DELEGATES I
FIRST COLLOQUIUM
DELEGATES III
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
DELEGATES
DELEGATES II
Ruth Gee
United Kingdom
Regional Director, British Council. India and Sri Lanka. She joined British Council in 2000. Her previous career in the UK was concentrated in the world of education and training within schools, colleges and the university sector. She acquired a reputation nationally as a strong advocate of equal opportunity and diversity. She served ten years as Vice Chair of both the Basic Skills Agency and the Consumers’ Association.
Frederico Campos Guanais de Aguiar
Brazil
Head of the International Cooperation Office at the National School of Public Administration in Brasília-Brazil, which builds capacity for public policy management within the government. He was Special Adviser and Chief of Staff to the Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger, the unit in charge of poverty reduction policies, including the conditional cash transfer Bolsa Familia program.
Anil Gupta
India
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation and Founder of Honey Bee Network. At the forefront of social innovation in India, he works in the area of expanding global, national and local space for grassroots inventors and innovators. Received the Padma Shri in 2004 for achievements in management education.
Dipankar Gupta
India
A social anthropologist who specialises on the structure of society and social change in India and questions of race and caste. Was professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Was awarded the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies in 2004.
Mike Hardy
United Kingdom
Programme Leader, Intercultural Dialogue, British Council, UK. The Council’s work in intercultural dialogue represents over 45 per cent of its overall work. In previous work, Mike has directed British Council’s work in international development, education and training. He was awarded the OBE in 2000. Prior to British Council, Mike was an academic economist.
Anne Harrop
United Kingdom
Director of Policy & Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Anne Harrop joined the Foundation in 2002 from the Cabinet Office, where she was responsible for supporting government departments to develop evidence-based policy making. Anne worked as deputy head of the Social Research Branch at the Department for Work and Pensions before joining the Cabinet Office.
K N Jahangir
India
Director, International Collaborations Division, Indian Council for Social Science Research. The organisation invests significant time and energy in developing collaborative links with social scientists, social science organizations and academic institutions in India and overseas.
Devi Kar
India
Member of the Round Table on School Education by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, to discuss ideas to improve school education in India. She has been in school education since 1969 and is Principal and Secretary of Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata. Her special interest areas are evaluation in teaching and learning; open learning and continuing education; globalisation and cultural identity; ethics and education and media literacy.
S Jalaja
India
Secretary (Health), Govt of India. Heads ‘Ayush’ programme on alternative medicine. She has held various senior positions in the state governments of Bihar and Kerala as well as Government of India, including Principal Secretary (Urban Development); Secretary (Mines and Mines Commissioner), Bihar and Joint Secretary, National Human Rights Commission.
Renana Jhabvala
India
President, Self Employed Women's Association Bharat (SEWA), an NGO. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. Has been on the Task Force on Workers in Unorganised Sector, Government of Madhya Pradesh and Chairperson, Group on Women Workers and Child Labour, National Commission on Labour, Government of India.
Gerard Lemos
United Kingdom
Chair, British Council. Leads the research team at Lemos&Crane. He is the author of numerous books and reports about social policy and is currently writing a book about social welfare in China. He has written a series of books and reports about supporting vulnerable people. He received a CMG in 2001 for services to the British Council.
Dileep Mavalankar
India
Associate Professor, Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Adviser to key academic and government organisations and NGOs on issues of hygiene and public health. He has worked as consultant to many agencies including Columbia University, WHO, UNICEF, UNDP/World Bank and the Aga Khan Foundation.
