Kanan Dhru is the Founder of RFGI. She is a law-graduate from the London School of Economics, where she was awarded the ‘Honorary Studentship’. She has worked with the National Knowledge Commission - a Prime Minister's Advisory Body in New Delhi and the World Health Organisation in Geneva. She has been an External Consultant with McKinsey & Company and a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University. She has been awarded many prestigious awards including the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Prize, Wyse Emerging Leaders’ Fellowship and the Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship. She is a columnist with several well-known newspapers and magazines.

Contact her at: kanan <at> rfgindia <dot> org.

Swar Shah is a computer engineer from Nirma University, India. He received the J. N. Tata Scholarship to pursue his Masters degree from University of Southern California and San Jose State University. He has worked with Broadcom and Fujitsu Computers in California for three years. He has recently returned to India to become an entrepreneur. He has been actively associated with Rotaract Club, IEEE and Computer Society of India. Swar has keen interest in leadership initiatives and social entrepreneurship.     

Contact him at: swar <at> rfgindia <dot> org.

Jainil Shah
Events Coordinator

Jainil is a commerce graduate from H. L. College of Commerce, Gujarat University. Currently he is pursuing course in finance and investment analysis from the School of Commerce and Masters in Business Law from NLSIU, Banglore. An aspiring business student, his interests are finance, management, politics, events and sports.

Apoorv Shah
Senior Research Associate



Apoorv is a law-student at Gujarat National Law University and his interests are law, politics and management.

Lord Desai is an internationally-acclaimed Economist and Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics. He is a great visionary in the areas of Economics and International relations and has advised several governments and prominent institutions across the world on matters of significance. He has been an active Labour party politician in Britain, becoming its Chairman and later, its life peer as Baron Desai. He taught in the London School of Economics for many years and retired as the Director of the Centre for Global Governance, which he founded in 1992. Lord Desai was awarded Padmabhushan in 2007, Pravasi Bharatiya Puraskar (Distinguished Overseas Indian Award) in January 2004 and Bharat Gaurav by the Indian Merchants Chambers in 2002.