Liby Johnson returned to Gram Vikas in 2017 as Executive Director, nearly two decades after he first arrived in Odisha as a young IRMA graduate in the immediate aftermath of the 1999 Super Cyclone. In those early years at Gram Vikas, he led multi-disciplinary relief and reconstruction teams across 15 districts, and went on to […]
Sanjeev Nayak is a Founding Director and Trustee of the Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, and a Founding Trustee of the Future Bhubaneswar School. An entrepreneur whose work spans information technology, technical education, hospitality, and renewable energy, he also serves as Treasurer of Open Learning Systems and Manage Autism Now, both nonprofits working with differently […]
Pradosh Chandra Mohanty retired in 2018 from the Indian Revenue Service, where he served as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax for Andhra Pradesh. He joined the Gram Vikas Society in 2019.
P V S Suryakumar spent nearly four decades at the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, rising to Deputy Managing Director and shaping some of India’s most consequential programmes in agricultural and rural development. He helped conceive and steward JIVA, NABARD’s agroecology programme, designed to build on existing social and natural resource capital in […]
Neelima Khetan spent over two decades as Chief Executive of Seva Mandir, one of Rajasthan’s most respected grassroots development organisations, before taking her practice into corporate social responsibility and strategy consulting. She subsequently served as India Country Director of the American India Foundation, Director of CSR and Sustainability at Coca-Cola India and South West Asia, […]
Namrata Chadha is a lawyer and advisor to nonprofits, public institutions, and private organisations, with a practice centred on women’s rights, child protection, and legal aid. She formerly served on the Odisha State Commission for Women and is a founder member of ATSEC, an international organisation working against the trafficking of women and children. She […]
Gyana Ranjan Das retired from the Government of Odisha in 2024 after 35 years in public service, having joined the Odisha Administrative Service in 1989 and later been appointed to the Indian Administrative Service in 2017. His career spanned some of the state’s most consequential administrative roles, including Collector and District Magistrate of Bhadrak, Executive […]
Dr Veena Joshi has continued to work at the intersection of energy, climate action and institutional development since retiring from full-time employment. Over the past decade, she has advised organisations on governance, institutional transitions and strategic programme development; contributed to research and policy work on energy access, resource efficiency and climate action; and mentored professionals […]
Suprava Patnaik served as National Project Coordinator for UNESCO’s World Heritage Biodiversity Project in India, bringing together three decades of work across government, academia, and the development sector in natural resource management and ecology. She has been Professor at the Indian Institute of Forest Management and Principal Advisor at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of […]
Biren Bhuta co-created Samvaad, one of the subcontinent’s largest international indigenous conclaves, during his tenure as Chief of Corporate Social Responsibility at Tata Steel, where he worked across tribal communities in Jharkhand and Odisha. Before that, he spent years in broadcast journalism with NDTV and created the India Business Report series for BBC, having begun […]
