CORE EXECUTIVE TEAM

The core team volunteers to conduct the Care For Air administrative and program management activities. 

Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Financial Journalist, Columnist

Jyoti Pande Lavakare is a columnist, financial journalist and writer who has lived and worked in Britain, the United States and India. Jyoti has written for and worked with publications such as The Wall St Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The Financial Times, The Independent, the New York Times' India Ink blog, The Economic Times, Business Standard and Mint. She has also produced youth programs for radio and television. Her children's fiction has appeared in Hachette anthologies. She has a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and currently writes an independent column on India's entrepreneurial eco-system.​ Her areas of interest include education and healthcare. She is a clean air missionary.

Barun Aggarwal
Entrepreneur

​​Barun Aggarwal is an entrepreneur with multi-continent experience. He has actively engaged in campaigns around climate crisis issues relating to air quality, water conservation, and energy efficiency. Barun founded Breathe Easy Consultants to help individuals breathe pure air and help companies implement solutions for improving Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). Barun serves on the “Indoor Environmental Quality” (IEQ) committee of ISHRAE, is a founding member of the Indian Chapter of IAQA of USA and a member of USGBC’s IAQ Assessment working group.  He has an MBA from Australia.

Dr. Gita Sinha
Independent Consultant, Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Gita Sinha is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases-licensed physician and public health professional who leads designing and evaluating its outreach programs.  She led programs in medicine and public health practice, research, and teaching throughout India, first as a trainee and then as a university professor for over 10 years.  She founded and now leads Almora Health Strategies LLC, a U.S.-based independent consultancy in public health.  Her work with Care For Air against India’s air pollution crisis stems from a sense of professional duty to address what may be one of the greatest public health failures of our time, as well as a personal duty to empower her own children and future generations who will need continue the fight for truly clean air and planetary health. She divides her time between her homes in India and the U.S., where she lives with her family. 

Sujata Bhaduri
Advocate

​Sujata Bhaduri is a lawyer who has worked as in-house counsel with life insurance companies. Her specialisation is in contract management and negotiations; compliance management and corporate Governance; litigation; fraud investigations and related issues.

Additionally she has been involved as a member of governance committees, drawing strategy, planning and development. 
 
She has been associated with Care For Air since 2017, handling compliance, ethics and governance issues.