Amit Yadav is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1991 batch from the AGMUT cadre. He currently serves as Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), Government of India, where he oversees key initiatives aimed at promoting social equity, inclusion, and empowerment of marginalized communities.

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Born on November 2, 1965, Mr. Yadav holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry, an LL.B., and an M.B.A. His diverse educational background complements his administrative expertise, enabling him to lead programs that integrate legal, social, and economic perspectives.

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Fluent in English and Hindi, Mr. Yadav brings over three decades of administrative experience and a deep commitment to advancing social justice and inclusive governance in India.

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Mr Amitabh Kant is presently G20 Sherpa of India during its Presidency year. He was CEO, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)- the Govt of India’s premier policy Think Tank & prior to that Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion. Amitabh Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 Batch).

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He is the author of “Branding India – An Incredible Story” , Incredible India 2.0 and has edited The Path Ahead "Transformative Ideas for India" and has been a key driver of “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and “God’s Own Country” initiatives which positioned and branded India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities – infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding.

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Till March, 2016 Amitabh Kant was posted as Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) – Government of India. He has worked as Secretary, Tourism, Kerala, Joint Secretary, Tourism, Govt of India, District Collector, Kozhikode & CEO, Delhi- Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

Amitabh Nag is the CEO of Digital India’s BHASHINI Division and Director at Digital India Corporation, leading the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) — a flagship initiative to eliminate language barriers across India. He also oversees the India Dataset Platform (AI Kosha) and the applications development initiative under the IndiaAI Mission.

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With over 30 years of experience across business management, sales, marketing, and IT project execution, he has driven major digital transformation programs in leadership roles at Coforge, HP Inc., and TCS.

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Amitabh has been featured in Forbes India & Accel’s “Top 30 Indian Minds in AI,” AIM 100’s “Most Influential Global Leaders in AI,” and MIT Sloan Management Review India’s “100 Most Influential People in Tech and Innovation.” His awards include the Digital Trailblazer Award (Express Computer), Impact Leader of the Year (Global Spin Innovation Summit 2024), Leadership in Digital Inclusion (iLouge Media), SKOCH Award for e-Governance, and the Directorate of Culture MP Hindi Diwas Award for promoting Hindi in digital spaces.

Anaita Singh is a Senior Officer, Integrated Portfolio Management, DHAI at the Gates Foundation India Country Office. Previously, she served as Program Officer, Digital & AI in Health, supporting strategy and investments across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Assam, and MoHFW-level engagements for Family Health (FP, MICYN, MNCH), AI in Health, and digital gender inclusion. She co-leads the ICO DEI Advisory Council and supports efforts to bridge the gender digital divide in health. Before joining the Foundation, Anaita supported national and state partners on digital health architecture (ACCESS Health), implemented maternal health and nutrition programs (Dimagi), and worked across public health strategy at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Cliniton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Lesotho, Afirca. With 12+ years of experience across India and Africa—including 10 years in digital health—her expertise spans DPI for health, digital enablement of FLWs and citizens, and last-mile service delivery. She began her career with Citibank with an MBA in Finance and specialisation in Public Policy from ISB Hyderabad and Bachelors Commerce (Honors) from Shri Ram College of Commerce. 

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Aniket is the Founder and CEO of Haqdarshak, a social enterprise working to support individuals and micro-businesses to avail the benefits of government welfare schemes. He has been building Haqdarshak for the last 9 years and has been awarded as one of the Global Social Innovators of the Year, 2023 by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Motsepe Foundation, and World Economic Forum. He was also the Rockefeller Bellagio summer resident fellow in July 2024.

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An alumnus of SRCC, Aniket has been a Teach for India, Acumen, and Unreasonable fellow. He was on the advisory board of Teach for India for 2 years and is also currently on the Board of trustees for the YP Foundation. He was awarded the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia in 2019.

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Haqdarshak uses a mobile app and a field force of 50,000+ trained women agents to help citizens discover, apply for, and benefit from government and private schemes/benefits. They have helped 75 Lakh+ families and 1,10,500+ micro businesses get over 19,000 Cr+ in benefits, while the women entrepreneurs earned more than 22 Crore over the years.

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Haqdarshak works closely with companies and supports their workers and staff to avail the benefits of government welfare schemes.Haqdarshak has also launched the Yojana Card, which is aimed at combining social security and financial inclusion services into one channel for the customer. It's an unique, digitally-enabled social security card for customers to access government schemes, social security, financial services and other welfare services for their family and business — via a single channel enabled by last mile support.

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Anjali Makhija brings over 32 years of experience in the social impact sector, with work spanning gender equity, food and water security, and community leadership across rural India. She currently leads the operations of S M Sehgal Foundation and plays a pivotal role in strategy development, organizational growth, stakeholder engagement, and people management.

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A certified Corporate Director by the Institute of Directors (IOD), she has served on several industry and academic committees, including the Internal Committee of Marks & Spencer, advisory groups at NCERT, and curriculum boards at TERI SAS, BPS University, and MDU. Her expertise extends to women’s leadership, life skills education, and rural governance.

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Recognized as an Amazing Indian by Times Now (2022) and a Social Impact Leader and Change Maker by BusinessWorld (2023), she continues to champion inclusive rural development and institutional partnerships across sectors.

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An experimenter in the civic-technology space, Antaraa Vasudev is the Founder of Civis.Vote, a non-profit platform which works to enable effective dialogue between Governments and citizens, on draft laws and policies. She has previously worked at the international non-profit Asia Society, where she handled policy related public education programmes and Track-II dialogues between Ministers in the Union Council of Ministers and Kevin Rudd (Former Prime Minister of Australia). In addition to her work at Asia Society, she volunteered for the global civic-technology platform Democracy.Earth. She started her career understanding how technology can drive civic engagement during India's general elections. She is driven to help build trust between citizens and government through the use of technology. She is an Ashoka Fellow and a part of Forbes' Asia 30 Under 30 Class of 2021.

Anusha has specialised in community-led research that enables community participation in diverse contexts including gender-based violence, child rights and inclusive planning, with communities marginalised by sex, gender, occupation, caste, class, religion and ability and more recently, vulnerability to climate change impact. She has also used participatory video and digital story-telling as tools to amplify narratives in diverse contexts. She currently leads a participatory grant-making initiative in the ecologically fragile Sundarbans and supports key research and capacity building initiatives within Praxis as Lead, Programmes.

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