Ms Shanti Raghavan is a Founder of Enable India. She has 12 years experience in the software industry, worked at AT&T, Lucent Technologies and ADP Brokerage Information Services Group (USA) and CyberCash, Tarang Technologies and GE Aircraft Engines IT (India).
She also has teaching experience, having worked as a lecturer at V.E.S.I.T, Mumbai for a year and as a teaching assistant at Monmouth University for two years. Ms Shanti has received the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2010. She has been selected as a fellow of the Ashoka Foundation.
Mr Sergio Meresman is a Project Coordinator in Inter American Institute on Disability, Uruguay. He is also an independent consultant for OPS/OMS, UNDP, CEPAL, UNICEF as well as social organizations in community health projects and inclusive development in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Dr Scott W. Harrington is the Director of the Youth Transition Project at the Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities (NCED) at the University of Nevada, Reno in the College of Education. He is currently the Director for the Customized Employment Project, an externally funded project to help individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities secure integrated employment for competitive wages. Dr.
Mr Satish Kapoor is a Founder and Director of Brotherhood and WE CARE FilmFest. Mr Kapoor has been promoting inclusion of children with disabilities into the mainstream since 1994. Through an "Brotherhood", he has been organizing interaction programmes in various schools to bring ordinary children and children with disability together - mentally, physically and psychologically. He played a major role in getting issued the circular from the Delhi Chief Minister regarding the admission of children with disability in normal schools.
Scientist, National Informatics Centre, Department Of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Government of India, India
Mr Sanjeev Katara has been working as a Scientist at the National Informatics Centre, Department Of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) for the past 15 years. Mr Katara has been involved in the Design, Development, Management, Administration and Security Audit of various ICT Applications for National and International Clients such as Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India, UNDP, INCB. He is a contributor to the ‘Guidelines for Delivery Channels for Provision of Public Services through Mobile Devices’ published by DeitY, MoCIT, Govt. of India.
Ms Saima Hossain is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Autism in Bangladesh, Global Autism Organization. Ms Hossain was also appointed as an expert adviser by the World Health Organization. She has led campaigns for passage of a resolution regarding autism in the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, and played a critical role in creating the South Asian Autism Network (SAAN). By her initiative Bangladesh hosted the first-ever global conference on autism in 2011.
Dr. Ruth Warick is the President of the International Federation of Hard of Hearing Persons and a disability coordinator at the University of British Columbia. She was a founding member of the Canadian national hard of hearing association for which she is a past president. She represents IFHOH on the International Disability Alliance, a cross disability group of international and regional disability organizations and serves as IDA’s Second Vice-President.
Mr Rosangela Berman Bieler is a Chief of Disability Section, Program Division, UNICEF. Rosangela's expertise on disability issues covers areas such as Inclusive Development & Public Policy, HIV-AIDS, Post-Conflict, Poverty Reduction, Media, Gender and Human Rights. She is also the founder of the Inter-American Institute on Disability and Inclusive Development created to promote social-economic and political inclusion in the Latin America Region, and also in Portuguese speaking countries in Africa and Asia.
Ms Revathy Rugmini is the Regional Representative for Asia for Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD). She is responsible for all operations in the nine countries, where LCD works in South and East Asia including managing relationships with Government ministries and corporations. As Regional Representative, Ms Rugmini leads one of LCD’s flagship programmes, entitled ‘Access to Livelihoods’, in partnership with Accenture. This programme supports people with disabilities in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Philippines to access better and more diverse livelihoods opportunities.