Mr. Kant is presently posted as CEO, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). He is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS ( Kerala Cadre: 1980 Batch). He is the author of "Branding India-An Incredible Story" and has been a key driver of "Make in India", Startup India, "Incredible India" and "God's Own Country" campaigns which positioned and branded India and Kerala State as leading tourism destinations. These campaigns have won several international awards and embraced a host of activities - infrastructure development, product enhancement, private-public partnership and positioning and branding.
Mr. Mishra is an IAS officer of the 1984 batch. He is presently serving as the Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague and the university of Western Sydney. Mr Mishra has served on an array of portfolios all through the length of his service like Principal Secretary (Appointment and Personnel), Secretary (Tax and Registration), Secretary (Health and Family Welfare), Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation (SDCFC), district magistrate and collector of Agra and Sonbhadra districts, Vice Chairman of Kanpur Development Authority and as the municipal commissioner of Kanpur in the Uttar Pradesh government among others.
Dr. Hiranandani is the Founder, Chairman of the illustrious Hiranandani Group and CMD Hiranandani Communities, accredited for transforming Mumbai's skyline and revolutionising the real estate industry. He has served on the board of various committees of the Government of Maharashtra and Government of India for drafting slum rehabilitation, housing and habitat policies. He is also the current President of the National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO).
Mr. Shah is the Co-founder and Director of the Savvy Group of Companies, an ISO 9001:2008 certified company envisaging a paradigm shift in the construction industry through adoption of innovative technologies. He is currently the President of CREDAI. He believes that the various policy reforms undertaken in the country in the recent years have created an amiable macroclimate for growth for housing in the country.
Mr. Mittal is the Vice-Chairman of Indian business conglomerate Bharti Enterprises headquartered in New Delhi. He leads companies with diverse portfolio ranging from insurance, food processing, telecommunication companies and also being on board of directors of various educational, institutional and research councils. He is presently associated with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) as the President.
Mr. Abhay Bakre is currently the Director General of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, an organisation working towards development of policies and strategies with the primary objective of reducing energy intensity of the Indian economy. Before joining BEE, he has held important portfolios in the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He has been instrumental in development and implementation of numerous programmes, as well as awareness generation, aiming at energy conservation spanning across different sectors of his work.
Prof. Murthy, specialises in Structural Engineering with Ph.D in Earthquake Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA. He has immensely contributed to research on seismic nonlinear behaviour of structures; Earthquake-resistant design of buildings and bridges; and developing seismic design codes. He was awarded as a Distinguished Teacher for his contribution in academics at the various IIT's across the country. He is currently the Professor at IIT Chennai and his expertise lies in design of disaster resilient structures using different technologies.
Ms. Zialcita is the CEO of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) in Singapore, vested with responsibility of strategic guidance, and operations of the association across Asia Pacific. She is a recognized expert on global economic, public policy and real estate issues speaking on global platforms as well as featured in numerous global publications. Prior to this, she served as the Managing Director of Asia Pacific Research and Advisory Services of Cushman & Wakefield in the US and Senior Economist for the National Association of Realtors.
Prof. Dr. P.S.N.Rao is the Director of School of Planning and Architecture , New Delhi, recognised as an Institution of National importance and also the Chairman of Delhi Urban Art Commission, Government of India. Dr. Rao has over three decades of professional experience is real estate, housing and urban development sector as an academician, consultant, policy advocate and industry advisor. Prior to joining SPA, he was a Professor of Urban Management at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
Dr. Swarup heads the Construction Industry Development Council as the Director General. He has to his credit good practices in the Construction Industry with key being the conceptualisation and implementation of the Construction Equipment Bank, Grading of Construction Entities and need for Human Resource Development . He has served as a Member of the working group on Construction, Hydro Power, Surface Transport and Housing in the various Five Year Plans and also contributed in establishing several Institutions to improve the functioning of Construction Industry Establishment in the country.
Sanjay Seth is the Senior Director of the Sustainable Habitat Division with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Chief Executive Officer of GRIHA Council. In the past, he headed the vertical on Building Energy Efficiency in Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Power and worked in various capacities in Central Public Sector Generating Company contributing to planning, monitoring, coordination and construction management of Hydro and Thermal power projects.
Dr. Vasudevan is a co-founder and CEO, of LabourNet. She is responsible for making LabourNet a respected social enterprise, by anchoring on values of growth, transparency social protection and inclusion. She has been extensively involved in policy issues & community mobilizations relating to Livelihoods, Social Security and the informal economy. She has a Doctorate in development studies. She comes with more than 20 years experience in organisations like ILO, UNICEF, NORAD, UNDP. She has more than 30 publications in the areas of labour and employment and gender issues to her credit.
Mr. Nagaraj is a qualified Cost Accountant and Company Secretary and is also a certified Banker having qualification of CAIIB. He has over 25 years of experience in sectors such as housing, infrastructure, skill development and micro-finance in social sector. Before joining HUDCO, he was the Managing Director of National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation under the aegis of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. He has also been associated with organisations like IIFCL
Prof Shah is Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs. He is a professional architect and architectural historian & theorist trained at the School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University in New York. He contributed to the Revision of the Regional Plan 2021 for the National Capital Region, and has served on the KC Sivaramakrishnan Committee (2014) for identifying a site for the new capital of Andhra Pradesh and the Madhukar Gupta Committee (2015) for amending the Delhi Development Act 1957. He is an Independent Director on the Board of Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd. and a Trustee on the Board of Clean Air Asia.
Mr Singh has attained B.Tech with Honours in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur (1974-79) and an MBA from MDI Gurgaon. He has worked in the R&D of Indian Telephone Industries at Bangalore and Naini, Allahabad. He joined CPWD as Assistant Executive Engineer (E). He has also done Special Post Graduate Diploma in "Environmental Management of Human Settlements" from Institute of Human Settlement, Rotterdam, Netherlands & HSMI), International Training on "Shelter & Low Cost Housing in Urban Area" in Bangkok, Thailand. He served on deputation as Director of Estate in MoUD. He also served as OSD to Minister of Labour and OSD to Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment. He has vast experience of maintenance & construction work in VVIP/VIP areas.
Dr. N Gopalakrishnan is currently the Director, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute Roorkee. He is a trained Civil Engineer from College of Engineering, Guindy with Masters in Structural Engineering from IIT-Madras. He did his PhD in Structural engineering from IISc Bangalore. He worked as an Engineer at Tata Consulting Engineer and worked as a Scientist at Structural Dynamics and Machine Foundation Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory and Advanced Seismic Testing and Research Laboratory of CSIR-SERC. His research interests lie in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Experimental methods in Structural Engineering, Machine supporting structure and soil-structure interaction, Reinforced concrete structures, Structural health monitoring, Smart materials and structures.
Dr. Paresh Shah has completed his PhD in Geo-technical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai in 2005. He has an M Tech from IIT, Mumbai and a graduate degree in Civil Engineering from L D College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. For 8 years, he worked in private consulting firm with involvement in design & construction of industrial structures. Subsequently, he forayed into teaching and now has a total of 24 years of academic experience.
Professor Meher Prasad has over 29 years of research experience in the area of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. His Ph D work was in the area of dynamic soil-structure interaction. His recent work is related to computational modelling of the reinforced concrete buildings subjected to earthquakes. Specifically the work is concentrated in preparing seismic evaluation methodologies and in obtaining required computational tools to identify all the possible failure mechanisms of the available Indian building stock considering the prevailing construction practice. His research group is currently working on developing fragility curves for the building typology available in India. His other research areas include: Glass fibre reinforced gypsum wall panel building systems, precast concrete structures, bridge health monitoring, structural reliability and computational mechanics. He also worked on vulnerability models for buildings in the cyclone prone areas.
Dr. Agrawal has over 20 years to provide technology, research and development experience in all areas of building science and technology through continuous effort in applied research, societal based research programmes, publications and patents. He has been previously associated with organisations like CBRI, Roorkee, where he has contributed in the capacity of project leader, principal investigator and co-investigator in various in research projects. His professional contribution can be classified in four discipline of Building Science & Technology viz. Earthquake Engineering; Repair, Rehabilitation & Earthquake Resistant Construction; Computer Aided Structural Analysis & Design; and Distressed Buildings.
Scott B. Knox has spent decades working on many different building types: airports, museums, industrial, educational, commercial, and housing. The roles of his career have evolved from builder, to draftsman, to programmer of Building Information Models (BIM) and simulations, project manager, up to a US Operations- BIM Lead on a multi-billion dollar semiconductor ChipFab
Dr. Dasgupta is the Global Director of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. He guides WRI Ross Center in developing environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable solutions to improve people's quality of life in developing cities. He leads the program's team of global experts in sustainable transport, urban development and building efficiency, as well as its engagement across low-carbon energy, governance, water risk, and associated areas as well as serves as a member of WRI's global management team, helping to shape the institute's overall strategy and growth. An alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, he comes with over 15 years of experience in international development with a focus on the urbanisation, urban environment and infrastructure
Christofer Nelson is a Scholar on Innovation and Program Manager for Science in the Public Interest at Georgetown University and works on Energy Prize for national community energy efficiency. Prior to this, he served as the Assistant Director for Open Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). He has worked immensely at the intersection of public policy and innovation for many years, working with organizations such as the X PRIZE Foundation, the Case Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation to better understand how to design and use competitions to drive innovation
Mr Logan is responsible for BRE's business in India focusing on its certification of fire and security products, under the LPCB certification schemes. Prior to this, he ran the BRE offices in Scotland, Wales and The Eden Project, Cornwall plus operating the BRE Innovation Park at Ravenscraig testing new designs, materials or technologies before being applied to real communities. He has led numerous strategic projects for the business, including the establishment of the BRE Innovation Park Network in 2005 and most recently supporting the establishment of BRE China
Mr Garg is the Executive Vice President and Head of Construction and Mining Machinery Business of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. He is also a member of the Board responsible for operations- manufacturing at L&T Construction Equipment Limited, Distribution of the entire range of Construction and Mining equipment. An alumnus of Maulana Azad College of Technology and the London Business School, he has over 25 years of industry experience
