Steering Committee
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute’s Steering Committee provides guidance and advisement to MI, and represents schools from across the university.
Steering Committee Cabinet
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Homi Bhabha
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, FAS; Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost
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Jacqueline Bhabha
FXB Director of Research, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health; the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School; and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
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Martha Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Asim Khwaja
Director, Center for International Development; Sumitomo-FASID Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Jinah Kim
George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University
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Jennifer Leaning
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
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Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design; John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
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Venkatesh Murthy
Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Vikram Patel
The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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Parimal G. Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
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