Speaker List | 8th Social Business Day

Speakers

Azeem Ahmed

Founder

Liftana

United Kingdom

Sohel Ahmed

Managing Director

Grameen Shakti

Bangladesh

Zahirul Alam

Executive Director

IDF

Bangladesh

Rajni Bakshi

Author and Journalist

Gandhi Peace Scholar

India

Dr. K. Balakrishnan

Director, Amity Business School and Dean, Faculty of Management

Amity University Rajasthan

India

Rahul Batra

Director

Yunus Social Business India

India

Nurjahan Begum

Chairman

Grameen Distribution

Bangladesh

Arindam Bhattacharya

Senior Partner and Director

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

India

Arshiya Bose

Founder

Black Baza Coffee Co.

India

Rahul Bose

Actor, Activist and Film Director, National Rugby Player

India

Michael Brohm

Member of the Management Board

The Grameen Creative Lab

Germany

Samyak Chakrabarty

Managing Director

X Billion Labs

India

Prasad Chandran

Former Chairman & Managing Director

BASF(I) L and Chairman, SEEGOS

India

Amir Humayun Mahmud Chowdhury

Managing Director

Chittagong Social Business Center

Bangladesh

Enzo Cursio

Coordinator of FAO Nobel Alliance for Food Security and Peace

OPC - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Italy

Ms. Nini Daing

Co- founder and CEO

myHarapan, Youth Trust Foundation

Malaysia

Dominique V. Dauster

Special Advisor

International Relations, Grameen Creative Lab, Germany

Germany

Nishith Desai

Founder and Managing Partner

Nishith Desai Associate

India

Kartik Desai

Executive Director

Asha Impact

India

Cam Donaldson

Pro Vice Chancellor and Vice Principal (Research)

Yunus Chair in Social Business & Health, GCU, Scotland

United Kingdom

Kat Dunn

CEO

Australia Grameen

Australia

Laurent DUPONT

CEO

Peace and Sport

Monaco

Emmanuel Faber

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Danone

France

Deng Fei

Founder

'Free lunch for children

China

Sylvain Ferrière

Chief Investment Officer

YSB

Germany

Dr. Elisabet Garriga

Associate Professor

EADA Business School

Spain

Giles Gunesekera

Chief Executive Officer

Global Impact Initiative

Australia

Anil K Gupta

Founder, Coordinator and Visiting Faculty

Honey Bee Network, SRISTI, GIAN, and EVC, NIF, IIMA

India

Professor Huang Han

Goodwill Ambassador

Grameen China

China

Ashraful Hassan

Managing director

Grameen Telecom

Bangladesh

Corazon Henares

Consultant

Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation Inc

United States

Caroline Heptner

Former Head of Strategic and International Partnerships

Grameen Creative Lab

Germany

Ms. Karen Hitschke

Initiatives Director Funds & Investments

Yunus Social Business Global,Germany

Germany

Gerd Hoefner

Managing Director and President

Siemens Healthcare Pvt. Ltd

India

Steve Hollingworth

President and CEO

Grameen Foundation

United States

Kazi I Huque

CEO

Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd.

Bangladesh

Muhammad Ibrahim

Professor

ULAB

Bangladesh

Kishwar Imdad

Managing Director

Grameen Healthcare Services Ltd.

Bangladesh

Dr. A. B. M. Shahidul Islam

Professor, Executive Editor and CEO

University of Dhaka, International Journal of Social Business (IJSB) and Centre for Promoting Global Education (CPGE)

Bangladesh

Shazeeb Khairul Islam

Founder and President

Social Business Youth Alliance Global

Bangladesh

Ms. Christina Jaeger

Director of Strategy and Business Development

Grameen Creative Lab

Germany

Ms. Karen James

Founder and CEO

On Purpose Hub

Australia

Dr. David Jordan

President

Seven Hills Foundation and Affiliates

United States

Andrea Jung

President and CEO

Grameen America

United States

Ravi Kailas

Founder and Chairman

Mytrah Group

United Kingdom

Amitabh Kant

CEO

NITI Aayog

India

Malini Katta

Project Manager

Naandi Community Water Services, Hyderabad, India

India

Takuya Kawamura

President, Founder and Co-CEO

Sunpower Corp, Grameen Japan Auto World, World Recycle Car Parts Association

Japan

Abdul Hai Khan

Managing Director

Grameen Trust

Bangladesh

Yuka Kobayashi

Chief Executive Officer

Yunus Yoshimoto Social Action

Japan

Suresh Krishna

Co-founder and CEO

Yunus Social Business Fund Bangalore

India

Dr. B. N. Kulkarni

Director

Micro-Credit Initiative Grameen (MIG), India

India

Manoj Kumar

Co-Founder & Ceo, Trustee

Social Alpha and Tata Institute For Genetics And Society, Head - Innovation And Entrepreneurship - Tata Trusts

India

Suraj Kumar

Advisor and Chief Mentor

Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) and Neeti Foundatio

India

Professor H. I. Latifee

Advisor to Chairman

Yunus Centre

Bangladesh

Justine Lerche

Head of Corporate Social Responsibility

Veolia India Pvt. Ltd., India

India

Eric Lesueur

Chief Executive Officer

VEOLIA

France

Parveen Mahmud

Managing Director

Grameen Telecom Trust

Bangladesh

Rohtash Mal

Chairman and Managing Director

EM3, AgriServices Pvt. Ltd., India

India

Nasir Ali Mamun

Photographer

Bangladesh

Susan Mirembe

Portfolio Manager

Yunus Social Business

Uganda

Shaheen Mistry

Founder

Teach for India

India

Susmita Mohanty

Co-founder and CEO

Earth2Orbit

India

Lamiya Morshed

Executive Director

Yunus Centre

Bangladesh

Mr. Bastian Mueller

Director Partnerships and Investor Relations

Yunus Social Business, Germany

Germany

Ratan Kumar Nag

Former MD

Grameen Bank

Bangladesh

Priyank Narayan

Director, Entrepreneurship Programs

Ashoka University

India

Yoan Noguier

Strategy Consultant

Grameen Creative Lab

Germany

Ms. Ligia Noronha

Director, Economy Division

UN Environment Program

India

Rogerio Oliveira

Social business entrepreneur, co-founder

Yunus Social Business Brazil

Brazil

Prabhat Pani

Head – Partnerships and Technology Platforms

Tata Trusts

India

Ms. Anna Perinic

Managing Director

Grameen Danone Foods Limited

France

Nagaraja Prakasam

Angel Investor, Mentor and Residence NSRCEL

IIMB

India

Anil Singh Prakash

Executive Officer

School of Public Health & Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia

Australia

Lakshmi Pratury

Entrepreneur, curator, speaker, and self-described "people collector", founder and CEO

INK "India's foremost platform for cutting-edge ideas and inspiring stories"

India

Dr. Bordin Rassameethes

President-Elect and Director

Yunus Social Business Centre, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Thailand

Hans Reitz

Co-founder

Grameen Creative Lab, Germany

Germany

Prof. Elisabetta Righini

Professor of Commercial Law and of Law of commerce and financial markets

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino - Italy

Italy

Andrew Riis

Leader, social entrepreneur

culture shaper - Future You

Australia

Dr. Michael Roy

Senior Lecturer in Social Business, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health

Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University

United Kingdom

Sourav Roy

Head of CSR

Tata Steel

India

Dr. Achyuta Samanta

Founder

KIIT

India

Paola Samoggia

Composer

Nazionale Italiana Cantanti

Italy

Yukoh Satake

Co-CEO

Grameen Euglena, Japan

Japan

Zarina Screwvala

Managing Trustee/ Director

Swades Foundation

India

M. Shahjahan

Advisor to Chairman

Yunus Centre

Bangladesh

Sanjiv Krishnaji Shelgikar

Director

Yunus Mumbai Foundation

India

Dr. Chien Wen Shen

Associate Professor and Director

Dept of Business Administration, National Central University, Taiwan and Yunus Social Business Centre

Taiwan

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty

Managing Director

Narayana Hrudayalaya

India

Shankar Man Shrestha

Chairperson

Centre for Self help Development (CSD)

Nepal

Prometheus Siddiqui

Projects Director

Grameen Australia

Australia

Manvendra Singh Shekhawat

Managing Director

Suryagarh, Jaisalmer, I Love Jaisalmer

India

Chetna Gala Sinha

Founder and Chairperson

the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahkari Bank

India

Marie Soubeiran

Communication and Engagement Manager

Danone Communities

France

M S Sriram

Professor

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

India

Imamus Sultan

Managing Director

Grameen Kalyan

Bangladesh

Abida Sultana

Managing Director

Onnosheba

Bangladesh

Nazneen Sultana

Managing Director

Grameen Communications

Bangladesh

Narayan Sundararajan

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Grameen Intel

United States

Dr. Yodmanee Tepanon

Assistant Professor

Kasetsart University

Thailand

K Paul Thomas

Founder, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Evangelical Social Action Forum (ESAF), Small Finance Bank

India

Andres Trujillo

Country Director

YSB Colombia

Colombia

Christian Vanizette

Co-founder

MakeSense.org

France

Shridhar Venkat

CEO

Akshaya Patra Foundation

India

Alex Wang

Secretary-General

Youthink Center, China

China

Ms. Aarti Wig

Co-founder and Country Director

Yunus Social Business, India

India

Michael Wirtz

University Advisor

University of Wuppertal

Germany

Prof. Muhammad Yunus

Chairman

Yunus Centre

Bangladesh

Gao Zhan

President

Grameen China

China

SocialBusinessPedia

Speakers

Event Archives

Contact

Quick Links