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London 2015

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Tarun Jotwani
Chairman Global Council, Dasra
Tarun Jotwani is the Chairman of the Global Council for Dasra and the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TKG Investments based in London. He has been in the banking sector for over 25 years. He was responsible for Global Markets as the Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director at Nomura Holdings Inc. His previous roles include CEO of Nomura’s operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers, India, and Head of Capital Markets for APAC, Lehman Brothers. Tarun has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, London, and Mumbai.


Deval has provided philanthropists with intelligent investment strategies to direct over USD $49 million into the Indian social sector over the past 15 years. He established the Dasra Philanthropy Week (previously known as the Indian Philanthropy Forum) and has engaged over 1,000 philanthropists, multi-lateral agencies and corporate foundations that drive the philanthropy agenda in India. He also initiated the Dasra Giving Circle - India’s largest collaborative giving platform that combines in-depth research, funding and managerial support to non-profits to enable scale of 15–30x. The success of Dasra Giving Circles has also been featured in New Philanthropy Capital’s report on “10 Innovations in Global Philanthropy: Concepts worth spreading in the UK.”

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Deval Sanghavi
Co-founder, Dasra  

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Lynne Smitham
Co-Founder, The Kiawah Trust 
Lynne Smitham co-founded the UK grant-making trust, The Kiawah Trust, with her husband and daughter in 2004. The Trust helps educate and empower adolescent girls from disadvantaged families and regions of India. Lynne works as an independent executive coach and organizational development consultant. Her clients include international corporates in technology and financial services where she helps develop high performance in top teams and senior executives. She holds an MBA from CASS Business School and is a master NLP practitioner. Lynne is on the Dasra UK Advisory Board and over the years has undertaken numerous volunteer projects with UK charities.


Sarah worked for the UK’s Department for International Development for 17 years before joining CIFF. Among other roles, she was Head of the DFID Regional Office for Southern Africa, Head of the UK Trade Policy Unit and Head of the DFID Business Change and Strategy Department. She has worked in a range of countries in Africa, in the Middle East and in the Caribbean. Prior to working for DFID Sarah was a commercial manager in the Norwegian oil industry.



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Sarah Dunn , Director Strategy & Special Initiatives, Children's Investment Fund Foundation

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Dr. Ashok Dyalchand
Director, 
Institute of Health Management, Pachod
Dr Ashok Dyalchand is the Founder Director, Institute of Health Management, Pachod in Aurangabad, Maharashtra among others. It is a public health research and training centre with a branch in Pune.He specializes in the management of primary health care, reproductive and child health, adolescent health, HIV AIDS and community ophthalmology. For over two decades he has been involved in capacity building and training of health workers and officials from the NGO and Government sectors in community health and health management.


Formerly Chief Operating Officer of Cox and Kings and Founder of Cleartrip.com, Matthew comes with extensive experience in senior positions within the corporate sector and an intuitive understanding of the needs of the development sector.In 1999, Matthew established Magic Bus, and he has grown the organisation from volunteers conducting informal rugby sessions and one-off outdoor camps for disadvantaged children, into a premier organisation working in the area of mentoring less privileged children from childhood to livelihood. Matthew has been elected an Ashoka Fellow, a TED Fellow and more recently an ACSEP Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy (ACSEP) Fellow. In 2007, he was awarded an MBE for services to children in the Commonwealth.

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Matthew Spacie,
Founder, Magic Bus

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Satyam Vyas
COO, Going to School


In the past Satyam has worked with the ASER Centre - the research and assessment arm of Pratham ( one of India’s biggest education based non-profits) - and managed a human development study and ASER surveys in multiple states in India. Satyam has collaborated with Idara-e-taleem-Aagahi and UWEZO Kenya for capacity building of the ASER Pakistan and Kenya team and worked on survey implementation plan and designing /developing learning assessment tools for ASER Pakistan/Kenya. Satyam holds an honours undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Delhi University.

Shalni Arora is the CEO of Savannah Wisdom, a charitable foundation, and the Chair of The British Asian Trust's North West Chapter. Her foundation supports organisations with innovative ideas to tackle issues around child protection and gender equality in India, and is a strong supporter of the anti-trafficking programme of The British Asian Trust. Shalni Arora is also the Senior Adviser and Chair of the Steering Committee on Transparency International’s Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Programme. A qualified accountant and an entrepreneur having successfully exited from her cancer diagnostic business, Shalni also has a Masters in Genetics from Cambridge and a Masters in International Development
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Shalni Arora
CEO, Savannah Wisdom

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