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1 Ms. Shereen Bhan Shereen Bhan is the Managing Editor of CNBC-TV18. A graduate from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and a post-graduate in Communication Studies from the University of Pune, she has over 15 years of experience in the field of Television Broadcast, 14 of which were spent in tracking corporate, policy news and events that defined the business landscape in India. For over a decade now, Shereen has been not only producing and anchoring flagship daily news shows like 'India Business Hour' and 'What's Hot', she has also been hands-on in guiding and moulding young business journalists. She has been responsible for breaking a range of news stories that have redefined the Indian economic landscape in recent times and has also interviewed some of the biggest names in business and politics, both domestic and global. Shereen is also the Anchor & Editor of 'Young Turks', one of India's longest running shows on entrepreneurs a section that over the last 13 years has successfully built a niche category in business news programming. Shereen is also the Author of Young Turks, a book recently published by Random House India. She also hosts 'Overdrive', which won the News Television Award for the 'Best Auto Show' for three consecutive years, and also heads the channel's special feature programming that carries several pioneering shows such as 'Ministers of Change' and 'What Women Want'. Shereen has interviewed some of the biggest names in Bsuiness from Legendary investor Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Indra Nooyi to name just a few. Shereen has also spent several years tracking the political- economy and has interviewed several Finance Ministers and other Cabinet Ministers over the years. Shereen has spearheaded several special programming initiatives with the mist recent being a special in -depth series on PM Modi's visit to the US. On Modi Meets America Shereen put together a record over 26 hours of programming interviewing some of the biggest names in Business from Mastercard's Global CEO Ajay Banga, to Former US Secretary Strobe Talbott. Over the course of her 14-year tryst with business journalism, Shereen has been the recipient of the 'Best Business Talk Show' award at the News Television awards for two years consecutively. She also won the 'FICCI Woman of the Year' award for her contribution to the Media in 2005, and was named a 'Young Global Leader' by the World Economic Forum. She won the Best Business Anchor Award at the News Television Awards in 2013.

Dr.DeepakRamchandraSawant 103, PusphaVatika CHS, Saibaba Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054 Current Office held Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of Maharashtra Career Progression

2 Dr.DeepakRamchandraSawant 103, PusphaVatika CHS, Saibaba Road, Santacruz West, Mumbai Current Office held Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of Maharashtra Career Progression Started a compassionate medical practice in 1980 after his medical graduation. Passion for literature made him study the stream of Arts in which he completed his graduation and post graduation in English literature and Political Science. He completed his thesis on Management of Government Hospitals in view of J J Group of Hospitals leading to his PhD. Served as Chairman of MELTRON from 1996 to Served as Senate member on Maharashtra University of Health Sciences Elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council from Mumbai Graduate Constituency in 2000 for the first time and since serving his third term till date. Successfully raised issues related to health, malnutrition, female infanticide, medical education, primary and secondary education, infectious disease control Sworn in as a Cabinet Minister on 5 th Dec 2015 and was given charge of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Awards and Accolades Best ParliamentarianAward received at the hands of Hon ble President of India Smt, PratibhataiPatil. Name appears in Guinness Book of Records for largest Blood Donation Drive Honored with AdivasiSevak award for his untiring efforts in improving the public health care and working on malnutrition amongst children in Tribal areas of the State. Giants International has felicitated him 7 times for working in the areas of helping Differently Abled, Creating awareness in youth of harms of Substance Abuse, conducting Medical Camps for needy, Relief and Rehabilitation of flood hit in the years 1983, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1997, For his relief and rehabilitation efforts during the Latur earthquake, he was felicitated in presence of Mother Theresa.

3 PROFILE OF MR.C.K. MISHRA Secretary, Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of India C.K. Mishra joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1983 and currently heading the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. As Additional Secretary & Mission Director, National Health Mission, ledone of the largest public health programme. In more than 30 years of public service, C. K. Mishra has served as an administrator, policy-maker and public health strategistholding a wide range of assignments in the fields of Health, Education, Industry and Power. C.K. Mishra is recognised for his significant contributions to improving the Indian Public Health landscapeand serves as Co-Chair of Partnership for Maternal Neonatal & Child Health (PMNCH)and a member of the Global Reference group providing strategic direction for Family Planning 2020 initiatives. He brings in a unique country perspective to the current global discourse on transition from MDGs to SDGs and is a vociferous advocate of global strategies being driven by country specific needs and contexts. He has been in the Department since July Born in Patna, Bihar, C.K. Mishra earned his Bachelor s Degree in History (Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University. In addition to this, he has received a Post Graduate Diploma in Media Law at NALSAR, Hyderabad. He has also completed the Advanced Leadership Programme from Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Australia. 1

4 Mr. Rahul Khosla is President, Max Group, and Chairman, Max India, Max Life and Max Healthcare. Under his leadership, the Max Group has delivered superior financial performance, significantly grown market capitalization, and concluded seminal corporate transactions. He led the mega-restructuring of the erstwhile Max India into three new listed entities and is currently spearheading the proposed merger of Max Life and Max Financial Services with HDFC Life, which will result in the creation of India s largest private life insurance company. Before joining Max, Mr. Khosla spent 11 years based in Singapore as the Group Head of Products at Visa Inc for Asia Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, following his role at Visa Inc as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Pacific region. He held several senior roles prior to this as Country Head for ANZ Grindlays consumer banking businesses in India; Head of Retail Assets, Strategy, Finance and Legal at Bank of America.

5 Mr. Lov Verma In a career spanning more than 3 decades in the Indian Administrative Service, Mr Lov Verma served in various capacities in Uttar Pradesh and the Central Government, specially driving policy in the health sector. India was declared Polio free during his tenure as Union Secretary, Health and Family Welfare. Also a decision was taken to introduce three major vaccines in the child immunisation programme, potentially preventing about 100,000 infant deaths every year. As Secretary, Department of AIDS Control, he accorded in-principle approval to free treatment of third-line HIV patients. As Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, he initiated the Accessible India Campaign, which is aimed at making the built environment, transport as well as the ICT ecosystem disabled-friendly.

6 (HONY) BRIGADIER DR ARVIND LAL, PADMA SHRI Brig. Arvind Lal is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at par with the Western world. He is an alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, having received his graduate and post-graduate medical degrees from the prestigious institute. In 1977,Brig. Lal took charge of Dr Lal PathLabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory founded in 1949 by his late father. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Dr Lal PathLabs(LPL) has become one of the most reputed laboratories in Asia having to its credit a record of 28 labs accredited from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) with another 4 labs in the pipeline. He brought International recognition to the Indian Healthcare Industry in the form of accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP - USA). Currently they operate over 175 labs, including Asia s biggest lab at Rohini, New Delhi with 1,600 collection centers and pick-up samples from another 7,000 medical establishments all over India. The lab tests over 50,000 patients every day; in 2015 they tested over 12 million patients. Dr. Lal has revolutionized laboratory medicine by introducing the maximum number of new tests, instruments and ICT (Information, Communications, Technology) systems in India. His R & D unit has done India proud by developing the latest tests in Molecular Diagnostics, Cytogenetics, Genetics and many more. The aim of the R&D division is to provide highly specialized tests at low cost to the weaker sections of the society. Dr. Lal is a member of many expert and advisory bodies constituted by the central and the state governments. He is accredited to having the first PPP (Public Private Partnership) in the field of laboratory testing with the Govt. of Tripura since 2004 and later with Govt. of Gujarat for testing over 30,000 new born babies in He is currently the Senior Vice President of NATHEALTH, Healthcare Federation of India. He is also the Chief of the Academic Council of IIHMR (International Institute of Health Management Research), New Delhi. Dr. Lal is also an active member of National Healthcare Committees of CII, FICCI & ASSOCCHAM and has played a significant role in

7 promoting the Indian Healthcare sector abroad. He is also leading the Healthcare Sector Skill Council (HSSC) Curriculum Development Committee for Paramedical Training in the field of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Lal was appointed as the Honorary Physician to the President of India in He has also been serving as a pathologist to almost all the past and present Presidents and Prime Ministers of India. His laboratory is the nodal laboratory testing the largest number of government employees in India from CGHS, ECHS, Ministry of Railways, Delhi Government and many others. He has been invited as the Keynote Speaker at IIM- Ahmedabad and also by the Harvard Business School, USA. Conferred with the Padma Shri, Brig. Lal is also the first civilian doctor to be granted an honorary Brigadier s rank in Armed Forces Medical Services. He is also the recipient of many other awards from various national and international organizations. Dr. Lal has been conferred with the Entrepreneur of the Year award by All India Management Association (AIMA) in 2016.

8 Mr. Sushobhan Dasgupta Mr. Sushobhan Dasgupta is the Managing Director, Johnson & Johnson Medical India (JJMI) and Vice President, Orthopaedics, Johnson & Johnson Asia Pacific serving as a member of the J&J Orthopaedics Global Board. A gold medalist in Business Administration from Jadavpur University and a Master of Science degree in Human Physiology from Presidency College, Kolkata, Mr. Dasgupta joined Johnson & Johnson in Over his 23 year career with J&J, he has lived and worked in several developed and emerging markets such as USA, UK, Germany, Singapore and Australia & New Zealand. In his various roles, Mr. Dasgupta has led and delivered accelerated business growth through innovation, continuous talent and organization development. He has always been a strong proponent and advocate of business ethics and compliant business practices. In his current role as Managing Director India he is actively engaged in helping shape the Indian healthcare environment through active participation in leading industry forums. He is theimmediate Past President of the Healthcare Federation of India (NATHEALTH), immediate Past Chairman of the FICCI Medical Devices Forum and currently Chair Finance, Healthcare Sector Skills Council. In addition, he is also an active member of FICCI s National Committee on Healthcare,CII s National Committee on Public Health and CII s National Committee on MNCs and The American Chamber of Commerce s (AMCHAM) Medical Devices Forum. He is a founder member of the newly formed Medical Technology Association of India (MTaI). Mr. Dasgupta is passionate when it comes to contributing to the community. An advocate of Operation Smile, an international children's medical charity, that performs safe, effective cleft lip and cleft palate surgery, and delivers postoperative therapies, he recently extended his love by cooking for this noble cause and in turn raised money for Operation Smile.

Mr. Rahul Khosla is President, Max Group, and Chairman, Max India, Max Life and Max Healthcare. Under his leadership, the Max Group has delivered

Mr. Rahul Khosla is President, Max Group, and Chairman, Max India, Max Life and Max Healthcare. Under his leadership, the Max Group has delivered Carrying the Apollo Hospitals beacon of healing, Preetha Reddy perseveres relentlessly to make advanced healthcare accessible to all in need and also in making India, a preferred global healthcare destination.