Our Team

The people who guide and carry out the work of Bharat Abhyudaya Foundation.

Team

Hover over, or tap, a card to read about each team member.

Vinod Kumar Yadav

Vinod Kumar Yadav

Chairperson & Member

Vinod is working in the areas of education and public health. He has led several social awareness campaigns in Bihar and UP. For several years he has worked in the areas of agriculture, education and health. He set up a team of international experts for combating deadly Japanese Encephalitis disease in UP and Bihar. He worked with the government on bringing several policy changes for prioritizing cancer care in the country. He has B. Tech from Madan Mohan Malaviya Technical University, Gorakhpur, an MBA from Southern Methodist University, Texas and Master in International Development from Harvard University.

Ghanshyam Tiwari

Ghanshyam Tiwari

Secretary & Member

Ghanshyam is a devoted educationist and leads a team of experienced professionals under his start-up Gooded Technologies. He is our key strategist for developing education programs. Ghanshyam has B. Tech from National Institute of Technology, MBA from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago, and MPA from Harvard University.

Mehul Jain

Mehul Jain

Member

Mehul is an expert in education, environment and public policy. He has worked with World Bank for several years and also been part of the World Bank team for Ganga cleaning and management. He has B Tech from NIT Jamshedpur, MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Master in International Development from Harvard University.

Ravinder Kumar

Ravinder Kumar

Member

Ravinder is Global Head of Data Platforms for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability at Olam Agri in Singapore, where he leads digital and data analytics initiatives for ESG reporting and supply chain traceability. He previously spent over seven years at Bayer in market intelligence and digital transformation roles across Asia-Pacific, and has worked with Capgemini, including on a strategy assignment with the Government of Rwanda, and with Bharat Electronics on weather radar systems. He has studied at MIT Professional Education.

Ramdhan Yadav

Ramdhan Yadav

Member

Ram is an entrepreneur and CEO of a technology firm in the Boston area with an office in Hyderabad as well. His strength is in application of technology and his team has developed advanced programs for data science and data analytics for students and is successfully running in many US and Indian Universities.

Sumit Yadav

Sumit Yadav

Member

Sumit is a Software Engineer with IBM-AT&T in New Jersey, USA, where he has worked since 2005. He has extensive experience in Java, microservices, service-oriented architecture and web-based applications, and has worked across the full software development life cycle from requirement gathering to testing and deployment. He has a good domain knowledge of Software Defined Networking and is an alumnus of Southern Methodist University.

Irfan Alam

Irfan Alam

Member

Irfan Alam is a social entrepreneur and has done remarkable work in the area of social and financial inclusion of poor people and workers in the unorganized sector. His work has been identified and commended in India as well as in other countries. He is known for working with rickshaw pullers and developing a model to give them ownership of their rickshaws. In 2010, he was invited by US President Barrack Obama to White House in Washington DC. Irfan is now working in the areas of social inclusion and public health. He is educated from IIM Ahmedabad and Harvard University.

Princy Prajapati

Princy Prajapati

Program Manager & Member

Princy Prajapati is an academician and is working with many national and international agencies to improve the public education and public health system in the country. She has taught electrical engineering at a private technical university. She is a masters in technology from Madan Mohan Malaviya Institute of Technology Gorakhpur.

Arun Gaurav

Arun Gaurav

Member

Arun studied at IIT Kanpur and then at IIM Lucknow. He has been associated with Bharat Abhyudaya Foundation since its inception. He worked on right to education projects across the State of Uttar Pradesh.

Shagun Tiwari

Shagun Tiwari

Member

Shagun is a Chemical Engineer and an MSc candidate in Climate Change, Management & Finance at Imperial College Business School. She has diverse experience across sustainability, agriculture, health, education and social innovation, with strengths in project management, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication and problem-solving. Working across sectors has helped her connect different perspectives and turn complex challenges into practical, impactful solutions. At Imperial, she is building on this foundation through climate finance, sustainability, management and strategy, with a particular interest in climate finance and sustainability consulting.

Akshat Yadav

Akshat Yadav

Member

Akshat is a computer scientist from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow, with interests in iOS development and cyber security.

Nitu Singh

Nitu Singh

Member

Nitu Singh is an educationst and practioner of naturopathy. She has led several educational campaigns for farmers and women in Kannauj and chandauli districts. She has worked with rural communiites for strengthening Panchayati Raj institutions to impact grass-root level change. She has a professional degree in education, B.Ed. She has her BA and MA in Sociology from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi.