Governing Board

Governing Board

Test-1 GB Composition Description

IUSSTF functions as an autonomous, bilateral organization, co-funded and co-governed by both the Governments of India and the United States of America, and is managed by the Executive Director from its headquarters in New Delhi. To ensure that the activities undertaken by the Forum conform to the highest standards of excellence, a joint Governing Body, comprising representatives from the Indian and American governments, as well as researchers from academia and industry, provides leadership to the Forum.

Test-1 Design GB Composition

Indian Members

Praveen Roy
Co-Chair
Scientist ‘G’, Advisor Head, Technology Translation, and Innovation (TTI) Division

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Yatinder Prasad
Additional Secretary and Financial Adviser

Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Dhananjay Tiwary
Scientist G

Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India

Suhas S. Joshi
Director

Indian Institute of Technology, Indore 

Umesh V. Waghmare
Professor

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru 

Parag Naik
Co-founder and CEO of Sampige Semiconductors

Co-founder and former CEO of Saankhya Labs, former Executive Vice President at Tejas Networks (a Tata Group company).

U.S. Members

Allison Schwier
Co-Chair
Acting Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State

Office of the Science and Technology Adviser, U.S. Department of State

Shibani Malhotra
Deputy Director for India and Bhutan

U.S. Department of State

Elizabeth Urbanas
Deputy Assistant Secretary

Asia and the Americas Office of International Affairs U.S Department of Energy

Aseem Z. Ansari
Chair, Chemical Biology and Therapeutics

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis

Amita Gupta
Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Kumud Srinivasan
Independent Director, Sterlite Technologies Limited 

Retired Vice President and General Manager of Manufacturing and Operations Automation Systems at Intel Corporation