Team
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Kanan Dhru
Founder & Managing Director
Kanan Dhru is the Founder of RFGI. She is a practicing lawyer with a
law-graduation from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. Prior to
coming to India, she has briefly worked with the World Health Organisation
in Geneva. In India, she has worked with the National Knowledge Commission,
a Prime Minister's Advisory Body, New Delhi. She has been an External
Consultant with McKinsey & Company, a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford
University and been currently associated with the Government of Gujarat on
several initiatives.
Contact her at: kanan <at> rfgindia <dot> org.
Kelly Dhru
Director
Kelly is a law graduate from the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar and will be pursuing her Masters (BCL) 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
Director
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.
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Project Coordinators
Research Associates
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Apoorv Shah
Arvind Giriraj
Prashant Mishra
Bhumika Sharma
Shalini Aiyengar
Shivansh Pandya | | | | |
Winter 2009 Interns
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RFGI Advisors
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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.
Shri Girish Patel
Shri Girish Patel is a senior counsel at the High Court of Gujarat and a social activist. Mr. Patel pursued his post graduation in law from the Harvard Law School in the USA. He has also worked at the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law in the Hague. On his return to India, he took up Principalship of a law college in Ahmedabad. He is also called the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) man as he has filed more than 100 PILs in the Gujarat High Court.
Shri Kireet Joshi
Shri Kireet Joshi is known for his significant contribution to legal education at both a National and International level. Having studied philosophy and law, he became an Indian Administrative Officer in 1955. However, he resigned from IAS in 1956, devoting himself completely to the study and practice of the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pudicherry. Following his position as Chairman at the Ashram, he was appointed as education advisor to the Government of India in 1976 by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. During this period, he held high office in bodies such as University Grants Commission and National Commission for Teachers. Currently, he is the educational advisor to the Chief Minister of the State of Gujarat.
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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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