Mukteshwari Bosco (Mukti), founded Healing Fields Foundation in the year 2000 and has utilized her deep understanding of rural communities and their needs to pioneer a series of community-driven innovations in health and women’s empowerment. Mukti's twenty-year journey developing community health and empowerment began with one of the first few micro-insurance programs in India for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2007, and has expanded to include education, health services and livelihood development. 

Today, Mukti leads a preventative health education program that reaches over 6 million families in India in about 5000 villages. She is a graduate from Christian Medical College, Vellore, and later did her Masters from the Administrative Staff College of India with Johns Hopkins University. She has been awarded the prestigious Women Social Entrepreneur by MSDS Foundation and was among the finalists of the Social Entrepreneur of the Year awarded by the World Economic Forum and Jubilant Bharatiya Foundation in 2019. 

In 2022, The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington felicitated Mukti with the Roux Prize – the world's largest award for evidence-based public health achievement, awarded annually to an individual who has used health evidence in “bold ways to make people healthier” – and to highlight how visionaries use data to change lives. Healing Fields was also honored to be chosen as one of the Top 50 last-mile responders in India by the World Economic Forum, in recognition of their work during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Narendranath Damodaran is a seasoned development professional with over three decades of experience in rural transformation. Beginning his journey with PRADAN in 1989, he played a pivotal role in organizing rural women into self-help groups and pioneering livelihood programs in Jharkhand and Rajasthan. 

Over the years, Narendranath transitioned into leadership roles with PRADAN, culminating in his tenure as Executive Director (2017-2022). He established the National Resource Centre for Livelihoods, shaping flagship government programs such as NRLM and MGNREGA, and championed policy advocacy to bridge grassroots realities with national strategies. 

Today, as the National Anchor of the National Coalition for Natural Farming, he is reimagining rural development through agroecology, natural farming, and community-led ecological restoration. His vision emphasizes farming with nature, strengthening Gram Panchayats, and empowering women farmers as custodians of seeds and soil health. 

Nivedita Banerji has served as the Secretary of Samaj Pragati Sahayog (SPS) from 2008 to 2014. She holds a Master’s degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, she has lived and worked among the tribal communities of the Narmada Valley in Central India. At SPS, she led the Women’s Empowerment Programme, shaping its strategy to build strong, women-led local institutions. Her vision was that these institutions would become vital building blocks for grassroots democracy, amplifying the voices of neglected regions and enabling effective empowerment of the poor. 

Within SPS, she founded Kumbaya, a pioneering social enterprise that empowers women and people with disabilities through the art of stitching. Her gift for design and her philosophy of empowerment are deeply woven into SPS’s work- evident in the innovative architecture of the Baba Amte Centre for People’s Empowerment, in watershed development projects, and in the nationally acclaimed SPS Watershed Training Manuals, which have been translated into multiple languages. 

In recognition of her contributions, Nivedita Banerji was invited to join the Government of India’s Working Group on Minor Irrigation and Watershed Management for the 12th Five Year Plan. She also authored and co-authored many books. In recognition of her contributions, Nivedita Banerji was invited to join the Government of India’s Working Group on Minor Irrigation and Watershed Management for the 12th Five Year Plan.

Dr. Rajeswari S. Raina is Professor with the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University. She is an active member of domestic and international networks researching and building capacities in rainfed agriculture, rural and agrarian studies, the politics of post-growth, agroecological transitions, agro-biodiversity, rural innovation and livelihoods, the recent NCNF (National Coalition for Natural Farming), climate variability and adaptation, energy transitions in dairy/meat sectors, and capacities for sustainable and resilient commons. 

Her current work and publications are on institutions and institutional change (post-growth agriculture, biodiversity and living soils), policy processes and policy intelligence, inclusive innovation, decentralized agroecological systems, revisiting international environmental assessments, sustainability and knowledge based bio-economic capabilities. 

Her work reveals that the plural meanings and materiality of agriculture are not alternatives to a given mainstream; they are substantive complex systems that are still holding out against the “new fundamentals” of growth and structural transformation, promoted as part of an international policy of harmonization since the mid-20th century.

Rohit Bhasin is a Chartered Accountant with over 38 years of experience in leading organisations such as Standard Chartered Bank, AIG Inc, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In addition to general management expertise, he has a strong functional experience in Finance including Business Strategy, Investment Advisory, Business Planning & Restructuring and Corporate Finance, across sectors.

Rohit is currently a member of the Governing Council (Board) of Save the Children.He is also associated with other non-governmental organisations such as the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), the Azad Foundation, and Mobile Creches.

Rohit has also been certified as a coach and mentor by two international organisations and several industry leaders.