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Rohan Pasricha is a US Army veteran currently working for Amazon as their Sr. Regional Manager for the South-West region. Rohan’s career path took a major shift when he ended up joining US Army after writing a blog in response to the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks. He was literally plucked out of the classroom on a US student visa and pulled into the US Army battlefield. He ended up doing his MBA from INSEAD after leaving the Army and ended up joining Amazon after graduation. Rohan had to go on medical leave after contracting Covid-19 in Feb 2020 and used this time to learn more about the stock market. He turned his initial $300k investment to over $14M by Jan 2021 by following some key steps in his investment strategy. Apart from stocks, Rohan loves spending time with his 2 kids and loves playing poker. Normal text.

Ishan is an entrepreneur, global executive & team builder who loves creating and scaling up businesses. He  is driven by the idea of democratising access across various dimensions and has spent all his professional life doing so through his work in the areas of education, finance & information.

Ipshita started her career as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank. She spent three years in early-stage VC and impact investing, focused on ed-tech and fin-tech, with the Dell Foundation and Elevar Equity in India. She then started up in the ed-tech and content discovery space, democratising discovery of learning-based content across the web. She's headed to business school at Stanford GSB in the fall, and is currently working with Nova Credit, a Bay Area startup. Nova helps immigrants moving to the US access financial products in the US, using their home-country credit history, so they can start their financial journey in the US on equal footing.

Ipshita is an incoming Stanford GSB MBA student, and is currently working with Nova Credit. Nova helps immigrants moving to the US start their financial journey on an equal footing, by helping them use their home country credit history, to access financial products in the US. Prior to Nova, Ipshita was the founder of a social-first content discovery platform for educational content. She also spent over three years in early-stage VC and impact investing in India. Ipshita believes in using technology as an equalising force, with a passion for education and financial inclusion.

Inspired by the Socratic method, and a long tradition of philosophers who were interested in the practical side ofphilosophy, I am interested in working with people and enterprises to cultivate an action-driven, belief-disrupting,philosophical way of thinking.

Jed is a venture builder who has launched new tech businesses around the world. He's built and run the world's largest API Marketplace in partnership with A16Z-backed RapidAPI. He has been an angel investor and leads syndicate for 4 years. He recently launched Angel-School.co: A hands-on, fully-remote fellowship program to help emerging Angels invest via their own syndicates. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India.  An internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. He has also served on the Future City Sub-Committee of the Singapore government tasked with building a long-term vision for the city-state. 

Mohini Gupta is currently a research scholar in language politics at the University of Oxford. She founded the multilingual digital collective Mother Tongue Twisters to promote Indian language poetry for young readers, and curate conversations on literary translation.

Mohini was the Charles Wallace India Trust Translator-Writer Fellow in 2017 for creative writing and translation, hosted by Literature Across Frontiers. An alumna of SOAS University of London, she has been a Research Fellow at Sarai, CSDS; and a translator-in-residence at the Sangam House international writers’ residency in Bangalore. She has written on languages, literature and translation for publications such as Huffington Post, The Caravan Magazine, TheWire.in, Scroll.in, Poetry Translation Centre, and the WorldKidLit Blog. Her English-Hindi translations have been published by Tulika Publishers. She is also a trained Indian Classical (Hindustani) vocalist and a Western Classical pianist.

During his career spanning 38 years, Anil Swarup attempted to 'make it happen'. Before joining the IAS in 1981, he served the IPS for a year. He won Director's Gold Medal at the LBS National Academy of Administration amongst the officers of his batch. As a civil servant, he held various assignments within both the State (UP) and Central Govt. During the final years of his career, he served as Secretary in the Ministry of Coal where he handled the aftermath of the coal scam. Thereafter, he served as Secretary, School Education and Literacy where he attempted to foster public private partnership to improve quality of school education. As a strategic thinker and an innovative leader, he won several awards and nominations.

Damon Centola is a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Director of the Network Dynamics Group and Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

His research addresses social networks and behavior change. His work has been published across several disciplines in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Statistical Physics.

Before coming to Penn, Centola was an Assistant Professor at M.I.T. and a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow at Harvard University. His speaking and consulting clients include Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Cigna, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Heart Association, the National Academies, the U.S. Army, and the NBA. Popular accounts of his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, TIME, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and CNN.