Fellows

N C Saxena
Former Member, National Advisory Council & Distinguished Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation
NC Saxena is the Former Member of the National Advisory Council and is also a Distinguished Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation, New Delhi. A Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, he obtained his PhD from the University of Oxford, UK He specialises in rural development, natural resource management, rural livelihoods, poverty alleviation, watershed and drinking water, governance, decentralisation and people’s participation.
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Zohra Chatterji
Former Secretary,
Government of India
Ms Zohra Chatterji was Secretary, Ministry of Textiles in the Government of India. She belongs to the 1979 Batch of the IAS, UP Cadre and has held several important positions in her home state including Secretary and Director Industries. Labour Commissioner, Secy & DG Tourism, Secy & Project Director Basic Education etc. Her last assignment in UP was Principal Secy IT & Industries when she was awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration.
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Aruna Sharma
Development Economist & Former Secretary, Steel, Government of India
Dr Aruna Sharma an Indian Administrative Officer of 1982 batch Madhya Pradesh Cadre retired after her work in Steel and Information Technology in government of India. She has always focused to have a holistic approach and establish a system in all her postings for ensuring sustainable quality outcomes.
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Deepak B Phatak
Professor Emeritus, IIT-B, Mumbai & Director SKOCH Development Foundation
Dr Deepak B Phatak is Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indore and then completed his MTech and PhD in Computer Science. He is with IIT Bombay since 1971.
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Deepali Pant Joshi
Distinguished Fellow, Former Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India
Dr Deepali Pant Joshi is the former Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India. She is a development Economist and a writer on economic subjects. Her professional responsibilities have included the Department of Currency Management, Legal Department and Premises Department.
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Bhaskar Pramanik
Former Chairman, Microsoft India

Charan Singh
Distinguished Fellow, Non-Executive Chairman, Punjab and Sind Bank
Dr Charan Singh was RBI Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. Earlier, he was a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC from August 2009 to November 2012. He was Director (Departments: Research; Debt Management) at the RBI from 1997–2009 where he had joined in 1984 as a Research officer in the Economic Department.
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Kishore Sansi
Distinguished Fellow, Former Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India

Nirmal Bansal
Senior Distinguished Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation
Nirmal Bansal is a former banker and an expert in financial inclusion. He has over two-and-a-half decades of experience in the banking and financial sector, having worked with HDFC Bank, Corporation Bank and FINO.
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K G Karmakar
Former Managing Director, NABARD
Nirmal Bansal is a former banker and an expert in financial inclusion. He has over two-and-a-half decades of experience in the banking and financial sector, having worked with HDFC Bank, Corporation Bank and FINO.
Prior to joining FINO (where he was Director- Business Development and Government Initiatives), Bansal was holding the position of Executive Vice President & Business Head – North at HDFC Bank where he was associated with Financial Institutions, Public Sector Undertakings and Government Business Group (FIG).
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