Prof. (Dr.) Satadal Saha MS, FRCS (Eng.) is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati. He was a former Professor at the School of Medical Science & Technology at IIT Kharagpur. A general surgeon by profession, Prof. Saha was the key founder of FIH in 2013.

Prof. Saha has been trained in India and the UK. He founded the Westbank Hospital at Howrah and has established and operated four more hospitals in different districts of West Bengal — all delivering affordable speciality and super-speciality care to the rural population. In 2011, he shifted his focus to primary care and public health delivery to the vast rural population and started working on how innovative, cutting-edge science and technology can be leveraged to develop affordable healthcare technologies and software systems that may be used by trained and certified health workers to improve access to affordable high-quality healthcare in rural India.

Mr. Gupta is currently the President–Corporate Affairs (East) of JSW Steel Ltd., Chairman of Vesuvius India Ltd., Member of Board of Directors of JSW Cement Ltd., Independent Director of IFB Industries and Chairman of Neoceram India Ltd. He is a past President of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the past Chairman of CII, Eastern Region. He is a member of Indian Chamber of Commerce and ASSOCHAM.

Mr. Pathak is a content strategist and an experienced media professional with a passion for weaving words, Suparna is regarded as a pioneer in modern business journalism in the Bengali media. An eloquent and proficient writer in both English and Bengali with 40 years of experience, he is also known for his astute and incisive analysis of government and corporate policies and is a regular presence at seminars organized by national level chambers of commerce and international organisations.

Ms. Pathak is an articulation capacity builder, Shubha has 36 years of experience in teaching English at reputed schools in senior classes. Her expertise in creating articulation capacity is also sought after at various organizational levels, including corporates. She excels in turning a communication deficient, articulation averse team into go-getters. She believes language is the soul of our thoughts and one doesn’t exist without the other. Creating articulation capacity is nothing but releasing a skill that we are born with is her mantra

Dr. Bhaumik (MBBS, DGO,DA,DRCOG) is currently a consultant at the Health Check Department at Apollo Multi Speciality Hospital in Kolkata. Prior to taking up this position Dr Bhaumik was working for the WHO and Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute for cancer prevention projects. She has also worked in the Community Medicine Department of KPC Medical College, Kolkata. Before relocating to India from the UK, Dr Bhaumik had been a GP Principal working at Fairfield Medical Center, Port Talbot, in Wales.

Dr. Bhaumik’s biggest contribution is in the development and establishment of ‘’School for Skills: Allied Health Sciences’’. The program started at Suri in the district of Birbhum, West Bengal. Following in her footsteps, this program has expanded across the country, and these schools are now training hundreds of students every year.

A biological sciences alumnus of Presidency & Jadavpur University, she is now the Program Director of the ‘Adolescent Leadership Program’ at “Jabala Action Research Organisation”, a civil society organization working on child rights, human trafficking, unsafe migration, and women’s labor. Her primary area of action research is the socio-cultural aspects and sexual and reproductive health rights of women & girls from Santhal & Pahariya communities & other indigenous tribes in the eastern states of India, including Intimate partner violence in South Asia.

Durba has more than 15 years of experience as researcher and trainer in a variety of sectors in social work. She has held teaching positions at some prestigious educational institutions in Kolkata. Durba conducted workshops with Centre for Criminology and Justice (CCJ), School of Social Work (SSW) & Tata Institute of Social Sciences on advocacy and intervention in the field of child marriage. She actively provides research support to initiatives on sex trafficking, HIV/AIDS control, and prevention of Child marriage. She was part of CNNS’s Anthropometric data collection program in 107 PSUs of West Bengal as the State trainer, for UNICEF and Population Council in 2018. She has been engaged in the training of adolescent girls on Leadership; Gender and Sexuality; ‘Reproductive Health & Menstrual Health Management (MHM) etc. She has been an invited speaker at Ford Foundation Centre for Social Justice, New York, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, International Organization of Migration (India Chapter) and many other national and international platforms.

It was her life’s calling that she left academia to join social sector, driven by a conviction that regressive social practices need to be addressed most urgently and that can be done only identifying and removing irrational and unscientific prejudices in which they are mired.