Board of Advisors (International)

	Ashok Soota, GIIS Advisory Board Member, is the former president of Wipro Infotech. He secured education in Electrical Engineering, along with an MBA qualification from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines. He Co-founded Mindtree Consulting, in New Jersey, USA, and is a Member of Advisory Council of World Council of Intellectual Property Rights in Geneva

	Dr FC Kohli, GIIS Advisory Board Member, has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan. He is the Deputy Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, Director of Tata Group of Companies, Adviser to Department of Education, Member in Ministry of Education on Post-graduate Education and Research in Engineering and Technology, Member of Senate at IIT Mumbai, Member of Board of Governors at IIM Calicut, and also Member of Advisory Committee at Ministry of Information Technology.

	Arjun Malhotra, Member, Advisory Board serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors. Prior to Headstrong, he was the Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies. He founded and built HCL Technologies from a six-person ‘garage operation’ in 1975 to one of largest information technology companies in the world.

	Shabana Azmi, Member of the Advisory Board is the daughter of renowned leftist Urdu Poet, Kaifi Azmi, and famous stage actress, Shaukat Kaifi. Ms Azmi is also a committed social activist. She was nominated to the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) as a Member of Parliament by the President of India from 1997 - 2003. She was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of 25 Asian heroes and the only woman amongst four Indians who has made a difference.

	Sir J K Chande is an honourable recipient of the Hind Ratna Award. He was appointed as a trustee of the Rotary Foundation in 2003 and Chairman of the Rotary Foundation of the United Kingdom in 2004. He was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2003, the first of its kind given to a Tanzanian citizen. He has been honoured with the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

	Dr. Vasant Gowariker, Member of Advisory Board has remained the visiting professor at Stanford University (1985-86), Ex-Scientific Advisor to four Prime Ministers of India, Member of the Consultative Group of Eminent Senior Scientists, Secretary to the Department of Science and Technology (1986-1991), Vice Chancellor of Pune University (1995-98) and Head, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).