THE HABITAT YOUNG VISIONARY AWARD 2010
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Short Biographies of the Finals Jury |
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| Nirmal Andrews | ||
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Nirmal Andrews has a long and accomplished
career as a career Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, civil
servant and international diplomat. He has 35 years of administrative
and management experience at senior government positions and in the
United Nations (UN). He has extensive experience at both State and
Central government levels and has held a wide range of positions in
various departments and ministries
Prior to that he was with the UN as Chief
of Capacity Building, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI),
United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya; and as
Regional Director and Representative, Regional office for Asia and the
Pacific (ROAP), United Nations Environment Programme, (UNEP), Bangkok,
Thailand.
His areas of interest include
environmental and industrial policy, clean production, urban environment
management, trade and policy issues, sustainable livelihoods, and social
and political development. |
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| Dr Sanjaya Baru | ||
| Dr Sanjaya
Baru is Editor, Business Standard, India. He is also Consulting Senior
Fellow for Geo-economics and Strategy, International Institute of
Strategic Studies, London. Till recently he was Visiting Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. Prior to this he was Media Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and was also the Prime Minister's spokesperson and principle speechwriter. He has a diverse professional background in media and academia. He was Chief Editor The Financial Express (India), Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India and Editor of The Economic Times (Delhi). He was a Professor at the Research & Information System for Non-Aligned & Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi, and at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. He has taught in the department of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and the University of Hyderabad (India). He has been a Member, National Security Advisory Board of India (1998-2001) and visiting fellow at the School of Economic Studies, University of East Anglia, UK, and the East-West Centre, Hawaii, and a consultant to the Human Development Report Office, UNDP, New York. His publications include Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance (Routledge, 2006), The Political Economy of Indian Sugar (Oxford University Press, 1990) and several essays in journals and newspapers in India and abroad. Dr. Baru is a member of the Board of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and Founder-Trustee, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi. Dr Baru obtained his PhD and Masters Degree in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
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| Dr. Andre Béteille | ||
| Dr. Andre
Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is
particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South
India. He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics
at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology
since 2003. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi. After a brief stint at the Indian Statistical Institute as a research fellow, he joined the faculty of sociology at the DSE. In his long and distinguished career, he has in the past taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, and the London School of Economics. In 2005, Professor Béteille received the Padma Bhushan as a mark of recognition for his work in the field of Sociology. The same year he was appointed a member of the Prime Minister's National Knowledge Commission and quit the Commission the next year. In 2006, he was made National Professor. |
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| Upamanyu Chatterjee | ||
| Upamanyu
Chatterjee is an Indian Bengali author and administrator, notable for
his work set in the milieu of the Indian Administrative Service,
especially his novel English August. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. Chatterjee has written a handful of short stories of which "The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" and "Watching Them" are particularly noteworthy. His best-selling novel, English August:An Indian story (subsequently made into a major film), was published in 1988 and has since been reprinted several times. His second novel, The Last Burden,
appeared in 1993. The Mammaries of the Welfare State was published at
the end of 2000 as a sequel to English August. His latest novel, Weight
Loss, a dark comedy, was published in 2006. |
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| Ghazala Amin | ||
| Ghazala Amin is an Associate Professor of History in Jesus and Mary College at the University of Delhi, and has worked as citizen warden with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. She has extensive experience anchoring and producing television programs; she anchored a women's magazine program for E TV, which was telecast in 26 countries, and anchored the Asian Magazine for BBC TV in London. In addition to teaching, she currently participates in several radio programs and anchors a weekly TV program, Show Biz Asia for Sony International. | ||
| Amrit Mathur | ||
| Amrit Mathur
is a Sports Administrator and columnist. He is currently Chief Operating
Officer, GMR Sports Ltd., New Delhi.
He has a wide range of administrative
experience in sports and is Member National Sports Committee,
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Member Organizing Committee,
Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. He regularly contribute articles on cricket for various newspapers and magazines and writes a weekly cricket column for the Hindustan Times He has a Bachelors degree in Economics & Masters in History from St. Stephens College, Delhi University |
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| Dr. Gurjeet Singh | ||
| Dr. Gurjeet
Singh is Vice-Chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law,
Patiala. A Ph.D. (1990) from Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar,
he worked as Professor of Law at GNDU. He stood first in the LL.M.
Examination and was awarded a gold medal. In the year 1985, he was
selected by the Government of Punjab, Department of Prosecution and
Litigation for the post of Public Prosecutor. He was selected by the British Council in India for the prestigious Nehru-Centenary British Commonwealth Fellowship Award (1990-93), was placed at the Department of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London from where he successfully completed his second Ph.D. on the subject of Consumer Protection Law in India in October 1993. He has also won the UGC Visiting Associateship Award, UGC Research Award, Catalan Institute of Consumer Affairs Award (Spain) and Henry Dunant Research Fellowship Award etc. He also worked as a free-lancer with
the BBC Radio World Service (Hindi) during 1992-93 and was instrumental
in the production of a BBC “Series on Law” which enjoyed a wide
listenership. He was Chairman of the Department of Law, GNDU from
1999-2002. His major research areas are Business Ethics, Consumer
Protection Law, Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, and
Legal Education. |
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| Upinder Singh | ||
| Upinder Singh is Professor of History in the University of Delhi. Her writings range over various aspects of ancient Indian social, economic, religious and cultural history, the history of archaeology, and the modern life stories of ancient sites and monuments. Her books include 'Ancient Delhi,' 'The Discovery of Ancient India: early archaeologists and the beginnings of archaeology' and, most recently, 'A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: from the Stone Age to the 12th century' | ||
| Shekar Dattatri | ||
| Shekar Dattatri is an award-winning wildlife and conservation filmmaker based in Chennai. During the last twenty years his films have been aired around the world on channels such as Discovery and National Geographic. He is the recipient of a Rolex Award for Enterprise for his initiative to create films to bring about conservation awareness and change. He is a member of the National Board for Wildlife, which is chaired by the Prime Minister. More information on his work can be found on his website www.shekardattatri.com | ||
| J. K. Iyer | ||
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J. K. Iyer (JK) is an MBA, M.Phil, and PhD
is one among the top rankers. He has also pursued his PhD course work
with Harvard Business School, MIT and the Boston University and was a
PhD Fellowship Scholar. He has rich and diverse international industry & academic experience spanning over 20 years. Before switching to serious academic life, he was the General Manager of Chattel and Wood Management Consulting and was prior to that All India Head of Power Transmission Systems Sub-Division at Siemens Ltd. |
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| Jaya Madhavan | ||
| Jaya Madhavan is a poet,
an award winning children’s novelist, comic strip writer and lately an
illustrator too. Her first book for children "Sita and the Forest
Bandits" won the first prize in the Children Book Trust’s All India
Competition for Writers of Children’s Books (2001). Her second book for
young adults "Kabir the weaver poet" is a research backed novel
published by Tulika, Chennai. Her short stories and poems for adults
have been published in Unisun’s anthologies and in the South Asian
Literary journal. Her passion includes traveling, visiting temples of
antiquity and singing. She is currently a columnist with The New Indian
Express and is working on her third novel. Every fortnight her Antidep
comic strip (created alongwith her sister Bindhumalini) can be seen in
The New Indian Express's Saturday Zeitgeist feature. Jaya an alumnus of
JNU began her writing career as a copywriter and columnist. Jaya resides
in Chennai with her musician husband and two children. |
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| Sanjay Pinto | ||
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Sanjay Pinto is Chief Correspondent - Tamilnadu, NDTV 24x7. Has been with NDTV for about 12 years. Covers political, legal, crime, investigative, sports, human interest, entertainment and business stories. Has interviewed almost every top politician & bureaucrat in the country, international sportspersons from cricketers to tennis players, film stars & business magnates.
He is Special Anchor of ‘The Big Battle’ on Chennai Live 104.8 FM and of `Chennai Speaks Out` on NDTV - Hindu. |
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| Seetha Ravi | ||
| Seetha Ravi is Editor,
Kalki Weekly & Gokulam Children’s Monthly (English and Tamil) and
Managing Director Kalki Group of Publications. She holds a degree in English Literature from Ethiraj College, Chennai. She joined Aside magazine in the year 1983 as sub-editor and moved to Kalki in the same year. Trained and groomed by Kalki Rajendran, she was appointed Assistant Editor in 1986. She has been Editor since 1992. Her writing includes short stories, humour, political commentary, social issues, criticism and some poetry. She is Trustee, Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Trust and Kalki Sadasivam Memorial Trust. Her interests include classical music, fine arts, wild life, temples. |
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