Resource Persons
GARIMA Gupta
Project Coordinator of the Employment Generation Program at Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) Bharat, looking into livelihood projects in Delhi and Bareilly . She holds a Master in Social Work from University of Lucknow & Masters in Philosophy from University of Kanpur . Before joining SEWA Bharat she worked with Association for Stimulating Know How ( ASK ) as a trainer.
garima16gupta@gmail.com
Makarand Bakore
Originally from Mumbai. Worked in the corporate sector for three years before joining CCS as a Research Associate. Was involved with research and advocacy in the areas of governance and education at CCS. Studied engineering, management and political science. Currently working with a non-profit group called Right to Information Analysis and Assessment Group that is studying the functioning of the Right to Information Act. Planning on joining the legal profession after getting the LL.B degree this May.
m.bakore@gmail.com
Deepak Menon
A Chartered Accountant by profession and a partner for over 20 years with J.P., Kapur & Uberai, a professional accounting firm in Delhi. He specialises in international taxation, cross-border taxation, transfer pricing, expat & inpat taxes and direct taxes. A Toastmaster since August 2002 and have been a President of the Toastmasters Club of New Delhi and presently the Lt. Governor Education & Training (LGET) for District 82.
District 82 presently comprises of about 140 Toastmasters Clubs in India and Sri Lanka and is administered by the District Governor, LGET and LGM assisted by 9 Division Governors and 32 Area Governors. Our District was rated the best District in the world in 2007-2008 by Toastmasters International, USA .
deepakmenon20@gmail.com
Karuna Madan
A journalist with about 13 years of news media experience which includes working with a English newspaper (The Pioneer), a news agency (PTI), one news magazine (India News), four television channels (Doordarshan, Sahara Samay, MH1 News and India News) and state radio, All India Radio (General Overseas Services). I have around 500 bylines to my credit which include political, developmental and business reports in English and Hindi. She has done her graduation in Journalism (Hons) from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce.
karunamadan@gmail.com
Mohammad Jamal
Manager -International volunteering at iVolunteer for almost 3 years. He has done his MSW from Jamia Milia, New Delhi .
jamal@ivolunteer.org.in
Komal Arora
Relationship Manager, iVolunteer Centres for almost 2 years. She has done her Masters in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College , New Delhi .
delhi@ivolunteer.org.in
Santosh
A trainer at Parivartan, a Delhi based citizens' movement trying to ensure a just, transparent and accountable governance. She worked for an NGO called Action India before joining Parivartan. Living in the same community where Parivartan works, Santosh has a strong feel of the pulse of the people.
parivartan_india@rediffmail.com san_parivartan@yahoo.co.in
Jarnail Singh & Smita John Marcus
Research Associates, ‘Lighting a Billion Lives Campaign' of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
jarnails@teri.res.in smarcus@teri.res.in
Prashant Narang
He is a Second year Law student at Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi . Founding member of a Delhi based Liberal Youth group Prabodh as well as the Liberal Youth Forum, India (LYF-India), He is also currently Vice-President (Programs) Liberal Youth South Asia (LYSA), a Network of Youth organisations in the sub continent. For past three years, he has been actively engaged in issues like RTI, Public transport, Park Management and Free livelihood through workshops and theatre.
prashantnarang@yahoo.com
Anjali Pandey
A Senior Programme Officer with Indraprastha Public Affairs Centre (IPAC). A Political Science (Hons) from Miranda House, DU and holds Masters in Journalism from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre. She has performed different roles with different organisations ranging from correspondent with The Times of India, Project Team Leader for a pilot project with the World Bank, coordinator with the Rights of the girl child campaign, Editor-art and culture for a Japanese portal and more.
anjali@ipacindia.org
RajshrI Sen
Regional Program Officer (South Asia), of The Resource Alliance based in New Delhi . She works closely with the Regional Representative and Programme Director to develop, expand and strengthen the programme in the South Asia region. A post graduate in Economics, Rajshri has had a varied career ranging from academics, business to the non profit sector.
rajshri@resource-alliance.org
Jeroninio (Jerry) Almeida
Founder and Chief Volunteer of iCONGO, Indian Confederation of NGOs. He previously worked as the Chief Executive and Director, International Fundraising, of ActionAid India Society, after giving up a successful corporate career, which included founding a media and entertainment start-up "Lucky Star Entertainment Ltd". One of the pioneers to use entertainment formats like movies, music albums & videos, TV serials, events and out of the box ideas through cause related marketing to mainstream the cause he has consistently used the media effectively to sensitise people about social issues including the popular Page 3 campaign with The Times Foundation that caught people attention and made them aware of various issues and invisible communities.
jeroninio@icongo.in
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder and Director of Tekriti Software. He holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He has travelled across the world and has worked in three different geographies ( India , Singapore and USA ). He has a rich technical experience at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond , USA . At Microsoft, Ashish was involved with the development of different products like Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft Windows codenamed Longhorn. Over time, Ashish has acquired deep understanding for technologies and their collaboration with business processes. Ashish is a sports enthusiast and loves playing cricket and table tennis. Ashish maintains his blog at ww.latestinindia.com
ashish@tekritisoftware.com
Yavnika Khanna
Yavnika Khanna is Associate Manager at an international integrated marketing firm, Solutions Digitas. Besides a corporate career, Yavnika Khanna has been involved with several civil society initiatives both in the capacity of founder and facilitator.
She along with her younger brother have been running a self motivated Initiative- "Vatsalaya: Awareness through Art" since 2002. She is the founder member of Liberal Youth Forum of India, which promotes values of liberty and responsibility. She has also founded CBS Alumni Association, and serves as the Secretary of the same. She has represented India at numerous prestigious international forums across 4 continents. She has been closely associated with Centre for Civil society since 2003 as a particpant/resourceperson for LSS, ALSS, CFW, Internship and is editor of CCS's eCatalyst.
yavnika@gmail.com
Parth J Shah
Founder President of Centre for Civil Society (CCS). Parth received his B Pharm from M S University, Baroda , and Ph D in economics (with an emphasis on Austrian Political Economy) from Auburn University in the USA . He taught economics at the University of Michigan at Dearborn before returning to India to start the Centre for Civil Society in 1997.He has conceptualised and organised liberal educational programs for the Indian youth including Liberty & Society Seminars, Jeevika Livelihood Documentary Competition, and Researching Reality Internship Program.
Parth is on the editorial board of Education World , Vishleshan, and Khoj, and is informal advisor to many non-profits. He has taken liberal ideas to numerous national and international workshops and conferences and writes regularly in the popular media. He is the youngest Indian member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
parth@ccs.in
Baladevan Rangaraju
Associate Director of the School Choice Campaign, CCS's flag ship program. He has a wealth of leadership experience as an entrepreneur and a school leader before joining CCS. While as an entrepreneur he has set up an adventure tourism outfit that his partner now manages, his knowledge of how the education system of the country works comes from his having been a school administrator. A recent initiative of his to utilize his expertise has been to start a charitable primary school to provide modern education opportunities to the children of a poor Muslim village near Delhi
He is passionate about bringing equitable quality education to all and acts as a resource person for education related public policy discussions in the main stream media as well as in other forums. He is also an informal advisor to many schools.
bala@ccs.in
Swati Chawla
She is a graduate of the Liberty , Art & Culture Seminar, Delhi 2004; and has since then been taking sessions at CCS seminars and following up with graduates. She is also a mentor for British Council's 'Beyond Borders' project and a Research Associate for Dhriiti's 'Ek Naya Aasman' project. She has recently been appointed the Regional Coordinator for Asia for Glocal Youth Parliament (Glocal Forum). She is currently doing her masters in Literature from Delhi University and is also a short story writer.
swati@ccs.in
Anutasha Chakravarti
Program Assistant at CCS. Had also worked as a Profiling Coordinator as a part of volunteering activity at CCS. She is history graduate from Lady Shri Ram College New Delhi.
anutasha@ccs.in
Amit Chandra
Program Associate with Centre for Civil Society. He graduated in Commerce and post graduated in Social Work from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University , Varanasi . He has been participant in "International Youth Exchange Program - 2007". He worked for campus and community radio of Guelph University , Canada , and hosted a show spreading the awareness about the availability of various social services in the city. He also worked at grass rout level with "Society for Promotion of Youth and Masses", Hathin, Haryana for assessment of micro financial status of self help groups of women. He is also a Think Tank MBA from Atlas Foundation, USA . He was recently invited for an international conference for networking of think tanks at Niagara on Lake , Canada.
amit@ccs.in
Manoj Mathew
Program Manager of CCS, responsible for the youth reachout, volunteer moblisation and coordinates ‘Jeevika' the Livelihood Documentary Film Festival. A commerce graduate from St. Xavier's College Calcutta and has a diploma in computer programming. Prior to joining CCS, he was the Asian Coordinator and then as the Secretary General of the International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), a student organisation present in over 80 countries, recognised with the Special Consultative Status of the United Nations-ECOSOC (Economic and Social Commission). He was based in Manila and Paris for seven years; he has organised & facilitated programs and did representation in 34 countries.
manoj@ccs.in |
