Mr. C. V. Madhukar
Madhukar leads Co-Develop, leveraging more than 25 years of experience in impact investing, policy, and scaling nonprofits. Earlier he was with the Omidyar Network, as the Managing Director he built out their global work on digital identity and digital public infrastructure.
Ms. Helani Galpaya
Helani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working on digital policy issues across the emerging Asia Pacific. She researches issues related to digital access, data & algorithmic governance, and digital platform labor.
Mr. Carl Benedikt Frey
Dr. Carl-Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School
Mr. Sehraj Singh
Sehraj Singh is the Managing Director (India) at Prosus. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, Business, and Government Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Mr. Pramod Bhasin
Pramod is currently the Chairman of ICRIER, one of India’s leading Economic Research think tanks. He also Chairs the Data Security Council of India. He has recently set up Aparajita, an NGO focused on Sexual harassment. He is the Founder of Genpact, a NYSE listed company with over 140,000 employees and pioneered the growth of the Business Process Management industry in India as well as globally. As an entrepreneur, he has co-founded a range of organisations — Clix Capital, a finance company, Asha Ventures, an Impact Investment Fund and the Punjab innovation Mission. Prior to this he was the Head of GE Capital in Asia and India and worked with GE in the US, UK, Hong Kong and India. He is one of the Founders of Plaksha and Ashoka Universities— and pursues a variety of philanthropic initiatives.
Mr. Rajesh Bansal
Mr. Rajesh Bansal is the CEO of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) – a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that was set up to promote innovation in the financial sector. He has more than three decades of experience across digital financial services and infrastructure in Asia and Africa, and has been a key architectin India’s journey towards a cash-lite economy, playing a crucial role in the creation and design of Aadhaar, Direct Benefits Transfer, and IndiaStack.
Ms. Aruna Sundararajan
Aruna Sundararajan was India’s former telecom and MeitY secretary . She currently serves as the chairperson of the Broadband India forum; as well as on several leading private sector Boards and technology think tanks .Aruna has played a pivotal role in Indias digital transformation, overseeing key policy and implementation portfolios at both the state and national levels .With her extensive experience in governance and technology led transformation, she continues to contribute to impactful economic development initiatives .
Mr. R. Chandrashekhar
R. Chandrashekhar was the former president of NASSCOM and former Secretary to the Department of Information Technology and Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. He has extensive experience in policy formulation and knowledge of business practices in telecom and technology in India. He is currently involved in several advisory roles and Board positions.
Dr. Payal Arora
Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of the Inclusive AI Lab, and FemLab. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user experiences in the Global South. Payal is the author of 100+ articles and award-winning books including “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. Forbes named her the ‘next billion champion’ and the ‘right kind of person to reform tech.’ She has been listed in the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2025 and won the 2025 Women in AI Benelux Award. Her new book with MIT Press “From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” has been longlisted for the 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards. 200+ international media outlets have covered her work including the Financial Times, Wired, and The Economist, and Tech Crunch. She has consulted for several organizations including Spotify, KPMG, Adobe, IDEO, and Google. She has given 350+ keynotes in 85 countries for events such as re:publica, COP26, and the World Economic Forum, and TEDx talks. She is a Harvard and Columbia University, and Rockefeller Bellagio Resident Fellow alumni, and lives in Amsterdam.
Mr. Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi
Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi is the Managing Director and Co-investigator of Digital Planet, an interdisciplinary research platform at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has extensive experience in emerging markets and the payments industry. He also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Council on Digital Trust and was a member of the Advisory Group for the Estonian Government’s e-Residency program