Speakers
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri
C20 Troika, and Representative of the C20 Chair, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Math
Shri.V. Muraleedharan
Union Minister of State for External Affairs
Dr. R Bindu
Minister for Higher Education & Social Justice, Kerala
Dr. Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament, Thiruvananthapuram, Former Under-Secretary-General UN
Dr. Luiz Claudio Costa
Former Vice-Minister of Education, Brazil
Shri. Sanjay Murthy IAS
Secretary Higher Education, Chair, G20 Education Working Group, India
Dr P. Venkat Rangan
Vice Chancellor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Prof. M Jagadesh Kumar
Chairman, UGC, India
Mr. Terry Durnnian
Chief Education, UNICEF
Mr Duncan Ross
Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education, UK
Shri. Armoogum Parsuramen
Former Director UNESCO, Former Education Minister, Mauritius
Ambassador Shri. Vijay K Nambiar
C20 Sherpa
Dr. VP Joy, IAS
Chief Secretary, Kerala, India
Dr. Joost Monks
Executive Director, Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative, Geneva
Prof. Anil Sahasrabudhe
Chairman, National Educational Technology Forum, India
Ms. Joyce Poan
Chief of Education, UNESCO
Shri Satyanarayana Jesinta
Chief Advisor, World Economic Forum
Dr. Maneesha Ramesh
Provost, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Shri Anurag Beher
CEO, Azim Premji Foundation
Dr. Ramanandamrita Chaitanya
MA Center, USA
Prof. Judith Hollenweger Haskell
Zurich University of Teacher Education
Mrs. Nora Shabani
Education Specialist at UNICEF, Geneva, Switzerland
Shri. Sanjay Kumar, IAS
Secretary, School Education, Ministry of Education
Dr. Jayanti Narayan
Former Deputy Director, National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped
Dr. Gopal Mitra
Program Specialist – Children with disabilities, UNICEF
Prof. Venu Govindaraju
Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University of Buffalo, USA
Prof. Dan Wagner
UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Amarendra Behera
Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT
Dr. Bhavani Rao
National Coordinator C20 on Gender Equality & Women Empowerment
Shri. Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology, UN
Dr. Santosh K. Pandey
Additional Director, G20 Digital Economy Working Group, MeitY
Shri Vijay Vemulapalli
President, VIBHA – India
Shri Bawa Jain
Founding Secretary General, The World Council of Religious Leaders, USA
Ms. Dena Merriam
Founder, Global Peace Initiative of Women Reflections
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw First Nations; Chairperson at Four Worlds International Institute
Mr. Siddharth Parmar
Chief Executive, Parivaar Education Society, India
Ms. Barsha Banerjee
Managing Director, Perkins School for Blind, Perkins India
Dr. Chamu Krishna Shastry
Chairman, High Powered Committee for the Promotion of Indian Languages, Ministry of Education, India
Mr. Sapan Jain
Indian Sign Language Teacher and Coordinator
Mr. Arun Fernandez
Founder (Social Entrepreneur), DLearners, India
Dr. Anunaya Jain
Country Digital Health Lead , Jhpiego, India
Ms. Bhavani Mohan
Yoga and Meditation instructor, Mata Amritanandamayi Math, India
