Pbdcanada2011 speakers profiles full final

Speaker Profiles Index Asthana, Atul Amitabh, Shubhendu Bahadur, Sangeeta Bajwa, P. S. Banerjee, Chandrajit Banerji, Supriya Beatty, Perrin Beck, Stewart Bose, Sugata Chakma, Amit Chandrasekar, Shan Chotalia, Shirish Choudhry, Sujit Discenza, Renato Diwanji, Virat Gavai, S. M. Goold, Douglas Goyal, Jay Gupta, Arvind Gupta, Kunal Gurucharan, G. Iyer, Sriram Jasuja, Andy Jha, Aditya Jha, Prabhat Johnston, David Kak, Siddharth Kapuria, Deep Kaur, Preneet Krishna, Lalita Luthra, Asha MacKinnon, Hugh Madan, Suresh Maira, Arun Mantha Ray Marwah, Sabi McGuinty, Dalton Merchant, Pradeep

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Mehra, Ravi Mohamed, Farah Mukherjee, Alok Mukherjee, Ananya Nagpal, Vinay Naylor, David Oldfield, Karen Omidvar, Ratna Pada, Lata Pathak, Prashant Puri, Poonam Raghavan, M. K. Rao, G. M. Rao, Kasi Ramsaran, Ashook Ravi, Vayalar Sablok, Arjun Saran, Preeti Sarkar, Rana Scarpitti, Frank Sharma, Deepak Singh, Didar Singhmar, Prem Sood, Pradeep Sreenivasan, T. P. Sudhakaran, K. S. Takhar, Harinder Tandon, Nandini Tandon, Sunil Thakkar, Satish Treurnicht, Ilse Tugnait, Sanjay Vassanji, M. G. Venkatesh, S. Voria, Purnima Watsa, Prem Woo, Yuen Pau

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ATULASTHANA

VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED 295 Phillip Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L3W8

Atul Asthana serves as Vice President, Technology Initiatives, within the Advanced Technology Group, at Research In Motion, Limited (RIM), makers of BlackBerryÂŽ. Atul is engaged in identification of strategic research areas, establishment of collaborative research projects and leveraging research outcomes.

Mr. Asthana serves on the boards of several industry organizations, including 4G Americas, ATIS and the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology. He holds a Bachelors of Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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ShubhenduAmitabh Senior President The Aditya Birla Group

4th Floor, UCO Bank Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi – 110001, India Phone: +91 11 23711934 Email: shubhendu.amitabh@adityabirla.com

Shubhendu Amitabh heads all corporate affairs & business development activities of the Aditya Birla Group. He is responsible for managing corporate affairs and external relations, particularly in terms of representing the group’s point of view to legislators, administrators, trade associations, Central & State Governments, outside champions, national media, key investors etc.

He has earlier worked with the Tata Group, Toyota Motor Company, United Colors of Benetton, DCM International Ltd. & the Daewoo Group. He has also worked in the print and electronic media with the Indian Express, India Today, All India Radio and Doordarshan (TV) news network as news reporter/editor/anchor.

He has held executive positions with CII, FICCI, and ASSOCHAM and continues to be a part of several apex committees. Currently holding the position of Chairman of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee of CII and the Chairman of the Assocham’s India-France Business Promotion Council and a prominent member of the Global Agenda Council on Economic Growth and Development of the World Economic Forum, Geneva.

He is a Gold medalist in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in law with distinction in legal systems, labour, criminal law & jurisprudence.

He is an MBA in International Trade.

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SANGEETABAHADUR

DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL INDIAN COUNCIL FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS Azad Bhavan, Indraprastha Estate, New Delhi - 110 002, India

Phone: +91 11 23379249 Email: ddgo@iccrindia.net, ddgooffice@iccrindia.net Ms. Sangeeta Bahadur is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 1987 Batch, currently posted as Deputy Director, Indian Council for Cultural Relations in New Delhi. She was born in Kolkata, she moved around a great deal during her childhood and adolescence, and took the Civil Services Exams from Mumbai.

In the years since, she has lived and worked in Spain, Bulgaria, Mexico and Belgium. The writing-bug bit her at a tender age, but it was only later in life that she found the right outlet for her imagination and style in the delightful genre of Speculative Fiction. Jaal- The Web, published by Picador, is the first Book of her Trilogy, Kaal.

She was married to an Architect and has two young daughters.

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PRaTAPSINGHBAJWA MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

22 Mahadev Road, New Delhi - 110 001, India Phone: +91 11 23355557, +91 901 318 0227

Pratap Singh Bajwa is a member of the Lok Sabha. In 2009, he was elected to represent the Gurdaspur in Punjab. Pratap Singh Bajwa had already sat as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Punjab.

He was President, Punjab Youth Congress. He was elected as Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly (three terms). He worked as Minister of State, Information and Public Relations, Government of Punjab, Cabinet Minister, P.W.D., B&R, I&PR, Government of Punjab, Cabinet Minister, Judiciary, Jails etc. Government of Punjab, Cabinet Minister, P.W.D., B&R, School Education, Govt of Punjab, He was elected to 15th Lok Sabha. He is a Member, Committee on Urban Development and Housing, Executive Committee, Congress Party in Parliament, House Committee, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance and India-Canada Parliamentary Friendship Group.

He Helped NGO Adhaar Foundation to provide people free medical camps, free medical aid, mobile vans in Gurdaspur Parliamentary constituency He is President of Judo Federation of Punjab and Equestrian Federation of Chandigarh.

Bajwa Represented India as Cabinet Minister in the UN in Switzerland, 1995; and Leader of the Delegation in UN at The Hague, Holland against the fundamentalist organizations’, 1996.

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ChandrajitBAnerjee

Director General Confederation of Indian Industry

Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23 Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Phone: +91 11 24621874 Fax: +91 11 24633168 Email: cb@cii.in Web: www.cii.in

Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Mr. Banerjee has been with the CII for 22 years and has been the Director General, CII since May 2008.

Mr. Banerjee is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with specialization on Economics of Planning and Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. Earlier, he did his graduation from St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons).

As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII. Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions over the last many years in CII. Mr. Banerjee has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals in the Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and the SMEs. He led key policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and Corporate Governance (he was the Executive Director of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance-NFCG, an organisation set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Government of India). He has worked in all four regions of CII and has served as head of CII’s regional operations in the Northern, Southern and Western regions. He was also overall incharge of CII’s internal Administration, HR and Finance.

Mr. Banerjee worked out of the CII-Headquarters in New Delhi for several years. He worked at Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ahmadabad.

CII operates out of 65 offices in India including seven Centers of Excellence, 9 overseas in Australia, Austria, China, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, UK and USA, and has institutional partnerships with 223 counterpart organizations in 90 countries. CII serves as a reference point for Indian Industry and the international business community.

The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has honored him with the China-India Friendship Award on 15 December 2010 for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between India and China.

For a year, he was in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association (IMTMA), which is a state-of-the-art centre foo training, conventions and trade fairs.

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SupriyaBanerji

Deputy Director General Confederation of Indian Industry

Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23 Institutional Area, Lodhi Road, New Delhi – 110 003, India Phone: +91 11 24601182 Email: supriya.banerji@cii.in Ms Supriya Banerji is Deputy Director General of CII. Ms Banerji has handled many responsibilities including Economic Policy, Media and CSR. Ms Banerji is currently handling CII’s International work and Trade Policy besides CII’s Skills Initiatives; Affirmative Action Council; School Education and Public Policy.

As Head International Division, Ms Banerji works for expanding business opportunities for industry through a range of specialized networking events and global linkages. She was the Head of UK operations from 1993 to 2001 and was based in London during that period.

She has also spearheaded CII’s operations in Southern India covering five states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry. As its Regional Director, Ms Banerji worked closely with the government on policy issues, enhancing efficiency, competitiveness, fast tracking specialized projects and highlighting industry’s positioning on various policy and social/developmental issues On deputation from CII for a year in 2009, she set up the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) – a PPP dedicated to development of Skills in India.

She was conferred the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006.

Ms Banerji is a Post Graduate in Industrial Sociology from the University of Mumbai.

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PerrinBeatty

President and CEO Canadian Chamber of Commerce 60 Albert Street, Suite 420, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 7X7

Phone: 613 238 4000 Fax: 613 238 7643 Email: pbeatty@chamber.ca, jboden@chamber.ca The Honorable Perrin Beatty is the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the 192,000member Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canada’s largest and most representative national business association. In his capacity as President and CEO, Mr. Beatty is the principal spokesperson advocating the policy positions of the Canadian Chamber’s members to the federal government, international organizations, media and the public.

Prior to joining the Canadian Chamber in August 2007, Mr. Beatty was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME).

A descendant of one of Canada’s most prominent manufacturing families, Mr. Beatty grew up in Fergus, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. A year later, he was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative, and in 1979, he was appointed to Minister of State (Treasury Board) in the government of Joe Clark, the youngest person ever to serve in a federal Cabinet at the time. He held six additional portfolios in subsequent Progressive Conservative governments, including National Revenue in 1984, Solicitor General in 1985, National Defence in 1986, Health and Welfare in 1989, Communications in 1991, and Secretary of State for External Affairs in 1993.

Following the 1993 federal election, Mr. Beatty joined a number of private sector boards and worked as a consultant in the field of communications. He was an Honorary Visiting Professor with the Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario, where he taught a course in communications technologies and public policy. As well, he wrote a weekly column on government and politics for a major Canadian newspaper. In 1995, Mr. Beatty was appointed President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a position he held until joining CME in August 1999.

In 2008, Mr. Beatty was named Chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute Of Technology.

In recent years, Mr. Beatty has served on a number of Canadian governments advisory committees, covering issues that include border management, government operations, privacy and international trade. He currently chairs the Private Sector Advisory Board. He is also a member of the advisory council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian International Council.

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StewartBeck

High Commissioner of Canada 7/8 Shantipath, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021, India

Phone: +91 11 4178 2000 Fax: +91 11 4178 2020 Email: delhi@international.gc.ca H. E. Stewart Beck was appointed High Commissioner-Designate to the Republic of India and Ambassador-designate to the Kingdom of Bhutan in September 2010.

Mr. Beck graduated in 1979 from Queen’s University, Kingston with a BA, a BPHE and an MBA. He spent several years working as a business consultant and as Assistant Professor at Queen’s University School of Business in Kingston, Ontario.

Mr. Beck joined Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1982 as a Trade Commissioner. Mr. Beck has served abroad in the United States (San Francisco and Miami), Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. In 1999, he was appointed consul general to Shanghai.

In Ottawa, he has held a number of positions, including deputy director of the Korea, Taiwan and Indochina Division; director general of the North Asia Bureau; and director general of the Services for Executives Bureau. From 2006 to 2009, he served as assistant deputy minister for international business development, investment and innovation. As part of his mandate, Mr. Beck oversaw the development and execution of Canada’s Foreign Direct Investment Program; the focus of the strategy being the promotion of Canada’s knowledge-based industries and capabilities in key markets and sectors globally.

Immediately preceding his appointment to New Delhi, Mr. Beck was Consul General of Canada for San Francisco and the Silicon Valley with accreditation for northern California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Guam.

He and his spouse, Brenda, have three sons.

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SugataBose

GArDINeR PROFESSOR OF HISTORY HARVARD UNIVeRSITY

Center for Government and International Studies South Building, Room S436, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617 384 7683 Email: sbose@fas.harvard.edu

Dr. Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. Bose has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Initiative.

Dr. Bose was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D. His scholarship has contributed to a deeper understanding of colonial and post-colonial political economy, the relation between rural and urban domains, inter-regional arenas of travel, trade and imagination across the Indian Ocean, and Indian ethical discourses, political philosophy and economic thought.

His notable books are; Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics (1986), South Asia and World Capitalism (1990), Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital, in The New Cambridge History of India series (1993), Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India (1994), Nationalism, Democracy and Development (1997, with Ayesha Jalal) and Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (1998, 2004 and 2011 with Ayesha Jalal).

Harvard University Press published his much-acclaimed work, A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, in 2006. Bose crosses area studies and disciplinary frontiers and bridges the domains of political economy and culture. Amartya Sen describes A Hundred Horizons as “an excellent historical study, full of contemporary relevance for understanding an important ancestry of present-day globalization.” He has jointly edited with Kris Manjapra a new collection of essays in transnational history titled Cosmopolitan Thought Zones: South Asia and the Global Circulation of Idea. A revised and expanded third edition of his widely read joint work with Ayesha Jalal – Modern South Asia – has just appeared in spring 2011 as will his latest book His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire.

Dr. Bose is joint editor with Sisir Kumar Bose of the twelve-volume Collected Works of Netaji Subhas. Chandra Bose and joint editor with Krishna Bose of Purabi: the East in its Feminine Gender (2007), a book of translations by Charu C. Chowdhuri of Rabindranath Tagore’s poems and songs. He has translated into English and published recordings in a four-CD set of all the songs of Rabindranath Tagore composed on the poet’s overseas voyages under the title Visvayatri Rabindranath (with Pramita Mallick singing the Bengali originals) as well as a CD titled Amaar Rabindranath or My Tagore (Calcutta: Bhavna Records, 2010). He has made three documentary films on modern South Asian history and politics that have been broadcast on public television in the USA and India. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge.

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AmitChakma

President & Vice Chancellor The University of Western Ontario Natural Sciences Centre, Room 120A, London, ON N6A 5B9 Phone: 519 661 3106 Email: achakma@uwo.ca

Dr. Amit Chakma is the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Ontario, succeeding Dr. Paul Davenport on July 1, 2009. Dr. Chakma arrived at Western after serving the University of Waterloo since 2001 as Vice-President, Academic & Provost, and as a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Prior to that, he served as Dean of Engineering and then Vice-President (Research) and International Liaison Officer at the University of Regina. He began his academic career as a professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary Dr. Chakma is a graduate of the Algerian Petroleum Institute (Dip. Ing., 1982) and the University of British Columbia (Master of Applied Science, 1984 and PhD, chemical engineering, 1987). The author of more than 100 articles, he is a leading expert in areas related to petroleum research and energy management. His research interests include mass transfer, gas separation, gas processing, membrane separation, petroleum waste management, greenhouse gas control technology, and energy and environmental systems modeling. In addition to his roles at Western, Dr. Chakma currently serves as a chair of the board of Health Force Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency. In 1998, Dr. Chakma was recognized with Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, given annually to honour Canada’s best and brightest in their fields younger than 40. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of engineering.

Dr. Chakma arrives at Western just as it is transitioning into the public phase of an ambitious $500-million fundraising campaign, underway since 2007. His top priority is to develop a longterm strategy to enhance Western’s standing as a globally recognized academic institution, and he views the campaign as an opportunity for alumni and other friends to participate in raising the university’s international profile. “Western must open itself up to the world, let the light of international scrutiny shine in, enroll the brightest graduate and undergraduate students, attract vibrant faculty with a penchant for effective collaboration across departments and disciplines, and develop an exceptional reputation with the iconic brand of a global leader,” says Dr. Chakma.

“Our alumni and other private sector partners have an important role to play in this through their ongoing support.” Dr. Chakma believes passionately that international experience has a profound and lasting impact on learning and thinking. “International perspective and experience is essential to the process of educating global citizens,” he says. “Investing in the opportunities that enable our students and faculty to gain those perspectives and experiences will not only boost Western’s profile, but also our nation’s. An investment in this kind of education can be a powerful engine of economic development.” “At Western, we want to produce graduates who will be contributing in more ways than just getting a job and making a good living. That’s important, of course, but our aim is to produce a proportionally large number of leaders—the sort of people who strive to make their community, their country and the world a better place.”

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ShanChandrasekar

President & CEO Asian T.V. Network Intl. Ltd. 130 Pony Drive New market, ON L3Y 7B6

Phone: 905 836 6460 Fax: 905 853 5212 Email: atn@asiantelevision.com Shan Chandrasekar is the Chairman, President and CEO of ATN - Asian Television Network International Limited, a long established television broadcast company serving multicultural communities across Canada. Dr. Chandrasekar started his broadcast career in Canada after graduating from McGill University in Montreal with a Master’s degree in 1971.

ATN is listed on The Canadian Exchange TSX under the symbol SAT. It operates 33 Specialty Television Channels across Canada. It also operates ATN-Asian Radio the first and only South Asian radio service 24 hours a day all across Canada and the USA on XM 159. ATN has been awarded more Digital Television Licenses by the CRTC. ATN has strategic alliances with Leading International Broadcasters and is the largest distributor of world-class cricket including the recent World Cup across Canada. ATN was recently selected as a TSX Venture 50 company, and is a Business Excellence Award winner from the New market Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Chandrasekar was inducted into the “Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame” The highest honor in private broadcasting in November 2004. He was on the Board of Directors and Vice-Chairman of the Specialty and Pay Television Section of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB).

He is on The Board of Directors of The Royal Conservatory of Music, the Advisory Council of The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University and on the Board of Directors of The South Lake Regional Health Centre, the largest hospital in the region.

He served on the Campaign Cabinet of the Board of Directors for The Scarborough Hospital Foundation. He was a member of The TELUS Toronto Community Board. He was on the Board of Directors of the Hummingbird Center, The Board of “Canadian Women in Communications” (CWC) and the Board of The Canadian Club.

Shan was Conferred an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Laws Degree) by York University in Toronto in June of 2010. Shan is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 award finalist in Ontario.

Shan is married to Jaya who is a highly respected television personality in the South Asian Community, co-founder of ATN and Executive Vice President, who was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame in November 2008.

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Shirish P.Chotalia

Chairperson Canadian Human Rights Tribunal 160 Elgin Street, 11th Floor, Ottawa, ON K1A 1J4

Phone: 613 995 1707 Fax: 613 995 3484 Email: registrar@chrt-tcdp.gc.ca Ms. Shirish P Chotalia, Q.C., LLM, President and CEO of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

She was appointed Chairperson in November, 2009. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1983, her Bachelor of Laws in 1986 and her Master of Laws in 1991 from the University of Alberta. She was admitted to the Bar of Alberta in 1987 and practiced with the law firm of Pundit & Chotalia LLP in the areas of immigration, human rights and employment litigation.

She successfully argued before the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, in favor of religious accommodation for a turbaned Sikh Canadian RCMP officer. Madam Justice Reed specifically acknowledged her submissions in the judgment as turning the plaintiff’s arguments of unconstitutionality and discrimination on their head. Madam Chair has dedicated years of legal service to gender issues, Aboriginal women and Filipino women struggling for fair treatment, often providing service on a pro bono basis or with minimal compensation.

Madam Chair was appointed Commissioner, Alberta Human Rights Commission from 1989 to 1993, and part-time adjudicating Member with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal from 1999 to 2005. Madam Chair was appointed Queen’s Counsel in recognition of her legal acumen by the Attorney General of Alberta in 2008. She was elected by Alberta lawyers to serve as a Bencher, Law Society of Alberta, from 2008 until her appointment to the Tribunal.

She worked as an instructor at the University of Alberta’s Law Faculty since 1995, intermittently, designing and teaching courses in Human Rights Law as well as Terrorism and the Law. She was also appointed as a Special Advocate in 2008 to address terrorism cases.

She has written several books including The Annotated Canadian Human Rights Act (published

by Carswell) and many articles about human rights law and immigration law. Other professional service included Chair, Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section, Northern Alberta, and Member, Selection Advisory Board of Canada.

She has received many accolades and recognitions including “Woman of the Year” and the Red Cross Community Service Recognition award.

Madam Chair speaks several languages including French, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

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SujitChoudhry

Scholl Chair, Faculty of Law University of Toronto 78 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2C5

Phone: 416 978 4901 Fax: 416 978 2648 Email: sujit.choudhry@utoronto.ca

Prof. Sujit Choudhry is the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, and served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. In fall 2008, he was a Global Visiting Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law. Professor Choudhry was named a Trudeau Fellow in 2010.

Prof. Choudhry is one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars, and a recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. He has published over 60 articles, book chapters, and reports.

Professor Choudhry is editor of Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation (Oxford University Press), The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Cambridge University Press) and Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Redistribution in the Canadian Federation (University of Toronto Press). He sits on the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Constitutional Court Review (South Africa) and is on the Board of Advisers for the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. He has delivered workshops or lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, and NYU. Professor Choudhry is extensively involved in public policy development. Internationally, he is a member of the United Nations Mediation Roster. He was consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank Institute at the World Bank, has worked with the Forum of Federations in Sri Lanka, the Canadian Bar Association in Nepal, and was an intern at the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa and the World Health Organization in Geneva.

Domestically, Professor Choudhry was a consultant to the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada (the Romanow Commission), the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health (the Naylor Committee), and the Ontario Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform, served on the Academic Advisory Committee to the Province of Ontario’s Democratic Renewal Secretariat, and was a member of the Governing Toronto Advisory Panel which proposed major reforms to the structure of municipal government in Toronto. He was counsel for Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Toronto in Charkaoui, and was counsel for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association in Khadr 1 and Khadr 2.

He was also on the Board of Directors of Legal Aid Ontario.

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RenatoDiscenza President and CEO Invest Toronto

Suite 901, 225 King St. W., Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3M2, Canada

Phone: 416 981 3888 Fax: 416 646 2993 Email: president@investtoronto.ca Mr. Renato Discenza is the President and CEO of Invest Toronto, Toronto’s foreign direct investment marketing and sales Corporation.

Invest Toronto is rooted in one of the fastest-growing metropolises in North America. Invest Toronto’s mission is to promote Toronto as a prime destination for businesses to invest and grow.

This goal is realized by securing corporate expansions and relocations and driving the marketing and positioning of Toronto in global corporate investment markets. In his role as President and CEO, Renato Discenza will strive to build relationships with international partners and businesses, to sell the benefits of this great city.

Discenza’s background both in the private and public sectors as a senior executive and leader, has allowed him to gain valuable experience in economic development, public-private partnerships, sales, corporate functions, technology and operations. He was educated at the University of Toronto as an electrical engineer and received his MBA from York University.

Prior to joining Invest Toronto, Discenza was the Senior Vice President of Technology and IT Projects at Infrastructure Ontario. Discenza also brings extensive private sector corporate experience from Bell Canada and AT&T where he held several senior officer level functions in Business Sales, Wholesale, Operations, Customer Service, Capital Management, Engineering, Procurement and Chain and Business Transformation.

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ViratDiwanji

Executive Vice President & Head Branch Banking, Kotak Mahindra Bank Infinity Towers, Infinity Business Park, Malad East, Mumbai 400097, India

Mr. Virat Diwanji is a Kotak veteran. He took on the mantle of managing the Branch Banking business in November 2007 with a primary responsibility of establishing bank branches as a single point of distribution for Banking (saving/Business), Investment and Asset products.

An experienced business leader in Retail finance space Virat is currently spearheading the next phase of network expansion at Kotak Bank. Virat will have a pivotal role in implementing customer centric products and processes and using Customer Service as a real “differentiator” in this already crowded space of Retail Branch Banking, HNI (Privy League) and NRI segments.

Virat has been an “all rounder” in its true sense in the Retail Asset financing space having headed multiple functions – Sales, Product & Marketing Operations etc. He has been instrumental in metamorphosing many business divisions into a success story at the Kotak Group. He had also played a key role in Kotak’s Joint Ventures with Ford Credit in its Car finance business. Virat eventually rose to the position of Managing Director in one of its JV. Virat firmly believes in the 4Ps – People, Product, Process and Productivity, as a cornerstone for building a successful retail business. He has to his credit, groomed several business leaders at all levels during his association with the Kotak Group.

Virat began his career with the Management Consultancy division of A. F. Ferguson and Company in 1988. He joined the Kotak Group in 1994.

Virat with his focused approach to building fundamentally strong business units, coupled with his down to earth people approach and his ability to drive his team to deliver desired results will be the fulcrum of growth for Kotak Bank as it embarks on expanding its Branch network to establish itself as one of the key players in the Indian Banking Industry.

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S.M.Gavai(IFS)

High Commissioner of India 10 Springfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1M 1C9

Phone: 613 744 3751, 613 744 3752, 613 744 3753 Fax: 613 744 0913 Email: hc@hciottawa.ca H. E. S. M. Gavai graduated in History from Fergusson College, Pune, India. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1975. Since then, he has served in several important assignments in India and abroad.

In the Ministry of External Affairs, Mr. Gavai has been Head of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Division, Head of Administration Division, Head of Northern Division and India’s Chief of Protocol.

Mr. Gavai has served in India’s Diplomatic Missions in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Germany, Scotland (as Consul General), Maldives (as High Commissioner), and in Houston, USA (as Consul General). He joined as India’s High Commissioner to Canada in November 2008.

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DouglasGoold

Director & SENIOR EDITOR National Conversation on Asia 165 University Ave., Suite 703, Toronto, ON M5H 3B8

Phone: 647 273 8319, 416 350 5883 Fax: 416 366 0257 Email: douglas.goold@asiapacific.ca Dr. Douglas Goold is Director of the National Conversation on Asia and Senior Editor at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Prior to joining APF Canada, he was President of the Canadian International Council and its predecessor organization, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, where he succeeded the Hon. Barbara McDougall in 2004.

Goold is a well-known commentator and author as well as the former Editor of The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine, as well as a long-time national columnist.

He is the co-author of Peace Without Promise, a book on the peace settlements after the First World War and The Bre-X Fraud, a national number one bestseller. He has also written a book on the Canadian banks.

He recently published a study for the CIC entitled, “Doing Business in India: Success, Failure and the Prospects for Canada.” He appeared before the Standing Senate committee on Foreign Affairs on the rise of Russia, India and China.

Goold has a PhD in modern history from St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied under the late Professor Sir Harry Hinsley. He completed two Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of British Columbia, and taught at the Universities of Alberta and Victoria. He has travelled widely, and has visited the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.

Dr. Goold is on the Advisory Board of Glendon College, York University and on the India Committee of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. He is also a judge of the National Magazine Awards.

Dr. Goold lives in Toronto with his wife Libby Znaimer, the writer and broadcaster.

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JayGoyal

State Representative D 73

77 S. High St, 10th Floor, Columbus, OH 43215-6111

Phone: 614 466 5802 Fax: 614 719 3973 Email: jay.goyal@gmail.com, jay@jaygoyal.com State Representative Jay Goyal (D-73rd District), first elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in November 2006. He is State Representative of 73rd House District.

He represents parts of Richland County serving third consecutive term in the Ohio House of Representatives. He serve on Financial Institutions Committee, Ranking Member; Economic Development; Finance and Appropriations committees; Health and Human Services subcommittee; Ohio Power Sitting Board. He balanced Ohio’s $25 billion budget as one of three members of the Ohio House of Representatives to serve on the Joint House-Senate Budget Conference Committee He is Chairman of Ohio House Democrat Caucus Campaign Committee Columbus, Ohio from January 2009-Present. He planned and managed all Caucus campaign activities including fundraising, incumbency protection, and candidate recruitment for all 99 Statehouse races in Ohio for 2010 election cycle.

He raised and oversaw a budget of $11.2 million for 2010 election cycle – a record amount for Ohio.

He managed a team of 23 individuals in executing Caucus campaign plan.

He did Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in June 2003 from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois He managed $6 million railroad electrification project from purchasing through production and installation phases. He negotiated and obtained new project contract generating $6 million in sales. He maintained 100% on-time delivery of parts by ensuring on-time procurement and shipping of parts He was one of the Time Magazine’s “Top 40 under 40 Rising Stars of American Politics”, New Leadership Council’s “Top 40 under 40 Community Leaders in the United States”, Attendee at the United States-India State Dinner hosted by President Barack Obama.

He also becomes the Legislator of the Year. He is fellow of Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development and member of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.

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ArvindGupta

CEO & Scientific Director MITACS INC.

Suite 301, Technology Enterprise Facility, University of British Columbia 6190 Agronomy Road, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3 Phone: 604 822 9189 Email: director@mitacs.ca

Dr. Arvind Gupta is the CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs, a national research network which connects academia, industry and the public sector to develop cutting-edge tools for Canada’s knowledge-based economy. In 2003, Dr. Gupta spearheaded the creation of Mitacs Accelerate, an internship program which provides the opportunity for Canada’s graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to undertake applied research projects in collaboration with companies from coast to coast. Funded by the Government of Canada through the Industrial R&D Internship Program and several provincial governments, Mitacs has created more than 1,000 internships across Canada.

Mitacs also created the Globalink program, which fosters research linkages with India’s Institutes of Technology. In the summer of 2010, MITACS brought 105 of India’s top undergraduate science and technology students from the Institutes to Ontario, British Columbia and New Brunswick where they undertook applied research projects with local faculty. Prior to joining MITACS, Dr. Gupta helped the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1991, and is currently a Professor at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Gupta is the editor of a two book series on industrial mathematics and is the President of the 2011 International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which will bring over 3,000 delegates to Vancouver.

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KunalGupta CEO Polar Mobile

156 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2L6

Phone: 416 907 9611 Fax: 416 981 7843 Email: kunal@polarmobile.com Kunal understands the transformative potential that smart phones present in enabling the mobile lifestyle for consumers. He has been a market-leader in launching innovative mobile applications with major media publishers for millions of their consumers in the rapidly changing communications landscape. As CEO of Polar Mobile, a leading mobile content solutions enabler for large media companies, Kunal leads a fast-growing team in building a next generation mobile software platform so businesses can quickly and efficiently bring to market intuitive and engaging mobile products and services that grow audiences, open new revenue streams and extend brands to the mobile marketplace.

A frequent speaker at industry events on the topics of bringing to market innovative products and services for the mobile consumer, Kunal is regarded as a rising young visionary in the mobile industry. As Founder of Impact Entrepreneurship Group, the largest youth entrepreneurship non-profit organization in Canada for which he also serves as Chair of the Board, Kunal has been recognized for his efforts in promoting entrepreneurship to youth. The United Nations also recognized him as Alumnus of the Year by Shad Valley and as a Global Citizen.

Kunal holds an Honours Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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G.Gurucharan

Chief Executive Officer Indian Council of Overseas Employment E-34, East of Kailash, New Delhi - 110 065, India

Phone: +91 11 46783303 / 04 / 05 Email: ceo.icoe@gmail.com

Mr. G Gurucharan is a senior member of Indian Administrative Service. He has a distinguished record of work as joint secretary incharge of diaspora services division of the Ministry of External Affairs. He has been associated with several events and programs Indian Diaspora. For the last few months, he is working as Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Employment Council at New Delhi.

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SriramH. Iyer President & CEO ICICI Bank Canada

350 Bay Street, Suite 101, Toronto, ON M5H 2S6

Phone: 416 306 1918 Fax: 416 306 0373 Email: sriram.h@icicbank.com Mr. Sriram H. Iyer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICICI Bank Limited, India’s largest private sector bank. He is also the Regional Head of ICICI Bank’s operations in North America.

Mr. Iyer was a core member of the executive team that established ICICI Bank in Canada in 2003.

Under Mr. Iyer’s leadership, ICICI Bank Canada has become one of the fastest growing banks in Canada. Today, it’s a full-service direct bank that has an asset base of about $5.3 billion and serves more than 250,000 customers across Canada through its nine branches and electronic platform.

Mr. Iyer held a number of key executive positions before being appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, including Vice President of Strategy Implementation and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In these roles, he oversaw the development of the Bank’s retail and electronic banking operations.

Mr. Iyer has had a long and distinguished business career that spans more than 15 years, two continents and a variety of senior management positions. Before joining ICICI Bank Canada, he gained valuable strategic and operations experience in the financial services industry working with the parent company in India.

Mr. Iyer is an active participant with business and not-for-profit organizations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Conference Board of Canada, the foremost not-for-profit organization for applied research in Canada, and The Indus Entrepreneurs, the world’s largest not-for-profit organization that fosters entrepreneurship. Under Mr. Iyer’s management, ICICI Bank Canada has donated to many local charitable causes and was recognized by the Canadian Helen Keller Centre in 2009 and the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons in 2011 for the Bank’s ongoing support to the deaf-blind community.

In 2008, Mr. Iyer was honoured with the prestigious Canada’s Top 40 Under 40TM award, which recognized him as one of the top leaders under the age of 40 for excellence in corporate leadership and involvement in community service.

Mr. Iyer holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Mr. Iyer is also a certified corporate director and has completed the Directors Education Program conducted by the Institute of Corporate Directors.

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ArjunJasuja(ANDY)

CEO & Chairman Sigma Systems Group

55 York Street, Suite 1100, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1R7

Phone: 416 943 9696 Fax: 416 365 9227 Email: andy.jasuja@sigma-systems.com Mr. Arjun (Andy) Jasuja is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Sigma Systems Group (www. sigma-systems.com), a leading software products and services company. Sigma’s award winning Service Management platform manages in excess of 100 million subscribers at major Cable and Telecom companies across the globe.

Mr. Jasuja was a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Finalist Award for 2001 and the Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce Technology Achievement Award for 2002.

Mr. Jasuja holds a Master’s Degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was awarded the Fellowship of Institute of Canadian Bankers with a Gold Medal.

Andy is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC).

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AdityaJha

Convenor Canada-India Foundation

356 Emerald Street, North, Hamilton, ON L8L 8K6

Phone: 416 524 1563, 905 527 2205 x4475 Email: aditya@poafoundation.org Aditya Jha, LL.D is a celebrated Indo-Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist and social activist with active involvement in Canadian public affairs. He also runs several philanthropic initiatives through his Private Charitable Foundation (POA Educational Foundation), promoting education and nurturing entrepreneurship. Jha takes special interest in nurturing prosperity and financial independence amongst Canadian First Nations. He is the co-founder and current National Convenor of the Canada-India Foundation - a public policy organization. He is winner of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Award (2010), inductee to the ‘30 most influential Indo-Canadians Power List (2009)’, and recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Law from Ryerson University, the highest honour conferred by the University.

Aditya Jha was born in Bihar, India. He did his graduation from Delhi University, and M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics at Kurukshetra University. He migrated to Canada in late 1994 and joined Bell Canada, and became its General Manager. He co-founded a software company, Isopia Inc. Isopia was a Canadian success story acquired by Sun Microsystems for over $100 million. After his work at Isopia, he started Osellus Inc, another software firm with offices in Toronto and Bangkok. He has supported the awards for the Top 20 under 20 programs (Entrepreneurship category) and the yearly $15,000 Business Plan and $5,000 Career Plan Contest award for the First Nation individual participating in Project Beyshick.

Mr. Jha is one of the founding directors of the Canadian Fallen Soldiers Foundation dedicated to assisting families of Canadian fallen soldiers’ through education and entrepreneurship.

He chairs the India AIDS Campaign within UNICEF, Canada’s Unite for Children, and Unite against Aids campaign. Mr. Jha is active with Canadian, Indian and Nepalese public affairs. He accompanied Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to India as one of the seven members of his Canadian delegation. He was instrumental in designing the Canada India Public Policy Centre in University of Waterloo for studying the politics, economy and social conditions of contemporary India and bi-lateral relationship of both countries. Aditya moderated Canada session during Pravasi Bhartiya Divas in 2007. He also moderated India Business Roundtable (Toronto, October 2006), jointly organized by Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce and Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

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PrabhatJha(M.D.,D.Phil.)

Scientist

Canada Research Chair in Health and Development 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8

Phone: 416 864 6042 Fax: 416 864 5256 Email: prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca Dr. Jha is an internationally recognized scientist who has made invaluable contributions to the fields of epidemiology and economics, helping to shape global health policy over the past decade.

Two of his ground-breaking publications on tobacco control policy, led to the first-ever global treaty on tobacco control, now signed by over 160 countries. In addition, he has documented smoking as a major cause of social inequality in mortality.

Dr. Jha is currently conducting the world’s largest prospective study of premature mortality called the Million Death Study (MDS), he uses a novel method to ascertain causes of death in over 1 million homes in India from 1997-2014, and estimates the contribution of key risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and the environment. Early findings from the MDS show that smoking kills over 1 million Indians; that HIV causes far fewer deaths (0.1M) than previously believed, but that malaria kills many more people than previously estimated (0.2M); and that practicable interventions can substantially reduce the 2.3 million child deaths in the country. Dr. Jha is a uniquely persuasive figure because he recognized early in his career the need to bridge academic research and public policy. He has been remarkably successful because the scientific evidence produced by his research is not only world-class in quality and publication impact, but is also linked directly to institutions that can put this information into action.

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DavidJohnston

Governor General of Canada Rideau Hall, 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A1

Phone: 613 993 8200 Toll-free: 1 800 465 6890 Fax: 613 998 8760 His Excellency David Johnston began his professional career as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in 1966, moving to the Law Faculty at the University of Toronto in 1968. He became dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario in 1974. In 1979, he was named principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University, and in July 1994, he returned to the McGill Faculty of Law as a full-time professor. In June 1999, he became the fifth president of the University of Waterloo.

H.E. Johnston has served on many provincial and federal task forces and committees. He has also served on the boards of a number of companies, including Arise, CGI, Fairfax, and Masco. He was president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and of the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec. He was the founding chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, chaired the federal government’s Information Highway Advisory Council, and served as the first non-American chair of the Board of Overseers at Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of two dozen books, holds honorary doctorates from over a dozen universities, and has been awarded the Order of Canada (Companion).

H.E. Johnston holds an LL.B. from Queen’s University (1966), an LL.B. from the University of Cambridge (1965), and an AB from Harvard University (1963). While at Harvard, he was twice selected for the All-American hockey team and is a member of Harvard’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

His academic specialization includes; securities regulation, information technology and corporate law.

He was born in Sudbury, Ontario, and is married to Sharon Johnston. They have five adult daughters and eight grandchildren.

Sworn in on October 1, 2010, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston is the 28th Governor General since Confederation.

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SiddharthKak

Priya, Series Director

Phone: +91 932 225 4333 Office: +91 22 2636 5946 / 2632 0739 x104 Email: sidkak@gmail.com Siddharth Kak is a well-known Television personality and a familiar face for Indian Television audiences nationwide, following his immensely popular cult cultural show `Surabhi’ (Fragrance), which ran for a record of 11 years at Prime Time on Indian National Television (1991-2001). Siddharth Kak’s Television Company, Cinema Vision India, has won several major Television Awards and three National Awards and has produced more than 100 documentaries and several long running Television series for leading Television Channels in India including the National Broadcaster Prasar Bharati and leading satellite channels like Star Television, NDTV Imagine and 9X. Currently, he is the Producer of the prestigious India Heritage Series in collaboration with UNESCO on the National Geographic Channel India and the Fox History & Entertainment Network. In addition, he is the Producer of the popular Mystic Thriller series Mano ya na Mano (Believe it or Not) (Season 1 & 2) telecast on Star Television, India’s number one satellite television channel.

Siddharth Kak is also the Founder Trustee of the Surabhi Foundation for Research and Cultural Exchange (Surabhi FORCE) which is now creating a National Cultural Audio-Visual Archive, and a Living Heritage Centre – the world’s first Heritage Theme Park on India and its History and Culture on 5 acres of land in Kharghar, Navi, Mumbai.

Siddharth Kak has served variously as a Member and Chairperson of the National Short Feature Film Awards, Government of India, and as Chairperson of the Selection Committee for the Indian Panorama, International Film Festival, Goa, Government of India. He is member of the Shilp Guru Selection Committee, Ministry of Textiles, Government of India. He is member of the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) Governing Committee, a member of the Festival Committee of the Annual Mumbai Festival, the International Selection Panel of Judges of the “UNESCO-Seal of Excellence for Handicrafts” Award, and Member of the Jury for the International Emmy Awards, and a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Television Academy. He is also a member of the Suraj Kund Mela Authority, which administers India’s largest annual Crafts Festival.

A well-known foodie, Siddharth Kak has written food columns for many national newspapers. He has also published a book of poetry `Looking in Looking out’ and compiled a quiz book on India’s heritage `Surabhi ke Sau Sawaal’.

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DeepKapuria

Chairman Hi – Tech Gears Limited

14th Floor, Millennium Plaza, Tower B, Sushant Lok-1, Gurgaon - 122 002

Phone: 91 124 2806080 84 Fax: 91 124 2806087 Email: deep.kapuria@hitechgears.com Mr. Deep Kapuria schooled at Mayo College, Ajmer and graduated in Engineering from BITS, Pillani. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, USA. He has undergone specialized training in Management and Technology in USA, Germany, Japan & Austria.

Mr. Deep Kapuria is the Chairman of the Hi-Tech Group of companies comprising Hi-Tech Gears, HiTech e-Soft, Hi-Tech Robotic Systemz and the joint venture Getrag-Hi-Tech. The Group spans a spectrum of products and services that include transmission components, engineering design services and advanced technology enabled products & solutions at the forefront of cutting edge technology in the fields of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Vision and Embedded Systems. The Group primarily serves Automobile Manufacturers in the Indian subcontinent and renowned Tier-1 and 2 suppliers in the overseas markets.

The “Hi-Tech’s” facilities have been recognized first time outside of North America to achieve the Internationally Coveted “Shingo Award”. In addition, besides having International Management Systems, all the Plants are recognized by JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance) for TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Excellence.

In the last two decades, Mr. Kapuria has held a number of eminent positions in Industry and Government bodies and associations and has played an important role in many Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) initiatives, such as the World Trade / Multilateral talks. In addition, he has also been invited as speaker for number of CII / ACMA / Industry conventions, seminars across the globe. These include; CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) - Chairman, CII – National Council for Robotics & Automation; CII – National Committee on WTO & Trade Meetings; CII – Committee for Manufacturing Council – to set up Vision 2020; Indo UK Working Group for Manufacturing; Chairman of CII - Northern Region, (2007-2008); Chairman of the CII - National Council on SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) Development (2005-2006) Nominated in Government / Industry Forums (CII/ACMA) - Chairman International Business (Exports), Automotive Mission Plan (2006-2016), Ministry of Heavy Industries (MoHI); Part of “Development Council” for Automotive under Ministry of Heavy Industries (MOHI) - (2004-05; 2002-03); C.A.R (Core Group on Automotive Research) Project – Under Dr. R. Chidambaram - Principle Scientific Advisor.

ACMA (Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India) - Chairman – ACT (ACMA Centre for Technology); Indo German Joint Working Group for the automotive sector; Chairman – Globalisation and India Brand Building (2003 – 2010); National President of ACMA (2004-05; 2002-03)

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PreneetKaur

Minister of State for External Affairs Government of India South Block, New Delhi, 110011

Phone: +91 11 23011141, 23014070 Fax: +91 11 23011425 Email: preneet@sansad.nic.in

Hon. Preneet Kaur was born on October 3, 1944. She was educated at the Chelsea and St. Bedes, Shimla.

Ms Kaur is a Member of Parliament, (Lok Sabha) since 1999. She has been re-elected three times, including just recently in May 2009.

She assumed office of the Minister of State for External Affairs on May 29, 2009. She is on the Member Coordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians; Member of Standing Committee on Water Resources; Member of Committee on Empowerment of Women; Member of Committee on Public Undertakings; Member of Parliament on the Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee.

She was the Ex-member of standing committee on Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution, from October 1999 to February 2004; Ex-Member of Consultative Committee on Ministry of Agriculture from October 1999 to February 2004; Ex-Member of Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee RDTAC (Income Tax); Member of Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms Advisory Council Punjab; Member of the Renovation of Famous Shrine of Hazrat Mashad Ali, Situated at Samana; Member of State Health Commission; Chairperson of Vigilance and Monitoring Committee on DRTA; Chairperson of State Committee on Female Feticide; Chairperson of Patiala Division and Urban Planning Authority; Chairperson of Patiala Heritage Society; Chairperson of Patiala Polo and Riding Club.

She is married to Sh. Amarinder Singh (Former Chief Minister of Punjab).

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LalitaKrishna Filmmaker

38 Camden Street, Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5V 1V1

Phone: 416 367 0330 Fax: 416 363 5887 Email: lalita@insyncvideo.ca Web: www.insyncvideo.ca Lalita Krishna is a multiple award winning filmmaker. Her work has been broadcast in Canada on all major networks, and featured at film festivals around the world. Lalita’s documentaries are successful both in the Canadian and International educational market. Lalita has been awarded the Dream Catcher Award for using her craft to better humanity, and is a recipient of the 2010 Reel World Trailblazer Award. Lalita’s current projects include a documentary on the growth of organized Retail in India, and cross platform documentary project on Chocolate. Lalita’s award winning documentary on legendary wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh screened to Indian audiences on NDTV. Lalita has made a successful foray into Interactive new media productions through her company, Breakout Media which partners with award winning game producers, designers and developers.

The In Sync Video group has multiple productions in the pipeline with CBC, TVO and Omni: documentaries, television series, and cross platform interactive documentary projects.

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AshaLuthra

Immediate Past President, Convenor PBDCanada2011 45, Sheppard Avenue East, Suit 900, North York, Ontario, M2N 5W9

Phone: 416 224 0090, 647 884 1679 Fax: 416 224 0089 Email: asha@iccc.org, aluthra4@gmail.com

Asha Luthra was the first woman president of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. She has been actively associated with the Chamber’s activities for more than a decade. She was elected as the 31st President of the Chamber in 2008.

Asha focused her efforts on increasing membership, expanding business related events reflecting the wide range of interests between Canada and India and championed the special role of the diaspora in building vital links between the two countries.

Asha is the Head of AL Consulting. She has been in the travel and hospitality business for more than two decades and has successfully promoted travel and trade between both Canada and India.

Asha is a member of the board of the JAAC (the Judiciary Appointment Advisory Committee).

She is also the Executive Director for Rajasthan Foundation.

Before she moved to Canada, Asha lived in Mumbai, India. She was with Air India Bombay for 14 years. She was on the faculty for the Indian Junior Chamber for many years. She was the first woman state President for Maharashtra Jaycees.

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HughMacKinnon Chairman & CEO Bennett Jones LLP

3400-1, First Canadian Place, Toronto ON, M5X 1A4

Phone: 416 777 4810 Email: mackinnonh@bennettjones.com Hugh MacKinnon is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bennett Jones and a member of the firm’s Partnership Board.

Hugh had previously maintained an active corporate commercial practice in Calgary and Toronto.

Hugh is Chairman of the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto and the Chairman of the Chesterton Institute of Faith and Culture based at Seton Hall, New Jersey. He is also a member of the Board of the C.D. Howe Institute, the Board of Governors of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Senate of the Canadian International Council, the Foundation Board for Bethlehem University, the Advisory Board of the CEO Global Network and the Advisory Council of the Walrus Magazine Foundation. His memberships include the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Ranchmen’s Club, the Toronto Club, the American Bar Association and a number of other social, professional and business organizations.

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SureshMadan President, TiE Toronto

150 Bloor Street, West Suite 14, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2X9

Phone: 416 964 6253, 416 451 7113 Email: smadan@tietoronto.org, admin@tietoronto.org

Mr. Suresh Madan is President of TiE Toronto, a non-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship. He is also Chair of TiE Quest Business Venture Competition. TiE Quest has consistently been applauded as one of the best venture competitions with over 25 success stories and many successful exits.

Mr. Madan is the EVP and Portfolio Manager of Excalibur Capital Management Inc., $100 million plus fund investing in early stage North American companies. Previously, Suresh managed money for the multi-billion dollars Reichmann family for nearly ten years. He is an engineer and has an MBA, while also holding the titles of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Canadian Investment Manager (CIM). Suresh has three decades of international experience in investing, business valuation, management consulting, corporate planning, and marketing.

Mr. Madan is also chair of IIM USA Inc., an association of alumni from IIMs in India. Suresh is also active on portfolio management committee of the Toronto CFA Society. He is frequently invited to speak on issues relating to current economic trends, financing for early stage companies and alternative public strategies.

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ArunMaira

Member Planning Commission of India Government of India, New Delhi

Phone: +91 11 23096750 x2748 Fax: +91 11 23096577 Email: arun.maira@nic.in Arun Maira is a Member of the Planning Commission chaired by the Prime Minister of India. In this ministerial level position, he is responsible for facilitating the shaping of policies and programs relating to industrialization and urbanization in the country, as well as tourism.

He is a frequent speaker at international forums on the future of India. He writes regularly in the Economic Times in India and other management and business journals. He is the author of several books, which include “Shaping The Future: Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond” by John Wiley’s & Sons in 2001, “Remaking India: One Country, One Destiny” by Response Books in 2004, “Discordant Democrats: Five Steps to Consensus” by Penguin Books in 2007, and “Transforming Capitalism: Business Leadership to Improve the World for Everyone” by Nimby Books in 2008.

Arun Maira was a member of the Tata Administrative Services and worked in several senior positions in the TATA Group in India and abroad for 25 years until 1989. He was on the Board of Tata Motors (then called TELCO) from 1981 to 1989. He worked with Arthur D. Little Inc (ADL), the international management consultancy, in the USA from 1989 to 1999, and consulted with companies across the world on issues of growth strategies and transformational change. He returned to India in 2000 and was Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India until April 2008.

Arun Maira has served on the boards of several large Indian companies, including companies in the Tata, Birla, Godrej, Hero, and Mahindra Groups. He has been a Member of The Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Council for many years, as well as Chairman of several of CII’s National Councils, including the National Council for Corporate Governance, and Chairman of CII’s Leadership Summit.

Arun Maira was Chairman of Save the Children, India, and Chairman of the Axis Bank Foundation. He has served on the boards of several Indian and international management education institutions. He was also on the boards of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, the India Brand Equity Foundation, and the Public Interest Foundation, as well as a trustee of WWF India, the World Food Program India Trust, and Aspen India.

Arun Maira was born in Lahore on August 15,1943. He received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

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RayMantha Ray Mantha assumed the role of ADM Mines and Minerals Division at the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry in October, 2010. He had been with Ontario Ministry of Transportation for 31 years, working in both the head office and field operations environment in engineering, construction and maintenance. In 2004, Mr. Mantha became Chief Engineer for the Ministry.

In 2005, Mr. Mantha became the Executive Director, Windsor Border Initiatives Implementation Group, a newly created MTO group dedicated to implementing all transportation initiatives at the Windsor Gateway. Mr. Mantha was appointed Executive Director, Provincial Highways Management Division in 2006. Mr. Mantha is currently the Vice-President of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC). Mr. Mantha continues to be very involved in community development. He was elected to the national board of the YMCA in 1995 and served as its Chair from 1999 to 2002.

Internationally, Mr. Mantha has served for four years as Canada’s representative on the World Alliance of YMCA Executive Committee.

In 2009, Mr. Mantha received two noteworthy honours: the Engineering Medal for Management and a Fellow of Engineers Canada, and can use the designation F.E.C.

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SarbjitS.Marwah

Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Scotia Plaza, 44 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1H1

Phone: 416 866 6161 Fax: 416 866 3750 Email: sabi.marwah@scotiabank.com As Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for Scotiabank since 2008, Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah is responsible for the Bank’s corporate financial and administrative functions, and is actively involved in developing the Bank’s strategic plans and priorities.

Mr. Marwah joined Scotia bank in Toronto as a financial analyst in the Bank’s Finance Division in 1979. Over the years, he held successively more senior positions within the Finance Department, including Deputy Comptroller, Senior Vice-President and Comptroller, and Executive VicePresident. He was appointed CFO in 1998 and Senior Executive Vice-President and CFO in 2002.

During his tenure in Finance, he was also responsible for several functions outside the Finance Division, and was actively involved in many of the Bank’s strategic decisions, including acquisitions both in Canada and internationally. He became Vice-Chairman and Chief Administrative Officer in 2005.

Mr. Marwah is a member of the Board of Directors of Cineplex Inc. and several Scotiabank subsidiaries. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees on The Hospital for Sick Children and on the Ontario Selection Committee for Rhodes Scholars. He is active in several community organizations and was a member of the 2008 and 2009 United Way Cabinet. He was also Past Chair of the Humber River Regional Hospital, Director of the C.D. Howe Institute and awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for his contributions to Canada.

Mr. Marwah earned an undergraduate Honours degree in Economics, a Master’s degree in Economics, and a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He and his wife, Amrin, have two daughters.

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DaltonMcGuinty Premier of Ontario

Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario, M7A 1A1 Fax: 416 325 3745 Web: www.premier.gov.on.ca

Premier Dalton McGuinty is committed to protecting and building on the gains Ontarians have made in health care and education as our economy turns the corner following the global recession.

Premier McGuinty is committed to making Ontario’s publicly funded education system even better. Under his leadership, peace and progress have returned to Ontario’s public school system.

Children are getting the individual attention they need with smaller classes and more teachers. and the McGuinty government is introducing full-day kindergarten for four- and five year olds.

It provides kids with a strong foundation for future learning, so they can go on to Post-secondary education and get a good job.

Under McGuinty’s leadership in health care, Ontarians now have the shortest wait times in the country, stronger hospitals, and improved access to primary care with more doctors and nurses, family health teams and nurse practitioner led clinics. Today, 94% of all Ontarians have access to a family doctor.

Premier McGuinty has also led a renewed commitment to postsecondary education. Ontario is creating more spaces so that every qualified Ontario student can go to college or university. He has made record investments in the roads, bridges, schools and hospitals that build stronger communities. He has introduced tax reforms that have made Ontario an even more attractive place for businesses to invest and create jobs.

Dalton McGuinty is Ontario’s 24th Premier. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1990. He became Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1996 and led the party to a majority government in 2003. He was re-elected to a second majority government in October 2007.

Born on July 19, 1955, Dalton McGuinty was raised in Ottawa’s Alta Vista neighborhood. One of ten children in a close family, he credits his parents with teaching him the values and ethics that guide him as Premier. Before entering politics, Dalton McGuinty practiced law in Ottawa. He met his wife, Terri when they were both high school students in Ottawa. They have been married since 1980 and have four grown children.

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PradeepMerchant

Chief of Division Neonatology, Ottawa Hospital-Civic Campus 210 Colonnade Road, Second Floor, Ottawa, Canada, K2E 7L5

Phone: 613 761 4622, 613 761 4267 Email: pmerchant@toh.on.ca, pradeep@icobc.org Dr. Pradeep Merchant is a well-known personality among the Indo-Canadian community and in the City of Ottawa. As a Chief of Division of Neonatology at the Ottawa Hospital-Civic campus, he has made numerous valuable contributions to the Ottawa medical community. Dr. Merchant has worked by supporting outstanding philanthropic endeavors in the eighteen years. In these endeavours, his supporting wife Anita Merchant and his son Praneal and daughter Krina have joined him.

He was born and raised in Mumbai, India. He obtained an MBBS medical degree from the prestigious Topiwala National Medical College, University of Bombay. He completed his Pediatric training at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He continued his career in the field of Neonatology, intensive care for the mature and the premature newborn babies, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Dept. Of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Ottawa.

In 1997, he was appointed as Chief of Division of Neonatology at the Ottawa Civic Hospital and the Medical Director of the Rich Little’s Special Care Nursery. Dr. Merchant later went on to become the Chief of the Division of Neonatology for the new amalgamated Ottawa Hospital and subsequently became Chief of the Division of Neonatology of The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Currently, he is the Site Chief of the Division of Neonatology at the Civic Campus. In his position, he has developed numerous policies and protocols in newborn care and published many articles.

Dr. Merchant remains committed to the growth and the vision of the health care in the OttawaCarleton region and engaged at various levels of local, regional, provincial as well as national organizations in providing the best possible care to the youngest citizens of Canada. Dr. Merchant continues to serve as a Medical Advisor to the Prenatal Partnership Program of Eastern and South-Eastern Ontario (PPPESO), serving 19 hospitals in the region.

His engagement as a Trustee for the last 5 years of Gujarati Cultural Association showed his community service. Dr. Merchant appointed to the Board of the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa. His community engagement bolstered by his gracious financial support over the years of the Ottawa hospitals, which include the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), The Ottawa Hospital, the Queensway-Carleton Hospital, and the Elizabeth Bruyere Hospital.

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FarahMohamed

President The Belinda Stronach Foundation Curator G(irls) 20 Summit 236 Avenue Road, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2J4

Phone: 416 531 1919 Fax: 416 531 1918 Email: farah.mohamed@tbsf.ca Ms. Farah Mohamed is the President of The Belinda Stronach Foundation (TBSF), which has been created to provide opportunities for girls and young women, aboriginal youth in Canada and youth in developing nations. The mission of the Foundation is to advance human potential and achievement through individual empowerment and social change.

Under Farah’s leadership, TBSF has created and launched the Foundation’s flagship programs; G(irls)20 Summit and One Laptop Per Child Canada. She has also overseen the Foundation’s work in Liberia with President Sirleaf and a humanitarian relief effort in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Prior to creating TBSF, Farah was the Vice President of Public Affairs and Community Engagement for VON Canada. At VON, she was successful in building government and private sector partnerships, as well as strengthening the brand of Canada’s largest, national, non-profit, charitable home and community-care organization.

Farah began her political career in 1995 with The Honourable Paddy Torsney. She worked with Ms. Torsney in her Burlington constituency and on Parliament Hill. She also served as Ms. Torsney’s campaign manager in 1997 and 2001.

Farah became the Press Secretary for the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of Canada.

Farah was promoted to the position of Director of Communications. She served in this role for the Honourable Anne McLellan when she was the Minister of Justice, Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.

Farah serves on the Board of the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Canadian Club of Canada.

She was a member of the Executive Committee for the Brazilian Ball 2010 and Maharaja Ball 2010.

She has served as a member of the Board of the Fred Victor Centre and as a mentor to new Canadians. In 2007, she took “active” participation to its extreme when she climbed 19,340 feet up Mount Kilimanjaro, raising $21,000 for the Canadian Liver Foundation and the VON Canada Foundation.

Farah earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at Queens University and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario in the field of Political Science.

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AlokMukherjee

Chair Toronto Police Services Board Alok Mukherjee has been Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board since September 2005. He is the first South Asian to occupy this position. As a Vice President of the Ontario Association of Police Boards and Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Police Boards, Dr. Mukherjee is actively involved in efforts to promote community-based policing under civilian oversight provincially and nationally. He is frequently called upon to speak on policing issues to a variety of audiences. He brings a unique perspective to law enforcement issues from his experiences in a highly multicultural and multiracial environment.

Dr. Mukherjee has worked as an educator and a consultant. He has written extensively in a variety of areas including diversity and inclusivity, employment equity for racially visible and aboriginal people, and anti-racist education.

Dr. Mukherjee has held several public appointments, including membership on the Toronto District School Board Safe and Compassionate School Taskforce and the Ontario Civilian Commission on Police Services, and has served as Vice Chair and Acting Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Dr. Mukherjee plays an active role in the community. His volunteer activities have included Chair of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA); a member of the Board of Governors, Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology; President of Indian Immigrant Aid Services; Chair of the Housing Sub-Committee, Social Issues Committee of the Children’s Aid Society of Metro Toronto; Chair of the Sub-Committee on Access to Services, City of Toronto Mayor’s Committee on Community and Race Relations; and a member of the Multiculturalism Committee, United Way of Greater Toronto.

Dr. Mukherjee has received the Ontario Volunteer Service Award (1996), the Molson New Pioneers Award for Leadership by Skills for Change, Toronto (1996) and Commendation by the Mayor of Toronto (1987).

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AnanyaMukherjee

Professor Department of Political Science and Development Studies, York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3

Phone: 416 427 7539, 905 889 6499, 416 736 2100 x30095 Email: ananya@yorku.ca Ananya Mukherjee is Professor of Political Science and Development Studies at York University, Toronto. She is the Founder Director of the International Secretariat of Human Development (ISHD) at York University. Under her leadership, ISHD has collaborated with leading international institutions such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva; United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Rome; United Nations Development Program (UNDP); and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva.

Routledge (London and New York, 2008) published Ananya’s latest book on Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia. Her previous publications include Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK 2003); Perspectives on India’s Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, (Macmillan, UK 2001) and a number of articles in international journals.

She has received research awards from International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, the Shastri IndoCanadian Institute (including its Millennium Development Research Grant 2011), amongst others. Her current research projects focused on the development of democratic, sustainable forms of enterprise amongst marginalized women in India. In 2009, she was Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.

Dr. Mukherjee also appears frequently in TV Ontario, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, OMNI TV etc. In 2010, on Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary she has joined with several Toronto citizens to form the Tagore Anniversary Celebrations Committee Toronto (TACCT). TACCT has taken on the mandate of bringing Tagore’s work to the Canadian mainstream in collaboration with the media, universities, youth groups and other entities. As one of her contributions to this endeavour, Ananya has created a special website www.tagore150toronto.ca that profiles Tagore’s life and work. It aims to create a repository of Tagore’s works already in the public domain and available electronically in English. Ananya obtained her PhD (Economics and Public Policy) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and her BA and MA in Economics from Calcutta, India.

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VinayNagpal

President ICCC

45, Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 900, North York, Ontario, M2N 5W9 Phone: 416 224 0090 Fax: 416 224 0089 Email: vnagpal@iccc.org

Vinay is a Senior Development Manager at the IBM Software Laboratory Canada. Vinay has held a number of leadership positions, and most recently was the president of the IBM South Asian Diversity Group. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science. Vinay is an avid sportsman, and has founded two fund raising teams for a variety of charities. Most notably, Vinay has cycled from Toronto to St. John’s, NF for Cancer Research

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DavidNaylor

President University of Toronto

27 King’s College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 Phone: 416 978 2121 Email: president@utoronto.ca

David Naylor has been President of the University of Toronto since 2005. He earned his MD at Toronto in 1978, followed by a D Phil at Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Naylor completed clinical specialty training and joined the Department of Medicine of the University of Toronto in 1988.

He was founding Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (19911998), before becoming Dean of Medicine and Vice Provost for Relations with Health Care Institutions of the University of Toronto (1999 - 2005). Naylor has co-authored approximately 300 scholarly publications, spanning social history, public policy, epidemiology and biostatistics, and health economics, as well as clinical and health services research in most fields of medicine.

Among other honors, Naylor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Foreign Associate Fellow of the US Institute of Medicine, and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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KarenOldfield

President & CEO Halifax Port Authority P.O. Box 336, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2P6

Phone: 902 426 8222 Fax: 902 426 7335 Email: wwilson@portofhalifax.ca Karen Oldfield is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Halifax Port Authority. She has been instrumental in developing the Port of Halifax as a strategic national asset. The Port of Halifax annually generates $1.58 billion in economic impact and over 11,000 port- related jobs. Halifax was also the first port in Canada to achieve the ISO14001 certification. Halifax has become the marquee cruise port in Atlantic Canada with over 260,000 passengers aboard 127 ships calling Halifax this past cruise season, which generates $50 million in local economic impact.

Karen began her professional career in 1985 with the law firm McInnes Cooper, becoming partner a few years later. In 1999, she assumed the role of Chief of Staff for Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm in which Karen was instrumental in ensuring the strategic priorities of the Government of Nova Scotia were carried out. She joined the Halifax Port Authority in 2002 and her team leads in the development and internationally marketing of business in- cargo, cruises and lands. Karen is a member of the Advisory Council on National Security, established in 2005, which provides expert advice about national security issues through the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister.

She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Canadian Port Authorities, the Public Policy Forum and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Atlantic Chapter of the International Women’s Forum, and a member of the Canadian Board of Directors of IWF. Karen sits on the Board of Governors for Saint Mary’s University, the NS Division of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and the Halifax Gateway Council. In recent years, Karen has judged the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards program, has participated on Boards of Directors including the YMCA and QEII Foundation.

Karen has been recognized for her professional achievements and her contributions as a volunteer, including: Canada’s Top 40 under 40, Community Mentoring Award from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax, Destination Halifax Ambassador Program Honoree, Atlantic Business Magazine’s Top 50 CEO’s, and the Canadian Urban Institute’s Brownie Award for the Halifax Seaport Redevelopment Master Plan.

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DR.RatnaOmidvar President Maytree

170 Bloor Street West, Suite 804, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1T9 Phone: 416 944 2627 Email: romidvar@maytree.com

Ms. Ratna Omidvar is President of Maytree, a private foundation that promotes equity and prosperity through its policy insights, grants and programs. The foundation is known for its commitment to developing, testing, and implementing programs and policy solutions related to immigration, integration and diversity in the workplace, in the boardroom and in public office. Ratna also serves as a director of the Toronto City Summit Alliance and is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC).

She has been appointed to a number of taskforces, including the Transition Advisory Board to the Premier of Ontario in 2003 and to Prime Minister Paul Martin’s External Advisory Committee on Cities and Communities. In 2006, Ratna was appointed to the Order of Ontario. In 2010, the Globe and Mail profiled Ratna as its Nation Builder of the Decade for Citizenship.

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LataPada

Founder & Artistic Director Sampradaya Dance Creations 3250 Ridgeway Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 5Y6

Phone: 905 607 8434 Fax: 905 607 1843 Email: lata@sampradaya.ca As Founder and Artistic Director of SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations, Canada’s award winning South Asian professional dance company, Lata Pada has forged a unique niche in Canadian dance with her distinctive choreography and visionary leadership. She brings a contemporary worldview to her creations and her multi-disciplinary collaborations with many leading artists and designers of India and Canada have received critical acclaim on international stages.

Lata Pada holds an M.F.A. in dance from York University and serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Master’s Program of Dance at York University. In January 2009, Lata was conferred the Order of Canada and has the distinction of being the first South Asian artist to receive this prestigious honor. In January 2011, Lata was awarded, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President of India, an award given to Indian non-residents for their lifetime achievements.

Following the terrorist bombing of Air India 182 in June 1985, in which Pada lost her husband and two daughters, she has been an active spokesperson for the families of the victims. She has been a strong advocate for an inquiry into Canada’s worst acts of terrorism and has pushed for changes in legislation regarding aviation security, law enforcement and Canada’s judicial system.

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PrashantPathak

Managing Partner Reichmann Hauer Capital Partners

The Kingbridge Centre, 12750 Jane Street, King City, Ontario, L7B 1A3

Phone: 905 833 3086, 905 833 3075 Email: ppathak@reichmancapitalpartners.com Mr. Prashant Pathak is Managing Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners. In his role as a principal investor, Prashant is focused on addressing all strategic, operational, financial and organizational aspects of investments to drive superior returns.

Mr. Prashant was a Partner of McKinsey & Company Inc. While at McKinsey he was a leader of the North American Telecom Practice, the Financial Services Practices and also a leader in the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. At McKinsey, Prashant advised several global corporations on a range of general management, strategy, M&A and operations issues across North America, Asia, Europe and South America.

He spent several years in industry in a range of management and field operations roles at Schlumberger and Halliburton. Prashant has extensive international experience and built strong trusted relationships with several leading corporations and conglomerates from his work in Europe, Middle East Asia, and South East Asia.

He actively contributes to several community and not-profit institutions and causes. He is a Director on the Board of the North York General Hospital in Toronto, a leading community based teaching hospital in Canada, a Director of the Business Development Bank of Canada. He is an alumnus of the core team of Vartana, a new type of bank in Canada - a bank that is not only a charity, but is also owned by and dedicated to serving others engaged in charitable activities.

He was a Charter Member of TiE, Founded in 1992, in Silicon Valley. TiE, also known as Talent Ideas and Enterprise is a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. He was recognized as Canada’s Top 40 Under 40TM in 2008 for exceptional achievement across five dimensions - vision and leadership; innovation and achievement; impact; growth and development strategy; community involvement and contribution - and the capacity to encourage and foster growth. He was an inductee to the “30 most influential Indo-Canadians Power List” of Rediff’s India Abroad magazine (2009).

Prashant migrated to Canada in 1998, and now lives in Toronto. Prashant has a MBA from INSEAD with Distinction and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he was adjudged the Best All-Round Graduating Student of his class. He also has a Diploma in Fuzzy Logic from IIT.

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PoonamPuri

Associate Professor

LLB(Toronto) LLM(Harvard) of the Bar of Ontario

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3 Phone: 416 736 5542 Fax: 416 736 5736 Email: ppuri@osgoode.yorku.ca Ms. Poonam Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate law, securities law, corporate governance, and corporate and white-collar crime.

Appointed to York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 at the age of 25, and a recipient of its Teaching Excellence Award in 1999, Puri is a prolific scholar who has co-authored or edited three books and written numerous articles or reports. She has an LL.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where she was the Silver Medalist in her 1995 graduating law class, and she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from Harvard Law School.

Her work is academically rigorous as well as firmly grounded in the real-time of policy-making.

It is for this reason that governments and regulators in Canada and internationally, including Industry Canada, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the Canadian Senate, the Wise Persons Committee on Securities Regulation and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, have sought her expertise.

In 2008, she was appointed as one of two research directors of the Canadian Ministry of Finance’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulation, which is seeking input on the best way to develop and implement a model Common Securities Act for Canada. In 2005, she was co-research director of the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation and served as a member of the OSC’s Investor Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2007. She was the President of the Canadian Law and Economics Association from 2006-2008.

A 2005 recipient of Canada’s Top 40 under 40™ award, she was appointed in 2008 to the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. She is on the board of directors of the Ontario Association of Food Banks, and an inaugural member of the University of Toronto President’s International Advisory Council.

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M.K.Raghavan

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha 204 Kerala House, New Delhi - 110 001

Phone: +91 901 318 0178, +91 984 734 1577 Fax: + 91 11 237 455 23 Email: calicutmp@yahoo.co.in Mr. M K Raghavan is a member of the Indian National Congress and a Member of Parliament. He was elected in the 15th Lok Sabha. He is also a member on the Committee on Health and Family Welfare, and he is involved in a number of social and cultural activities. He founded the first Government aided Arts and Sciences College in the co-operative sector in India.

He started 27 de-fibering units in the cooperative sector in the rural areas of Kannur and Kasargod districts of Kerala. He started about 30 women co-operative societies in Kannur district, which are the flagships of the co-operative movement in the sector in the northern districts of the state.

He also started Agreenco Ltd., the prestigious federal co-operative in the agro industries sector in the state; formed many co-operative institutions, which lead to generation of ample employment opportunities for the youth.

He has visited China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and the UAE.

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G.M.Rao

Group Chairman GMR GROUP G M Rao, a mechanical engineer, is the founder Chairman of GMR Group, the Bangalore based global Infrastructure major. The Group is well diversified and professionally managed with focus on business verticals of Airports, Energy, Highways and Urban Infrastructure including SEZs. Born in a small town of Rajam in the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, G M Rao established the GMR business empire starting from a single jute mill in Rajam in 1978.

A visionary businessman, G M Rao recognised the huge business potential in entering the infrastructure space, with the opening up of the power sector in the 90s in India. Within a decade, he successfully established three greenfield power plants in the country, one each in the state of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Under his guidance, the Group is now developing several power projects in various parts of India & abroad and is also expanding its presence globally. The Group has thirteen power projects of which three are operational with a capacity of 808 MW and ten projects are under various stages of implementation both in Hydel and Thermal Power. Going forward the Energy sector will have a capacity of 8448 MW. G M Rao expanded the Group’s presence in the infrastructure sector by leading the Group’s foray into Highways. The Group has already completed six road projects. It has recently won three road projects, the 181km Hyderabad–Vijayawada project in Andhra Pradesh on toll basis; 29km Chennai Outer Ring Road state project in Tamil Nadu on annuity basis and the 99 km Hungund-Hospet stretch in Karnataka on toll basis. Realising that Airports will drive the economy in the 21st century, G M Rao spearheaded the Group’s entry into the high profile airport business. Under his leadership the Group has developed the new Greenfield International Airport at Hyderabad, and has modernised the Delhi International Airport by constructing a world-class integrated terminal 3 (T3) which was inaugurated on 3rd July, 2010.

Under G M Rao’s visionary leadership, the Group commissioned the brand new Sabiha Gokcen International (SGA) airport terminal at Istanbul, Turkey on 31st October, 2009. The project marking the Group’s maiden global foray was completed in a record time of 18 months, a year ahead of schedule, as stipulated in the concession agreement. Recently the Group has won the bid to build, operate, modernize and expand the MALE International Airport (MIA), Maldives on 29th June, 2010. The Group has also ventured into the new business sector of Urban Infrastructure and is in the process of setting up a 3300 acre multiproduct SEZ in Krishnagiri District of Tamil Nadu.

With a strong desire to serve the needs of the marginalised sections and the rural society, Rao set up the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation, to raise their living standards. The Foundation is active in the areas of education, health and hygiene, community development and empowerment.

G M Rao has today successfully established GMR Group, as one of the leading infrastructure organisations in the country. His commitment to the core infrastructure sector has resulted in the Group exiting some of the highly lucrative businesses of banking, insurance, breweries and jute. Rao was the largest shareholder in the country’s leading 75-year-old private sector Vysya Bank, which has been successfully transformed into a modern technology driven and hugely successful financial enterprise. For his visionary approach and outstanding contribution to ING Vysya Bank for a period of two decades as its Director and Chairman, the Bank in September 2006 conferred on him the status and title of ‘Chairman Emeritus’. For his exemplary entrepreneurial/industrial achievements, he has received an honorary Doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. He has also been conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the Andhra University.

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KasiV.P.Rao

Senior Advisor (India) Bennett Jones

Phone: 416 777 6037 Email: raok@bennettjones.com Kasi Rao is a consultant providing strategic guidance to broader public and private sector organizations on matters pertaining to higher education, government relations, business development and policy issues, with a particular focus on India. In his capacity as Senior Advisor on India, he advises the Bennett Jones team on developing and implementing India-related strategies.

Kasi has a diverse professional background. In 2005, he led a collaborative initiative relating to the automotive sector, as the founding Executive Director of the Beacon Project at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Immediately prior to this he worked for three-and-half years as the Director, Office of the President and CEO at BMO Financial Group.

At the University of Toronto, where he worked for seven years, Kasi served in a twin-pronged role: Director of the Office of the President and Director of Government Relations. He also worked for the Province of Ontario in various capacities over a period of five years: Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Government in New York, Policy Advisor to the Premier of Ontario, and Special Assistant in Cabinet Office.

Kasi authored Ontario-India Relations: The Infrastructure Dimension, a report for the Ontario Chamber of Commerce in 2008. He has provided advice to governments, think tanks, corporations, universities and hospital foundations on strategies pertaining to India.

Kasi has an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from the University of Waterloo, majoring in Political Science. He obtained his primary and secondary education from schools in Gangtok, Bengaluru, New Delhi and Toronto.

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AshookRamsaran

Executive Vice President GOPIO International

69-70 184th Street, Fresh Meadows, New York - 11365

Phone: 1 718 353 1900 Fax: 1 718 353 2404 Email: ramsaran@aol.com

Ashook K. Ramsaran was educated in the USA (BSEE, MSEE) and worked in the US industry as an electronics engineer after graduation. Later he progressed to become Vice President of Engineering before establishing Ramex, Inc. his own electronics manufacturing enterprise in College Point, New York. Ramex designs and manufacturers intercommunication systems for the healthcare, transportation and penitentiary marketplace, and has been named among the top 100 Indian Owned Businesses in the USA for 10 consecutive years.

Mr. Ramsaran is the Executive Vice President of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO international) and Chairperson of GOPIO’s Tracing Our Roots Committee. He is also the Co-Founder and Director of the Guyanese East Indian Civic Association (GEICA), and Director of the Caribbean Business Council (CBC). He is an ardent advocate of universal human rights and observance of the rule of law in the Indian Diaspora, and collaborates with St. John’s University’s Committee on Caribbean and Latin American Studies (CLACS) on a continuing series of seminars and conferences. He has also been given special recognition by St. John’s University on November 15, 2007 and has had a scholarship set-up in his name.

Mr. Ramsaran also collaborates with New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIANYC) on annual events on immigrant experiences in New York City. He has been honored as the “Outstanding Immigrant” by New York City Council and serves as Principal for The Day annually in the New York Public School system. He is very active in his local New York community, and is involved in civic, political and cultural groups, and he contributes generously to causes on behalf of the needy, and has also written extensively on issues of interest and concern affecting people of Indian Origin in the global Indian Diaspora. He is prominently featured in the Global Indian 2010 publication of “Top 25 Indian Luminaries of the World.”

Mr. Ramsaran collaborates extensively with India’s ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) on global Indian Diaspora matters and the annual Pravasi Bhartiya Divas events. He initiated and chaired the first “Tracing our Roots” session at PBD 2005, was a speaker at the PBD 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. He has been awarded with the highly acclaimed 2010 “Asian Heritage Award” in New York.

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VayalarRavi

Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Akbar Bhawan, Chankaya Puri, New Delhi - 110 021 Phone: +91 11 24676836/37/39 Fax: +91 11 24197985

Mr. Vayalar Ravi, assumed office as the new Overseas Indian Affairs Minister on January 30, 2006. He was born in 1937 in Vayalar village of Kerala’s Alappuzha district, in the middle class family of a freedom fighter.

Mr. Ravi married, now the late, Mercy Ravi, a political activist as well as a writer, in 1969. She was an MLA in the Kerala State Assembly. The couple has a son and two daughters.

A soft-spoken person, Mr. Ravi began his carrier as a student leader. In 1957, he organized the Kerala Student Union (KSU), which pioneered the student’s movement in the state as helped the Congress entrench itself in Kerala. The efforts of the Youth Congress and KSU created a new image of the Congress party, which emerged as a ruling political force in Kerala. His association with the Youth Congress began as early as 1956 when he became the treasurer of the Alleppev District Youth Congress.

Later, in 1965, he became president of the Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress. Both former Chief Ministers of Kerala, A. K. Antony and Oommen Chandy have been Ravi’s close associates since their student days. Mr. Ravi was elected to the KPCC in 1967 and became an AICC member. He was general secretary of the Indian Youth Congress when Narain Dutt Tiwari was the president. With the consent of Indira Gandhi, Ravi organized the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI).

Mr. Ravi had refused to contest to the 1970 Assembly elections in Kerala when Antony and Chandy became the youngest MLA’s. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1971 from Chirayinkil in the Thiruvanathapuram district. He was again elected to the Lok Sabha in 1977. In 1972, at the Kolkata AICC Session, he was elected to the Congress working Committee. A socialist by conviction, he was the Convenor of the Socialist Forum for a long time. In 1982, he became the Home Minister of Kerala. Ravi was again elected to the Kerala Assembly in 1987.

In 1992, Ravi became the president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee defeating A.K Antony. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1996. In 2001, he became the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee. He was again elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2003. Before assuming charge as the Hon’ble Minister, he was the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development.

Ravi is an excellent orator, a prolific writer and an outstanding parliamentarian whose knowledge of constitutional matters is legendary. He has through his remarkable career, always raised his voice in favour of the poor, the destitute and the weaker sections of the society.

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ArjunSablok

Filmamker Bollywood Mumbai, India

Arjun Sablok, a filmmaker in Mumbai, is an Indo-Canadian that ventured to India and succeeded.

A chance to experience film making by a legend of Indian cinema, Mr. Yash Chopra, gave Arjun the inspiration to move from the west coast shores of Vancouver, BC, to the beaches of the Indian Ocean, Mumbai.

Arjun has directed two feature films, Na Tum Jaano Na Hum with Hritik Roshan, and Neal ‘N Nikki, over 200 Commercials, many TV Serials and numerous Music Videos. His dream to work with Lata Mangeshkar and Amithabh Bachchan, was not only fulfilled, but won him the prestigious RAPA award for Advertising, three times consecutively. Arjun also had an opportunity to work with Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and many more.

For his feature films, Arjun filmed in Canada extensively. He is passionate about showing just how beautiful Canada and its people are, to the rest of the world – through the medium of film and television.

A true Indo-Canadian, home for Arjun is always in the direction of his flight.

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PreetiSaran

Indian CONSUL GeNERAL Educational Qualifications: M.A. in English Literature from Delhi University Marital Status: Married with two sons Joined the Indian Foreign Service: August 1982 Previous postings: Before taking up her assignment as Consul General of India in Toronto, Mrs. Saran was Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, heading the Northern Division and handling India’s bilateral relations with Nepal and Bhutan. Before that she was Joint Secretary in charge of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation Division in the Ministry during the 14th SAARC Summit held in New Delhi in April 2007. She has held varied assignments both at headquarters in New Delhi and in Indian Missions abroad, ranging from political, cultural, press and information and economic and commercial work. She has experience in multilateral work and has attended several international Conferences. Her other overseas postings include Moscow, Dhaka, Washington, Cairo and Geneva.

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RanaSarkar

President & CEO Canada-India Business Council 1 St. Clair Ave. East, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, M4T 2V7

Phone: 416 214 5947 Fax: 416 214 9081 Email: rsarkar@canada-indiabusiness.ca Rana Sarkar is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada-India Business Council.

He also serves as a Senior Fellow and Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board for the MUNK School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Previously, Rana was a co-founder and director of Rawlings Atlantic Limited, a cross border advisory firm, and Content Partners, a fast growing media promotions agency. Rana also served as the lead strategist at leading European digital agency and a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants based in London and New Delhi.

Rana helped establish the Roland Berger office in New Delhi (1997-1998), working for a variety of global and Indian corporate clients.

Rana is an active commentator and ideas contributor on global business and politics, and has been featured on the BBC and CBC, and in the Financial Times and The Globe & Mail. He has been a regular visiting lecturer at both the London School of Economics and the CASS Business School, a patron of the Guardian Hay Literary Festival. He attended the London School of Economics (MSc); Queen’s University at Kingston (BAH) and the INSEAD Executive Program and is a member of the advisory council of the Literary Review of Canada and the Mowatt Centre for Policy Innovation. He currently serves as co-chair of the Labour Market Readiness working group for the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

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FrankScarpitti Mayor Town of Markham

101 Town Centre Blvd, Anthony Roman Centre, Markham, Ontario, L3R 9W3 Phone: 905 475 4872 Fax: 905 479 7775 Email: fscarpitti@markham.ca

Mayor Frank Scarpitti was first elected Mayor of the Town of Markham in 2006 for a four-year term and in October of 2010 was re-elected for a subsequent four-year term. He serves on York Region Council. He was first elected as Regional Councillor in 1985, and was re-elected seven times. At the Region, Mayor Scarpitti served as Chair of the Planning and Economic Development Committee and is currently a member of the Finance and Administration Committee, the York Region Rapid Transit Corporation, the Yonge Subway Advisory Task Force and the Police Services Board.

Mayor Scarpitti is Chair of Power Stream, serves on the Markham Stouffville Hospital Board and is a former member of the Markham Theatre Board and the Rouge Park Alliance. Mayor Scarpitti was Chair of Markham’s Olympic Torch Relay celebration, Honorary Chair of Markham Miracle: Helping Build Haiti’s Future and Honorary Chair of the Markham Rising Sun Campaign: Standing with Japan. He is the Co-Chair of the Capital Campaign for the Markham Stouffville Hospital Expansion Mayor Scarpitti lives in Markham with his wife Nancy and their three children. He has been a Markham resident for 45 years.

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DeepakSharma

Senior Vice President

NRI Banking & Remittance, Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. Infinity Towers, Infinity Business Park, Malad (E), Mumbai, India Phone: +91 22 66054299 Email: deepak.m.sharma@kotak.com

Deepak Sharma is responsible for driving bank’s Non Resident Indian (NRI) business. Deepak joined Kotak in 2008 to setup bank’s NRI Banking segment. Kotak is amongst the new generation bank with complete range of financial products, wide distribution channel and innovative solutions. It is rated amongst the top 8 banks in India in terms of market cap. Under Deepak’s leadership bank has built significant focus in NRI banking space. This includes areas like remittance, digital platform & strategic alliances with banks and financial institution. Kotak has built multi dimensional approach to offer wide range of products backed with 24X7 services for NRI segment. In the last few years bank has doubled its NRI customer base and is growing across all major geography.

Prior to joining Kotak, Deepak had worked with Standard Chartered Bank in India handling corporate payment, payroll and wealth management solution. Deepak has wide understanding of multi geography, multi products requirement of key customer segments. Developing new partnerships for success and growth of business is one of his key strength.

About Non Resident Indian: With over 27 Million people, Indian Diaspora is amongst the largest diasporas in the world with presence across all major continents. They are also very closely connected with India in financial and cultural space. India is also the largest recipient of remittance in the world with values in excess of USD 51Billion in 2010.

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AlwynDidarSingh

Secretary Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs

Government of India, Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110 021

Phone: +91 11 24674143/44 Fax: +91 11 24674140 Email: secretary@moia.nic.in Dr. Alwyn Didar Singh, author and expert in PPP< IT and E-Commerce is a senior Indian Civil Servant presently posted as Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.

Before this Dr. Singh was member (Finance) at the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. NHAI has one of the largest portfolios of PPP projects globally.

Dr. Singh has earlier held senior positions in the Central Ministries of Commerce and Heavy Industries and before that as CEO of two IT companies in the state of Punjab in India.

Dr. Singh is a strategy expert who has worked with several international agencies, including international Trade Centre; UNCTAD; World Health Organization; ILO; South Centre, Geneva and the Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

Dr. Didar Singh has a PhD in the policy and administration of Electronic Commerce and several publications including three books to his credit in the areas of e-commerce, e-government and Trade.

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PremP.Singhmar

President Singhmar Group of Companies 2100 Premier Way, Sherwood Park, Alberta, T8H 2G4

Phone: 780 416 2121 Fax: 780 416 2124 Cell: 780 699 0760 Email: psinghmar@bwsherwood.com

Dr. Prem P. Singhmar did his MBBS from government medical college, Srinagar, India. He also completed his Masters of Surgery-Ophthalmology from Medical College, Rohtak, India. He worked as Registrar at thr Medical College, Rohtak and Ophthalmology Consultant at University of Tripoli, Libya. Later, he shifted to construction industry and developed lands and built a number of Condominiums, hotels, malls, conference centers in Edmonton and Saskatchewan. He also owned and managed a 20,000-bird egg-layer poultry in Alberta and 15, 000 acres of land.

He served as a member of Judicial Council of Alberta from 2002-2006, member of patronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s council with Heritage Community Foundation in 2007 and presently a trustee of Alberta Cancer Foundation. He also worked as a fundraiser in Gandhi Foundation, Orissa Cyclone Fund, Gujarat Earthquake Fund, Crystal Kids, Kids Kottage and Edmonton Inner City School. He also donated a Volunteer wall of fame in Legislature Pedway in 2003.

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PradeepSood

Immediate Past Chair Ontario Chamber of Commerce 505 â&#x20AC;&#x201C;180 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario

Phone: 416 809 4239, 416 840 0866 x2483 Email: Pradeep@xactscribe.com Mr. Pradeep Sood is the founder of XactScribe Inc. a Toronto based Transcription Company, using digital technology to assist clients in the medical, business and legal sectors. The company combines the advantages of an offshore centre with the expertise of North American specialists.

Pradeep is also the Founder President of Out Source Process Inc., a company engaged in the provisioning, delivery of off shore Business and Knowledge based IT enabled processes, to small and medium sized business enterprises.

He has extensive international experience and diverse cultural knowledge, with over 30 years experience at both operations and management levels in Asia, Africa and North America.

Pradeep is passionate about giving back to the community and has organized numerous fundraising events to support community organizations including the Royal Ontario Museum, Harbour front Centre, Textile Museum of Canada, Bridge point Health Foundation and Salaam Balk Trust.

Pradeep graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Hons. Economics) from Delhi University, India, holds a Chartered Accountant designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Canada.

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T.P.Sreenivasan

Former Ambassador of India

Sreelekha J-3, Jawahar Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 003, Kerala, India

Phone: - +91 471 272 5456/272 0497, +91 984 772 1656 Email: tpsreenivasan@gmail.com Mr. Sreenivasan is a former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, and Governor for India of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna and Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia (2000-2004). He has served in the Indian Foreign Service for 37 years. His previous postings were as Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of India, Washington, (1997-2000), High Commissioner of India to Kenya and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in Nairobi, (1995-1997), Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations, New York. (1992-1995), and Ambassador to Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati and Tonga (1986-1989). He has also served in New Delhi, Tokyo, Thimphu, New York and Yangon. He rose to the highest level in the Indian Foreign Service in 2001 and retired in 2004.

Mr. Sreenivasan has nearly 20 years of experience in multilateral diplomacy and has represented India at a number of international conferences organized by the United Nations, the Commonwealth and the Nonaligned Movement. He has chaired several UN Committees and Conferences.

He did his B.A. (English) and M.A. (English) from University of Kerala.

Mr. Sreenivasan is presently a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India, the Director General, Kerala International Centre and an Adviser to ‘Asianet’ and produces a weekly TV program on international issues entitled ‘Videsa Vicharam.’ He also contributes articles regularly to newspapers and journals, and is also a visiting faculty in academic institutions. He is also the Executive Director of ‘IAEA 2020’, a project launched by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.

He is author of three books: ‘Words, Words, Words—Adventures in Diplomacy’, ‘Encounters’ and ‘Mattering to India-the Shashi Tharoor Campaign.’

Mr. Sreenivasan is married to Lekha Sreenivasan who is an Indian classical dancer and a painter.

The couple has two children.

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SHRIKUMBAKUDISUDHAKARAN Member of Parliament

C - 7, M.S. Flats, B.K.S. Marg, New Delhi - 110 001

Phone: +91 11 30411411, +91 901 318 0322 Email: knrsudhakaran@yahoo.co.in Shri Kumbakudi Sudhakaran is Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha). He was elected to 15th Lok Sabha from Kannur constituency, Kerala. He was also elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly (four terms). He was Minister, Forest and Sports, Govt. of Kerala He is member of Committee on Public Accounts and Committee on Commerce.

He is interested in charity works and present patron of Sardar Chandroth Memorial Charitable Trust, Tellichery, Kerala.

He did M.A. (History) from Government Brennen College, Telecherry, Kerala He visited Mascat, Qatar, U.A.E. and South Africa

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HarinderTakhar

Minister of Government Services Ministry of Government Services, ONTARIO

Room 4320, 4th Floor, Whitney Block, 99 Wellesley Street W., Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1W3 Phone: 416 327 2333 Fax: 416 327 3790

Harinder Takhar was elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. He was appointed the Minister of Government Services in June 2009. His previous portfolios include Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Small Business and Consumer Services and Ministry of Transportation.

In private life, Takhar has held leadership positions with several Canadian companies, including AGRA Industries Limited, Linear Technology Inc/Gennum Corporation and Timex Canada Inc. He served as the president and chief executive officer of the Chalmers Group of Companies until his election to the Ontario legislature. In 1995, The Financial Post recognized Chalmers Suspension International Inc., headed by Takhar, as a finalist among Canada’s top 50 best-managed private companies. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce also honoured the company with the Outstanding Business Achievement Award in 1999 and the Mississauga Board of Trade presented the company with the Small Business of the Year award the same year.

A tireless volunteer and community supporter, Takhar received the 2001 Community Service Award from the Society of Management Accountants of Ontario for “demonstrating selflessness and kindness for the benefit of society.” In addition to a term as chair of the United Way of Peel Region, Takhar has served as chair and member of the board of governors of the Credit Valley Hospital, and associate director and chief financial officer of the Peel District School Board. He is also a founding member of the International Punjabi Chamber of Commerce.

Takhar holds a master’s degree in economics and political science, and an undergraduate degree in English, economics and political science. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Management Accountants of Canada.

Takhar and his wife, Balwinder, have lived in Mississauga for more than 30 years. They have two daughters.

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Dr.NandiniTandon Managing Director Lumira Capital, California

530 Lytton Ave., 2nd Floor, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 94301

Phone: 650 968 2146 Fax: 650 968 2176 Email: nandini.tandon@alumni.duke.edu Dr. Tandon focuses on investments across a wide spectrum of therapeutic and medical device areas and manages Lumira Capitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office in the San Francisco Bay Area, which she helped establish in early 2004. With 20 years of experience encompassing investing, operational and entrepreneurial background, she has assisted in building technology-based businesses across various stages of their development from start-ups to commercialization.

Prior to joining Lumira Capital, Dr. Tandon was a partner with RBC Capital Partners where she launched their venture capital U.S.A. life science presence by opening its San Francisco office in February 2002. Earlier, she was the Chief Business Officer of a VC backed start-up Zyomyx Inc., Vice President of Business Development of Hyseq Inc., and held various positions at Chiron Corporation, Glaxo Wellcome and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. She has diverse executive level background in strategic planning, M&A, BD, deal negotiations research and development, and marketing and sales.

Dr. Tandonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past or present board roles and investment responsibilities include: Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACOR), Alexza (NASDAQ: ALXA), Ambit Biosciences, Ception Therapeutics(acquired by Cephalon), Conforma Therapeutics (acquired by Biogen Idec), Corus Pharma (acquired by Gilead Sciences), Guava Technologies (acquired by Millipore), IDUN (acquired by Pfizer), KAI Pharmaceuticals, Saegis Pharmaceuticals, Spinal Kinetics and U-Systems.

Dr. Tandon is a strategic advisory board member at the Stanford University School of Medicine Career Center. She is also on the advisory boards of BayBio Institute, Bio Investor Forum and C21 BioVentures; is on BIO/NVCA Venture Capital Working Group and the VC Advisory Committee for the North American Venture Capital Summit. Dr. Tandon is Charter Member for TiE Silicon Valley and Board of Trustees for TiE Global, the largest not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals that has 57 chapters in 14 countries. She is the Chair of TiE Catalyst Global, whose main thrust is to shepherd the entrepreneurship at the intersection of Healthcare and IT for the 57 virtual chapters globally. A White House Intern, Dr. Tandon received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University, Phi Lambda Upsilon and her B.A. cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Hollins University, Virginia.

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SunilTandon

President & CEO State Bank of India (Canada)

Suite 1600, 200 Bay Street, Royal Bank Plaza, North Tower Corporate Banking - Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2J2

Sunil Tandon is President and Chief Executive Officer of State Bank of India (Canada), a scheduled II bank, which is fully owned subsidiary of State Bank of India, the largest Bank in India.

The bank has seven branches in Canada out of which four are located in GTA and three in British Columbia. State Bank of India (Canada) offers a range of products for its customers in retail as well as commercial segment.

Sunil has served at State Bank of India (California), a State Chartered Bank, based at Los Angeles as Vice President (Trade, Systems and Operations). Prior to this, he had served in Global IT hub of State Bank Group in Mumbai. He had also served as Business head for group of branches located in three districts of Uttar Pradesh. He has also served in the states of Madhya Pradesh and North East.

He did his MSc from University of Lucknow (India), in 1983 and Diploma in Business Finance, ICFAI, Hyderabad.

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SatishThakkar

President Excelsior Financial Group

7001 Steeles Avenue W., #18, Toronto, Ontario, M9W 0A2 Phone: 416 798 3228, 416 995 7695 Fax: 416 798 1948 Email: satish@efgcanada.ca Web: www.efgcanada.ca

Satish Thakkar is a dynamic entrepreneur and a highly experienced Chartered Accountant from India and a CGA from Ontario with over 18 years experience in providing full service business advisory consultation.

Currently he is the President of a boutique business consulting firm â&#x20AC;&#x153;Excelsior Financial Groupâ&#x20AC;?

(Toronto). Excelsior provides advisory services to individuals and corporations in financial structuring & planning, accounting, Taxation and business consulting.

Satish Thakkar is a prominent and active member of the South Asian business and professional community in Canada. He has extensive global experience in the financial services industry and has a proven track record of providing custom full service business and transaction advisory consultation to meet the unique needs of his clients in the realm of both personal and corporate financial structuring/ planning. He helps companies grow and enhance shareholder value by providing strategic advice on major transactions by offering both debt and equity solutions from institutional and/or private lenders.

Satish has the unique ability to leverage and cultivate strong relationships with key players in the industry and is simultaneously very actively involved in organizing community and cultural events aimed at strengthening Indo-Canada cultural & business ties.

He has successfully served on several professional committees including Vice Chair for CGA Ontario Peel Chapter Public Practice Committee. Currently he is serving as Vice President & director Finance & Administration at Indo Canada Chamber of Commerce.

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iLSeTREuRNICHT CEO MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT

MaRS Centre, South Tower, Suite 100, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7T Phone: 416 673 8107 Fax: 416 673 8181 Email: itreurnicht@marsdd.com Web: www.marsdd.com Dr. Ilse Treurnicht is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a leading innovation centre located in Toronto. She oversees both the development and operations of the MaRS Centre and its broad suite of entrepreneurship and innovation programs.

MaRS offers advisory services, market intelligence and entrepreneurship education to merging companies in health care/life sciences, digital media/ICT, clean tech and social purpose businesses across Ontario.

Ilse has worked closely with the leadership of Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s academic institutions and teaching hospitals to create MaRS Innovation, an integrated commercialization platform for 14 Toronto Institutions and served as the interim Managing Director for a year following its formal launch in early 2008.

She joined MaRS in early 2005 from her role as President & CEO of Primaxis Technology Ventures, a start-up stage venture capital fund focused on the advanced technologies sector. Prior to Primaxis, Ilse was an entrepreneur with senior management roles in a number of emerging technology companies.

She is an active member of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innovation community, served on the boards of private companies, industry associations and research organizations, and has been a member of several government advisory panels.

Ilse holds a D. Phil in chemistry from Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

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SanjayTugnait

Executive Director, Application Outsourcing Accenture 145 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 1J8 Email: sanjay.tugnait@accenture.com

Sanjay leads the Accenture Financial Services practice in India and brings with him deep knowledge and experience of the Global Financial Services market. Prior to this role, he was responsible for Accenture’s Application Outsourcing practice in North America and engaged in transformational deals with the UK banks.

With an MBA in International Marketing from London, Sanjay started his career with Boots Plc, London and has over 20 years of experience in management and technology consulting.

He represented Accenture and won at the Economic Times Leader’s Challenge Tour Golf and the Annual Audi Quattro Cup 2010.

Sanjay is on the Board of “Save the Children” – an NGO working for the development of marginalized children, adolescents and women.

Leading media like CNBC, CBC Radio, Wall Street Journal, Toronto Star and Financial Post in US & Canada have profiled Sanjay. His articles on CRM have also featured in the CIO, Global CRM road shows, Economic Times Forum. He was a guest lecturer at the Rotman Business School, University of Toronto, IIT, IIM and NYU to name a few. He was a director on the board of Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance, Mississauga Investment Advisory Board and Marketing Advisory Board of Rotman Business School.

He has been instrumental in setting up and running the Financial Services practice in India.

Leading operations on ground, Sanjay focuses on core initiatives (entry strategy, cost reduction, customer experience etc.) and emerging areas (m-Commerce, payments, analytics, RPO etc.) in Banking and Insurance sectors.

At Accenture North America, Sanjay was the global client partner, and he established and maintained relationships with Scotiabank and Sun Life Financial. His focus has been working with the boards of banking and insurance clients with their business strategy, improving operational efficiency and building customer centric organizations.

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M.G.Vassanji

Author Westwood Creative Artists Ltd. 94 Harbord Street, Toronto, M5S 1G6

Phone: 416 964 3302 Email: mgvassanji@gmail.com M G Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He attended MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in nuclear physics before moving to Canada as a post-doctoral fellow in 1978. From 1980 to 1989, he was a research associate at the University of Toronto. During this period he developed a keen interest in medieval Indian literature and history, co-founded and edited a literary magazine (The Toronto South Asian Review, later renamed The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad), and began writing fiction. In 1989, with the publication of his first novel, The Gunny Sack, he was invited to spend a season at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. In 1996, he was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla, India, where he was invited again in 2010 as a visiting professor.

M G Vassanji has published six novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir of his travels in India, and a biography of Mordecai Richler. His work has appeared in various countries and several languages. He has won the Giller Prize for best work of fiction in Canada, for The Book of Secrets (1994) and The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003), the Commonwealth Regional Prize (Africa) for The Gunny Sack (1990), and the Governor-General’s Prize (2009) for his memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India. In addition, his novel The Assassin’s Song was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Rogers Prize, and the Governor-General’s Prize in Canada, as well as the Crossword Prize in India. He is a member of the Order of Canada.

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SrinivasanVenkatesh President IITAC

53 Point Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Woods Drive, Concord, Ontario, L4K 2E1 Phone: 905 669 4848 Email: svenkatesh@rogers.com

Dr. Venkatesh obtained his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1967 followed by a Masters degree in 1969 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his Ph.D (Mech. Eng.) in 1973 from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

He joined Environment Canada in 1975 as a research scientist. His research was mostly related to the air/water/ice interface and included development of numerical models for wind, wind waves, sea ice, icebergs and oil spills. A number of the models he developed are being used operationally.

In 1995, Dr. Venkatesh became the Manager of the Air Quality Modelling section of Environment Canada. The group carries out R&D on numerical models for real-time Air Quality forecasting and to support policy decision making in areas related to smog, acid rain and hazardous air pollutants, including persistent toxic substances such as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals.

Dr. Venkatesh has published over 40 papers in refereed scientific journals. He has organized several international scientific conferences in various places including Canada, USA, Mexico, Italy, Greece, Japan and China and has given talks at several institutions in India. In 2001, Environment Canada gave him the Employment Equity and Diversity Award.

In January 2011, he was elected President of The IIT Alumni Association of Canada. He has been involved actively in several sports including cricket, tennis, swimming and winter sports such as ice skating and curling, all of which help him keep fit.

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PurnimaVoria

Founder & CEO National US India Chamber of Commerce 700 17th Street, Suite 2000, 20th Floor, Denver, CO 80202, USA

Phone: 720 323 3728 Fax: 303 273 9337 Email: purnima@nuicc.org Web: www.nuicc.org Ms. Purnima Voria is the Founder and CEO of the National US India Chamber of Commerce (NUICC), one of the top international business organizations recognized to promote bilateral trade between United States and India. NUICC’s primary focus is the niche market of small and medium size businesses and their needs to enter global markets successfully.

Ms. Voria is appointed by the United States Secretary of Commerce, Honorable Gary Locke, (U.S. Department of Commerce) to serve as an Advisor to the Obama Administration, on the National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprises, for a two year term to shape future policies and programs that will set the foundation for the growth of $100 million companies across all industries that are owned and operated by U.S. minorities.

Ms. Voria has also served on President George W. Bush’s 2005 Presidential Commission and was a member of his 2006 Presidential Business Club, providing valuable business policy and trade expertise. That same year, she was awarded a Congressional Medal of Distinction for her outstanding leadership in business and her contributions to the United States economy. In 2005, The Wall Street Journal honored Ms. Voria as a Business Woman of the Year. She was also the Honorary Chairman for the National Republican Congressional Business Advisory Council and received the 2005 Ronald Regan Republican Gold Medal for her acumen as a local business leader. Adding to her stellar community service record, Ms. Voria serves as an Ambassador for Peace and is a contributing member to the United Nations Association of the United States of America. She is listed as one of the Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals.

An internationally recognized speaker, Ms. Voria has featured on BBC World News –London as a commentator on climate change and the role of various nations’ stances on the issue. She also participated in Voice of America TV and Radio’s thought provoking discussion entitled Global Women’s Empowerment. Furthermore, she was featured on India Today, a leading magazine, and spoke on the importance of the Non Resident Indian’s role in contributing to the rise of India as an economic superpower, The Times of India, India Abroad, The Denver Post, The Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Today Television show. Ms. Voria travels frequently between the United States and India, promoting businesses and consulting for corporations and industry trade associations. She also traveled worldwide to China, India, Israel, New Zealand and other countries as Keynote Speaker for Global CEO Business Conferences.

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V.PremWatsa

Chairman and CEO Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited 95 Wellington Street West, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2N7 Phone: 416 367 4941 Fax: 416 366 3993 Email: p_hois@fairfax.ca

Mr. Prem Watsa is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a financial services holding company, which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment management.

In 1985, Mr. Watsa took control of Markel Financial which was controlled by the Virginia based Markel family. In 1987, he then re-organized and renamed it Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. He has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. He is also Vice -President of Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel, Chairman of Odyssey Re and Chairman of the Board, Northbridge Financial Corporation.

Since 1985, Fairfax has compounded its book value by over 25%. Fairfax has total assets of approximately US$32 billion, revenues in excess of US$6.0 billion and common shareholders’ equity of over US$7.0 billion. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Mr. Watsa’s professional career began in 1974 when he joined Confederation Life Insurance Company in Toronto; he went from being a Research Analyst to become a Vice President of Confederation Life’s Investment Counsel. He then joined GW Asset Management where he was a Vice President. He later opened his own asset management company, Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd. (now fully owned by Fairfax).

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India and obtained his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children, Director of ICICI Bank, member of the Advisory Board for the Richard Ivey School of Business, member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and Chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto.

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YuenPauWoo

President Asia Pacific Foundation

220-890 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6C 1J9

Telephone: 604 684 5986 Fax: 604 681 1370 Email: president@asiapacific.ca Mr. Yuen Pau Woo is President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Mr. Woo is an advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Centre and the Canadian Ditchley Foundation.

He is also on the Global Council of the Asia Society in New York, a member of the Greater Vancouver Advisory Board for the Salvation Army, and a board member of the Mosaic Institute.

Since 2006, Mr. Woo has been coordinator of the State of the Region Report, the flagship publication of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). He is also on the editorial board of Pacific Affairs.

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