Our speakers

Parth Jindal, MD, JSW Cement, JSW Paints

Parth Jindal earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2016 and his Bachelor in Arts in Economics and Political Science from Brown University in 2012.

Parth Jindal joined the $22 Bn JSW Group in 2012, prior to which he spent 2 years working abroad, starting with a hedge fund in New York before spending considerable time in Japan working for JFE Steel (JV Partners of JSW Steel).

Today, Parth Jindal is the Managing Director of JSW Cement (currently a $600 Mn organisation with 17 MTPA capacity and is being steered towards 25 MTPA capacity by 2024), Managing Director of JSW Paints (launched in May 2019), Director of JSW Energy, Founder of JSW Sports that owns and manages ISL 2018-19 Champions Bengaluru FC, Pro-Kabaddi League team Haryana Steelers and is Chairman and Co-Owner of Delhi Capitals. Parth Jindal is also the Founder of Inspire Institute of Sport (a visionary project to elevate India’s Olympic caliber), Director of JSW Ventures and Director of JSW USA.

Under his stewardship, JSW Sports was honored with the “Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2018”, by the President of India, for Encouragement to Sports through Corporate Social Responsibility. He is the youngest Business Leader on the ‘2019 Economic Times 40 under Forty’ list, ‘GQ’s 50 Most InfluentialYoung Indians for 2018’ and felicitated by News24 as 2018 Youth Icon for his contribution to the Nation. As Director Bengaluru FC, Parth was elected unopposed as Vice President of the Western India Football Association.

At the Group level, Parth continues to lead and provide direction to the Human Resources, Information Technology and digital functions.

Parth Shah, Co-Founder, Indian School of Public Policy

Parth J. Shah is the founder president of Centre for Civil Society and the founder of National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA), a federation of 80,000 budget private schools in India. Dr. Shah’s research and advocacy work focuses on the themes of economic freedom (law, liberty and livelihood campaign), choice and competition in education (fund students, not schools), property rights approach for the environment (terracotta vision of stewardship), and good governance (new public management and the duty to publish). He has edited and published extensively in international and Indian journals and popular press on various issues ranging from currency regulation to education policy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Auburn University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He has been a visiting faculty at JNU and MS University and has served on the Senate of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh and of Tamil Nadu. He has been a member of several state and union government task forces, including the education task force of the governments of Delhi and Karnataka. He recently joined the Board of Directors of the Atlas Network, USA.

Piyush Goyal, Hon'ble Union Minister of Commerce & Industry,

Piyush Goyal, Hon. Union Minister for Commerce and Industry,

Pooja Sahgal, Chief Marketing Officer, Raymond

Influential marketing and business growth leader with +20 years of experience in driving brand preference, business transformation, and profitable revenue growth for leading brands. Savvy, data-driven strategist with varied and deep experience including category and brand development, brand portfolio maximization, innovation, and integrated channel deployment. Skilled at building, training, and inspiring high-performing goal- oriented teams. 

She has worked across Marico, Kellogg , Kellogg UK , Loreal and Raymond Consumer care.

Prabhjeet Singh, President, Uber - India & South Asia

Pradeep Mehta, Secretary General, CUTS International

Pradeep Tharakan, Director Energy Transition, ADB

Prajna Khanna, Global Head of Sustainability, Prosus Group

Prajna Khanna is the Global Head of Sustainability – Vice President at Prosus Group and Naspers Limited at Prosus Group. Prajna has two decades of working experience transitioning from being a development communication specialist to business sustainability. Before joining Prosus, Khanna was heading the corporate social responsibility department of Signify Foundation (formerly Philips Lighting). She also served as sustainability advisor at ING until October 2015. 

Khanna did her masters in media studies at Deakin University and is certified in executive education, leadership and transformation from Harvard Business School Executive Education.

Prakash Sankaran, Managing Director & CEO Invoicemart, A.TReDS Ltd