Titoo Ahluwalia holds the unique distinction of having headed the three largest market research companies in India – IMRB, of which he became Chief Executive at the age of 30; then MARG, which he set up in 1983, and subsequently ORG, which merged with MARG in 1996. He started his career as a social researcher at Research Services Ltd in London. In 2004, Titoo Ahluwalia took early retirement from his position as CEO of ACNielsen ORG-MARG, to pursue on a full-time basis his interest in issues concerning civil society. He is now Managing Trustee of Citizens for Peace and Trustee of four other voluntary organizations involved with work in many different areas such as communal harmony, urbanization education, rural development and accountability in public institutions. He is also Chairman of Conscious Food Pvt Ltd, India’s first organic food company.
Nandita Das has acted in more than 40 feature films in 10 different languages. She made her directorial debut with Firaaq in 2008 and Between the Lines marks her debut as a playwright and theater director. She is an advocate for issues of social justice and human rights. She was the Chairperson of Children’s Film Society between 2009 and 2012. Nandita Das was the first Indian to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Women’s Forum. She has also been conferred the ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the French Government. She was at Yale as a World Fellow in 2014.
Rama Shyam PhD, co-founder, SAHER and Director with SNEHA's Adolescent and Youth Programme and the Collaborations and Partnership Domain is an ethnographer by training and has over 22 years of experience in both grassroots’ and international organisations, working on peace building and community-based leadership. She has played a key role in consolidating both quantitative and qualitative evidence based learning on adolescent and youth programmes and regularly contributes to advocating integrated adolescent programming based on a gender transformative approach across national and global platforms. Currently she is leading three large interventions with young people and communities from urban informal settlements in Mumbai, on scaling and school and public systems based model, scaling a stepped care model to address adolescent mental health concerns and facilitating people's access to social protection schemes. Rama invests in building capacities of community volunteers on issues of citizenship, democracy and governance. She was awarded Ashoka’s Changelooms Award in 2006, YouthActionNet Fellowship in 2007,the Martii Ahistari Peacebuilder Award in 2012, for her peace-education activities in Mumbai, and the Dasra Social Impact Village Capital Award in 2010.
