Natalia Agapitova, Rwitwika Bhattacharya, GV Sanjay Reddy, Vidyavathi Vaidyanathan | #SkollWF
Speakers
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Joint secretary, Government of India
I work for the government of India and Am a part of the Indian administrative service. I have completed 25 years in government. I have handled assignments in a variety of positions including women and child development, rural development , health, personnel etc. I have also done a stint in the world bank group. My stints include both at the state and federal government including at the prime ministers office
My areas of interest include governance, human resource management and women related issues.
I am an Eisenhower fellow of 2015. My areas of focus are leadership, performance management and learning
My interests include reading and travel. I enjoy reading history and political thought
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VICE CHAIRMAN, GVK EMRI
G V Sanjay Reddy is the Vice Chairman of GVK (www.gvk.com), a conglomerate with interests
in Energy, Airports, Transportation, Resources, Real Estate, Hospitality and Life Sciences. He was instrumental in making GVK the largest private airport operator in India, by owning, developing and operating the Mumbai and Bengaluru airports, which handle over 50 million passengers per year. He founded GVK Biosciences, which is one of Asia’s largest contract research organizations employing more than 2000 scientists. He is involved with GVK EMRI 108 service (www.emri.in), which is the world’s largest ambulance service offered free of cost to over 800 million people across India and having saved more than one million lives until date. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is an active contributor to the industry and the community through leadership positions at premier forums:
-Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum
-Chairman of the National Committee on Infrastructure at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), India’s premier business association
-Chairman of Association of Private Airport Operators (APAO)
-Founder Chairman of Young Indians
-Member, Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) & Chief Executives Organization (CEO)
-Member of the InnovationXchange Committee, Government of Australia
-Trustee of the Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art
-Member of the Capital Committee of the state of Andhra Pradesh
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Chief Executive Officer, Swaniti
Rwitwika Bhattacharya is the CEO for Swaniti Global, a social enterprise that ensures access to basic services for the most vulnerable by strengthening public service ecosystem. As CEO, she focuses on developing long-term growth strategies and formulating key partnerships. Prior to Swaniti, Bhattacharya was working at the World Bank as an Associate on Labor Market Issues. She has worked with firms like UNFPA and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. She has a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor's in Economics and Political Science from Wake Forest University. Bhattacharya is Forbes India's 30 under 30, Fortune 40 under 40 and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She has published multiple books, including, "What Makes a Politician" (Harper Collins).
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Program Lead, innovation Labs, World Bank Group
Natalia Agapitova is Senior Program Officer at the World Bank Group where she leads the Social Enterprise Innovations program. Natalia has joined the World Bank Group in 2002 after spending three years working for a Russian investment company in the midst of the 1998 financial crisis, and working as a lecturer and researcher in Economics at the University of Poitiers, France. Natalia has first-hand experience in using science, technology and innovation as tools to bring inclusive and sustainable growth to the developing world. During her work at the World Bank, Natalia has played a key role in advising countries in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, South America and South Asia on how to build science, technology and innovation capacity. Natalia also worked on a broad range of issues related to capacity development and results agenda, and is one of the main authors of the Capacity Development and Results Framework that is used by World Bank teams and clients for design and M&E of capacity development programs. Natalia has published numerous papers on economic development. Natalia earned a Master (D.E.A.) and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Poitiers, and Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Perm State University (Russia).
