Hema Hattangady
Smt Hema Hattangady is an author and has served as an independent director on the boards of SKF India Ltd and NELCO Ltd and continues on the board of India’s leading machine tool manufacturing company, Ace Designers Ltd. She was on the Advisory Board of Schneider Electric and also mentors’ entrepreneurs & students. She co-founded Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), an industry-led initiative to bring industries and service providers in energy efficiency together. She also created Conserve My Campus, a program to teach school children to save energy at home and in school.
Lt General (Dr) Prakash Menon
Lt. Gen. (Retd) Prakash Menon is the Director of the Strategic Studies Programme. He is also Professor Emeritus at Trans Disciplinary University (TDU), Bangalore and Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
Dr. M Govinda Rao
Dr. M Govinda Rao is an economist and a member of the 14th Finance Commission. Dr. Rao has previously served as the Director of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and as the Director of Institute for Social and Economic Change.
Ambassador Latha Reddy
Amb Latha Reddy is the former Deputy National Security Adviser of India where she was responsible for cybersecurity and other critical internal and external security issues.
Pranay Kotasthane
Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director of the Takshashila Institution. Pranay’s current research includes high tech geopolitics and the politics of radically networked societies. Pranay teaches public policy, international relations, and public finance at Takshashila’s graduate and post-graduate programmes.
Anupam Manur
Anupam Manur is an Assistant Professor at the Takshashila Institution. He was previously working as a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, after completing his Masters in International Business (Economics) from Lancaster University.
Mihir Mahajan
Mihir Mahajan is Chief of Staff at IP Spring LLC, a boutique US law firm that specializes in intellectual property matters. Mihir’s experience includes developing IP strategy, managing patent portfolios, patent transactions, and preparing and prosecuting patent applications.
Dr. Kajari Kamal
Dr. Kajari Kamal is a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad. She holds a postgraduate in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Shambhavi Naik
Shambhavi Naik is a Research Fellow with Takshashila’s Technology and Policy programme. She is the chairperson of Takshashila’s Health & Life Sciences Policy.
Manoj Kewalramani
Manoj Kewalramani is a Fellow-China Studies at The Takshashila Institution. His research focuses on Chinese politics, foreign policy and approaches to new technologies.
Ajay Khanna
Ajay was founding Chief Executive Officer of India Brand Equity Foundation (www.ibef.org) (2002-2006). This was a unique Public Private Partnership initiative to Promote, Project & Position India’s growth story globally. Ajay teaches government and public advocacy at Takshashila.
Ameya Naik
Ameya Naik is an Associate Fellow (non-resident) with the geostrategy programme at the Takshashila Institution. His research covers Indian foreign policy, diplomacy, international organisations, and international law. He also co-teaches the Introduction to Public Policy Analysis course as part of the Policy School.
Sarthak Pradhan
Sarthak is an Associate Fellow at The Takshashila Institution. He has completed the Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Public Policy from The Takshashila Institution.
Rahul Matthan
Rahul Matthan is a Fellow with Takshashila’s Technology & Policy Research Programme.
Krish Ashok
Krish Ashok heads the Digital Workplace unit at Tata Consultancy Services where his team helps reimagine the future of work for large enterprise customers
Pramit Bhattacharya
Pramit Bhattacharya writes the Truth, Lies, and Statistics column for Mint. He was earlier the data editor at Mint, where he helped set up one of the country's first data journalism units, Plain Facts in 2014.
Javeed Ahmad
Javeed Ahmad is a retired officer of the Indian Police Service (I.P.S) of the 1984 batch, UP cadre.He has 37 years of experience in leadership and law enforcement covering aspects including anti-corruption investigations, policy planning,crisis management and security management.