IBI Industry Advisory Board

Ravina Aggarwal is director of the Columbia Global Center | South Asia, located in Mumbai, India. Prior to joining Columbia, she was a Program Officer at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi office from 2007-2015, where she was responsible for strategic planning and grant-making for programs on development, social justice and public policy, with a focus on the fields of education, media and technology, and arts and culture. Her work in the philanthropy sector followed a long career as a sociocultural anthropologist.

Bindu Ananth has been the President of IFMR Trust since January 2008. Prior to this, she worked in ICICI Bank’s microfinance team between 2001 and 2005 and was Head of the new product development team within the Rural Banking Group in 2007. Ms. Ananth has an undergraduate degree in economics from Madras University and master's degrees from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) and Harvard University’s John. F. Kennedy School of Government. She is a Fellow of the Global Economic Society and a Member of the Technical Committee of CGAP.

Nirupam Bajpai is Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University, and a Senior Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, also at Columbia University. He is also a Member of the Scientific Committee of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the U.N. Millennium Project on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015.

Vishal was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs Private Equity India, where he was responsible for sourcing, investing, monitoring and executing the exit of investments in India across growth and buyout opportunities. Before that he was the global head of IT Services, Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions business within the Investment Banking Division (IBD) in New York from 2005 to 2007. Prior to that, he worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group in IBD in New York.

Gaurav Dalmia is a member of The Dalmia Group, one of the leading industrial conglomerates in India, which has interests ranging from cement, industrial ceramics, engineering, and sugar to information technology and investments.

William (Bill) Foster is the lead sovereign credit analyst on a portfolio of sovereign and supranational credits at Moody’s. He covers the United States, India, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the World Bank.

Rahul Kanodia is the vice chairman and chief executive officer of Datamatics Global Services. He holds an MBA degree from Columbia Business School, with a major in business strategy & marketing, and has bachelor's degrees from Babson College in the United States and H. R. College in India.

He also serves as the Chairman for the Western Region of ESC (Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, Government of India’s largest Electronics and IT trade facilitation organization), and is a member of NASSCOM’s Regional Council.

Nand Khemka, a graduate of Columbia Business School, is chairman of SUN Group. SUN is an investment group active in Russia and the CIS countries, India, Europe, and the United States, with investments in brewing, oil, and gas, power and energy-related sectors. Other investments include private equity, venture capital, and real estate.

Surya N. Mohapatra, Ph.D., has held senior leadership positions in the health care industry for more than 35 years, most recently as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, a world leader in  diagnostic testing, information and services where he had been a senior executive from1999 to 2012. He has been a strong advocate of patient empowerment and accountability to improve healthcare and reduce costs.

Vikram S. Pandit is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Orogen Group, an operating company he created with Atairos that makes significant long-term strategic investments in financial services companies and related businesses with proven business models.

With deep belief in the power of intercultural education and the transformative options and opportunities it affords, Joshua has spent over 25 years in higher education committed to leading, building, and managing organizations and centers of excellence devoted to international learning and exchange.

Suresh Sundaresan is the Robert W. Lear Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University. He has published in the areas of Treasury auctions, bidding, default risk, habit formation, term structure of interest rates, asset pricing, investment theory, pension asset allocation, swaps, options, forwards, futures, fixed-income securities markets and risk management.

Ratan N. Tata was the chairman of the Tata Group from 1991 until December 2012. During his tenure, the group's revenues grew manifold, totaling more than $100 billion in 2012-12.

Mr. Tata serves on the board of Alcoa and Mondelez. He is also on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, Temasek Holdings, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and Global Ocean Commission.