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Naina Lal Kidwai

Naina Lal Kidwai is Executive Director on the Board of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and Country Head of HSBC India, which employs 35,000 people comprising Banking services, Insurance, Asset Management, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets, Retail broking, HSBC Software Development (India) Private Limited and the Global service centers (BPOs servicing HSBC's operations in the UK, EU and USA).

An MBA from Harvard Business School, she has been recognised in India and abroad with several awards and listings for leadership and business. Repeatedly ranked in the Fortune global list of Top Women in Business, in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times Global Listing of Women to Watch and listed by Time Magazine as one of their 15 Global Influentials 2002. She received the Padma Shri from the Government of India for her contribution to Trade and Industry

Her international engagements include being a non executive director on the board of Nestle SA, Chairman City of London's Advisory Council for India, Global Advisor Harvard Business School and Chair of the Indian Advisory Board. She is on the Governing Board of NCAER and Vice President of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Her interests include microfinance and livelihood creation for rural women and environment.

Naina Lal Kidwai
Country Head, HSBC India

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Najeeb Jung

Mr. Najeeb Jung, a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, is the Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Mr Najeeb Jung studied at St. Stephen's college, Delhi and the London School of Economics, London. He has worked in different capacities in Madhya Pradesh and with several wings of the Government of India. Subsequently he worked with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (Oxford University) on Energy related issues. Mr. Jung is an expert on education, governance, and energy, and has worked in different capacities in the government, the public sector and the private sector. Currently, he is a member of several Committees/Special Task Forces setup by the Government of India dealing with education and governance. He is also a regular columnist writing for several national newspapers. His interests include poetry, acting, yoga and sports.

Najeeb Jung
Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

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R Sukumar

R Sukumar is the editor of Mint, India's second largest and fastest growing business newspaper.

An engineer and an MBA, he held senior editorial positions in The Hindu Business Line, where he started his career, and Business Today, before joining HT Media Ltd as part of the start-up team of Mint. Sukumar has an enduring interest in technology, business strategy, and comic books. He is based in New Delhi.

R Sukumar
Managing Editor, Mint

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Soli Jehangir Sorabjee

Soli Jehangir Sorabjee commenced legal practice in 1953, was designated Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India in 1971. Attorney General for India 1989-1990 and April 1998 to May 2004. Main practice is in the field of constitutional and administrative law. He has argued cases of constitutional importance especially regarding freedom of expression and freedom of the press.

Appointed in October 1997 by the United Nations Human Rights Commission as Special Rapporteur to report on the human rights situation in Nigeria. Appointed in May 1999 as the Personal Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for East Timor. Member of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, Geneva 1998-2006.

At present he holds positions in organizations of national and international repute.

Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award, was conferred in March 2002.

In addition to his regular fortnightly column for the Indian Express he has written several articles and books, which include The Law of Press Censorship in India; Monographs on Equality in the United States and India, and Protection of Human Rights during Emergencies.

Other interests: literature, especially poetry; music, particularly jazz.

Soli J Sorabjee
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

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Sonal Dabral

A graduate of National Institute of Design where he studied visual communication, film and photography, Sonal Dabral started his advertising career at Lintas in New Delhi.

After five years, he moved to Mumbai to join Piyush Pandey, then CD at Ogilvy Mumbai. Breakthrough work followed on brands such as Cadbury's and Fevicol. Together, this partnership drove O&M India from the creative wilderness to the number one creative agency in the country, garnering awards from top regional and international shows along the way.

The next stop was Malaysia, where Sonal was offered the post of ECD at O&M, Kuala Lumpur, in 1999. Within three years, Ogilvy's KL office became one of the top creative offices in the region. In 2000, one of his spots won the Grand Prix at the Asian Media awards, soon after followed Malaysia's first One Show Gold.

In May 2004, Sonal took over as Chairman and ECD of O&M Advertising, Singapore, the top creative agency in the Asia-Pacific region. Soon with major wins in almost all regional and international award shows, Ogilvy Singapore became number one creative office in Ogilvy Worldwide and in the entire WPP network. To top it all, in 2007 in Cannes, as Chairman and Executive Creative Director, Sonal led Ogilvy Singapore to be the third highest awarded agency in the world. Ogilvy Singapore emerged second runner up as global 'Agency of the Year', a first for an Asian agency!

After a long stint with Ogilvy, Sonal joined Bates 141 in late 2008 in the dual role of Chairman Bates 141 India and Regional Creative Head, to uphold and improve the creative standing of the agency across Asia.

In his spare time, Sonal has been a popular TV host, Bollywood script writer and has also been channeling his passion for films into directing ad-films. In 2004, D&AD featured a spot he wrote and directed for the MC2 Awards. Next on agenda is his first feature film, which he plans to direct in the next couple of years.

Sonal Dabral
Creative Head Asia & Chairman Bates 141 India

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Suhel Seth

Suhel Seth is the Managing Partner of Counselage India and founder of Equus.

Counselage is India's only strategic brand management and marketing consultancy advising Chairpersons and CEOs on branding and marketing. Counselage works for Tata Steel, The Taj Group of Hotels, Hero Honda, Tata Teleservices, NDTV, Coca Cola, and Max India amongst others.

Suhel has several passions: he is a regular speaker at industry meets; is a lecturer at various Indian Institutes of Management. Suhel also writes provocative columns in The Financial Times, London and in Business India, The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express on current affairs and the social landscape of India. Suhel has co-authored two books on Calcutta with Khushwant Singh and R K Laxman.

Suhel was on the global advisory board of British Airways until 2009 and presently sits on the global board of Cavendish and RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London) and on the regional boards of Citibank and Coca Cola.

Suhel has addressed the Harvard Business School on Building Brands in India.

In February 2002, Suhel's first book `In your face' was published. More recently, Suhel has been commissioned by Penguin India to write a book which is tentatively titled `The Indian Mindset': this will be the first Indian marketing book to be published by Penguin India. Suhel has also just finished a book `Of roots and wings': 50 years of Indian Airlines.

Suhel is an alumnus of the AMP of Harvard Business School as also member of the Harvard Business School Consultants Club and is active on the Delhi theatre scene and has acted in several plays and films (by Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen) as also has represented India at the University of Oxford in Debating.

Suhel has been appointed to the Experts Committee of India's Railway Board and is Brand Advisor to the Indian Railways Minister as also to the Indian Railways Ministry.

Suhel is the Chairman of the National Marketing Committee of both CII and FICCI for 2011-12.

Suhel Seth
Managing Partner of Counselage India
& Founder of Equus

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Sunit Tandon

Sunit Tandon is presently Director General of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, the premier Mass Communication and Journalism Institute of the country, which is an autonomous institute of the Ministry of I&B, Government of India. The position is in the rank and scale of Additional Secretary to the Government of India.

Prior to this, he was Chief Executive of the Lok Sabha Televsion Channel, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India. Lok Sabha Television is the world's first television channel to be directly owned and operated by the National Legislature of any country.

Earlier, as Executive Director of the Lok Sabha Television Channel, he was part of the core team that helped to set up and start the Channel in 2006.

Earlier official positions held include: General Manager of the National Film Development Corporation Ltd (NFDC), Deputy General Manager of NFDC, and Deputy Director with the Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in charge of Film Selection and Programming for the International Film Festivals of India,.

Sunit Tandon is also a well-known news and current affairs anchor on Indian national television (Doordarshan and Lok Sabha Television) and a radio broadcaster for over thirty years on All India Radio. He has presented prime time news bulletins and anchoring election, budget and other live telecasts, apart from conducting one-on-one interviews with leading personalities and moderating discussion programmes on diverse topics. He presently anchors a series of in-depth interviews with eminent personalities entitled "Conversations" on Lok Sabha Television.

He has been associated with theatre as an actor and director, working with such leading Delhi theatre groups as Yatrik, Stagedoor, Masque, Chingari, Scene Stealers, TAG, Primetime, Akshara, Natwa and with the Shakespeare Society, St. Stephen's College.

He has acted in over 120 plays and has directed more than 25 plays, including works by William Shakespeare, Jean Racine, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, Neil Simon and Tom Stoppard. Some of his directorial ventures include, "9 Jakhoo Hill" by Gurcharan Das (selected as one of the Ten Best Plays of the Year 1996 by the Times of India) for Yatrik, Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Shakespeare Society, St. Stephen's College and "Come as You Were" by Nicholas Kharkongor for Yatrik

He has also, at various stages in his career, been a banker, a theatre critic, a western music critic...

Sunit Tandon
Director General, Indian Institute of Mass Communication

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Yashwant Deshmukh

Yashwant Deshmukh is a seasoned entrepreneur and founder-owner of communications consultancy YRD Media Network which prides itself in delivering cutting-edge solutions for a global client base in the media and communication businesses.

Over the last two decades Yashwant has become a celebrated figure in the South Asian media and communication industry for his special emphasis on impeccable research, design and production and for having delivered innovative and original news analysis across the spectrum.

His repertoire of works spans 15 Union Budgets and over 100 Union & Assembly Elections in India, besides a host of international socio-political and economic events across 30 nations.

Yashwant's flagship YRD Media Network houses within itself two of India's leading media outfits – CVoter News Service and CVoter Broadcast.

CVoter Broadcast (CVB) is the audio‐visual productions division of YRD Media which has been part of the launch team of the first five satellite channels of India including Zee News and TV Today network.

Under Yashwant's guidance CVoter Broadcast launched the well-acclaimed CVB News service in India in November 2009. CVB News Service is India's only audio-visual news agency which has been delivering quality video news via satellite to more than 50 television news channels in India & abroad every day for the past one year

Since the turn of the century, as private players entered the Indian TV news market, YRD Media Network has been engaged with virtually all the major media stalwarts for the last decade. These include Aaj Tak, Star News, Zee News, Zee Business, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, India TV, Lok Sabha TV, Sahara Samay, Jain TV and many more.

Yashwant Deshmukh
Founder-Owner of
Communications Consultancy YRD Media Network

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