Kalpana Sankar

Dr. Kalpana Sankar, a pioneering impactpreneur and nuclear physicist turned social entrepreneur, has reshaped social impact over the past three decades. As the Managing Director of Belstar Microfinance Ltd. and the co-founder and Chairperson of Hand in Hand India, she has empowered 10 million rural women with sustainable employment opportunities.

Mariko Ouchi

Ms. Mariko Ouchi has been serving as Senior Social Protection Specialist for South Asia, based in the ILO Decent Work Technical Support Team (DWT) in New Delhi since September 2020. She provides technical advisory services to seven countries in the sub-region: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Ajay Mahal

Dr Ajay Mahal is an economist with over 25 years of experience in health systems and policy research and evaluation. His recent research has focused on the evaluation of health system interventions. Ajay's research interests span a range of economically relevant questions about household and national-level impacts of (ill) health, human resources for health, fiscal federalism and health, and social protection. He has also been engaged in collaborative research on the intersection of clinical epidemiology and household economics.