Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman was born on 18th August, 1959 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu to Smt. K. Savitri and Shri K. Sitharaman. She completed her bachelors from Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College in Trichirapalli and headed to the Jawahar Lal Nehru University to pursue her masters in Economics. After submitting her doctoral thesis on Indo-European Textile Trade, she moved to UK and worked as the Senior Manager (Research & Analysis) in Price Waterhouse, London. During her stay in London, she also worked briefly for BBC World Services. Post her return to India, she was keen on working towards institutionalizing Policy Analysis in India and therefore established Centre for Public Policy Studies in Hyderabad in 1992. In 1997, She established Pranava, a school in Hyderabad that won the British Council’s International School Award, 2007-2010 for its unconventional approach to education that prioritized giving shape to a child’s inherent talent over the conventional learn and rote system. 
From 2003-2005, she served as a member of the National Commission for Women and in 2008, she was invited to become a member of the BJP’s National Executive and since then she has been actively involved in drafting almost all of party’s Economic and Political Resolutions. In 2010, Smt. Sitharaman was appointed as the National Spokesperson of the BJP and was widely respected for her well researched and graceful articulation of the party’s stand. 
During the Gujarat Assembly Elections in 2012, Smt. Sitharaman worked directly under the leadership of Shri Narendra Modi wherein she was given the responsibility of organizing BJP’s Media Campaign for the elections. After the historic victory of BJP in 2014 General Elections, she was inducted into the Council of Ministers and she held the charge of Minister of State( Independent charge) for Commerce & Industry. 
In May 2016, she was one of the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP to contest the Rajya Sabha elections on 11 June 2016. She successfully contested her seat from Karnataka. On 3 September 2017, she became the first full- time woman Defence Minister of India. After landslide victory of BJP in the General Elections of 2019, Smt. Sitharaman was given the responsibility of the Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister of India. 

Mr. Shaktikanta Das, Governor of Reserve Bank of India, has been a career civil servant with over 42 years of distinguished service, primarily in the areas of finance, taxation, investment and infrastructure.

Mr. Das possesses a unique combination of experience in both policy formulation and implementation at the highest levels of state and central governments. He has served as Revenue Secretary and as Secretary, Economic Affairs, Government of India. In these positions, he played important roles in conceptualisation and formulation of key policies in the areas of economic reforms, fiscal and monetary policy, financial markets and investment policy. He also served as a Director in the Central Board of RBI rendering advice in the areas of Central Banking. He was also on the Board of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the regulator for capital markets.

Mr. Das has served as India’s Alternate Governor in the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), New Development Bank (NDB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He represented India in several international fora like the IMF, G20, BRICS and SAARC.

Mr. Das has also acted as India’s G20 Sherpa and Member, Fifteenth Finance Commission.

As Governor, Reserve Bank of India, he has spearheaded a series of measures taken by the Reserve Bank to support growth and strengthen financial stability in the country. Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, he has steered the Reserve Bank’s response through several conventional, unconventional and innovative policy measures spanning monetary policy, liquidity conditions and regulatory policies to preserve financial stability while mitigating the adverse effects of the pandemic on the economy.

Mr. Das was recently conferred with the ‘Central Bank Governor of the Year’ award by Central Banking Publication, UK in 2023. He was also conferred the 'Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific 2020' award by the London based magazine-The Banker.

Shri. Devendra Fadnavis is presently the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He served as 
the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2014 to 2019. Maharashtra, the 3rd largest state 
of India in terms of area and population, became the most economically advanced state with 
the highest industrial output (nearly 25% of the country’s output) under the visionary 
leadership of Shri. Fadnavis. 
Shri. Fadnavis strongly believes that ‘Politics is an instrument for socio-economic change’ 
and his political career of 25 years continues to reflect the same. His capacity to work tirelessly 
and relentlessly comes from his mantra of ‘People First’. At every step of his socio- political 
journey, he has been pertinacious to see equitable progress for all. 
Shri Fadnavis hails from a middle-class progressive family in Nagpur. His diverse educational 
background includes a Graduate Degree in Law, a Post Graduate Degree in Business 
Management and a Diploma in Project Management from D.S.E. Berlin. 
His political career began at a very young age, in 1992. He was elected as the Councillor at 
Nagpur Municipal Corporation and served two consecutive terms. He has the distinction of 
being the second youngest Mayor in India. He has been the youngest Mayor of Nagpur and 
has been the only person to be re-elected on the position of ‘Mayor in Council’. Also was the 
Mayor of Nagpur twice. There after he has been elected as the MLA - Member of Maharashtra 
Legislative Assembly for 5 consecutive terms. He has earned the recognition as leader of 
masses. 
His ability to assume multiple leadership roles is undisputable. He has ably done justice to 
leadership roles within the party, as a member of legislature and as an elected representative 
of the people of Nagpur. 
On the organisational front in Bharatiya Janata Party, he rose strongly and steadily from the 
rank of Ward Convenor to President of BJP, Maharashtra. The most recent organisational 
responsibilities being in charge (Prabhari) of Kerala State and Election In-charge of Bihar 
State Assembly Elections 2020. 
The campaigns for historic 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra were led by 
Shri. Fadnavis. The Maharashtra Assembly Elections and many elections for rural and urban 
local bodies were fought and won under his leadership, creating histories and records. 
As a Member of Legislative Assembly, he is known for his spirited and intellectual debates. 
His understanding of fiscal issues is appreciated across party lines. He has served as a 
member of various Subject Committees, Standing Committees and Joint Select Committees 
of Legislature. He is recipient of The Best Parliamentarian Award of Commonwealth 
Parliamentary Association. 
As an elected representative of people of Nagpur, he was instrumental in resolving long 
pending and complex land ownership issues. He is known to be a fervent advocate for the 
cause of equitable development of Vidarbha region, for which he was felicitated with 
prestigious Nag Bhushan Award in 2016. 
Shri Fadnavis holds the record of becoming the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra to 
complete a full five-year term in last 47 years and only the second one in entire history of 
Maharashtra. 
Shri. Fadnavis’ tenure as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra was exemplary. People centric 
inclusive governance with knowledge driven policy making, use of technology as key 
enabler, dynamic approach towards development, problem solving and result oriented 
frameworks for project implementation were features of his transformative rule. 
Besides serving as the Chief Minister, he held other portfolios too, such as Home, General 
Administration, IT, Urban Development, Law and Judiciary, Ports, and Information & Public 
Relations. 
Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan, an ambitious program which aimed at making Maharashtra drought 
free is an example of his understanding of aspirations of people and his ability to mobilise 
these aspirations into the mission. The program received tremendous response from not 
only the farmers but from people across all walks of life. It was a unique example where a 
government program turned into a people’s movement. The success of the program is not 
only limited to creation of 6 lakh plus low cost, decentralised water structures across 22 
thousand plus villages but the program also facilitated harmony in many villages, 
empowering the people to join hands to mobilise resources and to find their own 
sustainable solutions. 
Shri. Fadnavis’ strong inclination towards transparency and good governance was evident 
when he announced to enact the Right to Service Act, in the very first cabinet meeting of his 
government. At the time, it was first of its kind legislation in the country to ensure efficient 
delivery of Public Services. Eventually 393 services were brought online that benefitted lakhs 
of people. ‘Aaple Sarkar’ too is one of a kind grievance redressal platform started by Him for 
the ease in remedy to the common man. 
Shri Fadnavis’ inclusive leadership also involved many out-of-the-box ideas such as Chief 
Minister Fellowship Program. Youth in their twenties were invited to join government to 
bring in fresh perspective and energy in governance and policymaking. 
Infrastructure projects got tremendous impetus during the tenure of Shri. Fadnavis. His 
project management approach and problem-solving skills along with a War Room to 
monitor the implementation of key projects, ensured that the bottlenecks were removed 
and projects were expedited; be it Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur Metro projects, Nagpur- Mumbai 
Samruddhi Expressway, Coastal Road or MTHL (Mumbai trans harbour link). 
Under his stewardship and persistent efforts to boost investment and industrialisation, 
Maharashtra had achieved the feat of attracting 50% of the total FDI inflow into the country 
in 2016. 
Shri. Fadnavis is seen as a promising leader by investors and corporates. He successfully 
mobilised their support for social good. His initiatives such as Village Social Transformation 
Mission, SMART (creation of value chains for agricultural produces) and Sahabhag (Social 
Responsibility Cell) were hailed and supported by industry leaders. 
Given his in-depth knowledge and unique approach towards sustainable development he 
was invited by several national and international agencies for his inputs on sustainable 
agriculture, climate change and energy security. The most prestigious of these was invitation 
of NITI Aayog to chair the High-Power Committee of Chief Ministers on Transformation of 
Agriculture. 
Devendra Fadnavis’s political acumen and skills have been recognised by several forums, both 
nationally and internationally. He has been the recipient of many honours. He was elected as 
the Secretary of Global Parliamentarians Forum on Habitat for Asia region. He is the first 
Indian to be selected for an Honorary Doctorate by Osaka City University, Japan for his 
initiatives to implement major reforms for the cause of socio-economic development in 
Maharashtra. He has received the honour of being Singapore’s prestigious Lee Kuan Yew 
Exchange Fellow. USA’s Georgetown University has honoured him with the Outstanding 
Leadership in Development Award. 
Amidst the hustle bustle of his socio-political life Shri Fadnavis, is a dutiful son to Smt. Sarita 
Fadnavis, a devout husband to banker and social worker Amruta Fadnavis and doting father 
to Divija. He is a private person who enjoys writing, reading, watching movies and web-series, 
cricket, listening music in his moments of solitude.
 

Shri K. Rajaraman belongs to the 1989 batch of Indian Administrative Service (Tamil Nadu cadre) and has assumed the responsibility of the Chairperson of International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) after serving for nearly 35 years in various leadership roles in Government of India and Government of Tamil Nadu. Prior to joining the IFSCA, he served as the Secretary to Government of India in the Department of Telecommunications. He is a B.Tech Graduate in Electronics & Communications, a first-class MBA and Master of Economics.  
Starting his career as a Design Engineer in BHEL, Trichy, during his rich and varied experience as an IAS Officer, he had held various administrative positions in the areas of Investment Promotion, Foreign Direct Investment, Public Sector Undertakings, Industrial Infrastructure, VAT Administration, etc. He was MD of Chennai Metro Railways for nearly 4 years during its early construction phase, Commissioner for Commercial Taxes in Government of Tamil Nadu, and Joint Secretary Expenditure in Government of India. He also served as Additional Secretary, Investment, IER and Administration in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance.  
 

CAREER SUMMARY 

 Presently Minister of E&IT & Sports & Youth services (Ind chrg), and Home, Govt. 
of Odisha.
 Won General Election 2019 from Kakatpur Constituency (AC-105) as MLA 
Candidate in BJD ticket.
 Have created a workforce of approximately 3000, from 280 booths of Kakatpur 
constituency comprising 45 Gram Panchayats and Konark NAC. 
 Block Level Coordinator of Atharmulak Kaibarta Mahasangh, Puri which comprises 
approximately 35,000 Kaibarta population. 
 Graduated from IIT Kharagpur and worked as Assistant Professor in Environmental 
Engineering (Branch of Civil Engineering) in Centurion University of Technology & 
Management for about 3.5 years 
 Worked as Assistant Professor and HOD in Department of Biomedical Engineering, 
Eastern Academy of Science and Technology under BPUT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha for 3 
years 
 Associated with the DST project of ‘Bio-sand Filter’ for 2 years 
 Dale Carnegie certified Trainer 
 Trained in Mission 10X Leadership Program by WIPRO 

PROJECTS SUPERVISED 
 Advanced Remote Health Monitoring System 
 Automatic Wheel Chair Using Motion Sensor and Touch-screen 
 Sustainable Use of Water in Centurion University campus 

WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS 
 Participated in the workshop on Globalization, Leadership and Strategy by Mr. Partha S 
Ghosh (Chairman- Boston Analytics).
 Organized National Conference on “Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Civil 
Engineering” in CUTM. 
 Participated in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA-2012) workshop organized by IIT 
Bhubaneswar. 
 Organized International Conference on Soft computing tools in Bhubaneswar. 
 Organized workshop on MATLAB in Biomedical Digital Signal Processing. 
 Organized workshop on Biomedical Instrumentation in EAST, Bhubaneswar.
 Participated in Swarm Intelligence workshop organized by IIT Bhubaneswar.
 Participated in Renewable Energy Symposium by Aryan Institute of Technology, 
Bhubaneswar 

INTERESTS AND EXTRACURRICULLAR ACTIVITIES 
 Co-founder of Kgp Cyber League (A cyber-gaming community comprising more than 300 
members). 
 Worked as General Secretary of Kalinga Samaj (An odia community comprising more than 
500 members in IIT). 
 Worked as Vice-president Cultural Team for the Annual festival of EAST.
 Have worked closely with Infosys, Mahindra Satyam, L&T InfoTech, POSCO STEEL 
and Reliance ADA as part of recruitment in colleges.

Dr. Vivek Joshi joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1989. Dr. Joshi holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute Geneva (Switzerland). He completed his doctorate under the guidance of Prof. Richard Baldwin. He is also an alumnus of University of Roorkee (now, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), where he did his B.E. in Mechanical Engineering in 1987. 
Dr. Vivek Joshi is currently posted as Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance since 1st November, 2022. In this assignment, Dr. Joshi is dealing with policies, schemes and legislations related to banking sector including Public Sector Banks, insurance sector, Financial Institutions, financial inclusion, and pension reforms. He is also serving as member on the boards of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and State Bank of India (SBI).  During 2014-17 he was also Joint Secretary in Ministry of Finance.
Prior to joining DFS, Dr Joshi has held crucial posts like Registrar General of India under MHA and worked in Minitries of Women and Child Development, Textiles and other Departments of Government of Haryana.

Mr Sumnesh Joshi has worked with UIDAI as a first officer at UIDAI Regional Office Mumbai in April 2010 as a part of the founding team under leadership of Mr NandanNilekani. He was instrumental to  roll out the implementation of biometric based Digital Identity“Aadhaar” project in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu.
 
He worked with the Aadhaar Eco System Partners like State Governments, Regulators, Banks, Insurance Companies and  Fintech Companies and guiding them in designing the solutions for the convenient delivery of various services using “Aadhaar”.  He facilitated the use of Aadhaar -a Digital Identity Platform in E-Governance for Targeted Delivery of Services and Benefits.
 
He also headed Enrolment & Update vertical of UIDAI PAN India. He was  in various committees to look into the Strengthening of Aadhaar Enrolment Processes, Revisiting the regulations and SoPs, Automation of  various Processes and Universal Client for Enrolment & Update.
 
MrJoshi is an officer of 1993 Batch of Indian Telecom Service of Government of India and has over 25 years of experience at different levels of 

Earlier years of his career He worked with Department of Telecommunications, Government of India and was involved in  Telecom Traffic Planning , Data Analytics, Project implementation, Marketing of Services, Market Strategies, Market Intelligence, Product DevelopmentandBrand building.
 
Mr Joshi did his engineering in Electronics &Communications from Rajasthan Technical University Kota Rajasthan India, holds MicroMasters in Data Economics and Development Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He pursued a Certificate course in Public Policy from University of California Berkeley and MBA from the Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India
 

Mr T. Rabi Sankar, a career central banker joined the Bank in 1990 and has worked in various capacities until he assumed the Office of Deputy Governor in May 2021.  His current areas of responsibility include public debt management, forex reserves management, payment systems, IT infrastructure, currency management and foreign exchange management.  Mr Sankar is also the Chairman of the Reserve Bank’s currency notes printing Press.  
Mr Sankar has extensive experience in the area of public debt management. In the early 2000s, he played a key role in creating the regulatory framework for government securities market in India.  He was also instrumental in setting up Reserve Bank of India’s screen based anonymous Negotiated Dealing System (NDS) in Government Securities with guaranteed settlement through a central counterparty.  More recently, under his guidance, RBI has rolled out a web-based system called “Retail Direct” enabling Indians to directly buy and sell Indian government bonds.  Earlier, Mr Sankar worked in the Indian Government and helped in setting up government’s public debt management unit inside the Ministry of Finance.  He has also advised the Government of Bangladesh regarding their government securities market and served as an IMF Consultant (2005-11) on developing Government bond markets and debt management. 
As Deputy Governor In-Charge of Payment Systems, he has oversight of the well-known Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and other digital payment systems, all of which have contributed to widespread adoption of digital payments and positioned India as a leading country in this area.  The RBI recently set up its own Innovation Hub in Bangalore which has devised a digital solution for speeding up disbursal of rural credit and other innovative initiatives for strengthening financial inclusion.  More recently, the RBI has rolled out a pilot for testing the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).  
He has represented RBI on international forums like Bank for International Settlements and various internal and external expert committees and working groups.
Mr Sankar has a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 

Hon. Soraya Munyana HAKUZIYAREMYE was appointed Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda in March 2021.  
Prior to that, she served as Rwanda's Minister of Trade and Industry, from October 2018 to March 2021; she began her tenure as a Cabinet Member right after her time as Vice President in the Financial Institutions/Financial Markets Risk Department at ING Bank in London. 
Hon. Soraya M. HAKUZIYAREMYE has had an extensive career in global banking; she worked in various positions at BNP Paribas Group in Paris, Fortis Bank and the Bank of New York Mellon in Brussels. She also served as Senior Advisor to Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2014. 
She holds a postgraduate degree in International Management from the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management in the U.S., as well as a Masters in Business Engineering (Ingénieur de Gestion) from the Solvay Business School at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

Mr Ajay Kumar Choudhary is an Executive Director at Reserve bank of India, Holding the
portfolio of FinTech Department, Risk Monitoring Department, and Inspection Department.

He is overall responsible for Implementation of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), approach towards Crypto Assets, potential regulatory guardrails relating to Fin-Techs and Big-Techs, regulatory sandbox operation, RBI Innovation Hub, and all related areas on Fin-Tech including sustainable finance. He also looks after internal governance in Reserve Bank of India relating to Risk Monitoring and Internal Inspection as second and third lines of defence.
 
He is a seasoned executive with a unique blend of vast supervisory and regulatory experience and accomplishments. He has a proven track record in banking supervision, regulation and related Fin-Tech areas in various capacities, including leadership positions, spanning over 30 years, involving designing and implementing various regulatory/public policies, extensive on-site inspections at the field level, and off-site supervision at corporate office level.
 
He has rich International Experience in various capacities. He was deputed as Director of Supervision of Bank of Mauritius at Mauritius, with the responsibility for regulation and supervision of Banks, Non-Bank Deposit Taking Institutions, Forex Dealers, etc. He also represented Reserve Bank of India in different international groups viz. Standard Implementation Group (SIG) of the Basel Committee, PDG-AEG Joint Task Force on Expected Loss Provisioning (TFP), SIG- Banking Book and international Group of FSB on Bail-In. Further, he headed RBI team for successful completion of RCAP exercise for India; was part of BCBS team for RCAP (Level 2) for Brazil and South Korea; was also part of team for on-site visit of certain banks in Asia-Pacific region in connection with the International Group Assignments.

He has many publications of papers also. 

S N Subrahmanyan is the CEO & MD of Larsen & Toubro and serves on the board of directors of this multi billion dollar conglomerate.

SNS, as he is popularly known, is also Vice Chairman on the boards of LTIMindtree and L&T Technology Services, Chairman of L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited, and Director and Chairperson of L&T Finance Holdings Ltd.

Prior to taking over the reins as CEO & MD in July 2017, SNS in his capacity as Deputy MD & President led L&T’s infrastructure business to its position as the country’s largest construction organisation and 14th in the world. He is now responsible for leading the breadth and width of L&T’s considerable business interests to new growth levels, riding on the enormous benefits of digitalisation, big data, and predictive analysis that he drives internally with exceptional zeal. He places a premium on innovation, project management and talent development, particularly in leadership roles.

Hailing from Chennai, India, SNS commenced his professional journey with L&T in 1984 as a project planning engineer armed with a degree in civil engineering and a post-graduation in business management. Mentored by stalwarts, he took on roles of increasing responsibility across business verticals. With an entrepreneurial mindset, drive, and foresight, he began to rewrite the rules of the game. He led L&T’s foray into the realm of executing developmental projects starting with the extremely successful HITEC City project in Hyderabad and the Bangalore International Airport, forging deals in the process without precedent in the construction space. Successfully setting up the Ready Mix business in India for the first time, bagging mandates to design & build all major international airports in India, venturing into untapped geographies like the Middle East, Africa & ASEAN to establish L&T’s credentials and presence and building long-term relationships came easy to him.

Under his leadership, SNS has transformed L&T into a company that executes a wide range of projects at Speed & Scale and, in the process, builds the tallest, largest, longest, smartest, and most complex. L&T is among the three Indian companies to feature in the top 46 Most Honoured Companies according to the New York-based B2B publication, Institutional Investor, was recognised as the Company of the Year by business publication, Business Standard in 2020 and has featured on the Forbes list as one of the world’s best employers.

SNS was ranked 11th in the Construction Week Power 100 Ranking for 2021, that had previously recognised him as the Infrastructure Person of the Year for 2012.  In 2020, SNS was ranked as the Top CEO (Sell Side) and the 3rd Best CEO (Overall) in the All-Asia Executive Team Survey conducted by Institutional Investor and recognised as the CEO of the Year by the leading Indian news channel, CNBC-Awaaz. He has been conferred the Emergent CEO Award at the CEO Awards in 2019 for his exemplary leadership and for delivering seamless growth for L&T. He has also been accorded the Leading Engineering Personality award by the Institution of Engineers (India) in 2014. In March 2022, he was recognised as the winner in the Infrastructure & Engineering category of the Business Today-PwC India’s Best CEOs ranking.

SNS holds positions of pre-eminence on various industry bodies, construction institutions and councils. In February 2021, he was appointed Chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC) for three years by the Union Ministry of Labour & Employment. In this role SNS will guide the NSC, which has a major part to play to ensure safety in workplaces under the new Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (OSH Code, 2020). 
Recognising L&T’s leadership in climate and infrastructure finance, SNS has been appointed one of nine founding members of Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) India to bring global scale and influence to the initiative. 

H.E. Khaled Albasias is the Director of Financial Sector Development at Saudi Central Bank, where he is leading the change and transformation agenda for the Kingdom’s financial sector under Vision 2030.

He is spearheading the national initiatives of developing the Fintech sector and ecosystem in Saudi Arabia, and has played a vital role in making the Kingdom emerge as an important player in Fintech space in the region.

Andy White is the CEO of Australian Payments Network (AusPayNet), the Australian payments industry self-regulatory body. Andy has over 25 years’ international experience, incorporating roles at the Bank of England, LCH.Clearnet and the Australian Securities Exchange. 
He is a graduate of Oxford University and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 
Andy also holds advisory roles on the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, EMVCo, the Australian National Anti-Scam Centre, and the editorial board of the Journal of Payments Strategy and Systems.  
Former advisory roles include the Australian Government’s Modernising Business Communications Expert Panel, the Data Standards Body and Emerging Payments Asia.
 

Doris Dietze is head of Digital Finance, Payment Services and Cybersecurity at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance. Her responsibilities include the development of strategies with respect to fintechs and digitalisation of the financial market. She is also responsible for regulatory issues in this area. Prior to this, she served as a speechwriter for the Minister of Finance.

Masaki Bessho has been Head of FinTech Center, Bank of Japan, since September 2021. Previously, he has served as Associate Director-General of Payment and Settlement Systems Department, Deputy Chief Representative for Europe, and Head of Financial Infrastructure Studies Division at the Bank’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studiers. He has led diverse research projects focusing on implications of novel technologies on financial systems and central banking services. He also represents the Bank in a number of forums on digital currency and FinTech, including the CBDC Coalition. He received an LL.M. from the University of Virginia (1999) and an LL.B. from Kyoto University (1994). He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Chris Winter is Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific Region for Discover Global Network.  His responsibilities include managing existing and developing new franchise relationships to support the growth of Diners Club business and expand acceptance via acquirers and processors for Discover Global Network.   He is also responsible for managing all network alliance relationships including China UnionPay, JCB, BCcard, NPCI, NCCC, NAPAS, PayNet, NETS, etc. and building broad alliance partnerships with networks in the Asia Pacific Region.
Chris joined Discover in October 2010 with a focus on building DGN acceptance across the EMEA Region. The fact we now have over 120 Acquirers certified with over 10 million outlets serving DGN cardholders is testament to the hard work and great progress he and his team have made.  In June 2022 Chris took on the role of VP EMEA Partnerships which broadened his responsibilities to include Issuing activities with current DCI Franchises and active N2N Partners across the region. Since taking on the additional responsibilities, Chris and his team have continued to make great progress in expanding acceptance as well as strengthening our relationships with key DCI Franchises and N2N Partners, successfully negotiating NPA extensions with key Regional Franchises such as DC Spain, DC Austria, and DC Nordics.

Prior to joining Discover, Chris has worked for many years in the Payments industry, including spending time with TSYS where he had a global role and Visa, where amongst other responsibilities, he spent a number of years living in South Africa establishing Visa as a Payment Scheme across the Sub-Saharan Region.    

Mr. Rajesh Bansal is the CEO of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH). A highly regarded thought leader, he has nearly three decades of global experience in digital financial services and digital infrastructure across Asian and African markets. 
Mr. Bansal has been one of the key architects of India’s journey from a cash to cash-lite economy by actively promoting policies and designing new solutions for scale and adoption. He was a member of the founding team of Aadhaar and specifically led the design of India’s Direct Benefits Transfer system which is benefiting hundreds of millions of low-income clients. He played a key role in creating India Stack, a digital ID-based infrastructure for a presence-less and cashless service delivery platform, and has been a member of several committees of Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), including in areas of technology, payment systems, and financial inclusion. 
Prior to joining RBIH, he was a senior adviser at Carnegie India, where he led the centre’s Technology and Society programme. Mr. Bansal holds a Master’s degree from Duke University, USA in International Development Policy and has authored a number of articles and opinion pieces in leading publications. Today he is recognised as one of the Top 30 Indian fintech influencers in 2022 and has been a recipient of the prestigious Golden Jubilee scholarship scheme of the RBI. 
 

Vladyslav Yatsenko has been Revolut’s Chief Technology Officer since he co-founded the company with Nik Storonsky. His software engineering experience spans several industries, including travel and finance, creating real-time billing systems and booking engines. After building financial software systems at tier one investment banks such as UBS and Deutsche Bank, he realised that to deliver a next generation digital banking service he would need to build it himself. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science.

Jordan McKee leads the fintech research and advisory practice within 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. As an analyst, Jordan has covered the payments ecosystem for the past decade, producing research on the major trends impacting payment networks, issuing and acquiring banks, payment processors, fintechs, merchants, and other industry stakeholders. He is listed on the Electronic Transactions Association’s Forty Under 40 list and speaks frequently at industry events, including Money20/20, PaymentsEd Forum and SXSW. Jordan maintains a fintech column for Forbes and is often quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today and American Banker.
 

Xavier Faz is the lead for CGAP’s work on technology and business models in digital finance. He leads a team focused on connecting innovations in digital finance with inclusive development outcomes. His area of expertise includes emerging technologies, fintech and digital banking, as well as open platforms. He is also CGAP’s Regional Head for Latin America & the Caribbean. Prior to CGAP, Xavier was VP of Strategic Planning for a development bank in Mexico, where he helped launch a line of services offering low cost banking infrastructure and payments to microfinance and nonbank financial institutions in that market. He also worked with McKinsey & Company in Mexico and Central America, supporting large organizations in banking, retail and consumer goods, in leveraging emerging technologies to launch new base-of-the-pyramid businesses. Xavier has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and an Engineering degree in Electronic Systems from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, México.

Sameer Nigam founded PhonePe Private Limited in 2015 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Before starting PhonePe, Sameer served as Senior Vice President - Engineering and Vice President -
Marketing at Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce platform. His Flipkart journey started in 2011 when the
company acquired his earlier startup - Mime360. Mime360 was a digital media distribution platform.
Sameer has also served as Director of Product Management at Shopzilla Inc, where he built the
company's proprietary shopping search engine.
In 2009, he won the coveted Wharton Venture Award, bestowed by the prestigious Wharton Business
School. He holds an MBA from Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania), USA, and a
Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Arizona, Tucson-USA.
 

Joined RBI in 1999.
Work experience: 
•    Currency management
•    Banking Supervision
•    Foreign Exchange Reserve Management
•    Have worked been in Payment systems regulation and policy formulation for 8 years.

Camilla is the CEO and the co-founder of Emerging Payments Association Asia. Her role is to bring together the different participants in the value chain of payments for collaboration. The core of the EPAA activities is policy and advocacy to enhance the industry. Camilla has a long career in the financial technology industry, starting in London in early 2000 working for Reuters (today LSEG)  and often talks about coming home when she started her work in the payments industry. Payments is the part of the financial service that touches peoples lives every day, and through EPA Asia work lives can be improved. The payments industry offered her an opportunity to combine her passion for fintech and humanitarian questions.  

Majell Hind has been posted to New Delhi, Jakarta, Bali, Kabul, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Laos, Tel Aviv and Harare. Majell worked in Canberra in the Asia Division (1991-1992), Korea Section, North Asia Branch (1992-1996), in Corporate Management Division (CMD) in Staffing Operations (1988-1991 and 2002-2003) and as Director, Management Strategy, Conduct and Coordination Section (MCS), CMD (2006-2007) and was Executive Editor, Annual Report Unit (2012).  
Majell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University. 

Michael is a financial services professional with 15+ years of experience cutting across digital financial services, strategy formulation, project management and business development. His working knowledge spans across Banking, Aviation, Agriculture, and impact development covering multiple geographies in Africa. 
He is currently the Regional Director East & Southern Africa for AfricaNenda, a digital financial services program funded by Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and incubated by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors with the objective of supporting secure digital payment infrastructure that benefit all Africans and drive financial inclusion.
Michael was the project lead for Rwanda National Digital Payments Platform (RNDPS) working directly with Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) and National Bank Rwanda (BNR) spear-heading Interoperability blueprint development and rollout. Prior to this he served as Pesalink Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Ag-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Kenya Bankers Association payments services company - Integrated Payment Services Limited (IPSL) and was instrumental in leading the industry towards launching real-time interoperable payment platform. He was also the Head/Chief Information Security officer at Co-operative Bank of Kenya.
Michael holds two Masters degrees, MBA in Strategic Management from United States International University and M.Sc. in Information Technology from Nairobi University respectively and is currently undertaking a PhD in Information Technology at Cape Town University South Africa with research interests in Payments Interoperability, Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) and ICT for development (ICT4D). 
When he is not studying or building payment solutions, Michael is the Secretary at his alma mater “United States International University-Africa” and is passionate about youth mentorship. He is also an avid CrossFit enthusiast. 

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty joined the Board of SBI as Managing Director in
January 2020 and currently heading International Banking, Global Markets &
Technology wings of the Bank. Prior to the present assignment, Shri Setty
headed Retail & Digital Banking vertical. He has also been heading various task
forces/committees formed by the Government of India.
A Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and also, a Certified Associate of Indian
Institute of Bankers, he started his career with State Bank of India in 1988 as a
Probationary Officer. Across a career spanning over three decades, he has rich
experience in Corporate credit, Retail, Digital and International banking and
banking in developed markets.
Shri Setty has held key assignments in State Bank of India including Deputy
Managing Director - Stressed Assets Resolution Group, Chief General Manager
and General Manager in Corporate Accounts Group, Deputy General Manager
in Mid-Corporate group and VP & Head (Syndications) in SBI, New York
Branch.
 

He is an IAS Officer of 1990 batch. Presently posted as Additional Chief Secretary to 
Government of Madhya Pradesh in charge of Department of Finance.
He was educated as a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Kanpur (Bachelors) and IIT Delhi 
(Masters). He obtained a Degree of Masters of Public Policy from the School of Public Policy, 
George Mason University, USA in 2008. His interest there was Comparative Public Policy, 
especially comparison of various services related to citizens across different countries, major 
focus on USA and India.
He has handled various assignments of District Assignments for 13 years across many parts of
Madhya Pradesh. His other assignments include Mela Officer for Kumbh Mela at Ujjain, CMD 
of Discom, and Registrar of Aadhaar in 2010. He has worked very closely in farmers related 
work starting from growing of crops by farmers, supply of inputs and credit to farmers and 
procurement of his produce and support for marketing, in the departments of Food and Public 
Distribution, Cooperative, Land management, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. The main 
emphasis here has been to introduce new concepts, technology, design thinking and breaking 
away from the indifferent way of working in Government.
Outside the Government he runs a group involved in teaching people on avoiding Kidney 
Related Diseases

Sunil Kumar Reddy B is the Chief Executive Officer of Andhra Pradesh Centre for Financial 
Systems and Services (APCFSS), a non-profit company under the Finance Department of Andhra 
Pradesh, and also the Additional Secretary to the Finance Department (FAC), Govt. of A.P. 
The APCFSS lays a strong foundation for implementing robust public finance systems and works 
on enabling related services in the state of Andhra Pradesh. On behalf of the Finance Department, 
the APCFSS collaborates with various agencies, institutions, enterprises, and departments to help 
in establishing practices, processes, systems, and procedures that are sustainable, efficient, and 
effective.
The organization has created the Comprehensive Financial Management System (CFMS), an 
enterprise-level application, being designed, developed, and implemented by the APCFSS on 
behalf of the Finance Department. CFMS is one of its kind application in the domain of Public 
Finance Management by streamlining, standardizing, and integrating the processes involved in 
receipts and expenditure management, cash management and accounting, human capital 
management, works, and budgeting on a common platform. Further, the organization is working
with numerous departments such as Housing, Social Welfare, WDCW, HM&FW, GSWS, etc., 
in delivering sustainable services. 
As the CEO of APCFSS, he has addressed the government’s long-standing issue of capturing 
Digital Attendance through the Facial Recognition Solution (FRS) Application which delivers 
services to more than 17,00,000 individuals in the state. Further, rolled out the Works Module in 
Comprehensive Financial Management System (CFMS) and enhanced its functioning by 
decentralizing the activities, completely automated the Budgeting process in HERB, simplifying
the Group Insurance of Government employees in APGLI, and streamlining the Centralized 
Pension Scheme (CPS) process to name a few. All the initiatives have significantly benefited the 
public and reduced the time taken to process the services. Further, as the Additional Secretary of 
Finance (Budget), he ensured the successful outlaying of the Budget 2023 of Andhra Pradesh.
Before APCFSS, Sunil Reddy served as District Forest Officer in Chittoor and East Godavari 
Districts.

Shri Debashis Sen joined the IAS in 1985.  He got his Diploma in Public Administration from ENA, France.   

Shri Sen has served in various capacities including District Magistrate for more than five years, Chief Electoral Officer for five years and Secretary, Urban Development Deptt for seven years.

He is presently posted as the Managing Director, WBHIDCO which is a government company that is developing New Town, Kolkata.  He is also the Chairman of  NKDA and Sector-V.

Dr. Amar Patnaik is Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Odisha, representing the Biju Janata Dal. He is also the party’s national spokesperson and head of the party’s IT wing.
Before becoming an MP, Dr. Patnaik had a long and illustrious career in the Indian Civil Services and has served as a former Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS) officer under the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India and as the Principal Accountant General (PAG) of Sikkim, Odisha, West Bengal, and Kerala. Dr. Patnaik has also worked with the United Nations and the World Bank for global external audit assignments and has been the Team Leader of India’s External Audit Mission to several countries.
His academic qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Physics from St. Stephens college at Delhi University, an MBA in Finance and Systems from Xavier’s Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, and Master’s programme  in public management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was also British Chevening Gurukul Scholar in 2013 to pursue studies at London School of Economics. Dr Patnaik completed his Ph.D. from XIMB, Bhubaneswar. 
Dr. Patnaik has worked extensively on issues of power asymmetry in rural India, law, technology with an emphasis on privacy and data protection, corporate and government affairs, and environmental and climate concerns. 

I am an officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS) having joined the 
service in the year 1994. I have worked as the District Police Chief 
in seven districts of Haryana, including as Commissioner of Police, 
Gurgaon, which is a big cosmopolitan town, and part of the National 
Capital Region of Delhi. I have also headed a police training 
institute, supervised armed police battalions and headed a specialised 
crime unit. I was also deputed to the elite Central Bureau of 
Investigation for four years where I worked in a specialised crime 
unit and vigilance and internal affairs department. 
During these positions, I have had a long experience in strategic 
management, prevention and detection of crime, handling of law and 
order situations, detection of economic and cybercrime, dealing with 
human trafficking issues, human resource management, internal 
vigilance, skill development and training, community policing, traffic 
management, commanded armed police battalions and dealing with public 
grievances. 
I have attended various training programmes included eight weeks 
midcareer training programme in 2011 that was partly conducted in 
India and UK by Cambridge University, UK. 
At the field level, I have worked as the District Police Chief in 7 
districts of Haryana, including as Commissioner of Police, Gurgaon. I 
have had a a special interest in policing strategy, promoting use of 
technology in law enforcement, cybercrime and community policing. 
At the State Police Headquaters level, I was the ADGP (Law & Order) 
Haryana for three years from Feb 2019 to Jan 2022. In this role I had 
a key role in managing the state wide police operations, including 
during emergency situations like COVID, handled the conduct of 
multiple Parliament, State and Panchayat level elections in Haryana. 
 In my present role of Principal Secretary, Transport Department, 
Haryana I have multiple responsibilities: 
1. To supervise the working of Directorate of State Transport, that 
operates about 100 bus depots, sub depots and a fleet of about 4000 
passenger buses every day. 
2. To regulate the Transport Sector from policy perspective. 
3. To supervise the entire range of services to citizens in the field 
of Drivers licensing, Registration of Motor vehicles and various kinds of permits 
Specialties: 
Community Policing, Policing Strategy, Cybercrime, Economic Offences, IT in 
Police, Human Trafficking Issues, Conduct of Elections, Bus Transport Fleet 
Operations, Introduction of New Technology projects in Govt. & Bringing 
efficiency to Public Services delivery.

Having more than three decades of an illustrious career mostly as top brass in leading Government organizations in the 
field of IT & Electronics, Dr. Omkar Rai is a renowned technocrat who has held several key executive portfolios and he 
has not only been engaged in policy formulation in niche areas but is also actively involved in policy execution. Prior 
to joining as Executive Chairman of Startup Odisha, he was leading the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) as 
its Director-General (DG). An alumnus of the prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU) he earned his Doctorate in 
Statistics in 1991 from there. 
He has the credit for transforming and repositioning the STPI, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the 
Organization that he served as its topmost official i.e., DG for more than a decade (2010 t o 2021). He is acclaimed for 
making STPI a policy-driven, futuristic, self-reliant, and collaborative organization. Also, he has been a Development 
Commissioner for IT SEZs (2008-2011). He is seen as a pioneering technocrat who spearheaded SEZ policy in the IT 
sector. Dr. Rai is among the rare breed of technocrats who earns the unique distinction of working cohesively with key 
Industry players for the furtherance of the cause of Industrial growth. Respected widely in the Industry and across the 
board, he has vast and exhaustive experience with the IT/ESDM Industry, Startup Ecosystem, R&D organizations, and 
Institutes and organizations of global repute is an edge that reflects in his style of functioning and decision-making. 
He contributed significantly and vehemently pushed for the making of the National Policy on Software Products (NPSP), 
2019. Also, he is known for creating the Centres of Entrepreneurship (COEs), an initiative of STPI, in emerging 
technologies to make India self-reliant in technology products. An ardent protagonist of the software product nation, 
Dr. Omkar Rai has propelled the growth of the IT Industry and has worked for its expansion beyond metros. Prior to 
STPI, he worked with National Informatics Centre (NIC) from 1993 to 2006 in various capacities. Owing to his 
expertise, he served as Chairman, AIC STPINEXT INITIATIVE; Director on the Board of Directors of MTNL-STPI 
IT Services Limited (MSITS); National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI); Haryana State Electronics Development 
Corporation Limited (HARTRON) and a member of the Executive Council of Shri Vishwakarma Skill University for a 
long time. He is serving member of the Board of Governors (BoG) for the International Institute of Information 
Technology (IIIT) University, Bhubaneswar, and a member of the standing committee of the council of IIITs and 
coordination forum of IIITs (PPP) of MHRD, GoI. He is also the Chairman of the IT and ITeS Sectional Committee of
the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
Dr. Rai has to his credit several articles and opinion pieces in various leading journals, magazines, news websites, and 
national dailies including ET Government Portal, Financial Express, Business Line, Organiser, The Pioneer,
Millennium Post, Dataquest, ICTflash, The Telegraph, Orissa Post, etc. Dr. Rai’s articles on IT sectors in small cities, 
empowerment of local youth potential, India as a digitally empowered society and on Startup Yatra show his rootedness 
and concern for India’s youth and its scope on a global scale. He has expressed his views in over 200+ IT / ITeS/ ESDM
and startup-related events. Dr. Rai has led several delegations of Indian IT / ITeS / ESDM Industry and Startups to 
industries and innovation centers across the world. For his enormous contributions towards exemplifying the vision of 
Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in public fora, BHU has conferred Distinguished Alumnus Award on Dr. 
Rai. For his outstanding contributions to bringing transformative changes in IT Industry, GLA University has conferred
the D.Sc. (Honoris causa) upon Dr. Rai and Indian Express Group has accoladed him with the “Digital Icon” award.

1)    Mr Viplove Kurakula, is currently working as the Chief Strategy Officer for TSRTC and currently supporting the MD Mr. VC Sajjanar, IPS with new revenue generation initiatives. 
2)    Viplove is a passout from IIM Indore and has worked across profiles from B2B Sales, B2B Marketing, B2C Sales and B2C Marketing, handled P&L of more than 600 Crs. and has worked across Geographies like India, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
3)    He is instrumental in starting new initiatives in the corporation and added new verticals like Tourism, Waterbottle and Snackbox for TSRTC.

Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, is a highly skilled Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Maharashtra cadre of the 1996 batch. With over 27 years of experience, he has accomplished remarkable work in various government roles within Maharashtra.

Dr. Mukherjee has an impressive educational background, which includes an MBBS degree from Government Medical College, Nagpur, degrees/ certificates in Public Administration and Finance from Nagpur University, IIM Ahmedabad and the University of Toronto. In addition, he also possesses a CFA (Level 1) qualification. 

Dr. Mukherjee has shown a strong commitment to public service throughout his career. He has held significant assignments such as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of CIDCO, Additional Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai, Commissioner State Excise, Chairman of Nagpur Smart & Sustainable City Development Company Ltd, etc.. Currently, he serves as the Metropolitan Commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). His leadership in this role involves spearheading major infrastructure projects and his vision includes the development of world-class infrastructure, public transportation improvements, and promoting sustainable development in Mumbai. 

Dr. Mukherjee’s unique experience makes him one of the few IAS officers with tremendous exposure in varied aspects of Infrastructure, an example being his experience in two airport projects, namely the Navi Mumbai International Airport, which he revived, and the MIHAN project, which he designed. He was also the key person behind designing and project development of several key infrastructure projects of Mumbai, which include the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, the Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project, the Middle Vaitarna Project, to name a few. He has spearheaded the what would be arguably the largest housing  in the world, Urban Metro Transportation Projects and several City Development Projects, etc.

Dr. Mukherjee is renowned for his innovative and inclusive approach to governance and has been honoured with multiple awards. He has been recognized thrice by the GoI & UNESCO for his remarkable work in water management while he was the Additional Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai. His leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic also saw him awarded the "Corona Warrior Award" by the Commonwealth of Nations through the Commonwealth Association for Health & Disability -UK. He has also been honoured by news publications such as Navbharat, Sakal Group, Construction Times, and Lokmat, etc. for his commitment to improving the lives of Indian citizens. His dedicated career is a testament to his commitment to public service and the betterment of his country.

Key Career Milestones:
Dr. Mukherjee started his career as Assistant Collector U/T and is now Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA. Here are the key highlights of his career.
• Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA (Present Responsibility)
• Vice Chairman & MD, CIDCO 
• Chairman, Nagpur Smart & Sustainable City Development Company Ltd
• Secretary Medical Education, FDA & Cultural Affairs Department
• Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects), MCGM
•    Commissioner State Excise, Maharashtra

Vishal Kumar Dev is currently working as Principal Secretary to Govt., Finance Department, Government of Odisha. 

He graduated in 1990 with a Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU, Varanasi and obtained an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, India in 1992.  He worked for more than three years with prestigious organizations in the Corporate Sector before joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1996. In 2009, he took a 1 year sabbatical and obtained a Masters Degree in “Governance and Development” from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He has also completed an executive programme in leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA.

He has handled a number of important assignments during the last 25 years in the IAS, spanning a diverse range of sectors like district administration, urban development, industries, information technology, public financial management, sports and tourism. 

His work as Municipal Commissioner, Cuttack in the aftermath of 1999 Super Cyclone had received widespread appreciation. He is also recognised for his significant contribution to the development of Bhubaneswar as a major centre for IT/ITES Industry as well as to the development of industries in Odisha. He led the team responsible for successfully hosting the 22nd Asian Athletics Championship in July, 2017 and also the Men’s Hockey World Cup, 2018. Both the events received global appreciation. He played an instrumental role in making Bhubaneswar the “Sports Capital of India”. He also brought about a paradigm change in promotion and development of tourism in Odisha

Chian-Leng serves as the Head of APAC Product Delivery at Discover and has the regional responsibility for delivering payments products for its clients. His team of payment experts oversees the adoption of critical payments capabilities by Discover’s partners such as contactless and 3DS to reduce their payments risk and optimize acceptance. His team is also spearheading open loop transit adoption in Asia and has successfully deployed the technology in various markets such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. 

Chian-Leng has over 15 years of experience in payments and financial services. He has served in industry-leading organizations, including Worldpay and NTTdocomo where he undertook consultancy and leadership roles in growing ecommerce and mobile payments. 

Chian-Leng is effectively trilingual (English, Chinese, Japanese) and holds a Master’s degree from Keio University of Japan and a Bachelor’s degree from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
 

Shri Parrag Jain Nainuttia is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the Maharashtra Cadre 1996 Batch. 
He has completed B.Tech in Electric Engineering and  Diploma in Export Management.
In his illustrious career spanning over 26 years, Shri Parrag has held several important assignments in the Government of Maharashtra notable among them being Municipal Commissioner for Nanded-Vaghala City Municipal Corporation, Collector for Yavatmal District, Managing Director for Western Maharashtra Development Corporation, Additional Divisional Commissioner for Nashik Division, Managing Director for Maharashtra State Co-operative Tribal Development Corporation, Commissioner - Tribal Development, Director - Textile, Commissioner - Fisheries, CEO - Maharashtra State Maritime Board, Managing Director - Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, Special Commissioner - Sales Tax, Chairman & Managing Director - Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd., Secretary - Social Justice and Special Assistance Department, Principal Secretary (Textile) - Co-operation, Marketing & Textiles Department, 
Presently, he is working as Principal Secretary (Transport & Ports) - Home Department having additional charge as Principal Secretary - Information Technology Department. 

He is presently working as CEO, APIS, Department of ITE&C, Government of AP since August 2022. 
Work Experience:
He is from State Group-I Services - 2007 batch and rendered services for the Government of Andhra Pradesh since February 2007 in various capacities as:
1.    CEO, AP IT Academy (APITA) & AP Innovation Society 
2.    OSD to Special Chief Secretary to Chief Ministers Office, Govt of AP,
3.    OSD to Minister for IT, Industries and Skill Development, Govt of AP,
4.    Executive Director, AP State Skill Development Corporation, Govt of AP,
5.    Dy General Manager, OMCAP, Govt of AP
6.    Project Director, DRDA & DWMA- Krishna & Guntur Districts,
7.    Consultant for World Bank Projects
8.    Head Fund Raising – Credibility Alliance, New Delhi ( National Network of NGOs)
Education:
    General Management Programme from ISB, Hyderabad;
    Post-Graduation and Master in Philosophy from JNU, New Delhi;
    Bachelor’s Degree from Madras University and Schooling from Sainik School Korukonda;
    Post –Graduation Diploma in Governance from Central University, Hyderabad;
    Innovation Management from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. 
Achievements:
    APSSDC awarded “Best State in Skill Development” category institutional by ASSOCHAM for the last two consecutive years (2017 & 2018).
    AP secured No.1 position with highest employability skills as per the India Skill Report-2019 issued by CII, UNDP& Peoples strong. 
    As Project Director, DWMA for MGNREGS implementation, the Guntur District got 4th place in the State for implementation of the Project during 2012-13. 
    Meritorious District Officer of Kurnool. Guntur & Krishna districts
Trainings:
    Group -1, Foundational training at MCHRD, Hyderabad
    ILO Training at Central Institute for Research and Training in Employment Service (CIRTES) New Delhi
    National Career Service training at IIFT, New Delhi.
    Rural Management at Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) Gujarat.
Publications:
1.    Published a book on “Compendium on Employability Skills, Employment Opportunities and Entrepreneurship development”.
2.    Written an article on “Government Careers for Graduates” for the Hand book on “Career Guidance and Counseling” to be published by the SVU UEI & GB, Tirupathi.
3.    Published “Career Plus e-Magazine” (Quarterly) sent through e-Mails to more than 250 colleges and departments coming under Andhra University to guide the students on various employment opportunities available in different sectors.
4.    Brought out “APITA Annual Magazine “ covering various training programs among the Engineering and Degree Colleges.
5.    Presently doing e-Magazine on promoting “Start-ups in AP”.

Dr. L.P. Sharma is a Technology Scientist and is working in National Informatics Centre (NIC), Government of India for the last 30 years. He has done B.Tech in Electronics & Communication, Masters in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Technology from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. He has presented his research papers in prestigious United Nations Regional Conference in Thailand, World Conferences in Singapore, Canada and United States, besides many other national and international conferences. He has also published more than two dozen of his research publications in national & international journals.
He is presently Scientist-F and Senior Director (IT) in NIC and holds the charge of State Informatics Officer (Sikkim). As State Informatics Officer, he is leading a team of Senior Directors, Directors and other technical experts of NIC, Sikkim who are engaged in providing Internet Services, Video Conferencing services, e-Governance services, core banking services, various utility payment services, Cloud Computing Services, etc. for State & Central government offices in the state of Sikkim.
In recognition of his professional contributions he has received several accolades, including the National Scholastic Excellence Award, Best Technical Papers Award, Sikkim Information Technology Award, Sikkim Government Independence Day Award, Education Icon Award, NIC Media Award, Role Model of Society, and many other appreciations.
 

Shri Vikas Chandra Rastogi is an IAS officer of the 1995 batch, Maharashtra
Cadre.
Educational qualifications:
1. B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering), I.I.T., Delhi
2. M.Tech. (Energy Studies), I.I.T., Delhi
3. L.L.B., Mumbai University
4. Masters in International Development Policy, Duke University, USA.
He is presently working as the Principal Secretary, Higher& Technical
Education Department, Government of Maharashtra.
Previous assignments:
1. Assistant Collector, Arvi Sub Division, Dist. Wardha.
2. Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.), Zilla Parishad Aurangabad, Ahmednagar
and Parbhani.
3. Joint Commissioner, Sales Tax, Mumbai.
4. Collector, Ratnagiri District.
5. Joint Secretary to the Governor.
6. Secretary to the Governor.
7. Project Director, Maharashtra Project on Climate Resilient Agriculture.
8. Principal Secretary (IT), Government of Maharashtra
9. Principal Secretary, General Administration Department, Government of
Maharashtra.
He has successfully implemented several IT-related projects in the Govt. Of
Maharashtra – automation of all the process of Sales tax department from
registration, filing of returns, assessment, payments and refunds, knowledge
management system in the Collectorate of Ratnagiri district, implementation of
e-office and digitization of archives in Maharashtra Rajbhavan and the creation
of the digital platform for Agriculture department of Maharashtra.
His hobbies are running, trekking, cycling, badminton and has participated
in 3 full marathons and 8 half-marathons.
 

Dr Pradeep Kumar is an IFS Officer and currently heads the Forest and Environment Department of Government of Sikkim as Secretary, Forest and Environment Department. Prior to this he worked in Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as Deputy Director General where he has worked extensively on payment systems involving Aadhaar like AEPS ( Aadhaar Enabled Payment Systems) and ABP (Aadhaar Payment Bridge) and technical and administrative aspects of Aadhaar seeding in banks. He holds a B.Tech Degree in Civil Engineering from IIT, BHU, M.Tech in Structural Engineering from IIT BHU and PhD in carbon pool modelling using Remote Sensing and GIS based approaches. He is professionally trained in climate change and carbon markets from the top global schools. His current interests are use of policy innovation, technology and finance for greening the planet.

Schooling : Bishop Cotton Girls School, Bangalore.

Pre University : Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

Higher Education: MBBS - Sri Adichundhanagiri Medical College.
Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration  (PGDHA) ISSR, Vellore.
MBA – Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

Details of Service rendered:

IAS- 2012 Batch:

Served as SDM Chikkaballapur, Chikkamagaluru, GM-KUIDFC, Commissioner - Food and Civil Supplies, Director - WCD,  Managing Director-NULM,  Managing Director -NHM and also served as Special Officer, COVID-19 Surveillance & COVID Vaccination. Currently  as  Commissioner of Treasuries since December 2022. 
 

Shri Kshitij Saxena is an IFS officer of 2019 batch and is currently working as Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), holding charge of Gyalshing and Soreng Territorial Divisions under the Department of Forest and Environment, Government of Sikkim. Prior to this, he had worked as an Assistant Conservator of Forests (ACF), Chungthang Territorial Sub-Division for one and a half years.
He holds a B.E. Degree in Electronics and Instrumentation and MSc. in Physics from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. He is also pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law and Policy from NLU, Delhi via online mode.
He is professionally trained in forest administration and is a self-taught climate finance enthusiast who aims to make a difference through actionable interventions in the field as a young public servant. His current interests include climate change, carbon finance, and blockchain.
 

Born on 14.7.1983. Did B.E  in  Mechanical  Engineering from  Jabalpur  Engineering  College  and  M.A   (Pub.Pol). Selected for Indian Administrative Service in 2010 and was allotted MP cadre.  Served  as  Assistant  Collector  Singrauli, SDO Revenue Multai, Chief Election Officer Zila Panchayat Betul/Harda, Additional Collector Harda, District Collector Alirajpur/Sehore, Deputy Secreta ry Jail, OSD  Finance Department  GoMP, Bhopal

Assumed    the    charge    of    Managing    Director,    Madhya
Pradesh    Madhya    Kshetra    Vidyut    Vitaran    Company    Limited, Bhopal on 12.4.2021.
 

Dr. Kamal Preet singh is an IAS officer of 2002 batch, Chhattisgarh. He started his carrier as the SDM, Kondagaon in bastar. He was posted in various capacities such as Municipal Commissioner, CEO Zila Panchayat Collector Koriya and Surguja, Director Health Services, CEO RSBY Controller- Food & Drugs, Director Instituional Finance, Director Budget (Finance), Director- Treasury, Accounts & Pension, Secretary- Commerce & Industries Dept,Finance Department, Department of Transport, Food Civil Supply & Consumer Protection and School Education.
Dr. kamal Preet Singh is presently posted as Secretary, Agriculture Production Commissioner & Secretary, GAD Government of Chhattisgarh.
As Director Health Services, Dr. kamal Preet singh executed launch of 102 mobile ambulance services in State and as CEO RSBY executed rollout of Universal Health Insurance Schemes in the State. 
Dr. kamal Preet Singh handled closure phase of European Union State partnership Program and supported clearance of PPP and out sourcing projects. Some of Project include 30 year PPP agreement of model School with D.A.V., Jagdalpur Police Hospital, outsourcing of nursing services and teaching services. He also supported financial inclusion efforts in LWE districts & worked extensively of the opening of bank branches and other facilities in such areas. 
 

Mr. Siddique is an IAS officer of Tamil Nadu Cadre belonging to the batch of 1995. 
He has served in various capacities in the Government of Tamil Nadu and Government of 
India. He is currently working as Managing Director, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
since June 2022.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Technology in Electronics and Communications
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.
With a service record of over 22 years, Mr. Siddique has gained expertise in public finance, 
policy making and public administration. In Government of Tamil Nadu, he served as SubCollector, Sivakasi, Virudhunagar district from 1997-1998 and had subsequently joined 
the Finance department as the Under Secretary to Government in 1998 and worked as
Deputy Secretary in Finance Department from 1999 to 2002, acting as the Budget Officer 
of the State Government. He served as District Collector of Dharmapuri District between 
2002 and 2004 and in Sivaganga District from 2006 to 2007. He held the post of 
Director of Museums for two years from 2004 and 2006 and that of Commissioner of 
Archives and Historical Research for three years between 2014 and 2017. He held the 
post of Principal Secretary (Expenditure), Finance Department from 2017 to 2019, 
Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, from 2019 to 2021, Commissioner of Revenue 
Administration from December 2021 before taking the current role of Managing Director 
of CMRL in June 2022.
In Government of India, Mr. Siddique worked as Director in Department of
Expenditure for a year in 2008-2009 and worked in two key ministries of Home and
Finance for five years between 2009 and 2014.
Mr. Siddique is a lover of badminton sport. He has officiated as Senior Team Manager for 
Indian Badminton team to All England Championship and Swiss Open in 2015and has 
been in Governing Council for Premier Badminton League in 2016

Shri Manas Ranjan Panda is currently working as Special Secretary, Electronics & IT Department, Government of Odisha & Managing Director, Odisha Computer Application Centre, the Electronics & IT Directorate of Government of Odisa.

At present, the Initiatives like implementation  4 new policies, namely IT Policy, Electronics Policy, Data Centre Policy and BPO Policy, O-CHIP Programme Odisha for AI programme building city AI clusters and IT & ESDM Industry Promotion & facilitations and other Programs of Electronics & IT  Department, Government of Odisha are being looked after under his direct supervision.

Prior to the current role he was the Director of Software Technology Parks of India,(STPI), Bhubaneswar Jurisdiction  under Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India which is responsible for promoting exports of Software & Services from the  State of Odisha, Bihar & Jharkhand.

Graduated in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and backed by Management degree, Shri Panda was played a phenomenal role in bringing blue-chip IT companies to Bhubaneswar and contributed significantly in the growth of the State.

Under his dynamic leadership, the IT sector have grown manifold and attained new heights in terms of revenue, exports & Infrastructure fronts and achieved many more accomplishments in terms of creating an enabling ecosystem for Starups, setting up of Centre of  Entrepreneurship (CoE), Next Generation Incubation and creating an Innovation led entrepreneurship in the State. 
 
He is the main architect of creating High Speed Data Communication Network of STPI which caters more than 100 Corporate with Bandwidth more than 1 Gbps capacity today. 
 
Under his visionary leadership, number of new initiatives were conceptualized like Bhubaneswar City Wi Fi Project which has been a major tool in SMART city initiatives. He has taken lead role for setting up of new STPI centers  in Odisha, Jharkhand & Bihar. Setting up of  CoEs like Electropreneur Park, Augmented and Virtual Reality (VARCoE),  CoE in Emerging Tech (Industry 4.0) at Setting up of Tier III Data center, FAB Lab was become possible due to his sustained efforts.  

Shri Panda is a great motivator, his acumen of pro-activeness, Co-operate & complimentary approach, Pleasant and calm personality have made him a good leader and become extreme popular among IT Industries & Government.

Sanghamitra Ghosh is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of the 1997 batch, belonging to the West Bengal Cadre.

In her 24-year career, she has served in various capacities across the State.  She has been the District Magistrate and Collector of South 24 Parganas and Howrah, two of the biggest and most populous districts of the State.  She headed the National Health Mission in the State for 5 years.  Her tenure saw an enormous growth in the health infrastructure and services in the field of Maternal and Child Health.  She is currently the Principal Secretary of the Women & Child Development and Social Welfare Department of the Government of West Bengal and is responsible for helming several of the State’s flagship schemes on social security.

The Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development 
Corporation (an undertaking of the Department of Science & Technology, 
Government of Madhya Pradesh), Shri Abhijeet Agrawal, IAS was born on 
2/06/1981. Shri Abhijeet Agrawal is B.Tech in Material Science & Engineering from 
IIT, Kanpur. 
He is an officer of more than 13 years of experience in the Indian 
Administrative Service and served in various districts in the capacity as Chief 
Executive Officer in Zila Panchayats, District Collector in Tikamgarh & Sheopur 
districts, Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Managing Director - Madhya Pradesh State 
Civil Supplies Corporation, Commissioner - Treasury & Accounts, Project Director –
State Wide Area Network & State Data Centre, MPSEDC and Deputy Secretary in
Finance and Science & Technology departments and Director-State Computer 
Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). 
Besides being the Managing Director of M.P. State Electronics Development 
Corporation, he is also Managing Director - Bhopal Electronics Manufacturing Park 
Limited, Jabalpur Electronics Manufacturing Park Limited, Executive Director - State 
Agency for Public Services (SAPS) under the Department of Public Services 
Management & Mission Director - Integrated Social Security Mission (SAMAGRA)
under the Department of Social Security Mission and Disabled Welfare, Government 
of Madhya Pradesh.
He is also a Director in the Board of Directors of M/s. MPOnline Limited [A 
Joint Venture Company between Government of Madhya Pradesh and M/s. Tata 
Consultancy Services (TCS)