Nachiket Mor, is a Yale World Fellow; has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad; and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Mumbai University. While completing his Ph.D., he was associated with a Philadelphia based hedge fund (Quantitative Financial Strategies) for three years. He has worked with ICICI from 1987 to 2007 in a variety of jobs, including, Corporate Planning, Project Finance, Rural Finance and Treasury and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 to 2007. From October 2007 to August 2010, he assisted ICICI in setting up a philanthropic foundation, the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth and served as its founding President. He is now the Chairman of the Boards of Sughavazhvu Health Care and CARE India and is closely involved in the evolution of these two organizations in India.
He is currently also an independent member of a few other Boards including IKP Trust, IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health, IKP Centre for Advancement in Agricultural Practice and the Institute for Financial Management and Research. He is also a member of four Central Government Committees: the High Powered Expert Committee on Urban Infrastructure; the Technical Advisory Group on Unique Projects; the Committee to Review Implementation of Informal Sector Pension; and the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage. In the past he has served as the Chairman of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India for two years and as a Board Member of Wipro Limited for five years.

Ashok Alexander was appointed Director the India Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on its inception in July 2003. He oversees all of the Foundation’s programmes in India - the most prominent of these being: Avahan - one of the largest HIV-prevention programmes ever. Ashok has 24 years’ experience in the private sector in Hong Kong, the USA and India. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Ashok was a director at McKinsey and Company.

Raj Srinavasan was a Senior Civil Servant in India for almost 40 years before his retirement in 1990. His many posts included Permanent Secretary for the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Delhi, Chairman of the Executive Board and Senior Advisor to the World Health Organisation in Geneva, and Member of the Independent Commission on Health in India. Since retirement he has worked with a number of civil society groups on interrelated issues of health, policy and women’s empowerment.

Vinita Bali is the Managing Director & CEO of Britannia Industries, India’s publicly listed, premier Food Company. Under her leadership Britannia, has engaged with issues related to health and nutrition. Britannia is working with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) and Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

Prior to this assignment, Ms. Bali has held several high ranking marketing and general management positions in different countries, with well known multinationals like The Coca-Cola Company and Cadbury Schweppes PLC. She also serves as Independent Director on the Boards of several Companies in India. She sit on the Global Diversity and Advisory Council of Novartis International.

A transformational leader, Ms. Bali has won several awards and accolades for her business acumen and leadership and most recently was named “Business Woman of the Year- 2009” by The Economic Times and ranked 22nd among the world’s top 50 business women by The Financial Times. She also featured among the 33 women who have done India proud.

Dr. Prathap Tharyan, currently serves as an Associate Director of CMC, Vellore. A Professor of Psychiatry, he trained for the MBBS degree and for the postgraduate Degree MD (Psychiatry) at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and MRCPsych at Oxford, UK. He is the Director of the South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre, an independent centre of the Cochrane Collaboration, an International not-for-profit organisation preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of health care. Dr. Tharyan heads the Prof. BV Moses & ICMR Centre for Advanced Research and Training in Evidence-Informed Healthcare. He is an Editor with the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group and a systematic review author with several other Cochrane review groups.
He is an Associate Editor with the open access journal Trials and of The Journal of Evidence Based Medicine.  He is a member of the steering group of the Clinical Trials Registry-India. He is a member of the WHO Expert Panel of Guidelines Development, Ethics and Clinical Trials. He has over 100 publications in national and International peer reviewed journals. Dr. Tharyan was actively involved in setting up counseling training programs in HIV/AIDS along with other members of the institution and continues to teach sessions on HIV counseling.