Ms. Rathi Vinay Jha
Chair Emeritus
Chair Emeritus
Chair & President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Member
Chair Emeritus
Ms. Rathi Vinay Jha served in the Indian Administrative Service where as Secretary, Union Ministry of Tourism, she led the team on the ‘Incredible India’ campaign. In her assignment as Director to set up the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) the concept of Fashion Education was introduced for the first time in India. Ms. Jha has also served after retirement as Secretary General of the World Travel and Tourism Council – India. She is the Founder Chairperson of the Indian Heritage Cities Network, a UNESCO NGO. She is on the Boards of a number of other Trusts and Societies addressing the development sector. She is currently the Chairperson of the India Foundation of Arts as well as a Trustee of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts. (IGNCA)
Chair & President
Mr. JVR Prasada Rao is a Former Health Secretary, Government of India and Director General, National AIDS Control Organisation.
He has made immense contributions in strengthening the health sector and in formulating India’s response to HIV/AIDS. He is a strong regional voice for prioritising public health in national policies in India and other Asian countries.
Mr. Rao was invited to join as the Regional Director of UNAIDS where he led the UN response to AIDS in Asia Pacific countries. He has also held eminent positions in the UN as Special Envoy to the Secretary General, United Nations, and as the Regional Director of UNAIDS for the Asia Pacific region. He facilitated discussions on inclusion of AIDS elimination as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for 2030 which was finally adopted in the UNGA declaration on SDGs in 2015. Mr. Rao is also a former Commissioner Secretary of a Global Commission on HIV and Law initiated by UNDP.
Vice President
Justice Madan B Lokur is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and presently a judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji. He was appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India in 1998 and a Judge of Delhi High Court in February, 1999. He was the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court and Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court on 4th June, 2012 and retired on 30th December, 2018.
He was the one-Man Committee to suggest improvements in the working of the homes and organisations under the Juvenile Justice Act. He was a member and later Chairperson of the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court, Chairperson of the E-Committee of the Supreme Court and Executive Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee and the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
Secretary
Mr. Atul Kirloskar was the Executive Chairman of Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd. and Chairman of Kirloskar Ferrous Ltd. He has a keen interest in operations and people. Mr. Kirloskar channels his passion for excellence to help Plan India meet its objectives efficiently and effectively.
Treasurer
Ms. Chaudhary joined the service in August 1983 and served in several important positions in the Himachal government and was serving as Additional Chief Secretary since 2014. She has also served at the centre from 1997 to 2001 and from 2008 to 2012. She is retired from the services.
She has been the Director of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration. She had been appointed as Secretary, Department of Youth Affairs. Chaudhary has an MA and MBA and has held various important positions. She has been Joint Secretary, Animal Husbandry Department of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Secretary of the Panchayati Raj department of the Government of Himachal.
She was Himachal’s first woman Director (Industries) and later the first woman IAS Officer as Managing Director of Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation.
Member
Ajay Kaul, in a corporate career spanning 30+ years, has served renowned companies like American Express, ModiLufthansa, TNT India, TNT Indonesia as CEO and as CEO of Jubilant FoodWorks (operating Domino’s Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts in India). He has done his Bachelor of Technology from IIT Delhi and MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.
Ajay Kaul is the one who fuelled India’s voracious appetite for Pizzas, grew Domino’s Pizza (Jubilant Food Works) from just 90 stores to 1100 stores during his 12-year stint from 2005 - 2017, making it India’s LARGEST AND FASTEST GROWING FOOD SERVICE COMPANY and LARGEST DOMINO’S PIZZA market in the WORLD! (outside of USA).
Ajay is now working as Sr Advisor & Director with a Private Equity company called Everstone Capital Advisors. He serves as Chairman of Domino’s Pizza Indonesia, Burger King Indonesia. Also serves on board of Burger King India. He’s an advisor and investor in Chaayos, California Burrito, Dalchini etc. Ajay also serves on board of XLRI Jamshedpur, PLAN International India.
Also, he is actively mentoring a few startups in his personal capacity and through Indian Angel Network, for the past 10 years now.
Ajay is an advisor to RADTAG, a close to 1 billion USD retail brand in the Middle East.
Ajay is also a Sr Advisor to BOSTON CONSULTANCY GROUP (BCG).
Member
Ms. Shireen Jejeebhoy, PhD, is a demographer and social scientist with over 35 years of research and evaluation experience in the areas of young people’s health and development, women’s empowerment, gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health. She has made significant research contributions on adolescent health and development, the empowerment of women and girls, and women’s access to safe abortion. Ms. Jejeebhoy is the founder and director of Aksha Centre for Equity and Wellbeing, a non-profit organisation dedicated to enhancing the evidence and evaluating promising practices in her research areas. She is the Vice President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, and a member of the Governing Boards of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, the International Institute for Population Sciences and the Population Foundation of India. Previously, she served as Senior Associate, Population Council, India and Scientist, Reproductive Health and Research Department, World Health Organisation, Geneva
Member
Atul Dhawan was leading Strategy & Innovation for Deloitte South Asia. In this role, he was responsible for formulating, communicating, and monitoring Deloitte South Asia’s strategy and overseeing corporate development as well as the innovation & start-up ecosystem programmes and the "Global office". A partner for 28 years, Atul has almost 40 years of experience starting in audit, with a distinguished record of accomplishment of service to many key clients that include Indian companies, transnational corporations, government, and multilateral development agencies. His experience, besides audit, also includes advising senior executives and large clients on strategic direction, restructuring, business and tax planning, policy formulation, privatization, entry strategy, amongst others. Atul represents India on the Deloitte Global Board as well as the first Deloitte Asia Pacific Board. He also served on the Deloitte South Asia Coordinating Board. He has held leadership roles that include Regional Managing Partner for the North region and National Leadership roles for Clients & Industries as well as Brand & Communication. Externally, Atul is on the Board of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in Delhi, a reputed Silicon Valley based organization and through them works to support the start-up community and mentor upcoming entrepreneurs. He is an elected member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in India and is currently Honorary Secretary and Treasurer.
He is also on the Advisory Board of the Confederation of the British Industry in India and advises U.S. India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) for various India-focused campaigns. He is a Chartered Accountant and an Economics graduate from the University of Delhi.
