Shri Abhishek Singh is a career civil servant with 29 years of experience of governance & policy formulation. He specializes in the use of Technology for improving Governance.  He currently serves as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, with responsibilities of Artificial Intelligence & Emerging…

Aboubacar Diallo is a technical advisor with over a decade of experience in digital health, data science, and ICT for development. He has dedicated his career to using technology to improve healthcare systems, focusing on underserved communities and climate-resilient health solutions. In his current role as a CAN Data Science…

Aditi comes with extensive public-private partnerships, technology policy, innovation, and consulting experience of around two decades spread across the globe notably in Europe, the US, and Australia working at leadership positions with organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and PwC. As the Director – Strategic Initiatives, Aditi is…

Baksheesh Sachar is a young professional working with the Department of Finance, Planning & Investment, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. Previously he has worked with various organisations on WASH & Climate projects, starting his career as a consultant to a District Collector in Bihar to expedite progress for Swachh Bharat Mission…

Cormekki Whitley is the Chief Operating Officer at data.org. As a member of the Executive team, Cormekki provides high-level fiscal oversight, oversees contract administration, and streamlines both in-house personnel and resource systems.

Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of data.org. He has over 20 years of experience setting up multiple start-ups and leading work across a range of diverse sectors, always investigating and innovating in the space where technology, culture, and society converge.

Dr. Felipe J. Colón-González is a Technology Lead in the Data for Science and Health Team at Wellcome.

Gaurav Godhwani is co-founder and executive director at CivicDataLab – a research lab focused to strengthen data for public good and enhance civic engagements in India & other Asian countries. He works to leverage the open-source movement to enable citizens to engage better in public reforms. He has been instrumental…

As Environmental Defense Fund’s Chief Advisor in India, Hisham is responsible for the organization’s strategy in the region which centers on playing a catalytic role in support of an Indian pathway to shared, sustainable prosperity. Hisham is a well-respected figure in the business world and has over 25 years of…

Dr Isabel Fletcher works in the Data for Science & Health team at the Wellcome Trust in London, where she leads the funding of impactful data science research to address major global health challenges, including Climate and Health. Isabel has led funding initiatives including leveraging AI for synthesising evidence for…

Jayprakash Nayak is an Analyst at Socratus Foundation for Collective Wisdom, where he is leveraging data to co-create the People’s Climate Atlas of Odisha. He combines geospatial analysis with community inputs to inform hyperlocal climate strategies. Jayprakash graduated from the first cohort of the Postgraduate Diploma in Data Science for…

Krishna Mishra is a tech-driven social entrepreneur and innovator with over three decades of experience in transforming agriculture, finance, and rural development through digital solutions. As the Founder and Chairman of eKutir, he has pioneered data-driven, systemic adoption models for the agri-food sector, enabling sustainable and inclusive growth at the…

Linet Kwamboka is a leading practitioner in data policy and sustainable development.

Mohammad Sarfarazul Ambiya is an M.Tech graduate in Electronics and Communication from VTU University. He currently serves as the Chief Data Scientist at Khushi Baby, Technical Advisor at the data.org’s India Capacity Accelerator Network for JPAL South Asia, Academic Mentor at MIT Great Learning, Geospatial Scientist at Omdena and Data…

Murugan Vasudevan is the CEO of Veddis Foundation. Veddis invests in organizations working at the intersection of tech, policy, and social impact. Veddis also partners with governments on policy implementation, effective public service delivery and governance. Previously, Murugan led Cisco’s social innovations group, investing and building solutions in the areas…

Dr. Partha Pratim Das is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the Center of Data Science and Analytics at Ashoka University.

Perry Hewitt is the Chief Marketing and Product Officer of data.org where she oversees the marketing and communications functions, as well as digital product development.

Philipp Olbrich is an advisor in the project “FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All” that is implemented by Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project focuses on an open, inclusive, and sustainable development and use of Artificial…

Dr. Poornima Prabhakaran is the Director of the Centre for Health Analytics Research and Trends (CHART) at the Trivedi School of Biosciences and former Director, Centre for Environmental Health at the Public Health Foundation of India.  After graduating from Bangalore Medical College, she pursued her Master’s in Epidemiology at the…

Pramath Raj Sinha, Ph.D. is the Founding Dean and a member of the Executive Board of ISB which rapidly became one of the top 20 business schools in the world. He is also the Founder & Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ashoka University, India’s premier interdisciplinary research and teaching university.

Priyank Hirani is the Director of Capacity Building at data.org, where he strategizes and implements initiatives to democratize data skills and enable social impact organizations to be data-driven

Raghu Dharmaraju, CEO of ARTPARK at IISc, has over two decades of experience in building and scaling innovations and institutions for impact. He is a Fellow of the Lancet Commission for Reimagining India’s Health Systems. ARTPARK, a double winner of the Global Grand Challenge for Catalyzing Equitable AI by BMGF,…

Prof. Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi is currently an Associate Head of the School for Interdisciplinary Research and Entrepreneurship (SIRE) at BITS, Pilani’s, Goa campus. Dr. Chaturvedi specialises in Climate Change related issues. He has contributed to more than fifty peer reviewed journal articles and three books in this area. He is…

Shantanu Bhanja is a marketer and business leader who has spent three decades in Consumer Products and Media. In his last Corporate role, he was CEO of Pidilite Consumer Products. Prior to Pidilite, he worked for 10 years at Hindustan Times / HT Media, as a Business Head across both…

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India, and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

As Chief Data and Technology Officer, Uyi Stewart oversees all of data.org’s programmatic initiatives which today include the Generative AI Skills Challenge, Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge, the Capacity Accelerator Network, and Epiverse.