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Steering Committee

Expanded Steering Committee

This includes members of the Cabinet.


Tarun Khanna

Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
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Diana Eck

Faculty Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
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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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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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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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Ali Asani

Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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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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Venkatesh Murthy

Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Pawan Sinha

Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
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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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Satchit Balsari

Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Martha Chen

Martha Chen

Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Affiliated Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Doris Sommer

Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and in African and African American Studies
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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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Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
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Jinah Kim

George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Harvard University
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Conor Walsh

Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Associate Faculty Member, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
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Sheila Jasanoff

Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
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Muhammad H. Zaman

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University
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Vikram Patel

The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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Ashutosh Varshney

Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Director, Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University
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Ajay Singh

Senior Associate Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education, Harvard Medical School
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Durba Mitra

Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
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Caroline Buckee

Caroline Buckee

Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH
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Mashail Malik

Mashail Malik

Assistant Professor, Department of Government
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Sanjay Saini

Sanjay Saini

Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
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DANIEL P. SCHRAG

Daniel Schrag

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Feyaad Allie

Assistant Professor of Government,
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Swayam Bagaria

Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies, Harvard Divinity School
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David Jones

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Gautam Nair

Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Subir Sachdev

Herchel Smith Professor of Physics
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Martha Ann Selby

Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of South Asian Studies
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In remembrance of Steering Committee member Dr. Richard A. Cash (1941–2024).