Prof. Kapoor is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland in College Park, USA, and an MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
His research interests are in development economics, gender and political economy. His current work includes working on data and analytics in healthcare with a mission to “Convert Data into Information for Optimal Decision Making. He has partnered with large public and private health institutions to help improve performance in terms of resource utilization, antimicrobial stewardship, etc.  He has also collaborated with a research think tank to democratize health-related information by creating a health monitor index – a tool to assess government performance at the level of a district.   He has also done research (with Prof. Antoinette Schoar) on chit funds as an innovative access for finance for low income households. His academic papers have been published in several international journals.

Course - State, Market and Society

Ashish Agarwal is the founder of Bridge4Change Foundation which aims at addressing the systemic challenges using mindful consumption as a tool. Prior to this, post his MBA from IRMA, he established Paryavaran Mitr a social enterprise based in Gandhi Ashram working towards the holistic upliftment of the rag picking community using Solid Waste Management as a tool. He has conducted Workshops and seminars in India, USA and UK on Social entrepreneurship, Mindfulness and Sustainability.

A civil engineer by education, a human geographer, a transdisciplinary development professional by choice, and a leadership coach by training and practice. Been a consultant and coach since 2013 for various programmes in the domains of education, organisational development, disaster management, ecology, gender, disability, policy and governance, citizen science, project planning and management including monitoring and evaluation.
As the Founder of RTL-Academy had the privilege of building an organization to foster agency and ethical leadership, certify practitioner coaches of Radical Transformational Leadership worldwide and deliver transdisciplinary training integrating STEAM, value-based project design, and Radical Transformational Leadership for institutes and organisations. 

Workshop - Radical Transformational Leadership (RTL)

Magsaysay Awardee, Founder Goonj and Gram Swabhimaan
Popularly known as the Clothing Man, Anshu Gupta is the recipient of 2015 Ramon Magsaysay award,  popularly called the Nobel Prize of Asia. He started his development journey after quitting a  corporate career in 1999 to initiate Goonj, the world’s first agency working on the issue of  clothing as a development issue. This  attention to a neglected basic need set him on 24+ years of transforming India’s culture of giving  off our unused cloth and other under-utilized material for development work. Under his  leadership, Goonj has taken the alarming growth of urban waste and instrumentalized it to trigger large scale rural communities-led development work, creatively and flexibly matching and seamlessly weaving  urban surplus into the changing priorities and realities of rural marginalized communities. 
Anshu is a frequent speaker at various Global and national Forums including Ted and the World  economic Forum and engages deeply as advisor and board member on many grassroots and  national level social enterprises and non-profits. In 2010 Forbes listed him as one of India’s most  powerful rural entrepreneurs. Anshu is also an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow. Anshu recently started on a new journey of ‘Gram Swabhimaan’ (literally meaning Village self-respect),  emerging from his long standing intrigue with the world’s mainstream narration about certain people  and communities. His aim in this new journey is to make these people realize their own worth and  dignity and make a promise to shun labels like bechara (helpless), besahara (destitute) and gareeb  (poor) to describe oneself. 
Anshu holds a double masters in Journalism and Advertising and PR from the Indian Institute of  Mass Communication and a Masters in Economics.