports. He has been
associated with the preparation of national
human development reports in a number of
countries including Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia,
Myanmar, and Serbia.
 Jeroninio
(Jerry) Almeida
is the Founder and Chief Volunteer
of iCONGO, Indian Confederation of NGOs. Right
from his college days,
Jerry has been a volunteer to plan and implement
ideas, projects, and events for fundraising and
sensitising people through mainstream formats
about their social responsibility and thus
bridging the gap between people and communities
who deserve attention and support. He is one of
the pioneers to use entertainment formats like
movies, music albums, videos, TV serials, events,
and out-of-the-box ideas through cause related
marketing to mainstream the cause and sensitise
people about social issues including the popular
Page 3 campaign with The Times Foundation.
Through iCONGO with SNS Foundation (CSR
initiative of the Anand automotive group) and
funding from USAID he has also conceptualised
and incubated ITEAM (Institutionalized training,
employment and advancement of marginalised) -
virtual institutes and hubs to train youth
based on the process and criteria of industry
with assured employment.
 Professor V
N Rajasekharan Pillai
has been at the helm of affairs of many higher
education institutions during his career
spanning over 35 years. He joined IGNOU on October
21, 2006 as its sixth Vice- Chancellor. His
experiences and contributions to the field of
science and educational administration are rich
and varied. He has served as the Chairman and
Vice-Chairman of the University Grants
Commission (UGC), Government of India, New Delhi,
served as the Director of the National
Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC),
Bangalore, Vice-Chancellor of the Mahatma Gandhi
University, Kottayam, Vice-Chancellor (Acting)
of the Cochin University of Science and
Technology, Founder-Director of the School of
Chemical Sciences, Dean of Faculty of Science,
Controller of Examinations, Director of College
Development Council, Founder-Director of the
School of Professional Distance Education and
Chief, Employment and Information Guidance
Bureau of the Mahatma Gandhi University. He is
a Fellow of the prestigious Indian Academy of
Sciences and an Honorary Senior Fellow of the
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research. Dr Rajasekharan Pillai has 32 years
of teaching, research, research guidance and
administrative experience in the Universities of
Kerala, Calicut, Cochin, and Mahatma Gandhi
University.
Manish Sabharwal,
a Wharton graduate and a serial entrepreneur,
created two successful companies – first, in
1996, he co-founded India Life
(a HR outsourcing company) that was acquired by
Hewitt associates in 2003, and then in 2002, he
co-founded TeamLease Services the largest
temporary staffing company in India. He is
currently the Chairman and Managing Director of
TeamLease, which is on its way to becoming India’s
largest private employer. He is also a member of CII's labour reforms committee.
Dilip Thakore is the Publisher/Editor of
Education World, India. The Bangalore-based
Publisher & Editor is a former Barrister of the
Mumbai High Court. He was the founder-editor of
Business India (1977-80), founder-editor of
Business World (1981-1987), Editor of Debonair
(1988-89), founder-director of a direct
marketing business Datamatics Direct (1989-97).
Moderator
Ralston Sequeira:
He has spent the past five years in the
advertising and communications
industry with leading firms like Lowe and JWT.
His experience spans branding and communication
strategy development for several large brands
like Reliance ADA group, Hindustan Petroleum,
DeBeers, Shaw Wallace, Oberoi Hotels and many
more along with new business development
projects. A graduate of Economics from St
Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Ralston is currently a
PGP student at the Indian School of Business.
Participating NGOs
Ashray Akruti
Speaker:
Devaki Kumar, Project Coordinator
Ashray Akruti is a registered voluntary
organisation, which runs the Little Angels
School for children with hearing impairment in
Hyderabad, India. The mission of this
organisation is to enable children with hearing
impairment and from underprivileged economic
backgrounds to realise their innate potential
and live as complete actively contributing
individuals in the society.
Byrraju Foundation
Speaker:
Verghese Jacob, Lead Partner
Byrraju Foundation was set up to commemorate the
memory of late Byrraju Satyanarayana Raju, the
founder of Satyam Group of Companies. The
Foundation seeks to build progressive
self-reliant rural communities, by providing
integrated services in the areas of healthcare,
environment, sanitation, primary education,
adult literacy, and skills development. The
Foundation currently works in 172 villages in 6
districts of Andhra Pradesh.
Devnar Foundation for the Blind
Speaker:
Dr A Saibaba Goud, Founder
Devnar Foundation, a Hyderabad-based registered
voluntary organisation, aims to
provide opportunities on par with international
standards for visually challenged children,
so that they are absorbed in the mainstream as
socially productive adults. The Foundation's
services include education, counseling, Braille
/ tape transcription, and accommodation.
Naandi Foundation
Speaker:
Dr Preetha Bhakta
The Naandi Foundation is an autonomous, public
trust based out of Hyderabad that works together
with governments, corporate houses, and society to improve the lives of the
underprivileged in Andhra Pradesh. Naandi Foundation works for the eradication of poverty
from India by working directly with the
communities at the grassroots in the areas of
Education, Health and Livelihood- which, when
inaccessible, are main causes of Poverty. Naandi,
with active support from the state and civil
society, supports communities by creating and
providing them access to opportunities in these
three key areas.
MV Foundation
Speaker:
Raheem
MV Foundation is an organisation working for the
education of children with a strong
conviction that all children from 5-14 years
should be in school and that none of them should
be working as a child labourer. Based out of
Hyderabad, MV Foundation is working extensively
in education for underprivileged children in
Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Kurnool, and Adilabad
districts in Andhra Pradesh covering over 2500
villages and in the city of Hyderabad.
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