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M. S. Venugopal
Professor, J.S.S. Law College
2 pm, Saturday, January 24, 2009

Vijay Kulkarni
Akshara Foundation
9am, Friday, March 6, 2009

Ramji Raghavan
Executive Director, Agastya International
9am, Friday, March 20, 2009

Chetna Gala Sinha
Founder/Chairwoman, Mann Deshi

Mr. S.L.N. Swamy
President, Adventurers

Nomito Kamdar
Program Coordinator, Adventurers

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
Trustee, The Deshpande Foundation
Co-founder and Chairman, Sycamore Networks

Jaishree Deshpande, Trustee
The Deshpande Foundation

D.V. Girish, Director
Bhadra Wildlife Conservation Trust

Dr. N.G. Hegde, President, BAIF Development Research Foundation

N. R. Narayana Murthy, Founder
Infosys

Vivek G. Pawar , Founder and CEO
Sankalp Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.

Ramji Raghavan, Executive Director
Agastya International

Dr. Prasad Ram, Chief Technology Officer,
R&D Unit, Google India

Dr. Ruth Stringer, Coordinator
Health Care Without Harm

Professor R.N. Tikot, CEO
Vidya Poshak

Dr. Sushil Vachani, Professor of Strategy and Policy
School of Management, Boston University

M. S. Venugopal
Professor, JSS Law College

Dr. J.K. Hiremath, President, Manovikasa

Dr. Veerendra Hiremath, Co-founder
Vaatsalya

Krisztina Holly, Vice Provost and Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation

Ayyappa Masagi, Executive Director
Water Literacy Foundation

Ray Meyers, Ed.D., Senior Program Analyst
U.S. Department of Education

The Deshpande Foundation seeks to broaden the perspectives of the Fellows by providing them with an opportunity to interact with a number of entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs from the profit and nonprofit sectors who have been successful in India and, in some cases, internationally.

Each week will incorporate lectures given by a variety of guest speakers, most of whom will be respected authorities on each topic. The speakers represent a variety of fields, including health, education, agriculture, microfinance and more. These pages are designed to highlight the background and lecture of each of our honored guests.