Debottam Bose
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Debottam Bose

Debottam T. Bose is India’s first art lawyer. He is also a senior legal advisor to the Oxford India Center, Somerville College, Oxford University and on the legal committee of J N Tata Endowment Fund. Debottam has worked in international law firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP (London) and White & Case LLP (London). He further studied art history in London and then went on to develop a niche consultancy, with a focus on international art, finance and philanthropy. Interconnections of art, philanthropy and advocacy has allowed his practice, along with independent teams of diverse professionals, to be involved in advising a cross section of clients from private collectors, family offices, artists, charitable hospitals, museums and universities. Debottam guest lectures frequently, and has taught at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Columbia University, Jindal University, Ashoka University, and National University of Singapore. He divides his time between New York, London, Oxford, Paris, New Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Singapore.
Sara Kalim
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Sara Kalim

Sara Kalim is Fellow and Director of Development at Somerville College, University of Oxford. She studied Classics at Somerville at a time when the college was still all-female. She spent 17 years working in the media, working as Head of Development for two major UK television production companies producing documentaries and investigative current affairs programs for the BBC, ITV Channel 4 and HBO amongst others, working across subjects from sleep disorders to the terror attacks in Mumbai, India’s 9/11. She took a special interest in long-form documentaries centered on narratives around women and education including a 3-year long series for Channel 4 focusing on the last all women’s college at Oxford University. As Director of Development, Sara oversees Somerville’s fundraising strategy and development. She is responsible for campaigns often shaped by Somerville’s catalytic female pioneers, exemplified by her work for the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development with the Indira Gandhi and Cornelia Sorabji Scholarships which sit at the heart of the Centre’s program to enable some of the brightest minds from India to study at Oxford. She works with philanthropists to create transformative educational opportunities for young people. She is a member of the College’s senior management team. Sara has a long-standing family connection to India, with family coming from Patna, Bihar, where her passion for the furtherment of education in India was inspired by her Indian grandmother, a politician who spent her much of her life campaigning for the social welfare and education of women. Outside of her work for Somerville, Sara is a founding trustee of the Karta Initiative, a social mobility movement for young people at the base of the global income pyramid.
Sunder Ramaswamy, Ph.D.
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Sunder Ramaswamy, Ph.D.

Sunder Ramaswamy is a professional economist, an educator, and an academic administrator with extensive experience both in India and the United States. He has been a faculty & administrator at Middlebury since 1990, and has had sabbaticals at the World Bank, Vanderbilt University, IFMR, & the Madras School of Economics in India (including 2 stints as Director). He was the founding Vice Chancellor of Krea University, an exciting new liberal arts and sciences university initiative, set up in Sri City, India (2017-2021). From 2009 – 2015, he was the President of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California (MIIS); He has co- authored and co-edited 4 books, written scores of articles, and delivered over 175 lectures all over the world on Globalization, Economic Development, Indian Economic Reforms and Economic Literacy; His research has been supported by Ford Foundation, SW Davis Foundation and USAID. He has also been a consultant to UNCTAD, UNIDO, UNU and the World Bank. He has had extensive Board service at a number of non-profit organizations and most recently was appointed Chairman Emeritus of The Asia Foundation.  He was also recently appointed as an Ambassador for Indiaspora (www.indiaspora.org, the largest US based global nonprofit that aims to improve the success and impact of the Indian diaspora). He has been featured in over 60 international media stories.  His passion for teaching, his academic work, and his administrative accomplishments have been recognized with numerous honors and awards both in India and in the United States. He is currently the Program Director of the International & Global Studies at Middlebury College and also serves on the President’s Task Force on “Middlebury’s approach to AI”.  He is also currently working on a co-authored book manuscript on “Data Democracy and Development in India”.
Arun Seth
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Arun Seth

After an early retirement from a successful corporate career, Arun focuses on bringing the benefits of IT/telecom to real-world businesses in energy, health, fintech, med-tech, education, hospitality etc. via a vibrant innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem and a focus on giving back to society. Starting as the founding MD of British Telecom in India in 1995, he built it to its current leadership position in managed telecom services and outsourced IT and back office operations. He left in 2012 as its non-Executive Chairman. He had helped acquire a 45% stake in Airtel in 1996 and served on its board until 2002. He also helped incubate and grow Mahindra BT in the mid-90’s into what now is Tech Mahindra and served on its board for 17 years. He served as an elected member of NASSCOM for more than a decade. He was on the founding committee for the formation of the Data Security Council of India and worked actively on sharing knowledge on telecoms privatization and working on security issues around telecom equipment as BT was amongst the first users of Huawei and built protocols to secure their networks. Currently, he serves as an independent director on the board of Narayana Health, Jubilant Life Sciences, Sify Technologies, Usha Breco Ltd, Servion Global Solutions Ltd, Sify Technologies Ltd, Tonetag and CyberMedia. He also continues as an active advisor to Nutanix USA, MMTC Pamp, ThoughtSpot and InMobi , which he incubated in 2007 and C2FO and IOT/analytics eco-energy leader and a number of health tech startups like Healthifyme, and Fitgalaxy. Very active in promoting software product and the innovation ecosystem, he co-chairs the NASSCOM Product Conclave. He chaired NASSCOM Foundation until 2019, which drives CSR initiatives across the IT Industry using tech for scaling good. He is an active angel investor for the last 2o years, having incubated companies like Avendus InMobi, Tonetag, Ezetap, HelathifyMe, and new ones in Blockchain and medtech. Very focused on fostering entrepreneurship, he had been involved with TiE Delhi Chapter when it was founded and currently serves as a charter member. Active with the Indian Angel Network, he is an advisor to The IAN Fund, and has been part of angel funds and advises a number of start-ups in the tech space in India and USA. He also chairs Pahle India Foundation, a policy think tank. He is also a Governing Member of Helpage India Board, SPIC-MACAY, NCPEDP (employment for people with disabilities), Nudge Foundation and GiveIndia. He has served on the Board of Governors for IIM Lucknow and IIIT Delhi . He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Calcutta – he has worked in senior commercial positions in the BT, HCL, Usha Martin and the UB Group, in the last 40+ years. Very active in alumni affairs, he has Chaired Pan-IIT in 2010 and was Vice President of IIT Kanpur Alumni Association.
Sree Sreenivasan
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Sree Sreenivasan

Co-founder & CEO, Digimentors