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Board of Advisors - International
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 | Ashok Soota, GIIS Advisory Board Member, is the former president of Wipro Infotech. He secured education in Electrical Engineering, along with an MBA qualification from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines. He Co-founded Mindtree Consulting, in New Jersey, USA, and is a Member of Advisory Council of World Council of Intellectual Property Rights in Geneva |
|  | Dr FC Kohli, GIIS Advisory Board Member, has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan. He is the Deputy Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, Director of Tata Group of Companies, Adviser to Department of Education, Member in Ministry of Education on Post-graduate Education and Research in Engineering and Technology, Member of Senate at IIT Mumbai, Member of Board of Governors at IIM Calicut, and also Member of Advisory Committee at Ministry of Information Technology. |
|  | Arjun Malhotra, GIIS Advisory Board Member, serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors. Prior to Headstrong, he was the Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies. He founded and built HCL Technologies from a six-person ‘garage operation’ in 1975 to one of largest information technology companies in the world. |
|  | Shabana Azmi, GIIS Advisory Board Member, is the daughter of renowned leftist Urdu Poet, Kaifi Azmi, and famous stage actress, Shaukat Kaifi. Ms Azmi is also a committed social activist. She was nominated to the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) as a Member of Parliament by the President of India from 1997 - 2003. She was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of 25 Asian heroes and the only woman amongst four Indians who has made a difference.
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|  | Sir J K Chande, GIIS Advisory Board Member, is an honourable recipient of the Hind Ratna Award. He was appointed as a trustee of the Rotary Foundation in 2003 and Chairman of the Rotary Foundation of the United Kingdom in 2004. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2003, the first of its kind given to a Tanzanian citizen. He has been honoured with the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
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| | | Dr. Vasant Gowariker, GIIS Advisory Board Member, has remained the visiting professor at Stanford University (1985-86), Ex-Scientific Advisor to four Prime Ministers of India, Member of the Consultative Group of Eminent Senior Scientists, Secretary to the Department of Science and Technology (1986-1991), Vice Chancellor of Pune University (1995-98) and Head, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). |
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Board of Advisors - Countrywise
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Dato' Mohd. Hussin Bin Abd. Hamid is the Chairman, Advisory Board Malaysia. Dato' Hussin is the Director of the Board of Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad. He was formerly the Senior Manager/Vice President, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad where he worked for 30 years. He also serves as a board member of the Export Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad, Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Berhad and TTDI Group of companies. |
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Ralph Marshal, Advisory Board member, GIIS Malaysia is Deputy Chairman and group CEO Astro All Asia Networks Plc, a Malaysian direct broadcast satellite (DBS) pay television service. |
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Datuk Dr. Denison Jayasooria is a Malaysian social scientist and executive director of the Yayasan Strategik Sosial or the Social Strategic Foundation, the official think-tank of the Malaysian Indian Congress. Dr Jayasooria holds a PhD in Sociology from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. He is a Chevening scholar who has been involved in civil society matters for the past two decades.
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Kirtida Mekani, Member of Advisory Board, has a long association with the Asian education, environment and arts scene and is presently serving on the Boards and Committees of United World College of South East Asia, Singapore and the LASALLE Foundation Ltd, Singapore. She has worked for the Singapore Management University (September 2001-February 2004) Director, Office of Institutional Advancement and the Anglo-American School of Moscow (December 1997 -June 2000). |
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Boon Yoon Chiang, Deputy Chairman of the Jardine Cycle & Carriage Group is also the Country Chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in Singapore and the Director of MCL Land. He serves on Board of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and is Honorary Secretary of the Singapore National Employers’ Federation. |
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Karan Singh Thakral Thakral is the Chairman of TiE Singapore. He is the Executive Director at Thakral Group of Companies. Mr Thakral was a pioneer in the introduction and establishment of consumer electronic business of the Thakral group. |
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Dr. D. K. Shankaran is currently the Chairman of the recruitment commission of the Reserve Bank of India. He has held several important positions in the government including Chief Secretary, Government of Maharashtra and Union Home Secretary, Government of India. |
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R Sundar, CEO of Times Business Solutions (A Times Of India Group enterprise). He was formerly the Director at Bennett Coleman & Company Limited from Oct 1980 till Oct 2004. |
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Lt Gen Sudhir Sharma(retd) PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VSM, Gen Sharma retired from the Indian Army in the year 2008, after four decades of an illustrious and brilliant career of selfless service to the nation. During his career he has seen active service in Sri Lanka and J&K and has held very Critical and challenging appointments in higher echelons of defence management including a diplomatic assignment in London as the Defence Attaché' of India. |
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Aftab Seth, is the Chairman, Advisory Board, Japan. He is currently the Professor of the Global Security Research Institute, Keio University, Japan. Prof Seth has remained the Ambassador of India, Greece (Athens),Vietnam (Hanoi), and Japan (Tokyo). He is a visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
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Masahiko Kaji, Advisory Board member, GIIS Japan, is the President of TCS, Japan. Mr Kaji has spent many years working in India. |
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