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Lord Karan Bilimoria is a British Indian entrepreneur, life peer in the UK House of Lords, and a university chancellor.

He is well known for founding the popular global beer brand, Cobra Beer and currently operates as the company’s chairman. In addition to his business activity, He is a politically active crossbench member of the House of Lords, and also currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.

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Zac Goldsmith was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and at the Department for International Development on 10 September 2019.

He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and at the Department for International Development on 27 July 2019 and 10 September 2019.

Born in London, the son of billionaire businessman and financier Sir James Goldsmith of the Goldsmith family, he was educated at Eton College and the Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies. 

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T. V. Mohandas Pai is Padma Shri Awardee and current Chairman of Manipal Global Education (Manipal University). He was a former director of Infosys, and Head – Administration, Education and Research, Financial, Human Resources of Infosys Leadership Institute.

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Anurag Behar is the CEO for Azim Premji Foundation, Chief Sustainability Officer of Wipro Limited & Vice Chancellor, Azim Premji University.  Previously, he was the CEO of Wipro Infrastructure Engineering. He is a member of the Committee that has developed India’s National Education Policy (2019).

He has been a Board member of  Wipro GE Healthcare Ltd, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and of the TERI University, served on many government & sector councils such as MHRD’s EQUIP, the National Mission on Teachers and Teacher Education, the Government of India implementation committee for the Justice Verma Commission, Karnataka Knowledge Commission, and the CII’s National Climate Change Council.

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Arbinder Chatwal is a Partner at BDO. He leads the India Advisory Services team. He works closely with the UKTI and other government bodies and has been an Advisor on a number of Trade Missions, including the 2015 London Mayoral mission to Boston and New York.

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David Landsman is the Former Executive Director of Tata Limited, the Indian conglomerate’s European subsidiary.  He was a British diplomat, serving as Ambassador to Albania and Greece and Chargé d’Affaires in Yugoslavia and has worked on EU, UN, NATO and security issues. He currently provides senior-level counsel in strategy reputation and geopolitics at the interface of business and governments.

He is a senior adviser at DRD Partnership, Chair of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce; director of DocuChain (SaaS), Agora Envisioning and the UK-India Business Council. He is on the Advisory Board of Strategy International; and the International Advisory Board of the London Institute of Banking and Finance.

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Amar Patnaik is a present Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Odisha. He belongs to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and is the General Secretary of BJD Parliamentary Party office at Delhi.

He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Austin, Texas, USA. He has certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors, Altamonte Springs, Florida, USA. 

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Urvashi Prasad is a Public Policy Specialist at the Office of Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Government of India. She is the Founder of Every Voice, a platform that highlights the perspectives, needs, challenges and aspirations of people living in poverty. She is on the Board of Directors of Operation ASHA, one of India’s largest tuberculosis treatment NGOs.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community. She managed the health, water and sanitation portfolio of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in India for five years. 

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Manish Tewari is a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Anandpur Sahib. He belongs to the Indian National Congress Party. 

He is an Advocate by profession and practices in the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts of Delhi, Punjab and Haryana. He was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 2012 to 2014 and a Member of Parliament from Ludhiana from 2009 to 2014.

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Subramanian Swamy is a present Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, Economist and Statistician. He was a member of the Planning Commission of India and a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government.

He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, Kerala. He has written on foreign affairs of India dealing largely with People’s Republic of China (PRC), Pakistan and Israel. He was a professor of Economics at Harvard and IIT Delhi.

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Sitaram Yechury is an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was elected as its General Secretary on 19 April 2015. He is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was the party’s Parliamentary group leader.

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Gurdeep Singh Sappal is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief of the 24×7 Hindi News Television Channel ‘Swaraj Express’and its sister website www.newsplatform.in.He is the founder and Executive Trustee of ‘Samruddha Bharat Foundation’.

He is the Former Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Rajya Sabha TV, the public broadcaster of Rajya Sabha, Parliament of India. He is the Officer on Special Duty to the Vice President of India and his political advisor.

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Sireesha Jajala is the Founding Partner of Peach Ventures and Maximus Capital Fund and the Non-Executive Director of Confluence Media Limited. 

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Spriha Srivastava is the Executive Editor at Business Insider. She was the Deputy Digital News Editor for CNBC International. She worked at the Financial Times covering personal finance and at Thomson Reuters. She was one of the moderators for Global Markets Forum for market professionals.

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Lee Lee Ong is the Project Director at Hamburg Invest for India and Singapore.

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Siddharth Zarabi is the Executive Editor at Business Television India. He was the National News Editor of CNBC TV18. He was the Economic Policy Editor and Delhi bureau chief for CNBC-TV18. He has worked with Business Standard, Hindustan Times and The Indian Express.

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Karan Thapar is an Indian journalist and television commentator and interviewer,working with The Wire. He was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil’s Advocate and The Last Word. He was also associated with India Today and hosted the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth.

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Anand Anandalingam is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He was the Dean of Imperial College Business School, London and Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is currently developing an online educational start-up to work in depressed areas around the world.

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Dominykas Broga is the Programme Manager for International Trade at techUK and works with stakeholders across the UK Government and with partners around the globe to represent the UK’s tech-sector in trade-related matters, help technology companies access export opportunities and shape the government’s agenda on trade in non-EU countries.

Previously, he worked as a consultant at a market entry and trade facilitation consulting firm in South East Asia that helps European and American companies enter into the ASEAN markets.

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Dinesh Dhamija is a former Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Democrats, London region. He was on the Internal Markets and Consumer Protection Committee and the Budgets Committee. He was the Chair of the Indian Delegation to the EU and is the founder of the online travel agency, Ebookers.

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Abhinandan Sekhri is co-founder and CEO of media critique, news and current affairs website Newslaundry.

Before founding Newslaundry, he worked as a producer, director and writer in various television and film projects. He regularly delivers lectures and hosts panel discussions on journalism, RTI, and the importance and independence of media, and has delivered talks at Harvard’s India Conference (2018 edition) and several Indian colleges including NIT Karnataka-Surathkal, St. Xavier’s College, Lady Shri Ram College, IIM Lucknow Noida Campus and Manipal University.He also delivered a TEDx talk about ‘journalism of independence’ at TEDxJaiHindCollege in 2015.

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Nakul Saxena is the Director of Public Policy at Indian Software Products Industry Round Table ( iSPIRT), a leading think tank for the Indian software products industry. He actively works with the Central Government and the State Governments of Rajasthan, Karnataka, West Bengal and Kerala with regards to Startup Policies and Implementation of policies for Software Product Companies and Startups.

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Aasha Chauhan is the founder of “A Box of Stories”, a discovery platform for book lovers. She is currently the Founder in Residence at Founders Factory, Information Technology and Services, London. She was the Senior Producer at CNBC-TV18 in Mumbai, India.

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James Quinn is CEO of Faradion, the world leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion cell technology company, based in Sheffield, in the British heart of innovative manufacturing. He is an international technology executive and entrepreneur, with a background in both publicly traded and private companies. He has significant experience with fund raising and mergers and acquisitions.

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Navin Rajaram is the Global Head of Digital Data and Analytics at HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management, London, United Kingdom.

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