CaL Panelists for AY 2025-26
Shilpa Sharma
Primary School Principal at B.D. Somani International
Laxman Singh
Program Communications Manager for the Air Quality team at WRI India
Meera Sampat
Director at Infuse Management Consultants
Past CaL Panelists
Alpana Dange
Consulting Research Director
(The Humsafar Trust),
Co-founder-Partners In Progress
Dr. A.L. Sharada
Director of Population First and spearheads the media advocacy campaign for gender sensitivity (Laadli).
Amitabh Jhingan
Partner at EY Parthenon International Education Practice.
Shri Anand Sharma
Head of the Meteorological Centre’s (India) meteorological department.
Belur Krishnamurthy Sethuram
Managing Director, India, and General Manager, CE Next Polymers at Celanese.
Bhavesh Gandhi
Co-founder of The Polymath School, Mumbai’s first K–12 project-based learning school.
Bilwa Kulkarni
Erstwhile Education Officer at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya..
Bittu Sahgal
An environmental activist, writer, and the founding editor of Sanctuary Asia, India’s premier wildlife and ecology magazine.
Emma Francis
Senior Consultant, Teach for India
Friyana Pardiwalla
Principal at J.B. Petit School
Gauri Kirtane Vanikar
Leading learning at the Akanksha Foundation.
Giselle Barboza
Partner at Ernst & Young (EY), one of the largest multinational professional services networks in the world.
Harshita Chembath
An engineer, entrepreneur, and mother of two boys. Her enterprise, Homefarefood helps home chefs become financially independent doing what they love most!
Joyoti Roy
Assistant Director, Projects and Public Relations at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai.
Kavita Anand
Co-Founder at Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation.
Lopa Gandhi
Founder of the Ugam Education Foundation.
Madhumita Srivastava
Author and illustrator and the co-founder of Flying Tricycle Workshops.
Malvika Bhatia
Archive Director at The Citizens’ Archive of India
Minal Gala- Erstwhile
Principal of Primary School, BD Somani International School
Mona Seervai
Erstwhile principal of Bombay International School.
Pavitra Rajaram
Creative head of Pavitra Rajaram Design.
Paul Abraham
Founder of the Sarmaya Arts Foundation and the Bombay Natural History Society’s (Bnhs) vice president.
Prerna Shivpuri
Founding member of “I Am A Teacher.”
Dr. Pooja Prabhavalkar
Faculty for Psychology at Fergusson College, Contributory Author, Social Science Researcher
Rajan Jayakar
Convenor of the India National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Greater Mumbai Chapter.
Mr. Rajesh Kankal
Education officer for all MCGM schools in Mumbai.
Ram Boojh
CEO of the Mobius Foundation and a former UNESCO employee.
Rayna Mehta
Psychologist at the J.B. Petit High School for Girls.
Riddhima Krishnamurthy
Co-Founder of RobinAge and Bright Sparks (India’s leading weekly children’s newspaper).
Ritesh Joshi
Scientist with the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi.
Roshni Nuggehalli
Executive Director at Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA)
Saurabh Taneja
CEO of the Akanksha Foundation.
Sakina Arsiwala
Founder & secondary school section coordinator at The Golden Spiral Waldorf Initiative
Shalini Malhotra
Founder and director of Neev-A Learning Center.
Shital Kakkar Mehra
Leadership and executive presence coach, business etiquette speaker, and best-selling author.
Suzie Boss
Writer and educational consultant from the United States. Author of more than 10 popular books for educators and board member for City as Lab.
Vandana Goyal
Former CEO and current board member at The Akanksha Foundation and the managing trustee and co-CEO at Avanti Fellows.