Policy Pioneers Program · India House
FACULTY AND SPEAKERS
Policy Pioneers is taught by people who do the work. Our faculty and speakers come from government and the civil services, from NITI Aayog and regulatory bodies, from the United Nations and multilateral institutions, from leading Indian and global universities, and from think tanks, industry and the development sector.
The pool
PRACTITIONERS, RESEARCHERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
70 faculty and speakers across all six specializations
Aakash Guglani
Senior Manager, Digital India Foundation
Abhishek Jain
Fellow and Director, Green Economy and Impact Innovations, CEEW
Abinash Dash
Director, Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, NITI Aayog
Aishani Rai
Senior Manager, Aapti Institute
Alka Upadhyaya
Former Secretary, National Commission for Minorities; IAS (Retd., 1990)
Ananthalakshmi Adinarayanan
Co-Founder, Anaadi Foundation
Anil Agrawal
Former Member, Competition Commission of India
Anita Kumar
Director, Policy Insights and Research, Janaagraha
Ankit Todi
Chief Sustainability Officer, Mahindra Group
Anuj Gupta
Managing Director, India, BowerGroupAsia
Anurag Mairal
Adjunct Professor, Stanford School of Medicine
Apurv Kumar Mishra
Consultant, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Arjun Dutt
Senior Programme Lead, CEEW Green Finance Centre
Ashok Kumar
Vice Chancellor, Sports University Haryana; Former DGP, Uttarakhand
Avik Sarkar
Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Faculty
Bharti Singhla
Principal, Momentum Capital
Deepika Kinhal
Co-founder and CEO, CORD
Devika Malik
Research Group Member, Centre for AI and Digital Public Policy
Dr. A. Venkat Raman
Dean, FMS Delhi
Dr. Anurag Shukla
Director, Education (Policy), Brhat
Dr. Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Senior Associate, LSE Trade Policy Hub; Fellow, NITI Aayog
Dr. Basavaraju R. Shreshta
Executive Director, GRAAM
Dr. Dinesh Arora
Principal Health Specialist, Asian Development Bank
Dr. Gulshan Rai
Distinguished Fellow, VIF and ORF; Former Director, CERT-In, MeitY
Dr. Harsh Parikh
Assistant Professor, Yale University
Dr. J. P. Narayan
Founder, Foundation for Democratic Reforms and Lok Satta Party; Ex-IAS
Dr. Nomesh Bolia
Founder, Public Systems Lab, IIT Delhi
Dr. Payal Seth
Lead Economist and Head, Centre of Data for Economic Decision-Making, Pahle India Foundation
Dr. Pritam Banerjee
Head, Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT, Department of Commerce
Dr. R. Balasubramaniam
Member, NITI Aayog; Former Member, HR, Capacity Building Commission
Dr. R. S. Sharma
Former CEO, National Health Authority; Former Chairman, TRAI
Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Chairman, Pahle India Foundation
Dr. Rajiv Vasudevan
Founder and CEO, Apollo AyurVAID
Dr. Ram Kumar Kakani
Vice Chancellor, RV University
Dr. Santosh Moses
Partner, Health Transformation, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Dr. Sudha Chandrashekar
Senior Consultant, The World Bank
Erik Solheim
Former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; Former Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
Jayraj Pandya
ESG Manager, European Energy
K. M. Gopakumar
Legal Advisor, Third World Network
Kamal Madishetty
Assistant Professor, Rashtram School of Public Leadership
Kunal Apastamb
Former Chief Minister Fellow, Government of Gujarat
Mathew George
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Central University of Kerala
Maya Sherman
Senior AI Advisor and Researcher, GPAI-OECD; Innovation Attaché, Embassy of Israel in India
Mihir Mathur
Founder Director, Dharinya Systems Change
Mohit Choube
Senior Project Consultant, Government and Public Services, EY
Neha Kumari
Mission Director, Gujarat State Electronics Mission, Gandhinagar
Padma Shri M. K. Sridhar
President, CESS, Bengaluru
Prof. Ambuj Sahu
Assistant Professor, SASTech, Rishihood University
Prof. Indranil Mukhopadhyay
Jindal Journal of Public Policy
Prof. James J. Nedumpara
Professor and Head, Centre for Trade and Investment Law, IIFT
Prof. Rajat Sharma
Chairperson, Marketing Area, IIM Ahmedabad
Prof. Satish Y. Deodhar
Dean (Faculty), IIM Ahmedabad
Raghav Krishna
Founder and CEO, Brhat
Rahul Garg
Vice President, ConveGenius.AI
Ravi Pokharna
Executive Director, Pahle India Foundation
Rovin Pushp
State Head, Think Tac
Sahil Aggarwal
CEO, Rishihood University
Sakshi Abrol
DAAD Scholar; Visiting Fellow, Pahle India Foundation
Sameer Shisodia
Ecosystem Fellow; Former CEO, Rainmatter Foundation
Sangeeta Godbole
Visiting Professor, J S Business School; Former IRS
Sanjeev Nandwani
Former Additional Director General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
Sh. Gauranga Das
Member, ISKCON Governing Body Commission
Shyam Krishnakumar
Founder and Executive Director, The Pranava Institute
Smit Gade
Senior Director, Data and Research, Good Business Lab
Sridhar Rajagopalan
Co-Founder, Educational Initiatives Group
Srutanjay Narayanan
Deputy Secretary to Government (Protocol), Public Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
Subhashini Rajasekaran
Senior Education Specialist, World Bank
Sumanta Chaudhuri
IAS (Retd., 1985); International Trade Specialist; Former Additional Chief Secretary and Director General, ATI, West Bengal
Suparna Diwakar
Mentor, Sewa International
Vasudha Chakravarthy
Founder Director, Development Solutions
APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN FOR THE WINTER COHORT
December 2026 to April 2027. Phase II closes 27 September 2026.