RFGI Team
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Kanan Dhru
Founder & Managing Director
 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.
Kelly Dhru
Founding Member and Research Coordinator
Kelly is a law graduate from the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar and has completed her
Masters (BCL) and currently pursuing an MPhil in Legal Philosophy at the Oxford University, United Kingdom. Kelly has done internships at a variety of legal institutions and courts, including the Legal and Treatise Division of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Amarchand Mangaldas. She has researched for various projects of the World Bank and presented papers including at Harvard University.
Contact her at: kelly <at> rfgindia <dot> org.
Swar Shah
Founding Member and Outreach Coordinator
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.
Anar Shukla
Creative Head
Anar is a media professional currently working in education research. She is a filmmaker, graphic designer and she enjoys photography.
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RFGI Advisors
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Lord Meghnad Desai
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.
Dr. Madhava Menon

Dr. Madhava Menon is considered the father of legal reforms in India. He is the pioneer of National Law School movement and has been on a number of expert committees of the Government of India. Dr. Menon has been the Founder Director of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore as well as the Founder Vice-Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. On the invitation of the Supreme Court of India, Dr. Menon pioneered judicial education and training at the National level. He was the Founder-Director of the National Judicial Academy at Bhopal for a four-year term between 2003 and 2006. He is honoured with PADMA SHREE for public service in 2003. The International Bar Association conferred "Living Legend of Law Award" on him in 1994.
Professor Dileep Mavalankar
Dr. Dileep Mavalankar received an MBBS and MD in Preventive and Social Medicine from Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, and MPH and Dr. P.H from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, USA. Dr. Mavalankar is the author of several publications and has been an adviser to key academic and government organizations and NGOs including Columbia University, MotherCare Project (USA), the WHO (Geneva, Western Pacific Regional Office), UNICEF (New Delhi), DANIDA, UNDP/World Bank (India), the Aga Khan Foundation.
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Associations
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RFGI is associated with a few non-profit organizations working in the similar
area.
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