ILDC 2022 Speakers on 09 Dec 2022
Mr. Tambor Lyngdoh REDD+ Project, Meghalaya |
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Mr. Tambor Lyngdoh of Mawphlang, Meghalaya has over two and a half decades of experience in conservation efforts. From 1996-2011, acting as the Secretary for his local governing agency (Hima), he initiated the revival of the nearby sacred grove, introduced eco-tourism to the area, and participated in forest preservation while actively drawing others in to form his current organization, Ka Synjuk ki Hima Arliang Wah Umiam-Mawphlang Welfare Society (Synjuk). He has headed the Biodiversity Conservation Project as the President of the Village Forest Council since 2001. He is also the recent recipient of the 2020 NatWest Green Warrior Award. His pursuits are in sustainable tourism, sacred grove preservation, wildlife conservation, and community development. Mr. Lyngdoh works directly with communities throughout the Umiam watershed in the state of Meghalaya to protect community forests covering 9250 hectares of dense forests and aid in the regeneration of 5000 hectares of open forests. The example he has provided on ground up conservation has inspired many and his efforts are now being extended to other districts in the state as well as throughout the Northeast through awareness programs and word of mouth from communities involved in the project. Mr. Lyngdoh implemented the first UN REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) project in India, effectively uniting ten indigenous governments to protect and conserve community forests. This REDD+ project is one of the few in Asia that is managed by indigenous communities. In tandem, he has mobilized awareness through women’s micro-finance groups, farmer groups, and youth in 84 villages to promote the conservation measures. By providing alternatives to forest timber products, the 7400 households in the project area earn income while protecting forest habitat. The project is successful due to the heritage of the people of this region who are the native custodians of the forests and natural resources. Mr. Lyngdoh has been exemplary in reminding his fellow community members of that lineage and responsibility. There is a mutual relationship here of the people with the forests where the forest depends on people for protection and the people depend on the forest for life and environmental services. As the Synjuk celebrates its 10th year as an organization, it looks forward to continuing the work of planting native tree species, providing alternative methods of income to the project participants (70% of whom are below the poverty line), educating and training communities on traditional and scientific agricultural methods, and reviving the age-old tradition of protecting the forests as the lifeblood of our ecosystems. Thanks to Mr. Lyngdoh, the ancient forests of Meghalaya have stood the test of time and continue to act as a storehouse for biodiversity to many endemic and endangered species. [/expand] |
Mr. Sanjoy Patnaik, FES Land and Forest Tenure Specialist, Foundation for Ecological Security |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-06″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Sanjoy has been engaged in rights-based work on natural resource management for close to three decades with core competency on policy research and advocacy action on land and forests. Sanjoy specialized on innovative programme planning and design on rural livelihoods – productive land use, land to the landless, forest produce marketing including inclusive and decentralized planning exercise as key components of empowered local governance system. At present Sanjoy is engaged as Strategic Policy Advocacy Adviser in Foundation for Ecological Security, and provides strategic guidance to elevate the debate on Commons and Climate Change. Prior to that Sanjoy served as the India Country Director, Landesa and designed a range of land rights programmes with special focus on land to landless and women’s land rights. [/expand] |
Mr. Vinod Agarwal Former Additional Chief Secretary (Land Revenue Department) Telangana. |
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Mr. Smiti Sahoo Investment Manager, LGTVP Foundation |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-24″ text-color=”#f5f300″] She is an impact investment professional with over 9 years experience in impact investing, corporate strategy, investment research, business development and consulting. Currently, She is working as an Investment Manager at LGT Venture Philanthropy, an independent Foundation working towards improving the quality of life of disadvantaged people by deploying philanthropic growth capital. I work closely on developing investment strategy, pipeline building and portfolio management for LGT VP’s investments in India in the Education, Healthcare and Environment domains. Prior to this, She was an LGT Impact Fellow at Varthana, a provider of financing and advisory solutions in the affordable education sector, in Strategy, Advisory and Fund raising roles. Previously, working as an Associate in the Corporate Treasury function at Goldman Sachs, focusing on Funding and Liquidity Risk Management. She is an MBA graduate in the Business Management program at XLRI Jamshedpur with specialization in Finance. I have a B.Tech degree in Biotechnology from IIT Guwahati with prior consulting work experience at Deloitte and research experience at University of Basel in Computational Biology. [/expand] |
Sri. Pravin Kumar IAS Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration, Andhra Pradesh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-25″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Indian Administrative Officer Praveen was born and brought up in Jamui, Bihar. He did his high schooling at Ramakrishna Vivekananda Vidya Mandir school. He completed his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in the year 2017. In 2018 he secured All India Rank 5 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) exam, in the same year he achieved All India Rank 3 in Indian Engineering Services (ESE) 2018. He worked in the Indian Railway services before appearing for the Civil Service examination. At present Sri. Pravin Kumar IAS takes charge as Commissioner and Director of Municipal Administration. [/expand] |
Ms. Roshni Arora Applied Freshwater Scientist, TNC |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-02″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Roshni Arora is a hydroecologist with a keen interest in nature and ecological conservation. She has more than eight years of experience in freshwater science, hydroecology, data analysis and modelling, and conservation. At TNC India, Roshni works as an Applied Freshwater Scientist and is currently leading/managing projects related to freshwater ecosystem conservation and planning. As a part of the Science team, she also provides scientific inputs pertaining to freshwater science to other programs. Roshni has a Joint PhD in River Science from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and University of Trento, Italy through the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program. After completing her PhD, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany. She also has a Masters in Environmental Management from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. Her primary research interests lie in exploring the processes interlinking ecological and hydrological functioning of rivers, multiple stressor impacts on freshwater ecology and conservation planning for freshwater ecosystems. [/expand] |
Mr. Steven Lawry Senior Associate, CIFOR |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-05″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Steven Lawry is a Senior Associate in CIFOR’s Equity, Gender and Tenure research program. He has published studies and scholarly articles on the social, economic and ecological effects of forest rights devolution; the impacts of land rights formalization on agricultural investment and productivity; and tenure factors affecting adoption of forest landscape restoration practices in Africa, among other topics. He received a PhD from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. The same year he joined the research staff of UW-Madison’s Land Tenure Center (LTC). He became LTC’s Associate Director in charge of Africa programs in 1990. Steven held senior positions in the Ford Foundation from 1992 to 2006, including Assistant Representative for the Foundation’s Office for South Africa and Namibia (1992-1997) and Regional Representative for the Foundation’s Office for the Middle East and North Africa in Cairo (1997-2001). He was president of Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 2006 and 2007. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations from 2008 to 2013. On leave from the Kennedy School, he headed the USAID-funded Sudan Property Rights Program in 2010 and 2011, based in Juba, assisting the Government of South Sudan develop a national land policy. Dr. Lawry served as Global Practice Leader for Land Tenure and Property Rights at DAI, a Washington-based consulting group, from 2011 to 2014. He joined CIFOR in September 2014. Stationed at CIFOR’s headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia, from September 2014 to October 2017, he served as Research Director of CIFOR’s Forests and Governance program (September 2014 to January 2016) and subsequently as Director of Equity, Gender and Tenure research (January 2016 to September 2018). From November 2017 to August 2019, Steven was based at the Washington offices of CIFOR’s partner, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), where he co-led the research program on the Governance of Natural Resources, an initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s (CGIAR) Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM). [/expand] |
Mr. Ishan Agrawal General Manager-Programs, FES |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-14″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ishan Agrawal is working as a General Manager-Programs with Foundation for Ecological Security. He is a passionate believer in “commons” and community conservation and holds 15 years of work experience in development sector. Most of his professional life was in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh. He is currently working with “Commons Collaborative”, an effort by FES to bring system level change in the country around commons. Ishan’s worldview is influenced by understanding of human-nature interactions as social-ecological systems and he sees women and communities as the most important constituency for conservation of nature. He is a graduate of biology and a post graduate of rural management from IRMA [/expand] |
Mr. Siddharth Jain IAS Commissioner, Survey Settlement & Land Record, Andhra Pradesh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-26″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Siddharth Jain secured all India rank 13 in Civil services and the same rank in Indian Forest Service. He had done mechanical engineering from IIT Roorkee. Shri Siddharth Jain IAS (Andhra Pradesh 2001) presently Inspector General, Stamps & Registrations, has been transferred and posted as Commissioner, Survey & Settlement, Govt of Andhra Pradesh. [/expand] |
Dr G Sai Prasad IAS Chief Commissioner of Land Administration & Spl. Chief Secretary Andhra Pradesh |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-26″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr G Sai Prasad is an IAS, has assumed charge as the Chairman & Managing Director of Central Power Distribution Company of AP Limited on. 25th May 2006.Prior to this, he was the CMD of Eastern Power Distribution Company of AP Limited at Vizag. A graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Postgraduate Degree Holder in International Development Policy from Duke University, USA, Sri Sai Prasad belongs to the 1991 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. Sri Sai Prasad began his career in 1991 as Assistant Collector in Warangal and later worked as subcollector of Paderu, Visakhapatnam from 1993-1995. He was the Project Director of ITDA, Paderu for a period of three months (May 1995 to Aug 1995), worked as Municipal Commissioner, Guntur from 1995-1997, was Joint Collector, Kadapa from 1997-1998 and later as District Collector and Magistrate at Kurnool in 2000 and Chittoor in 2003. [/expand] |
Dr Aswani Munnangi National Institute for Smart Government. Hyderabad |
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Dr Vincent Darlong Former Vice VC, MLCU |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-10″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dr Vincent Darlong is a former Vice Chancellor at MLCU. At present he is a team leader in the world bank funded biodiversity studies undertaken by MLCU and serving as a Director of Centre for Sustainable Development Studies. |
Shri Prasada Rao Vaddarapu IFS, Director (Livelihoods), Tripura SCATFORM Project (JICA) |
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Mr. Arun Kumar Bansal IFS, Former Director General of Forest, Govt. of India |
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Mr Pravanjan Mohapatra Principal, Intellecap |
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Mr. Senthil Kumar IFS, Project Director (HRD), NFMP (JICA), Nagaland |
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Shri Dorji Wangchuk PD, CARLEP, IFAD Project, Bhutan, Bumthang |
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Ms Diya |
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Mr. Hong Soo Lee Senior Urban Specialist, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB |
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Mr Hiral Dave Cohesion Foundation Trust |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-15″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ms. Hiral Dave (Age 46 years) A seasoned professional with around 20 years of experience, Ms Hiral has been with Cohesion since 2008. She completed her Bachelor’s in Arts (Psychology) from St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad followed by Post Graduation in Management of Non-Government Organisations, Entrepreneurship Development Institute in 2002 which has given her insight of working on entrepreneurship development in women and youth. At Cohesion she is the Programme Director and provides strategic guidance to the teams for integrating gender, inclusiveness and institution building in the work with women, youth and communities across Cohesion’s geographical coverage. She has worked in different areas of development sector including Women empowerment, Gender, Micro finance, Livelihoods, besides other areas of work. She has explored learning, shaped experience and increased productivity in leadership role in communication, training, networking, monitoring and evaluation. As an EDI alumnus she gives resource lectures to the students in graduate and PG programmes at EDI and is involved in youth activities in Xaviers. She won Second Award in 2014 for “Best Case in Livelihoods” by ACCESS Sitaram Rao Case Study Competition – Livelihood Asia Summit. She has keenly worked on education projects with focus on strengthening of grassroots institutions such as SMC and improving girls’ education through community initiatives. She is a master trainer for women and adolescent girls on life skills and gender aspects. With expertise in women farmers and their identity, her key areas of interest include developing women’s identity as entrepreneurs, as farmers and as decision makers in their own spheres of life. Her dream and passion is to work on empowerment of women farmers and has done remarkable contribution towards that. Membership and role in different forums
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Mr Yadu CR Christ University, Bangalore |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-15″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ms. Hiral Dave (Age 46 years) The Political Economy of Agricultural Petty Production in India: A Tale of Two Villages This paper attempts to examine the transition and survival of agricultural petty production in [/expand] |
Ms Baisakhi Sarkar Dhar Senior Research Associate CPR |
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Ms Lara Shankar Chandra Way Forward Coalition |
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Ms Sahiti Sanaka Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) & Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-16″ text-color=”#f5f300″] I am a Ph.D. student at the Ashoka Trust for Research in the Ecology and Environment (ATREE) & Manipal Academy for Higher Education (MAHE), studying the politics of protected areas, focusing on land relations, agrarian livelihoods and cultural identities, in the Amrabad Tiger Reserve, Telangana. I have spent significant amount of my life studying agriculture as a lab science, although reluctantly. It took me a while to figure out a language to understand and locate my unease with the university lead, lab based, troubleshooting focused, status quoist agricultural sciences. The urge to go beyond the set boundaries of university bred academic agriculture to critically analyse the sociology of agriculture and to explore options of redistribution of resources has driven my journey thus far. [/expand] |
 Ms Lekshmi M TISS |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-18″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Lekshmi M is a Programme Officer associated with Forest Rights and Governance Project at School of Habitat Studies. She did her graduation in BA Social Sciences from TISS, Hyderabad and post graduation in MA Water Policy and Governance from TISS Mumbai. As an SBI Youth for India fellow, Lekshmi worked with Dhan Foundation, Tamil Nadu on rural drinking water systems. She has also been a Governance Consultant with Government of Andhra Pradesh. Her previous research includes the social security measures required for women construction workers, challenges of families of migrant labourers, analysis of drought declaration methods, informal labour markets and reverse migration of labourers during COVID-19 crisis. Her research interest includes forest rights, informal labour, water governance, social protection and gender rights. [/expand] |
 Mr. Holkhomang Haokip Secretary, Rural Aid Service (RAS) |
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Mr. Brij K Agarwal IAS Retd., Former Chief Secretary, Himachal Pradesh |
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Mr. Gopal Krishnamurthy Additional Commissioner of Survey Settlement and Land Records (Rtd), Government of Karnataka (TBC) |
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Shilpa Kumar Omidiyaar Network India |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-22″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Shilpa provides overall leadership, including strategy and investments, across the areas of Digital Society, Cities and Innovation and Property Inclusivity initiatives. Shilpa has spent more than three decades with the ICICI Bank group – India’s largest private sector bank. A key part of her career was in financial markets, building and shaping what is today the bank’s treasury/global markets business. Till recently, she served as MD & CEO of ICICI Securities, India’s largest retail broker & a leading investment bank in the country. Shilpa has held board positions in several organisations: ICICI Securities, ICICI Securities Prime Dealership, ICICI Home Finance, Clearing Corporation of India and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. [/expand] |
Ms. Chitra Hanstad Senior Philanthropy Officer – Asia, Landesa |
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Dr. D Sajith Babu IAS, Director, Institute of Land and Disaster Management, Govt. of Kerala |
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Dhruvi Shah |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-21″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Dhruvi Shah has over 20 years of diverse experience in the Development and Corporate sectors. Currently she heads the programs of Axis Bank Foundation. Her prior roles include relationship management in the retail, corporate, microfinance businesses and not for profit/ CSR of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. that was subsequently rebranded as The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V. Her key areas of experience include livelihood domain expertise, microfinance, not for profit management, philanthropic investing, stakeholder engagement and strategic communication. [/expand] |
Shivani Gupta |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-23″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Shivani has more than 25 years of experience in consulting, technology and development sector, having spent more than two decades with global consulting companies like Capgemini India. She is currently the Co-CEO of Womanity Foundation and has been instrumental in designing and overseeing the foundation’s Women Land Rights Program in India. She has experience in conceptualizing business solutions and successfully implementing large complex business and technology transformations as well as in leading human resources integration programs. Shivani is a qualified Cost Accountant and holds an MBA from Mumbai University. She transitioned into the development sector recently starting a long immersive journey leading her to the understanding of the developmental challenges, different approaches, systemic issues and passion of the Indian Development sector leaders. Prior to Womanity Foundation, Shivani was at Dasra where she worked closely with adolescents centric issues and helped to strengthen non-profits focused on adolescents’ well being, health, education and employability. [/expand] |
Ms. Gemma Betsema Senior Programme Advisor, LAND-at-scale |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-23″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Gemma Betsema is the facilitator of the Netherlands LANDdialogue, an initiative by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to exchange knowledge and experiences between Dutch stakeholders active in land-related investments and projects. Prior to that, Gemma was a project lead for Shared Value Foundation in the context of their Learning Platforms initiative – in collaboration with LANDac, CIFOR and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP). From 2012 – 2016 she was coordinator of the Netherlands Land Academy (LANDac). [/expand] |
Andita Listyarnini . |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-24″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Andita Listyarini is the Asia Communications Officer of the International Land Coalition, a global network of civil society organisations working to secure land rights for the people. Hailing from Indonesia, Andita is passionate about giving visibility to ILC members in the region who put the interests of local communities in advocating for land rights. Prior to joining ILC, she worked in Thailand for a network of women’s rights organisations. Andita holds an MA in International Journalism from Cardiff University, UK, and a BA in International Relations. [/expand] |
Kumar Sambhav Land Conflict Watch |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-26″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava is a Delhi-based independent journalist. He is a journalist, founder of Land Conflict Watch, and cofounder of The Reporters’ Collective. He is also an inaugural AI Accountability Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. He reports and writes on issues at the intersection of environment, business, politics and social justice. Shrivastava has reported from rural and semi-urban areas across 21 Indian states. He was a finalist for the Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Global Shining Light Award in 2017. He received ‘National Award for Excellence in Journalism’ for ‘Development Reporting’ from the Press Council of India in 2014 and was chosen the ‘Young Journalist from the Developing World Award (Runner Up) by the Thomson Foundation in 2015. He was also a finalist for India’s Red-Ink Journalism Awards in 2015 and the ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism in 2016. In the past, Shrivastava has worked for the Business Standard, Scroll.in, Hindustan Times, Down To Earth and the Times of India. He has reported for prime global and Indian news outlets, including Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Business Standard, Scroll.in, Hindustan Times, Down To Earth and The Times of India on governance, business, and social justice. Sambhav has received the Press Council of India National Award for Excellence in Journalism, Redink Award, Shriram Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism, Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Global Shining Light Award and the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Award. [/expand] |
Francis Xavier Director, Point |
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Mr. Uchendu Eugene Chigbu |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-25″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Uchendu Eugene CHIGBU is Associate Professor in Land Administration. His works fall within the interface between Social Sciences and Geodesy. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal Land Use Policy. He is a co-Chair of the Research Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network (UN-Habitat). He is also the Coordinator of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) in the Southern African Region. He has particular interest on how to communicate land governance knowledge through non-academic media. His most recent book, “Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure–Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy” was published in 2022. [/expand] |
 Nitin Sethi Land Conflict Watch |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-27″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Nitin is a journalist, a member of The Reporters’ Collective and the Media Lead at the National Foundation for India. He has written, reported and investigated for two decades on the intersections of India’s political economy, natural resources, environment, climate change, economy, public finance and development. He has previously worked in editorial positions at The Business Standard, Scroll.in, The Hindu, The Times of India and Down To Earth. [/expand] |
Ismael Pare
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[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-27b” text-color=”#f5f300″] Ismaël Pare is an expert in food and land security with experience in agricultural production, food security, land security, producer advice and training, development studies, monitoring and evaluation, project design and management, and meeting facilitation. He has worked in agricultural advice, awareness, information, training of farmers and communities. He monitors and evaluates rural activities and productions, and also a professional trainer of farmers. Ismael is also the focal point and program manager of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Development Alternatives (IRPAD/Africa) in Burkina Faso. IRPAD/Afrique is a think tank based in Bamako, Mali. Ismail is also the current president of Youth Initiative for Land in Africa, which promotes transparency and equity in access to land for youth and women in Burkina Faso. [/expand] |
Margaret Mengo Director of Operations (Africa) , Habitat for Humanity International |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-28″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Margaret Mengo is the Director, Operations (Africa) at Habitat for Humanity International a global non-profit focused on creating decent housing for all. She manages the growth and development of new programs, leading a team that provides technical support across 9 countries in Africa. Margaret has over 15yrs of experience working with different international organisations. Prior to joining Habitat for Humanity International, she served as the Regional Operations Manager for Eastern Africa at the Ford Foundation leading select regional initiatives and providing support to grantees as required. Margaret also served as the Operations Lead at Palladium (formerly Futures Group) leading the implementation of a 30 million GBP project centred on reproductive health. Prior to joining the development sector, Margaret worked in the corporate sector for Google (SSA) leading the set-up of the Sub-Saharan Africa regional office and Google Serve20 (CSR). She also worked at Hewlett Packard East Africa leading the development of products that supported different development initiatives as part of corporate social responsibility in the region.
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Srilekha Ati Founder & Director CitySpeaks Foundation |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-29″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Srilekha is pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, and has a Master’s in Public Policy and Governance from Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Her passion for addressing issues of her city and its citizens led her to start CitySpeaks Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based out of Visakhapatnam, working on urban research and civic engagement in secondary cities of India. She is passionate about finding the community’s voice, especially its youth’s, and connecting it to all the policy and governance issues and the development agenda. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering and providing mentorship to the youth. [/expand] |
Mr. Deepak Sanan
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Mr. Ravi Bhushan Joint PhD Candidate, BITS Pilani |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-30″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Ravi is pursuing joint doctoral studies from La Trobe University, Australia and BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. In this interdisciplinary Cross-country research he is trying to understand the expansion of peri-urban and subsequent land use changes through remote sensing. Before coming to academia, he was working on the continuum of public policy and social change in different government advisory roles. He believes in advocacy-led policy formulation and endeavours to leverage socially embedded technology within the broader urban discourse in the global South. [/expand] |
Mr. Innocent Antoine Houedji Executive Director, Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (Yilaa) |
[expand title=”Profile Details” swaptitle=”Close” id=”21-31″ text-color=”#f5f300″] Youth Land specialist, Coordinator of Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA), has over 10 years of experience in land expertise, management, business planning, financial analysis, software engineering, operations, and decision analysis. Before founding YILAA in 2019, Innocent Antoine worked on the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Land Access Project in Benin where he has done much research about Youth Access to Land. He has previously held various management positions in Benin, most recently as Regional Head of Office of the Benin National Agency for Land Affairs and Domains (ANDF). Member of Regional Work Group of UEMOA / WAEMU on Rural Land. [/expand] |
Ms. Everlyne Naraise |
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Prof. A Narayana Azim Premji University |
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Mr. Ramesh Sharma Ekta Parishad |
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Mr. Tim Hanstad CEO, Chandler Foundation. |
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Mr. Jagdeesh Rao,
Mr. Pranab Ranjan Choudhury Secretary ILDC, Founder NRMC-CLG (Intellecap Subsidiary) |
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