Leadership

Prativa Sundarary

Masters in International development from Cornell University, Newyork and post graduate diploma in Rural Development from XIMB, Odisha. She has 16 years of experience in supporting livelihood activities for rural communities in India in the development sector –both in NGOs and in consulting agencies in managing projects in agricultural value chains, impact assessments and skill development the beneficiaries drawn from different institutions such as SHGs, Cooperatives and Farmer Producer Companies. She was the co-founder of Urvii Khadyam pvt.ltd. Currently, she continues as the founder director of Softskillz LLP that imparts softskills to graduate students.

Mr. Lal Mani Tiwari

Holds Master in Master in Botany and PG Diploma in forestry from Sagar University. He has 25 years of experience in development sector work both at national and international level programme with government and social sector institutions as Regional Research Laboratory Bhopal (CSIR Lab 1996-98), IIFM Bhopal (1998-2001) and with BASIX Social Enterprise group (April 2002 to Mar 2021). He expertise in rural livelihoods, financial inclusion, management of rural enterprises, especially Farmer Producer Organizations and Economics with special emphasis on Community Institution Building. He is one of founding members of Jaya Foundation.

Mr. Rajnikant Prasad

Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from XIMB having more than 20 years of work experience. Have worked with organizations like PRADAN, BASIX, IIM-A, Access Livelihoods, Bandhan, Grameen Foundation. Extensive experience in promotion and strengthening of around 200 FPOs in Uttar Pradesh. He has expertise and work experience in FPOs and Agri-value chain interventions, market led livelihood promotion, Community based institutions development (SHGs, FPOs), development microfinance etc.