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Founder Chairman

Vibhav Kant Upadhyay

Founder Chairman

Vibhav Kant Upadhyay

Founder Chairman

Known as Architect of modern India-Japan Partnership and the newly established Alternative Development Model (ADM) Vibhav Kant Upadhyay is a development leader known for his statesmanship, macro-vision and pragmatism. A prolific out-of-the-box thinker, Vibhav strongly believes that the current development model needs a foundational change and has dedicated his life towards manifesting this thought process into visible and tangible results through the Alternative Development Model (ADM). Vibhav’s leadership successfully catalysed the India-Japan Global Partnership (IJGP) initiative which was announced in the year 2000 by the leaders of India and Japan. With relentless persuasion, he has nurtured and strengthened the strategic relationship between the two nations. This has led to mega-initiatives like the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), which was formed to re-establish the industrial culture of India. Therefore, he is widely regarded as the architect of the modern India-Japan relationship. Vibhav’s leadership is currently dedicated to furthering the development framework of ADM and initiatives based on it through the manifestation platforms and organizations in India, Japan and Global Partners. Under this model, the collaborative strengths and resources of Global Partners are utilised to empower not just the developed but the developing nations too. Vibhav believes that India and Africa are the socio-economic labs for the ADM model and Norway is the living lab. With one-sixth of humanity each in India and Africa, the adoption of ADM can become an example in the world for sustainable development for humanity. Vibhav focuses on ethos of contributory, inclusive and accessible development, championing the cause of a common man. His initiatives have led to thousands of projects creating opportunities, employment and vibrant economy. Vibhav is the Founder and Chairman of various organizations including the Alternative Development Organisation (ADO) in Oslo, Norway, India-Japan Foundation (IJF) Tokyo, Japan and India Center Foundation(ICF) New Delhi, India. He is also the Founder Chairman of Global Partnership Summit (GPS), a platform to take forward the Alternative Development Model (ADM) framework and initiatives based on it by manifesting unique ideas into tangible outcomes by empowering G2G, G2B and B2B interaction. The organisations will take forward seminal, innovative initiatives to establish ADM around the world focusing on areas such as Infrastructure, Healthcare, Agriculture, Education, Environment and Social Justice. Vibhav was born in Agra, India. He has a Post-Graduate degree from the University of Allahabad. He has a second Post-Graduate degree from the University of Tokyo. Vibhav is prolific in Japanese language besides Hindi and English.

Advisory Board Members

Imam Umer Ahmed lyasi

Advisory Board Member

Imam Umer Ahmed lyasi

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi is the Chief Imam of the All India Imam Organization (AIIO). AIIO is voice of the half a million Imams of India, the religious and spiritual guide of two hundred ten Million Indian Muslims. Imam Ilyasi is actively engaged in interfaith peacebuilding as the head of AIIO, and his commitment to peace, interfaith harmony and dialogue between civilizations is made evident in his every endeavor.

Sai Narayan Subramanian

Advisory Board Member

Sai Narayan Subramanian

Advisory Board Member

He is a global Indian with extensive experience in Strategy and Business Development across the world. He is based in Chicago, USA. Mr Subramanian is in-charge of Global Affairs and leads the Global India Initiative at India Center Foundation. His role includes active participation in the activities of the India Center Foundation including IJGPS and working closely with the Chairman in conceptualizing and executing various strategic initiatives.

Prof. M.D. Nalapat

Advisory Board Member

Prof. M.D. Nalapat

Advisory Board Member

He is presently the Director of the School of Geopolitics at Manipal University, India. A gold medalist in Economics from Bombay University, Prof. Nalapat holds the prestigious UNESCO Peace Chair. The former Coordinating Editor of the Times of India, he writes extensively on security issues, policy and international affairs.

Dr. Vivek Lall

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Vivek Lall

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Vivek Lall has held various key positions with his last stint being as CEO and President, Reliance New Ventures Ltd. Reliance Industries Limited. Dr. Lall was heading the Boeing (Defence and Space) operations in India from 2007 till April 2011. Dr. Lall has now joined General Atomics as the global Chief Executive for international Commercial Strategic Development for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems. He has been also recognized as one of the world’s top scientists of the twentieth century by Cambridge. He also has done his PhD in Aerospace and an MBA from US. He then worked with NASA Ames Research Center where he was part of a project undertaking research work. With a fellowship from NASA, he has done his PhD in aerospace engineering. Dr. Lall is also affiliated with the United Nations in New York to advise on Broadband and Cyber Security issues for unique challenges within the global community and provide services that will help address them.

Saleem Iqbal Shervani

Advisory Board Member

Saleem Iqbal Shervani

Advisory Board Member

Mr. Saleem Iqbal Shervani serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Shervani Industrial Syndicate Limited. Mr. Shervani serves as Chairman of Star Hotels Ltd. He serves as a Director of Shervani Sugar Syndicate Ltd., ATB Cargo Pvt Ltd., Al Barr Finance House Ltd., Capon Food Specialities Ltd., Gillette Diversified Operations Pvt. Ltd., LinkQuest Telecom Pvt Ltd., Shervani Hospitalities Ltd., Shervani Food Pvt. Ltd., Tara Snacks & Foods Ltd and iMRP Insurance Services Pvt. Ltd. He served as Non-Executive Director of Elder Pharmaceuticals since September 30, 2003 until December 11, 2014. He serves as an Executive Director of Shervani Industrial Syndicate Ltd. Mr. Shervani served as Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in 1996 in the Union Cabinet. In June 1997 he was appointed as Minister of State for External Affairs. Mr. Shervani was honoured with the “Indira Gandhi National Unity Award” in November 1990 for his outstanding services, achievements and contributions. Mr. Shervani is an Arts Graduate gold medallist in Economics from Aligarh Muslim University.

Kalikesh N. Singh Deo

Advisory Board Member

Kalikesh N. Singh Deo

Advisory Board Member

He is an Indian politician from Orissa and a leader of the Biju Janata Dal political party. He hails from the royal family of Bolangir. Currently, he is a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing Bolangir constituency in Orissa. He was a member of the Public Accounts Committee and Energy Committee.

Ajay Vir Jakhar

Advisory Board Member

Ajay Vir Jakhar

Advisory Board Member

He is Chairman of Bharat Krishak Samaj, a non-political, non-sectarian association of the agricultural producers & those interested in the promotion of their welfare. Presently as Director, NAFED he is acknowledged as an expert on agriculture and farmer-related welfare issues.

Prahlad Kakkar

Advisory Board Member

Prahlad Kakkar

Advisory Board Member

Founder and director of Genesis Film Productions, one of India’s leading production houses, established in 1977. Through the years, corporations like Nestlé, PepsiCo, Brittania, Levers have continued to communicate their brand stories through Prahlad Kakar. Prahlad has ruled the ad film making business and has won several awards for technical excellence, Innovation and creativity in advertising over the years in India. Genesis won both gold and silver awards including campaign of the year for the Pepsi commercials at AAAI in 1996. The public films for Ceat won awards in the New York festival of Advertising. Commercials directed by Prahlad have also been nominated for Lions at Cannes.

Dr. PS Rana

Advisory Board Member

Dr. PS Rana

Advisory Board Member

Dr Rana has been promoting new concepts of urbanization for sustainable and balanced regional development of the country through use of Rail and Rivers as the prime corridors of development. He has also promoted the concept of Planned Urbanization with Rural Ambience [PURA]. He has received several awards including Distinguished Alumni Award (2006) from IIT, Delhi and Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (U.K.) in 2007. He worked as President, Indian Building Congress; Patron of Institute of Urban Transport; member Advisory Council IIT, Delhi; Chairman, Buildings and Works Committee of Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology; Vice Chairman Engineering Council of India and several other bodies. He also worked as Chairman/Independent Director on Boards of several Companies, Board of NIUA and Member of Academic Councils of North Cap University. At present he is Chairman, Board of Governors,Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC), India.

Trustee

Rtd. Ltd. Gen. Manoj Kumar Magi

Managing Trustee

Rtd. Ltd. Gen. Manoj Kumar Magi

Managing Trustee

A career entrepreneur with experience of raising ventures through his holding company ICP Holding Pvt. Ltd. across waste to energy, CBD Oil, Tea processing, Global commodity trade, Electric Vehicles and food logistics
Currently he also sits in the board of A2Z Infrastructure Ltd. (waste to energy company)

Mr. Bharat Limaye

Trustee

Mr. Bharat Limaye

Trustee

Mr. Bharat Limaye is the CEO and Managing Director for Probity Group that consists of four key services - Management Consulting, Investment advisory, Events and Commodity Trading. He is an experienced strategic advisor to national governments with 25+ years’ experience in Europe, US and Middle East. He gained this experience while working for large international corporations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and IBM. He is a Trustee of India Center Foundation and Executive board member of India-Japan Center Foundation. In Europe and US, he was strategic advisor to large corporations such as Nokia, Ericsson, Vodafone, Virgin Media, Travelodge etc. He has worked extensively in US across multiple states as advisor to Reed Elsevier (publish company). In Middle East, he has worked extensively with government ministries in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. In Saudi Arabia, he was the Project Director on several strategic projects for ministries such as the Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Civil Services, G20 Saudi Secretariat. In the UAE, he was the director for Dubai Expo (Pavilions for Saudi, Malaysia and Zimbabwe). The Malaysian government secured trade agreements worth $10B during Dubai Expo. He has also worked with the UAE Ministry of Finance and Federal Tax Authority as the Project Director for nationwide Corporate Tax Implementation. In Qatar, he was the Project advisor for Horticulture Expo. In addition to strategic advisory work, Bharat has extensive experience in Investment advisory for public and private sector infrastructure projects. He was an advisor to the Indian state government for launching a large affordable housing project for its police department. In addition, he has been working closely with African governments and clients in US & Europe for securing investments for their projects. A sample of his investment related projects are – Renewable energy, Mining, Resorts and Casinos, Sports Stadium, Real Estate, Affordable Housing, Cosmetics, Electric Vehicles etc. Given the significant government relations across different countries, Bharat has recently started his trading business with a significant customer and supplier base in the areas such as but not limited to – Pharmaceuticals, Agriculture, and related commodity products.

Sudhir Pathak

Trustee

Sudhir Pathak

Trustee

Executive Board Members

Mohammad Mansoor

Executive Member

Mohammad Mansoor

Executive Member

Priyanka Mainali

Executive Member

Priyanka Mainali

Executive Member

Priyanka is serving as the Director- Initiatives at India Center Foundation. She is a young professional working in the field of sustainability. She has been advocating and working towards the Alternative Development Model for almost half a decade and hopes to be able to establish more sustainable initiatives in the future. She has a graduate degree in Mass Communication and Journalism.

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