Prof N. Siva Prasad

M.Tech, Ph.D

Prof. N. Siva Prasad served at IIT Madras in several capacities from 1977 to 2014 until his superannuation in June 2014.His areas of interest are Machine Design, CAD, FEM and Computer Graphics. He visited UK with a British Council scholarship and Germany with DAAD fellowship. He also visited US, China, Thailand and Malaysia on different occasions and in various professional capacities. Presently he is Pro-Vice Chancellor of GITAM (Deemed to be University)Hyderabad.

A.V. Ratna Prasad

M.Tech.,Ph.D., FIE

Dr.A.V.Ratna Prasad serving as Principal of Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College,Vijayawada since 2014 is an alumni of IIT, Kharagpur. His activities include implementing continuous reforms in the college for effective teaching – learning and research among students & faculty for better outcomes. In addition to research in the areas of natural fiber composites, he executed good no.of research projects funded by Government and is a recipient of 'Highest citations award' & 'Outstanding contributions award' from Elsevier, UK.

Joyashree Roy

Ph.D

Dr.Roy is currently the Bangabandhu Chair Professor in Energy at AIT, Thailand. She has been the Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research. She is among the network of scientists who shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC (Intergovernmental panel on climate change). She is co-sharer of Prince Sultan Bin Aziz Prize for water, 2012.She believes that "Educating a mind to have liberated heart and soul is true service to humanity"

Brij Mohan Singh Rathore

I.F.S

Mr. Rathore has been a professional forester from Indian Forest Service with 36 years of experience. Presently working as Chief Policy Adviser at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) Kathmandu, Nepal. He is well experienced in development and connecting effective policies to achieve sustainable rural livelihoods. The recipient of national award, “Indira Priyadarshini Vraksha Mitra” for community-based forest management, and State Governments Gold Medal for professional excellence in forestry..

Ramakrishna Nemani

Ph.D

Dr.Nemani born and brought up in Andhra Pradesh, works as a senior earth scientist at NASA's Ames Research Centre in the Silicon Valley. His work focuses on combining supercomputing with big data from satellites to understand and predict the fate of Earth's ecosystems in response to climate variability and change. A regular visitor to India over the past thirty years, he collaborates with a number of institutions working towards improving rural livelihoods using geo-spatial technologies. .

P.Seshagiri Rao

MBBS,DLO,DOHNS(UK)

Dr.Rao works as ENT Surgeon at Cardiff, UK. Having done his early education in rural areas of Telangana state of India, he understands well the logistic difficulties of rural children for access to quality education. He believes that any act of kindness to reach to the poor students is highly appreciated by the learned society. Very keen to support Aksharadaan mission and take part to the possible extent.

Kalyan Ram

B. Tech

Currently working as Senior Manager at Nvidia, USA and has 14+ years’ experience in Software Industry mainly in the areas of Cloud Infrastructure development, Large scale Continuous Integration Infrastructure. He strongly believes that education for all will help us build a strong foundation for our nation. Excited to be part of the initiative to play my small part towards this noble cause.

Subbarao Tallapragada

M.Com,B.L.,FCMA,FCS

He is a practicing Company Secretary and corporate consultant. He wishes to contribute to the best of his abilities for the Trust to attain its objectives.

Anil Kumar Josyula

M.Com.,M.B.A with CAIIB

Anil is banker by profession with 30 years committed service in Punjab National Bank and retired as Chief Manager, Head Office Delhi. He held responsible positions in major projects in Bank such as ISO certification, Branch Improvisation for Corporate services, etc. His interests are in Knowledge sharing, Motivational speeches and Social Service.

C.V. Gopal Krishna Rao

B. Com, LL. B

He is an Advocate practicing on civil, criminal side before lower courts and High court at Hyderabad over three decades. Also, a trained Mediator through Hon'ble High Court of Telangana for alternate dispute resolution. He served the society for various social and societal causes as Treasurer and Secretary for the Bar Association, City Civil Courts at Hyderabad and was also Director for A.P. Advocates' Mutually Aided Co.op Society Hyderabad. Willing to render his services to Aksharadaan and thank the founders for establishing the institution for a noble cause.

Hariom Manchiraju

M.B.A; Ph.D

Hariom did his post-graduation and doctorate at State University of New York – Buffalo and MFM from Sri Satya Sai University, India. Currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Accounting area at the Indian School of Business. His research focuses on Capital market-based accounting research; Effects of accounting regulatory changes; Earnings management; Executive compensation; Risk management using derivatives, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Eklabya Sharma,

Ph.D.,FNA, FNASc, FNIE

Dr. Sharma is Vice Chancellor of TERI School of Advanced studies, New Delhi. Renowned academician and scientist who has nurtured and instrumental in building institutions of par excellence. Over the last 35 years, his works focused on sustainable and resilient development of Hindu Kush Himalayan Mountains for improved and equitable livelihoods. He has developed dedication and passion to provide scientific solutions to multitude of challenges of rural livelihood development.

Dr.B.V.Pattabhiram,

Ph.D.

Internationally renowned motivational speaker and expert on personality development. Over the last 30 years, his approaches have been proven successful in treating, motivating and counselling Students, Teachers, Professionals, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders across India. His online inspirational videos and audios on diversity of topics reached several millions of people. His first ever Magic school in India is recognized in the Limca Book of Records, received several national and international awards including Honorary Doctorate in Hypnosis from University of Florida

Dr. Seetha Somasundaram,

Ph.D

One of the leading scientists of ISRO, Dr. Seetha has contributed to Mars Orbiter Mission which has made the nation proud. With more than thirty years of experience working at ISRO, she has extensive contributions to the development of instruments for various space science experiments including that on AstroSat, India's first space Observatory. Currently working as Emeritus Scientist at Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. Supports, encourages and inspires young minds especially rural girl students towards a better future.