MP Narayanan, Chairman, CSDMS
M. P. Narayanan, a mining professional having over 40 years of experience. He retired from public service as Chairman, Coal India Limited. He served as Chairman, Neyvelli Lignite Corporation Limited and Chairman, Environmental Appraisal Committee for Industries, Ministry Environment and Forests, Government of India. He is the Chairman of Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies.

Amitabha Pande, Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Government of India
Amitabha Pande, a graduate in English literature, joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1970s and served as Joint Secretary in Department of Science and Technology from 2000-2005. He has been instrumental in creating awareness about maps and development of National Spatial Data Infrastructure in India. Currently he serves as Principal Resident Commissioner, Government of Punjab.

Chin Saik Yoon, Southbound Publications, Malaysia
Chin Saik Yoon is chair of Orbicom’s research and publications committee. He is also the publisher and managing director of Southbound, a publishing house specialising in titles on development information and communication. He served on the advisory board of the World Communication and Information Report and has been involved in a number of regional and international ICT for development initiatives since the late 1980s.
http://www.southbound.com.my

Muhammed Yunus, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus is founder of the Grameen Movement. He was in the International Advisory Group for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing from 1993 to 1995. He is on the boards of many international organisations including Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (a Grameen replication project), the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Credit and Savings for the Poor, Malaysia. He has received numerous international and national awards.
http://www.grameen-info.org

Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
Richard Fuchs joined IDRC in January 2001 as Director of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development Programme Area. He was also the founder and CEO of the Enterprise Network Inc., a Crown corporation that established Canada’s first rural online and telecentre services. In 1996, he set up Futureworks, a firm specialising in the development of distance technology systems and services.
http://www.idrc.ca

Karl Harmsen, Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific, (CSSTEAP) India
Karl Harmsen was appointed on 23 April 2002 as Director of the Centre of Space Science Technology Education for Asia and the Pacific (CSSTEAP), which is located in Dehra Dun, India, on the campus of ITC’s sister institute, the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. Prior to that he was involved with a number of environmental and Remote Sensing organisations. From October 2005 he will join as Director of United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA), located in Accra, Ghana. He has a PhD on behaviour of heavy metals in soils.
http://www.cssteap.org

Kenneth Keniston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Kenneth Keniston is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development in the Programme in Science, Technology, and Society and Director of the MIT India Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has twice been Sir Ashutosh Mukerjee Visiting Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He is founder of the MIT India Programme, whose goal is increasing the presence of India in the education of MIT students. He was the Chair of Decennial Review Committee of NIAS in 2003. He has authored over eight books and hundreds of research papers.
http://www.mit.edu

Ichiro Tambo, OECD, France
Ichiro Tambo is the former Adviser on Science and Technology in OECD’s Development Co-operation Directorate. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy.
http://www.oecd.org

Nagy Hanna, e-Leadership Academy, University of Maryland, USA
After serving the World Bank for 3 decades, Nagy Hanna currently serves as the Co-Director and Senior Fellow at the e-Leadership Academy of University of Maryland in USA, and as a Senior International Development Strategy Consultant for the National e-Strategy and Corporate Strategy in the United States of America. He is an innovator and e-Strategist.
http:/ www.rhsmith.umd.edu

Srinivasan Ramani, Research Director, Hewlitt Packard Labs India (HP Labs)
Srinivasan Ramani, one of the stalwarts of the Indian IT industry, is the Director of HP Labs India. Ramani is the Executive Vice-President of the International Council for Computer Communication. He also serves on the United Nations High-level Panel of Advisors in Information and Communications Technologies. Earlier, Ramani served as President of the Computer Society of India and as Chairman of the board of directors of the Commonwealth Network on Information Technology for Development.
http://www.hpl.hp.com

Walter Fust, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland
Walter Fust is Director-General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) since September 1993. He is Chairman of the Board of the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). He is also a member of the Panel of Advisors of the United Nations Task Force on ICTs. He is member of the Steering Committee of the ‘Global Governance Initiative’ of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and of the Policy Committee of the Global Coalition for Africa.
http://www.sdc.admin.ch

Wijayananda Jayaweera, UNESCO, France
Wijayananda Jayaweera took office as the Director of UNESCO’s Communication Development Division in 2003. Mr Jayaweera worked at the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, he served as Project Organiser for the implementation of the UNESCO/DANIDA Mahaweli Community Radio project. He worked with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development as a Training Director. He joined UNESCO as a Programme Specialist in the Communication Development Division.
http://www.portal.unesco.org