Our Contributors
Girish Menon
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Girish Menon — former CEO of UNICEF UK and ActionAid, with 40 years in global development — steps into his new role as President of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar
Manoj Prabhakar, an IRMA alumnus who began his career with Amul, is the Director of the Better World Foundation. He brings over two decades of experience in community institutions, cooperatives, and policy design, driving scalable, dignified pathways for self-reliance and systemic change.
Swapnil Pawar
Manoj Prabhakar
Swapnil Pawar
Swapnil Pawar, an IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, is the Founder of ASQI and a leading voice at the intersection of technology, finance, and sustainability. With over two decades of experience, he pioneers blockchain-based climate finance innovations, building on earlier roles at Engineers Gate and The Boston Consulting Group.
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha is a sustainable development and climate finance expert with over 30 years’ experience across the World Bank, IFC, CPI, and CEEW. He has led key national initiatives on transition finance with the Ministry of Finance, IFSCA, and NITI Aayog. An engineer and management graduate from BIT Ranchi and IIM Calcutta, with
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha is a sustainable development and climate finance expert with over 30 years’ experience across the World Bank, IFC, CPI, and CEEW. He has led key national initiatives on transition finance with the Ministry of Finance, IFSCA, and NITI Aayog. An engineer and management graduate from BIT Ranchi and IIM Calcutta, with a PhD from IIT Delhi, he also teaches Economics and Finance of Climate Change at IIM Calcutta.
Samrat Rahi, I.R.S.
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Samrat Rahi, I.R.S. currently serves as the Deputy Chairman of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, where he is leading one of India’s most historic ports through a transformative era of modernization, connectivity, and regional leadership. Since October 2021, he has overseen both the Kolkata Dock System and the Haldia Dock Complex, wor
Samrat Rahi, I.R.S. currently serves as the Deputy Chairman of Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, Kolkata, where he is leading one of India’s most historic ports through a transformative era of modernization, connectivity, and regional leadership. Since October 2021, he has overseen both the Kolkata Dock System and the Haldia Dock Complex, working with Customs, State Government, Indian Railways, and global trade stakeholders. His portfolio spans port governance, infrastructure modernization, digitalisation, sustainability initiatives, and regional maritime connectivity, supported by prior experience in the Indian Revenue Service and earlier work as a software engineer at IBM Global Services.
Dr Radhika Cherukuri
Dr. Dhruba Purkayastha
Dr Radhika Cherukuri
Dr. Radhika Cherukuri is a distinguished Agricultural Scientist with over twenty years of expertise spanning rural development policy, institutional leadership, and sustainable agriculture. As Director of the NRLM Resource Centre at NIRDPR, she has spearheaded national initiatives to empower Self-Help Groups and strengthen rural liveliho
Dr. Radhika Cherukuri is a distinguished Agricultural Scientist with over twenty years of expertise spanning rural development policy, institutional leadership, and sustainable agriculture. As Director of the NRLM Resource Centre at NIRDPR, she has spearheaded national initiatives to empower Self-Help Groups and strengthen rural livelihoods. Her collaborative research with institutions like Cornell and Reading Universities focuses on agrarian distress, nutritional security, and FPO development. A committed bridge-builder between research and reality, Dr. Cherukuri also founded a social enterprise advancing regenerative agriculture, dedicated to creating credible value chains and fostering consumer trust in responsibly produced food systems.