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.​

Tina Chadha
Communications and Brand Strategist

​Tina Chadha hails from New York City. She spent more than fifteen years as a communication and brand strategist for many of the world’s most respected wellness, women’s lifestyle and consumer healthcare brands. She has extensive experience in crisis communications and corporate social responsibility campaigns for major multi-national companies. In 2009, she relocated to New Delhi, India. Within her own family, she has felt the impact of India’s air pollution problem. She believes the air we breathe is the ultimate democratizer and that clean air must be accessible to all.

Aurelia Driver
Film and TV Producer, Writer

Aurelia Driver owned and operated a production company in South Africa before moving to Delhi in January 2014.  It was a search for ways to protect the health of her two young children that first sparked Aurelia’s interest in issues of air quality, and led her to a broader investigation of Delhi’s pollution crisis, and its possible solutions. She is excited about being able to use her experience in the visual media in working towards broad-based community awareness. 

Genevieve Chase
Public Health Professional

Genevieve Chase is an American public health professional who has worked on various public health issues related to HIV/AIDS; Public-Private partnerships in health; TB and health care finance reform. She has worked in Africa, Asia and in the U.S. for organizations including the UN, the World Bank and Abt. Associates.  In October 2014, Genevieve founded Delhiair.org, an informational web site about the health effects of air pollution, which continues to raise awareness on this important topic.  Since that launch she has been working on, speaking about and pulling people together around the issues of air pollution, with the goal to make partnerships for creative, innovative solutions.  

Beth Silverman Kotis
Head, Global Outreach, DelhiAir.org

Beth Silverman Kotis has over 20 years of international experience working in government, international development, management consulting, events planning and press-related activities. She had spent much of that time living and working overseas in Southeast Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Europe, the UK, and most recently India. She is the head of Global Outreach for DelhiAir.org, a web site that serves as a repository for air pollution information in Delhi with links to international standards and guidelines, current data and accredited published information on the topic. Shortly after moving to New Delhi, Beth became concerned about the air her family was breathing. It also became evident there was a lack of community knowledge and action at the time on the issue. She is determined to take part in raising public awareness and being part of the drive towards viable solutions.