Aditi joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2015 where she leads on development and partnerships across the organisation. Aditi has worked in international development in the UK and in India for twelve years and has strategic experience in the non-profit, philanthropy and leadership sectors. Her previous role was with Common Purpose as London Director where she focused on strategy and business development for the organisation’s leadership programmes. Previously, as UK Director of Leaders’ Quest Foundation, she led on fundraising and partnership development for their grassroots leadership programmes in India. Her earlier roles include founding Chief Operating Officer of Indian venture philanthropy organisation EdelGive Foundation and Officer on Special Duty to the Chief Minister of Rajasthan in India. Aditi sits on the UK board of EMPower - the Emerging Markets Foundation and is a trustee of Khulisa UK, a small organisation fighting crime and the causes of crime. She is also on the Governing Council and Advisory groups for Indian NGOs Ibtada and Educate Girls, both of whom focus on increasing access and quality of education for girls. Aditi has a Master's degree in Philosophy Politics Economics from the University of Oxford, where she was a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening scholar.

Ami has over 18 years of experience as a corporate lawyer, and has expertise in advising multinational companies and private equity funds on foreign investment opportunities within different sectors in India. Ami is currently a Partner at AZB & Partners, before which she worked at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas for 10 years. She also set up the Transaction Support Group (TSG) which specialized in due diligence and other legal support work for multiple practice areas within the law firms.

Ami scaled operations to a team of 35 lawyers across 3 cities and created processes to deliver benchmarked quality with reduced cost of delivery.

She completed her bachelor’s in law from Government Law College, Mumbai.

In 2018, Antonella radically changed her life by moving to Tuscany to manage an organic farm and guesthouse with her husband. This came after 7 ½ years as head of the Womanity Foundation. Previously, Antonella developed the first corporate communication strategy for BlueOrchard, managed sizeable multi-cultural teams in complex emergencies for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and also led the ICRC's public communication and media relations for over six years as chief spokesperson. Antonella has been a friend and trusted advisor to Educate Girls for a number of years now and guided our partnership with the Womanity Foundation.

Cynthia Gire has spent most of her career working on foreign policy and international development issues. Ms. Gire has worked as Director for Planning at the National Security Council, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Administrator at USAID and as the Chief of Staff to the Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. Recently, she served as the Chief of Sports Diplomacy programming in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and then served as the Director of the East Asia and Pacific Media Hub in the Bureau of Public Affairs, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Earlier in her career, Ms. Gire worked as an International Development Program Officer for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and for Family Health International.

Ms. Gire graduated from the University of California at Davis, with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. She received her Master’s degree from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. She is married with three children.

Jasmeet is the co-founder and managing director of The Third Eye – one of India’s most reputed consumer insights firms. She has over 25 years of experience in consumer research and is a valued advisor to leading Indian and multi-national corporations, with a reputation for understanding the voice of the consumer and driving strategic, consumer-driven, marketing and business decision-making. Jasmeet is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and has consistently featured in Fortune magazine’s list of the most influential women in corporate India. 

Pooja Bhatt, based in Mumbai, India, is the Asia Pacific Lead for Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a corporate social enterprise that channels Accenture’s business and IT consulting skills and capabilities to clients in the development sector. Over the last 4.5 years, she has engaged with a range of clients across sectors (NGOs, Donors, Foundations and Corporations) to support over 20 initiatives focused either on building organizational capacity or on providing execution capacity to design and implement programs. Through these project experiences, she has developed a good understanding of the education, health, energy, and agriculture landscape in India and has developed a deep understanding of the challenges and success factors in implementing social development initiatives. Pooja brings a good balance of strategic thinking with strong program management capability to identify and resolve challenges/risks. She is also an experienced Industrial/Organizational Psychologist with a strong background in change management, talent management and organizational development. She has co-authored a paper (written in collaboration with the Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution and Global Business Coalition for Education) which articulated the business case for private sector investment in education as a strategic growth imperative (vs. just CSR).

Pooja is a Founding Partner and the Executive Director of Conduit Capital. Conduit Capital has an aim to grow high impact solutions that are solving pressing issues globally, by deploying the knowledge, networks and capital available within the Conduit community. Prior to this, she conceptualised and launched Conduit Connect, an impact investing platform for Conduit members.

Before joining The Conduit, Pooja co-founded UnLtd India, a pioneering organisation that finds, funds and supports early stage social entrepreneurs in India. Under her leadership, UnLtd India supported 150+ social entrepreneurs who impacted 2.5+ million lives and created 80,000+ jobs. She also co-founded Bombay Connect, India’s first co-working space for social entrepreneurs and Journeys for Change that brings global leaders to learn from social entrepreneurs in India. Pooja was nominated as a TED India Fellow in 2009, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013 and an Aspen India fellow in 2016.

Pragni Kapadia has over a decade of experience as a lawyer practicing in India where she has dealt with a large spectrum of issues with respect to corporate and intellectual property law. She has significant experience in foreign direct investment in India and transactional and regulatory work in the media & entertainment, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food sectors. Pragni was an associate partner at DSK Legal prior to which she worked at Wadia Ghandy & Company, one of the oldest law firms in Mumbai, and AZB & Partners, India’s second largest law firm. Pragni graduated from the H.R College of Commerce and Economics, University of Mumbai in 1997 with a first class Bachelor of Commerce Degree pursuant to which she graduated with honors from the London School of Economics, University of London in 2001 with a Bachelor of Law Degree. She obtained her Masters of Law Degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Pragni was enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa as an advocate in 2003.

Puja Jain is a Partner at Generation Investment Management, a long-term oriented investment management firm that integrates sustainability in all that it does. Her area of expertise is the Global Industrials sector.
Prior to Generation, Puja was a consultant at McKinsey & Company working across the Toronto, Montreal, and London offices. She also served as the Head of the International Energy and Industrials team at Gerson Lehrman Group, a specialist research firm.
Puja graduated with honours from McGill University with a BSc in Computer Science. She also received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Puja is particularly passionate about the environment, increasing access to education, and the central role of community in building healthy societies. Puja is a native of Canada, but now resides in London with her husband and 2 children.

Roopa Kudva joined CRISIL in 1992 and got appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in 2007. Her international experience in the corporate sector has been shaped in India, Middle-East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries, and she even acted as secondment to Standard & Poor’s as Director of Financial Institutions in Paris. Roopa regularly features in lists of the most powerful women in business compiled by prominent publications, including Fortune and Business Today. She was chosen as ‘Outstanding Women Business Leader of The Year’ at CNBC TV18’s ‘India Business Leader Awards 2012’. Her knowledge and experience make her a regular speaker at global conferences and seminars. Not only has she received the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ from her alma mater but she also holds a postgraduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Roopa is a member of several policy-level committees relating to the Indian financial system, including committees of the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Reserve Bank of India. She is also a member of the Executive Council at NASSCOM.

Sarath Divella is an alumnus from IIM Ahmedabad with an engineering degree and a post graduate diploma in business management. He has worked for several multinational companies for almost three decades, which includes corporate brands such as Integra Software Services, Hindustan Unileveretc. Sarath has managed dynamic teams around the globe (Asia, Europe and America) with whom he shared his experience on developing strategic growth plans. His career has been shaped by the many positions he undertook in a wide variety of industries, from Content Development to Tech Documentation, e-Publishing, Exports and Food. He currently heads the country office of Lionbridge Technologies in India. 

Sonal is a Senior Associate at Greenwood Place, an organisation that provides strategic advice and execution for a small community of entrepreneurial philanthropists. As CEO of The London Community Foundation from 2009-2016, she led the organisation from its south London roots to a capital wide charity investing £5 million annually across a vast range of social issues. Voluntary roles include current trusteeship of the think tank Centre for London and previous trusteeship of UK Community Foundations. Sonal began her career with the John Lewis Partnership, has worked for the development office of University College London and holds a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

Stephan Chambers is the inaugural director of the Marshall Institute at London School of Economics. He is also Professor in Practice at the Department of Management at LSE and Course Director for the new Executive Masters in Social Business and Entrepreneurship.

Swati Apte started her career at Mckinsey and Co. in New York where she worked on projects mostly for financial service firms and pharmaceutical companies. She has also been involved in a number of small businesses from an art business in New York City , an educational counseling start-up and most recently, a mobile payments company in India. In 2008, she set up Manzil, an independent strategy consulting firm that has done work for numerous not-for-profit organizations including Ashoka, WMF, etc. She co-founded and resides on the governing board of the India Schoolhouse Fund and has also been involved in other education projects. Swati Apte has a degree in politics and economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

After a long stint leading global PR agency networks in India, Tara Kapur followed her passion for achieving excellence in PR and reputation building by founding Stellar Communications India, a strategic PR consultancy. Using experience gained in a career spanning 20 years in PR agencies like Euro RSGC PR WW (Now Havas PR), FleishmanHillard, Grey & Ogilvy and in corporate communications at IL&FS; Tara now advises a select corporate clientele to positively impact their reputations. A story-teller to the core, she holds a Masters degree in Monetary Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Vikas Pota is a globally respected leader in the education, international development, philanthropy and technology sectors. His achievements include creating global awareness of the importance of education and specifically about the centrality of teachers and their profession. Vikas is the Former CEO and Chairman of the Varkey Foundation, and  a Member of the Stewardship Board for Education, Gender & Work, World Economic Forum; an Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University College London and the Group CEO of Tmrw Digital.