Anurag brings with him more than 24+ years of diversified experience in CSR, community development, project management / implementation, grant management, capacity planning, and resource management. At present, he anchors CSR at Capgemini India. Over the past two decades, he has worked with grassroot agencies, donor agencies, UN Agency and Corporates.  

His core competency lies in long term strategic planning & vision building among diverse stakeholder groups. He specializes in leading organisation towards change and transition management in social development space. Author of various articles on development issues and challenges, Anurag is also recipient of various awards and recognitions. He speaks frequently at various academic institutes, seminars and workshop on social development issues and strategies to address them. 

Mr. Saurabh Singh is the President of ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. In his capacity as the President, Mr. Singh is responsible for ensuring that the activities of the Foundation are executed as per the directions of the Governing Council. 

ICICI Group has a long history of partnering with the Country’s growth and development. They have engaged in or catalysed specific activities of social or developmental nature through dedicated teams within the Group. ICICI Group has been allocating considerable resources for social development activities, much before the requirements under Companies Act, 2013 came into being. Over the past few years, ICICI Foundation has been primarily focussing on skill development & sustainable livelihood as its key initiative with an objective of creating direct impact in the lives of the beneficiaries.

Mr. Singh continues to implement the vision of ICICI Group through steering the activities of ICICI Foundation and driving integration with ICICI Bank. He has been instrumental in developing an integrated model for rural livelihood, exploring new markets as well as fostering key Partnerships for market development for the beneficiaries in rural India.

Apart from his role at ICICI Foundation, Mr. Singh is the Business Head Trusts, Associations, Societies & Clubs (TASC) and the Institutional Banking Group at ICICI Bank. He has driven key HR and customer service practices at ICICI Bank in previous assignments. He has been instrumental in various industry firsts and award winning initiatives like ‘Smart Vault’.

Mr. Raju Sharma leads the social initiatives of the Company in areas of Children & Education, Women Empowerment, Environment, and Heritage. An alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, (TISS) Mumbai, he completed his Masters in 1999 and since then has been working in the developmental sector.

He carries a rich experience of 20 years in which he has worked with NGOs, INGOs, Government, and Corporates ranging from grass-root implementation programs to the strategy and planning level. His strength lies in partnership management, development of sustainable models, project management, CSR, and teamwork.

Mr. Sharma has presented papers on CSR and development forums. He believes in the creation of shared value by networking with professionals from varied fields and experiences and learning and contributing to the growth of all.

Mr. Raju Sharma is an avid reader and loves to explore new places. His pride lies in having completed the Roopkund trek, at an altitude of 17,000 feet. He is a great yoga enthusiast, traveler, and has an ear for music.

Ms. Rajashree Natarajan is an IT industry veteran and a social impact leader with nearly 30 years of global experience. 

She is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Cognizant Foundation and plays a key role in evolving an overarching charter for the Foundation, defining CSR strategy & goals, managing operations, communication and relationship with a broad set of diverse stakeholders. 

In her two dozen years of service in the IT Industry, she has played diverse leadership roles driving strategic and transformational initiatives. As global head of Process and Platforms in Cognizant, she was responsible for developing cutting edge technology solutions and incubating new product ventures that support global delivery. 

She is a passionate learner, trainer & speaker in industry forums. She mentors several startups and has facilitated many interactive workshops for designing lean process and creative technology solutions for complex business and social needs. She is passionate about spending time with non-profit organizations and social enterprises, actively contributing to the field of education. She is the managing trustee of a charitable trust and co-founder for a bilingual reading and learning program that caters to the underprivileged children.

Ms. Natarajan obtained her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a certified Executive Coach.

Ms. Rachana Iyer heads Corporate Social Responsibility at IDFC FIRST Bank. An alumna of Tata Institute of Social Sciences Centre for Disability Studies, Ms. Iyer has worked both globally and in India across social impact models, with non-profits, social enterprises and incubators.

She is also a mentor to Tactopus, an IDFC FIRST Bank funded social enterprise focused on inclusive technology, working extensively with them as a disability and mental health advocate.

Dr. O P Goel heads the Bosch India Foundation, CSR and Skill Development. He did his PhD in the area of Training and Development. During his 30 years of career in the Corporate, he worked in different business management roles, set up and headed Bosch Sales Force training Academy for Asia pacific region before taking up current role to manage the non –profit organization of Bosch India. 

Dr. Goel also heads Bosch Vocational Centre at Bangalore, which runs German apprenticeship model for last 6 decades. The Centre has been awarded as Best apprenticeship center by the President of India 54 times and has produced 245 gold medalist apprentices. 

BRIDGE, a short-term skilling program for school drop-out youth is brainchild of Dr. Goel. Under this program, 26,000 youth have been trained and employed through 272 BRIDGE centers across the country. His vision is to set up one BRIDGE center in each district of the country by Dec 2020. 

Govt of India has nominated Dr. Goel as a member in its apex steering committee of Prime Minister Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), where he is only skilling expert chosen from Corporate India.  He and his team, work towards a single mission – Eliminate youth unemployment from India.

Parthasarathi likes to describe himself as a CSR professional with a passion for development and human excellence. A Post Graduate in Social Work from Delhi University and a Diploma holder in CSR from University of Geneva he has rich experience of 15 years from both developmental and corporate sector. In his professional career in CSR sector he has worked in more than 12 states of India with GMR Foundation, Cairn India and at AkzoNobel India, where he is currently heading CSR. His passion for excellence and innovation has driven him to work in difficult geographic conditions of the country to help people lead a better and improved life. His work in community based potable water project in Rajasthan was covered by many national and international newspapers of India and Middle East.

A firm believer in boons of sharing knowledge he has contributed to various articles published in leading global CSR magazines like Ethical Corp and is also a guest speaker in the area of CSR at IIT Delhi and Delhi University. 

Rama A Iyer, Director General and Board Member, WPP India CSR Foundation, is a true product of WPP. Having started out as a Management Trainee at Ogilvy, India, she returned years later to set up the WPP Foundation. Since the last three years of Rama being at the helm of WPP Foundation, there have been key successes globally that have been recognized for the Foundation at industry and government forums like International CSR Excellence Awards, Asia’s Excellence Awards and Golden Peacock Awards.  

Individually Rama has also won the Women CSR Leader of the year award at the ET Now CSR Awards in 2019. She also won the CSR Leader Award at a regional forum of Asia’s Excellence Awards, 2019 and Golden Globe Tigers Awards, 2020. With all experience, knowledge and success, Rama looks to share it all with upcoming generations of social entrepreneurs, actively mentoring them in their CSR strategies at an individual level, and as an Advisory Panel Member.  

Ashwini Saxena, CEO JSW Foundation who also serves as a Director of JSW Shakti, a Section 8 company focusing on women livelihoods. Prior to JSW, he led CSR programs of Essar Group in Africa and India. During his tenure in Africa, he contributed as an Executive Committee.

Member of Zimbabwe India Chamber of Commerce (ZICC) & Advisor to Regional Centre of Social Responsibility and other institutions. Mr. Saxena served IFC (World Bank) where he led some strategic CSR advisory programs, besides working on introduction of IFC’s CSR/ Sustainability Tools & WBI programs in South Asia. During his stint with UNIDO he was behind India’s first few Geographical Indication (GI) registries (Community Owned IPRs) for artisan products and he also served as a key expert for UNCTAD for awareness on these issues.

His 30 years" career spans MSME development across a range of sectors, PPPs, skill development etc. across India and Africa. He also contributed to pro-poor industrial development policies of 3 states and has nurtured a number of community–led institutions across the country. He has served on advisory boards for grant making, policy reform and is a recipient of “Global CSR Leader Award”. He holds masters degrees in Geology and Business Management and CSR Leadership from University of Geneva.

Sagarika is a CSR and social development professional with nearly 20 years" experience. She has worked with leading development sector organizations, government, academia and the corporate sector. She has contributed to a range of thematic areas spanning CSR & Sustainability, Vocational Skills, Information & Communication Technologies for Development, and Special Needs Education. She is currently leading CSR for the Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. in Mumbai. Her role includes design and implementation of CSR programmes to drive positive social, economic, and environmental impact, ensure CSR governance to adhere to internal and external compliance, and lead communications for CSR and sustainability for the Godrej Industries Group. Sagarika has a double Masters from the London School of Economics and is a trained Special Needs Educator.

Mr. Atul Singh is a senior management professional and a new age CSR thought leader with over 30 years of rich national & international experience working with various organizations in Australia, India and Bangladesh. He is currently the Vice President – CSR at Emami Ltd. heading the CSR and sustainability initiatives of the Emami group.

Mr. Singh in his previous role was the Vice President at Piramal Swasthya (part of Piramal Foundation) managing their PAN India operations for the implementation of Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects working with 12 State Governments in India.  

Mr. Singh was formerly working in Australia for Telstra before coming to India in 2008. He has completed his Graduation in Migration Law from Victoria University, Australia, and also holds a M.Com Degree.  

In his previous assignments, he has also worked with international organizations like Pitman Qualifications, NEBS Management and City & Guilds International UK in collaboration with the British Deputy High Commission and British Council  to manage and administer their International Vocational Qualifications and other International Examinations in India & Bangladesh. He has also got vast expertise & experience managing and implementing innovative and technology driven education and skill development projects working with the Zee Education group. 

In recognition of the positive impact on the society through his innovative and sustainable CSR practices, Mr. Singh has been awarded the “CSR Leader Of The Year Award” during the India International CSR & Impact Awards 2020. 

A seasoned CSR professional with close to two decades of experience with hands-on impactful social engagements with corporates, non-profits, and governments in striving to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Nirbhay has developed effective strategies and built systems for driving the CSR initiatives. He has immense experience in grassroot administration of large scale projects in education, entrepreneurship, and carbon offset. He has also authored a book, "Corporate Social Responsibility in India: A Practitioner"s Perspective",that contributed to reach compendiums and speaker at national forums. 

A believer in lifelong learning, Nirbhay has earned many accolades from renowned institutions like Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, KPMG and IIM Bangalore. He has recieved various accomplishments in his professional work sphere. He recieved the "Trend Setter Award 2020" by the United Way of Hyderabad, and the "Award of Excellence" by the ASSOCHAM. He is also the designated "Subject Matter Expert" at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. He is currently the Director - CSR, Asia Pacific SBU with CGI. 

Abhishek Ranjan heads the CSR, Sustainability, D&I and Employee Outreach at Brillio. He also serves as the Managing Trustee of the Brillio Foundation. He was named as one of the “100 Most Impactful CSR Leaders (Global Listing)” at the World CSR Congress in 2016. Abhishek brings with him 14+ years of experience in Marketing, HR and CSR, and has been instrumental in leading Bringing Smiles, Brillio’s CSR program, and driving an impact in the society. Under his guidance, Brillio’s CSR programs have been able to ignite 40,000 young minds globally. 

The Employee Outreach program, under Abhishek’s leadership has been awarded as India’s best Employee Volunteering Program in the year 2018. He also leads the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) at Brillio which has seen a Carbon footprint reduction by 25% since inception. He started his career with IBM as a Business Analyst and later worked for Oracle, where he is credited with setting up the Customer Centres and Industry Relations function in India. Today, he is also an active advocate on Sustainability and Responsible Business and lectures B-Schools globally, and is an Adjunct Professor at Christ University, Bangalore. He is an alumnus of IMT Ghaziabad and has studied CSR and Sustainability from several leading institutes such as IIM Bangalore, ISB and GRI.

Ashish is a CSR Practitioner who believes in ‘Creating and offering one fair opportunity’ to every disadvantaged human being through need-based and sustainable CSR projects. Ashish is a Law Graduate from University of Delhi and Social Work Post-Graduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). He has also completed “E-certificate on Competitiveness and Corporate Social Responsibility" from the World Bank Institute (WBI) and “e- certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A Strategic Approach” from School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania. 

He has worked with reputed NGOs, Multinational Corporations and as Consultant managing over 150 community initiatives focusing on Education, Skills development, Health, Agriculture, Disaster response, Environment, Women empowerment and Community development etc. in 15+ Indian states. Currently, he is the Associate Director - CSR at EY Foundation. In his current role, he has established well-defined standard operating procedure for CSR, developed time-bound and result-oriented community projects in the field of Education, Disaster Response and Environment with measurable impact.

Tushara Shankar has a master’s in social work from TISS, Mumbai with specialisation in Urban and Rural Community Development. She has 17 years of diverse experience with corporate entities, international non-profit and consulting organisation. She has played a crucial role in a Government- Corporate- Non-profit collaborative Health initiative, which marked the commencement of NRHM in Jharkhand. She has been a resource person for CINI’s 6 month programme on NGO Management and Reproductive Health and a faculty for IGNOU’s rural development graduate programme.

She has to her credit a women’s empowerment programme in the Kashmir valley. She has been associated with many bilateral, multilateral, UN and government programmes in a monitoring and evaluation role. She has been instrumental in formulating CSR policy, strategy and leading implementation in the corporates she has been associated with. Her experience of working with multiple partners across varied geographies has culminated in implementation of major Water Conservation projects and safe drinking water projects across different states in the country. She is currently the CSR Head for Lupin Limited.