Board Members
Our Board
Bim Bissell
Bim Bissell, the wife of late FabIndia founder John Bissell, has run the Playhouse School and worked as a social secretary to US Ambassadors John Kenneth Galbraith, Chester Bowles, and Judge Kenneth Keating in New Delhi. She has spent 21 years with the World Bank and worked as a senior accountant and executive ASP for the Government of India’s Tourism and Travel Account from 1972 to 1975. She worked as an external affairs officer at the World Bank in New Delhi from 1975 to 1996. In 1992, with the help of Japanese government funds and the World Bank, she founded Udyogini, an NGO that works with assetless, landless women in India, with Ela Bhatt of SEWA as chair.
Sumita Ghose
Ms. Ghosh is the founder and managing director of Rangsutra, a social enterprise that works for socio-economic development in rural India through community and market engagement. Ms. Ghose lived in various parts of rural India for many years before founding Rangsutra in 2006, working with rural communities for social change and economic development. She has a master’s degree in economics and a diploma in conflict resolution. She has received several awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship; the most recent was the Nari Shakti Puraskar, presented by then-President Pranab Mukharhee on Women’s Day in 2016.
Madhubala
Ms.Madhubala holds an MA in Hindi from Delhi University. She has nearly two decades of gender sensitization, training, and implementation experience. Since 2007, she has been developing modules and conducting training on women’s issues such as gender, patriarchy, violence against women, sexuality, women, law, and masculinity with urban, rural, and tribal women collective and federation members and leaders; professionals from NGOs and CBOs; police personnel; the Transport Department; protection officers; as well as multi-national and other private sector organisations. She has been with Jagori Women’s Resource Centre for over a decade. She also serves on the ICC for several organisations and institutes.
Sumana Datta
Ms. Datta holds a Ph.D. in Renewable Energy from the Centre of Energy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, as well as an M. Sc. in Physics from Delhi University. She is a member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics’ Indian Chapter. Sumana has over 28 years of experience in corporate social responsibility, renewable energy and the environment, livelihood, health, survey and planning, research, product development, technology transfer, and evaluation and
KM Jayahari
Mr. Jayahari has a PHD in Forestry (Wildlife) from the Forest Research Institute. He is experienced in different aspects of natural resource management: conservation, policy and strategy interventions, livelihood and community mobilisation, etc. He has almost 20 years of experience in the development sector.
Arvind Kumar Malik
Mr. Malik has a degree in forestry science from Pantnagar Agriculture University and advanced human rights training. He has over 20 years of experience in the development sector, working with some of the most prominent national and international non-governmental organisations. Between 2011 and 2013, he worked as the Regional Rural Development Manager for the Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan for two and a half years. Arvind was named a Ford Fellow in 2015, a global fellowship organised by Ford Motor Company and the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
