SPEAKERS

Commissioner – cum-Secretary Women and Child Development Department. She previously served as DM and District Collector of Malkangiri and Keonjhar districts. Her experience includes strengthening people’s institutions, policy and scheme implementation, gender, poverty and rights issues across many sectors.

Mr. Das is a Senior Rural Development Specialist the World Bank. His current passion is to rejuvenate the intrinsic entrepreneurial zeal of women entrepreneurs and catalyse business ecosystem development for women led enterprises.

Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Maharashtra. His academic background is in economics and he has worked extensively with the World Bank and several UN agencies. He has also worked as the Principal Secretary for Revenue and Forests Department

Shri. Soti currently serves Planning Secretary, Chhattisgarh. He is preparing a micro-village plan under VidhayakAdarsh Gram Yojana that will benefit different sections of society.

Currently serving as the Chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority, Mr. Bagchi an entrepreneur and business leader who  co-founded ‘Mindtree’, a multinational information technology and outsourcing company headquartered in Bengaluru.

Currently serving as the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in India, Mr. Afansiev has spent over 14 years working with microfinance and has been posted in various disaster and conflict duty stations.

Ms. Dash is an Indian entrepreneur and filmmaker, and the CEO of the World Woman Foundation. She is an ardent advocate for social entrepreneurship, democracy building and leadership development for women.

ShriPradeep Kumar Jena is currently working as Principal Secretary, Water Resources & Electronics & Information Technology Department, Govt. of Odisha. and he is known for his unconventional ideas & industry-savvy approach is a result oriented top mandarin.

Ms. Baskey is a B.Com student at K.I.S.S who has been actively involved with the Kalinga Fellowship.

Ms. Murmu is a B. Sc. (Chemistry) student at K.I.S.S who has been actively involved with the Kalinga Fellowship. She was also selected as a member of the 2016 Ashoka Youth Venture Workshop for her NGO initiative ‘Parivartan’, through which she tirelessly campaigns for gender equality.