Ms. Anju Sharma, an MBA in Finance and Marketing and Masters in International Development Policy from Duke University, USA, has worked with Gujarat Government on various senior administrative posts. She currently is working as Principal Secretary, Higher and Technical Education (H&TE), Government of Gujarat with an additional charge of Director General, Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM).

For her she is awarded with Prime Minister's Award for Administrative Excellence for implementing the Sickle CellAnemia Control Program in the Gujarat (2011) and with Individual Contribution Award for Health Insurance Scheme-Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna(RSBY)(2011). Prior to these, she also was awarded with NASSCOM Social Innovation Leaders Award and National E-Governance Award. She also is an author of "I of the Storm- Discover your true self", which deals with varied issues that a person faces in his quest for truth or struggle to find happiness. 

Shri Ashok Khemka was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1988 with a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering and followed it up with a Ph.D in Computer Science from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and a MBA degree in Business Admn. Finance. He also holds a MA Economics degree from IGNOU.

He is a 1991 batch IAS officer of the Haryana Cadre. He has been repeatedly transferred by various state governments in his home cadre of Haryana after he exposed corruption in the departments he was posted in. Khemka was posted as Secretary to the Govt. of Haryana, Department of Archives and Archaeology on 4 April 2013. He was also given the charge of DG Archives and Archaeology on 26 April 2013.This is his 45th posting in his 20-year career excluding his 2 year training period.

Mr. Harshadray J. Solanki has done Master of Business Administration in Finance and also holds a degree of Master in Public Transport from LTA Academy - Singapore.

He is working in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) since last 22 years and presently looking after Solid Waste Management as a Director since September, 2014. He has good administrative experience of 22 years in various departments of AMC - General Manager B.R.T.S. (Bus Rapid Transport System), Property Tax, Central Workshop, Tax Valuation, Administration, etc.

In his tenure of BRTS - Ahmedabad has won more than 10 International & National awards and expended up to 82 km of operation. Today 2.00 lakh passengers travel daily by B.R.T.S.

As a Director - Solid Waste management
AMC has successfully implemented various best practices and achieved considerable progress in the field of Solid Waste Management under his leadership likewise:

Introduced more then 900 vehicles in the Door to Door / gate to RTS System with specially designed closed body having separate compartment for implementation of segregation of dry and wet waste at source.

Commencement of work to 2 private agencies on PPP model to set up 2 Waste to Energy Plants to generate 11 MW & 14 MW electricity from the 2000 TPD (tons per day) municipal solid waste.

Fist municipal corporation to launch E-waste Mobile application. Also set up E-waste collection centre at six zonal civic centres for effective collection and transportation of e-waste from the citizen.

Started Material Recovery Facility (MRF) plant on PPP model for the recycling of dry waste generated by the different commercial units of the city.

For sustainability and viability of Construction and Demolition Waste processing plant, framed policies to procure 50 % final products for civil & infrastructures projects of AMC and also modified agreement to increase daily processing of Construction and Demolition Waste from 300 TPD to 1000 TPD.

Shri Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana, IAS, is an Executive Director (Project) in National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).

Dr. Madhukar Gupta, Additional Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises, Government of India.
 
Dr. Gupta is an IAS officer of 1985 batch and holds a brilliant track record in academics and administration. He is a post graduate in public administration from Harvard University and public policy from Syracuse University, US. He also earned his doctorate degree in development economics. He was a visiting faculty at BITS, Pilani. He has also worked in United Nations Development Programme during his career. 

Shri Gopalaswami, hailing from Needamangalam, a village in Tamil Nadu, did his schooling in Mannargudi. A Chemistry graduate(1963) from St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, did his Post Graduation from Delhi University winning a gold medal(1965). He also holds a diploma in Urban Development Planning from the University of London.

Shri Gopalaswami belongs to the Indian Administrative Service batch of 1966, joined in Gujarat Cadre and for the next 25 years served in Gujarat in various posts - Collector & District Magistrate (Kutch and Kheda), Municipal Commissioner (Surat), Member in the State Electricity Board, M.D. of State Electronics Company etc.

Shri Gopalaswami moved to the Government of India in 1992 and had served in the Dept of Electronics as J.S., the Planning Commission as Adviser, National Human Rights Commission as its Secretary General, Dept. of Culture as its Secretary and finally as Union Home Secretary (2002-04) before being appointed as Election Commissioner in 2004.

Shri Gopalswami served in the Election Commission of India for over 5 years during which time he was the Chief Election Commissioner from June 30, 2006 to April 20, 2009. He introduced many innovations in the Election processes, the Photo Electoral Roll being the most important of them all.

Prof. N. Ravichandran is a professor at IIM Ahmedabad. He has a specialization in stochastic processes and their applications. His short-term visiting positions includes many European academic institutions.

Extensively published in the areas of reliability, inventory, and queues. Current research interests include stochastic models in management science, management information systems.

He is the Founder Trustee of Saath Charitable Trust and closely associated with Saath Livelihood Services which is involved in vocational training and employment in the BOP (Bottom of Pyramid) segment. He holds the Directorship of DBS Communities and Yuva India, Mumbai. 

He has been awarded the title Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 by the Schwab Foundation, UNDP and CII and was listed amongst '50 Social Entrepreneurs' by Business Outlook magazine in its September 2009 issue. He was awarded the Karmaveer Puraskaar by ICONGO in the category 'Real Wealth Creators for the Communities' in November 2008. He found place of pride amongst '50 Pioneers of Change' by India Today magazine in July, 2008. He was also inducted as an Ashoka Fellow in September 2008.

Mr. Siddharth Vora is the Coordinator of Prayas Team, and a Post Graduate Programme (PGP) student at IIM Ahmedabad.

Swami Nikhileshwarananda is the Head of Rajkot Centre of Ramakrishna Math.

Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, the world renowned twin organizations were started by Swami Vivekananda in 1897 which are having its Headquarters at Belur Math (near Kolkata), and are having more than 200 branches all over the world.

He tours extensively preaching the universal message of Vedanta in industrial houses, management institutions and educational institutions. He has visited hundreds of educational institutions for preaching the character-building message of Swami Vivekananda and has conducted training programs in many reputed companies. He has contributed a large number of articles on various topics in English, Hindi and Gujarati journals. His books – ‘Happiness and Peace in everyday life’, ‘Teacher as a Torch bearer of Change’ and other books in English, Hindi and Gujarati are quite popular.

Swami Samarpanananda (author: Samarpan ), is an author and a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math. He is a teacher at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur Campus. He has been a guest lecturer at the IITs and IIMs.

Swami Sarvasthananda is the former head of Shri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Rajkot, Gujarat and editor of the Gujarati Monthly ‘Shri Ramakrishna Jyot’ published from there.

He is now designated to assume charge of Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre in UK at Bourne End near London. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, Manipal in 1986 he renounced the world, joined the Ramakrishna Order at its Headquarters at Belur Math in Jan 1987, and was posted to the Rajkot centre of Ramakrishna Math in June 1987. Since then he has served the organization in various capacities.

He had the opportunity to offer his services in almost all the major relief activities and rehabilitation projects conducted by the Rajkot Ashrama after natural disasters like drought, flood, cyclone, plague (Surat) and earthquake since 1987 in Gujarat. He also served in the Publication Department of the Rajkot Ashrama, which has published over 200 books in Gujarati and English so far.