Pooran sits on the board of World Food Program in India. He is the founding Chief Executive Officer of Berlin based think tank “Dialogue of Civilizations”. He is also a policy advisor to the governments in China, Germany, and Rwanda. Personally trained by Noble Laureate Al Gore, he is a contributor to the Springer Nature’s global encyclopedia on sustainable development goals and supplemental policy advisor to on climate and environmental issues to Climate Scorecard, a US based think tank. His academic work on Indo-Russia Bilateral Cooperation, civil society aid, US-China Trade and Commerce relations, private sector,  development cooperation and sustainability stand referred to and widely quoted, internationally.  Among his other works, he is widely known for his leadership role in launch of some of the high profile public campaigns – Teach India, Lead India and Aman-ki-Asha as a Track II between India and Pakistan in 2010 through collaboration between Jung Group of Pakistan and Times of India. He continues to write, travel and speak at key forums in India and abroad on contemporary public policy issues and new development agenda shaping our local and global societies. He is also editor of the first Niti Aayog endorsed book on the theme of - Leaving no one behind- Sustainable Development Goals and South- South Cooperation (2018).

Saharsh David is the Head CSR of Sandvik Asia Private Ltd and a Sustainability expert with an international repute. Sustainability and Gender Equality has always been the key focus area throughout his career and now integrating the sustainable goals in his work and materializing it through various projects has been his contribution.  To take the gender equality agenda ahead in India and drive SDG-5, he has designed a unique award platform Sandvik India Gender Awards with United Nations Global Compact, India, Consulate General of Sweden and Swedish Chambers of Commerce India, as Jury Partners.
In his current position with Sandvik, he has housed the UN-Global Compact- local western region office Sandvik Asia (Pune) since early 2015. He has represented Western Region UNGC in multiple fora. His presentation on “Educational Vulnerability Of Migrant Adolescents’” was very well received at the UN Global Compact Conference 2016 (Bangalore). He is on the Western region CII (Confederation of Indian Industries), Pune CSR Committee and Swedish Chamber of Commerce- CSR Committee. His other laurels include Winner of Economic Times- Rotary CSR Award 2019, CSR Golden Peacock Award 2017 and Overall Winner of Amity CSR-2017. He has been honoured as one of the 50 Most talented CSR Professional in India-2014-World CSR Congress.
Presently he is facilitating various industries led initiative under CSR on skills, forestation, gender and education. With path-breaking work in CSR, he has featured in the list of 100 Most Impactful CSR Leaders Global Listing-2016, 17- CSR Congress, winner of Economic Times Rotary CSR Awards and State Government recognised Sandvik Skills program.

Vishvesh is the Managing Director and Partner with Accenture Strategy India. He has a demonstrated history of driving competitive agility agenda of clients focusing on governance, growth, EBITDA enhancement and sustainability and trust related issues across sectors in India and the Middle East.