OUR GOVERNING BOARD

The majority of the governing board members are founders of Care For Air

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.

Gopal Sankaranarayanan
Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Gopal Sankaranarayanan is an advocate of the Supreme Court of India, having read law at the National Law School, Bangalore and the London School of Economics. When his wife and middle child developed allergies, he started looking for solutions. He sees clean air as a fundamental right of all citizens and believes in action by the people where the Government abdicates its role. He lives in Delhi with his wife and three children. 

Manjali Hoon-Khosla
Entrepreneur

​​Manjali Khosla is the Managing Director of Self Storage India. She has a PH.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of California, Davis and worked in R &D (asthma and migraine) in the pharmaceutical industry in North America. She has lived in Hong Kong, U.S.A., Canada and U.A.E. and moved to New Delhi in 2012 and soon found the negative impact of air pollution hit home. Her personal health issues and that of her young children and extended family, led her to investigate alternative means to keep her family safe from the daily high level of air pollutants. This growing awareness and the urgent need for more positive actions to improve the air we breathe led her to share within her local community and the broader Delhi/NCR region.  

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.

Bhargav Krishna
Research Fellow at the Public Health Foundation, India

Bhargav Krishna is a Research Fellow and Executive Aide to the President at the Public Health Foundation of India, where his work intersects health, the environment and sustainable development. Bhargav is an engineer with a Master’s degree in Global Environmental Change from King’s College London for his research on the sociological impacts of climate change. Before PHFI, Bhargav worked with KPMG, and then on the UN’s post-2015 development agenda with the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in New York.

​At PHFI, Bhargav co-ordinates its work on environmental health, leading engagements with the government, corporates, multilateral and bilateral agencies. He has worked with central and state governments on Air Pollution and Universal Health Coverage, and is currently the project coordinator of a 5-year NIH-funded, multi-site research and training grant focused on the cardiovascular impacts of air pollution, and the lead investigator on a Rockefeller Foundation-funded study on mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in India.k.

Abhishek Bhartia
Director, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research

Abhishek Bhartia is the director of Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, a small nonprofit hospital and medical research centre in Delhi. Abhishek has engineering and management degrees from Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has long been bothered by poor air quality in urban India. He is hopeful we can make a positive change with the mobilization of information and the will of many.​

Amrita Bahl
Development Sector Consultant

Dr. Bahl is passionate about harnessing the power of people for collaborative change.  With a Doctorate in Health Education from Teacher’s College, Columbia University, Dr. Amrita Bahl has 18+ years of program design and leadership experience in the field of communications and behavioural training in the development sector for public health and education programmes. 
 
In 2005, Dr Bahl conceived and set up the landmark Social Education and Health Advocacy Training (SEHAT) project, to empower prisoners to engage in positive health behaviours after release.  Since 2013, she has held various leadership roles with CII Young Indians, Delhi Chapter. Until May 2018, Dr. Bahl was Officer on Special Duty at the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat, Puducherry.  She now consults with private and public sector organizations on monitoring and evaluation of development projects in Education and Health.

Chetan Bhattacharji
Managing Editor, NDTV

Chetan Bhattacharji is Managing Editor, NDTV, where, among other things, he drives content and programming on air pollution and climate change. He writes on air pollution and related policy, and is keen to see how sci-comm can improve further to actively engage more people. Chetan lives in Delhi and has two daughters whose health is the reason for his passionate focus on India’s air pollution emergency. He studied history at St Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and later received a broadcast journalism diploma at Thomson Foundation, University of Cardiff, beginning his journalism career in 1995.