Anish is a digital health expert, social innovator, and entrepreneur known for driving impactful solutions in healthcare and education. As Managing Director (Asia) at Propel Labs, he leads transformative initiatives that leverage digital solutions to advance global public health. Anish co-founded GoodEd Technologies, providing education access to over 2 million learners in India, and played a pivotal role in mobilizing healthcare resources during the pandemic through the COVID-19 Crypto Relief initiative. He also led the Gender Alliance initiative, using technology to combat child marriage and empower women, earning praise from Melinda Gates.

A World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Anish champions the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and global collaboration. His entrepreneurial achievements, including being named Most Promising Entrepreneur of the Year by TiE, extend to advising startups on scaling and sustainable growth.

With an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management (Manila), Anish is also the author of four books, including a national bestseller. His work with the Asian Development Research Institute further deepened his expertise in corporate social responsibility and innovation-driven growth.

Pranjal Pandey is a media professional with over a decade of experience in journalism, content production, media strategy, and book editing. As a Writing Fellow at Globetrotter Media, he has reported on South Asian elections with a strong focus on bringing people-centered narratives to the forefront. He has also developed successful media and social media strategies for a national political party, executing impactful campaigns around the Lok Sabha elections.

As Managing Editor at NewsClick.in, he led editorial teams and managed content production to boost audience engagement across multiple platforms.

Additionally, he has a solid research background from his roles at Tata Institute of Social Sciences and HISTORY TV18, where he focused on socio-political issues and historical movements in India. He has also edited over 7 books. His expertise spans reporting, content creation, editorial management, media strategy, and building narratives that connect with people.

Dheeraj Batra is a leading healthcare innovation expert who has built several significant healthcare models globally. He is the founder of Arogya Finance, an award-winning social venture that enables people who cannot therapy to access financing, which has impacted over a million lives globally. He also launched the Healthy Heart for All program for Medtronic focused on increasing access to healthcare for the underserved which won an Edison award in 2013.

Dheeraj is also the founder and CEO of Propel Labs, a boutique innovation strategy and venture building services firm which works with leading private and public organizations worldwide. Previously, he was a Partner at EY, which he joined when EY acquired his innovation-focused consulting firm in 2017.

Prior to that, he was part of the founding team that launched IDEO in India where he was the Head of Business Design and a Venture Director at Innosight Ventures. He holds a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Vijay is a leading social innovator, an author and a WEF Global Leadership Fellow who has launched social innovations across the world including India, Mexico, Bangladesh and Brazil. In particular, he played a key role in launching Healthy Heart for All for Medtronic in India which won an Edison award for best social funding model. In addition, he was involved in several social innovations including a nationwide social media campaign in Mexico and Brazil to target teenage mothers, a global community of changemakers across 500 cities for the World Economic Forum and India’s first computer animation series for Cartoon Network worldwide to name a few.

Previously, Vijay was the Head of Strategy at the World Economic Forum, Venture Director at Innosight Ventures, Deputy Head of the Global Shapers Community and Creative Director at Crest Animation Studios.

Vijay holds an MBA from the International University of Japan where he was a Monbukagakhusho scholar and a Masters in Global Leadership offered by the World Economic Forum jointly with INSEAD, Columbia, Wharton, London Business School and CEIBS China.

Jami Taylor is a recognized leader at the intersection of biotechnology and global public health, advancing technological and programmatic innovations to drive and scale solutions in areas of unmet medical need. In addition to her work with startup and small-cap biotech companies in Silicon Valley, She is a partner to Propel Labs, where she hosts the “Meet the Innovator” podcast, and is a co-founder of the Obesity Innovation Lab. Earlier in her career, Jami held global leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson, where she was a co-founder of the company’s Global Public Health organization and a designated representative to key committees of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; UNAIDS; the Center for Global Development; the Harvard Medical School Global Health and Service Advisory Council; and other organizations with public health as central to their respective missions.

In the U.S., Jami was named to the inaugural class of Cross-Sector Leadership Fellows at the Presidio Institute, a program created by the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation to advance the work of leaders addressing society’s most complex challenges.

She was awarded a Yale Global Justice Fellowship in 2021 and remains an annual lecturer to graduate students there. Jami is an alumna of Northwestern University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Virginia.