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

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

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
Senior Fellow, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Rahul Mehrotra
Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization
ProfileJohn T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization

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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Kristen A. Stilt
Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Director, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World
Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program
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Faculty Director, Animal Law and Policy Program

Conor Walsh
Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
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