Steering Committee
Expanded Steering Committee
This includes members of the Cabinet.

Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
ProfileCambridge, Massachusetts, US

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
ProfileProfessor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society

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
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
ProfileAssistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

Caroline Buckee
Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH
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Mashail Malik
Assistant Professor, Department of Government
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Sanjay Saini
Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
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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
ProfileIn remembrance of Steering Committee member Dr. Richard A. Cash (1941–2024).