Swami Ramdev, popularly known as Baba Ramdev was born in 1965 in Alipur in the Mahendragarh district in the Indian state of Haryana. Ramdev is an Indian, Hindu swami and is particularly well known for his efforts to popularize yoga. His yoga camps see a large attendance of his followers. The Baba is also one of the founders of the "Divya Yoga Mandir Trust" that aims at promoting yoga among the masses. Born as Ramkishen Yadav he attended school till grade eight in Shahjadpur in Harayana and then joined a gurukul in Khanpur village to study yoga and Sanskrit. Ultimately he renounced worldly life and became a Sanyasi (took to monastic living) taking on his present name. He later travelled to the Jind district and joined the Kalva gurukul and offered free yoga training to villagers across Harayana. Baba Ramdev spent many years of his life studying ancient Indian scriptures and practicing meditation and self discipline all along. He has also founded the Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust in Haridwar, an institution that does research in the healing powers of yoga and Ayurveda. The trust also provides many free services to all its visitors. Baba Ramdev's educational shows have been broadcast on many religious TV channels like Aastha, and other TV channels like Zee Network, Sahara One and India TV; and the swami holds many yoga camps across the country and even abroad. In 2007 the KIIT University (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) awarded the swami with an honorary doctorate degree for his contribution towards popularizing the Vedic science of yoga. Baba Ramdev is a yoga guru known for his work in ayurveda, business, politics and agriculture

Suresh Prabhu is an Indian politician and the current Railway Minister of India, under the Narendra Modi government. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Since 1996, Prabhu has been a repeatedly elected Member of Parliament from Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He quit Shiv Sena and joined BJP on 9 November 2014. He currently represents Andhra Pradesh in Upper House of Indian Parliament.

Digvijaya Singh is an Indian politician and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He is also currently a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress party's All India Congress Committee. Previously, he had served as the 9th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state, for two terms from 1993 to 2003. Prior to that he was a minister in Chief Minister Arjun Singh's cabinet, during 1980?84.

Prof. M S Swaminathan is the Founder Chairman of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation & UNESCO Chair in Ecotechnology. He has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as one of the twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme as "the Father of Economic Ecology" because of his leadership of the ever-green revolution movement in agriculture and by Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary General of the United Nations, as "a living legend who will go into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction". He was Chairman of the UN Science Advisory Committee set up in 1980 to take follow-up action on the Vienna Plan of Action. He has also served as Independent Chairman of the FAO Council (1981-85) and President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1984-90). He was President of the World Wide Fund for Nature (India) from 1989-96. He also served as President of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (2002-07), President of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1991-96 and 2005-07) and Chairman, National Commission on Farmers (2004-06). He was a trustee of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in its formative years. He served as Director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (1961-72), Director General of Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (1972-79), Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture (1979-80), Acting Deputy Chairman and later Member (Science and Agriculture), Planning Commission (1980-82) and Director General, International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines (1982-88). A plant geneticist by training, Professor Swaminathan's contributions to the agricultural renaissance of India have led to his being widely referred to as the scientific leader of the green revolution movement. His advocacy of sustainable agriculture leading to an ever-green revolution makes him an acknowledged world leader in the field of sustainable food security. The International Association of Women and Development conferred on him the first international award for significant contributions to promoting the knowledge, skill, and technological empowerment of women in agriculture and for his pioneering role in mainstreaming gender considerations in agriculture and rural development. Professor Swaminathan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1971, the Albert Einstein World Science Award in 1986, the first World Food Prize in 1987, and Volvo, Tyler and UNEP Sasakawa Prize for Environment, the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development in 2000 and the Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal, the Mahatma Gandhi Prize of UNESCO in 2000 and the Lal Bahadur Sastri National Award (2007). He is the recipient of Padma Shri (1967), Padma Bhushan (1972) and Padma Vibushan (1989).

Ratan N Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons, one of the two promoter holding companies of the Tata group, from 1991 till his retirement on December 28, 2012. He was also chairman of the major Tata companies, including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Chemicals, Indian Hotels and Tata Teleservices. During his tenure, the group?s revenues grew manifold, totalling over $100 billion in 2011-12. Mr Tata is also associated with various organisations in India and overseas. He is the chairman of two of the largest private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India. He is a member of the Indian Prime Minister?s Council on Trade and Industry. He is the president of the Court of the Indian Institute of Science and chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He also serves on the board of trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California. Mr Tata serves on the board of directors of Alcoa, and is also on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, Temasek Holdings and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Mr Tata received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell in 1962. He worked briefly with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles before returning to India in late 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975. The Government of India honoured Mr Tata with its second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2008. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities in India and overseas.

Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal is a determined Indian politician. She is presently the Minister of Food Processing in the Hon?ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi?s government. Apart from being a great political leader, she is also involved in social work and is a business woman. She is a graduate in Textile Designing. She was first elected as Member of Parliament in 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Bathinda Constituency and in the 16th Lok Sabha also she is a M.P. from Bathinda in Punjab. In August, 2009 she was made Member of the Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment; and also Member of Committee on Estimates. In May 2010 she was made Member of Standing Committee on Food & Public Distribution; and also Member of Committee on Estimates. She started a project named ?Nanhi Chhaan?, a movement to save girl child and trees. An initiative to fight against female feticide and to empower women in rural areas. This initiative has now an active presence in schools, colleges, gurudwaras, temples, churches, panchayats and various municipal centres. Nanhi Chhaan assists in setting up self-help groups (SHGs) for women across the state that in turn spread awareness not only about female feticide but also about other issues such as dealing with cancer, agriculture, farmer?s issues, environmental issues and the ever depleting forest cover. The SHGs also help the women collectively set up small businesses and manage their savings in a more efficient manner. Nanhi Chhaan initiative has opened 75 Silaai centres (stitching centres) at villages, where training is provided to more than 1900 girls in stitching clothes, weaving durries (traditional Punjabi mats) and phulkari (a traditional embroidery technique of Punjab used to decorate shawls and scarves). She also launched an initiative ?SAANJH? under which hundreds of textiles training centres were opened and thousands of girls from rural Punjab are trained every year and are imparted training in traditional embroidery art ?Phulkari? and ?Durry? making and are made financially independent.

RESIDENTIAL ENVOY TO COMANDER HUGO CHAVEZ Carrying his message to Presidents and Prime Ministers of diverse countries in Asia, Africa (11 countries) to negotiate support to the candidature of Venezuela in the Security Council of UN — 2007. Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Seychelles Islands, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Madagascar, Burundi, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Responsible for political attention to English-speaking delegations from diverse countries who attended international events in Venezuela and meetings with the President of the Republic and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2007 — 2008.
ENVOY FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTER, NICOLAS MADURO For Special Assignments to promote and support Solidarity Movements with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution, 2006 — 2009. City Hall of London, UK. Advisor in the Exchange Convention “London’s transport fuel in urban development.”, 2007.
New Delhi, India. Mission to represent the Venezuelan government for the Meeting with the Indian Government for the International Celebration in completion of 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi Movement of National Liberation “Satyagraha” with the motive of Pace Non Violence and Empowerment. Gandhian Philosophy in the XXI Century. Meeting with Doctor Mammohan Singh, Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi, Congress President of India, 2007
Constitutional Reform, 2007. International Envoy. Construction of the foundation of public opinion regarding the true about the Referendum for the Constitutional Reform, to the governments and parliaments of: United Kingdom European Commission (Brussels) Belgian Spain International Support Platform for the Constitutional Amendment, 2009. Meetings and Conferences with governments and parliaments and social forces (Labor Unions, Students, Academic Sector, Women) of: Canada France United Kingdom
ACTIVITY AS MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group United Kingdom — Venezuela, 2006 — 2011.
INTERPARLAMENTARY UNION: Member of the Inter-Parlamentary Union, 2006 — 2010. Institutional and Parliamentary Exchange Visit to England and Scotland, 2008. Parliamentary Conference on Participatory Democracy and better parliaments, La Paz, Bolivia, 2009. Working visit of President Chavez. Member of the Programmer Organizing Committee, 2006. Peoples Summit, Interconnecting Alternatives, 2010. Speaker: People Diplomacy and Struggle against social exclusion”. Madrid, Spain. 1st European Meeting of Movements and Organizations in Solidarity with Venezuela, 2009, Organizer and speaker, London, United Kingdom. Founding Member and Cooperating permanent Movement of Friendship and Mutual Solidarity Cuba — Venezuela, 2003 — current. “Constitution and Peace Forum”, Social Organization of Revolutionary Activism, 2002 — 2006.

Malishka Mendonsa, popularly known as RJ Malishka , is a radio personality from Mumbai, India. She works in Red FM 93.5. Her show "Morning No 1 with Malishka" has won the "Best Breakfast Programme/Show (Hindi) at the Indian Excellence in Radio Awards" in the past. Actress Vidya Balan was trained by RJ Malishka when the actress played the role of an RJ in 2006 Bollywood film Lage Raho Munnabhai

Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter, known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema. His most notable films include Kalicharan (1976), Karz (1980), Hero (1983), Meri Jung (1985), Karma (1986), Ram Lakhan (1989), Saudagar (1991), Khalnayak (1993), Pardes (1997), Taal (1999), and Black & White (2008). In 1982, he started Mukta Arts Private Limited which, in 2000, became a public company, with Subhash Ghai as its executive chairman. In 2006, he received the National Film Award, for producing the social problem film Iqbal. Ghai started his career in Hindi cinema as an actor with small roles in films including Taqdeer (1967) and Aradhana (1971). He was the male lead in the 1970s Umang, and Gumraah (1976). His directorial debut was the film Kalicharan (1976) which he obtained through a recommendation by Shatrughan Sinha. As of 2016, he has written and directed a total of 16 movies. In the 1980s and 1990s, he formed a collaboration with Dilip Kumar whom he directed in Vidhaata (1982), Karma (1986) and Saudagar (1991), the latter for which he won the Filmfare Best Director Award. He introduced Jackie Shroff as a leading actor in Hero (1983) and helped establish Anil Kapoor?s rising career with Meri Jung (1985) for which he was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actor Award[citation needed] . He went on to frequently work with Shroff and Anil Kapoor, casting them together in the films Karma (1986), Ram Lakhan (1989) and Trimurti (1995) which he had produced and was directed by Mukul S. Anand. His 1993 release Khalnayak starring Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Shroff featured the songs ?nayak nahin khalnayak hu main? and ?Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai?. After a three-year hiatus from directing, he returned in 2008 with Black and White released on 7 March 2008 and, later Yuvvraaj released in November 2008 which didn?t perform well at the box office. A. R. Rahman stated in an interview that Ghai had asked him to use the words ?Jai Ho? in a song.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is a Shooter-Soldier who has voluntarily retired to serve the nation as a politician. He is the first sportsperson to win an individual Silver for India since Norman Pritchard, who won two Silver Medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics. He has been awarded with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri. He joined Bhartiya Janata Party to contribute all his energies to politics to bring about a change. He wishes that the youth should be able to choose the profession he/she wants to be in. He is a strong advocate that people of our country should excel in their own chosen fields and contribute in their own special way.

Lord Raj Loomba CBE is Founder and Chairman of the Loomba Foundation, a UN accreditated global charitable organisation, which promotes the fundamental freedoms and human rights of widows and their children around the world. He is widely known today as the Pioneer of Widows Rights and Instigator of International Widows Day.
Lord Loomba was invited by the Chief Minister of Punjab as State Guest on the Republic Day, 26th January, 2015 and awarded the highest and prestigious award-Praman Patra. Lord Loomba received Non Resident of India Award, Pravasi Samaan Patra, from the President of India on 9th January, 2015 for his social services and philanthropy.
United Nations New York Association conferred the Humanitarian Lifetime Achievement Award on Lord Loomba on UN Day 2014 in New York.
UN Women named Lord Loomba as the first Founding Champion of the circle of Widows Rights in June 2013.
Lord Loomba was elevated to the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat Life Peer in 2011. Lord Loomba received a CBE Excellence of Commander of British Empire) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in her Birthdays Honour List in 2008.
Lord Loombas campaigning achievements are founded on his successful business career as Founder of Rinku Group, a fashion and clothing company, of which he is Executive Chairman. On May 11, 2016 Lord Loomba was invited to attend the UN Ambassadors luncheon as Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker which was hosted by the Hospitality Committee of the United Nations Delegates in New York.

The Rt Hon the Lord Paul of Marylebone, PC, Chairman of Caparo Group, is a leading businessman and an active member of the House of Lords where he was Deputy Speaker from 2008-2010.
Born in Jalandhar, India in 1931, he went to the UK in 1966 and in 1968 founded Caparo Group, the UK based industrial company employing 7,000 people with operations in Europe, Asia and North America. He was raised to the Peerage as Baron Paul of Marylebone in August 1996 and in July 2009 was appointed by H.M. the Queen as a member of her Privy Council. Lord Paul was member of the London Development Agency from 2000-2008 and from 2005-2008 chaired the LDA Olympics Delivery Committee which was responsible for delivering the land and infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games on time and on budget. He was also on the board of London 2012 and a member of the British Olympic Association Advisory Board. He was a Member of Panel 2000, an appointment by the Prime Minister to re-brand Britain 1997-2010. He was also a member of the Industrial Development Advisory Board (a Department of Trade and Industry appointment) 1999-2005. He was an Ambassador for British Business, a UK government initiative, from 1997 to 2005 representing UK trade and investment on 75 occasions in 30 different countries. Lord Paul is currently Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption. He has been Chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton since 1999 and was Chancellor of the University of Westminster from 2006 to 2014. Lord Paul holds 15 honorary degrees in recognition of his contributions to business, the economy and his social and charitable works. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1983 and granted the Freedom of the City of London in 1998.

Vigdis Finnbogadottir is the legendary and historic ex President of Iceland and the only female leader to be the longest-serving elected female head of State of any Country. President of Iceland for four terms and sixteen years from 1980 to 1996, she was the world’s first democratically directly elected female president.
She was earlier also the Artistic Director of the Reykjavik Theatre Company (Leikfélag Reykjavikur). After her popular and successful term concluding in 1996, she became founding chair of the Council of Women World Leaders at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She was soon also appointed President of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology.
Fru Vigdís Finnbogadóttir had a beautiful motto as: ‘Never let the women down’. She worked tirelessly to promote girls’ education.
Frú Vigdis Finnbogadóttir has be honoured with sixteen honorary doctorates from leading universities in Europe, Japan, Nordics, UK, US and Canada.
Fru Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is a member of the Club of Madrid, an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

Threety Irani was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and lived there till her marriage in 1956 when she came to Kolkata and has lived here since then. She has three daughters, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Her husband C.R. Irani was editor of the Statesman till his death in 2005.
She is a Member of the International Guild of Beauty Therapists and the Independent Professional Therapists and a Post Graduate in Skin Therapy from the Arnold-Taylor Organization, London. She has served on the Union Public Service Commission in choosing teachers in Beauty Therapy for government sponsored courses. She has also served on Committees of the West Bengal Government and helped them to set up their first Beauty Training School in their Polytechnic in Ballygunge, Kolkata. She has her own training school which she started in 1977 and has been responsible in helping her students to set up their own saloon in the 1980’s and 1990’s all over North East India, Bihar and Orissa.
She and her dauthter Nilufer, who works with her, travelled to Bihar where they give training to village girls. Nilufer also trains the wives of Jawans at the Army Welfare Association and under priviledged girls at Kamas Kutis.
‘Womans World’, her beauty saloon which she opened in 1977 was the first of its kind in Eastern India. She remembers that in the first two days more than a hundred ladies walked in to see what this skin care clinic was all about. When she started her twin daughters, Nulufer and Nisvan were therapists (they are both highly qualified), Ratti the eldest was the Receptionist and she had a hairdresser and her sister was also doing hair-dressing, manicures and pedicures. Today, forty years later, ‘Womans World’ has a large and loyal clientele, and there are families coming for three and four generations.
Threety, still at the age of 84, goes to the Saloon three times a week and meets her clients, checks their skins and advises them on skin and hair care. She and Nilufer do a weekly “question and answers’ column in the Evolue Section of the Statesman.

K Pandiarajan (KPR) is one of the most well respected business leaders in India with more than30 years of experience in Management and Human Resources. As the founder of Ma Foi Management Consultants, he was at the forefront of the transformational changes that swept the HR landscape over the last two decades and pioneered the HR outsourcing concept in India. After his pioneering role in defining HR industry, he moved to Consulting, Analytics and Education businesses with the incorporation of Ma Foi Strategic Consultants P Ltd as a holding Company in the year 2012. The new venture focuses on providing high end consulting solutions to Indian Industries with the special focus on SMEs. With his inherent HR expertise he is the Chairman of the new-age HR services company, CielHr which offers recruitment, staffing and HR consultancy services across India. KPR keenly believes in the fundamental principle of empowerment at all levels and is actively involved in the CSR activities that focuses on empowering children, women and youth through education, healthcare and livelihood support. He is also a Member of Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in India representing the Avadiconstituency. He represented Virudhunagar constituency in his first term as an MLA from 2011 to 2016 and made significant improvements in the infrastructure and essential services. Various projects were initiated and executed with a long term perspective.

On September 1, 2018 Michelle Bachelet assumed her functions as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was established in 1993 and Ms. Bachelet is the seventh Commissioner. Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions (2006 ? 2010 and 2014 ? 2018). She was the first female president of Chile, as well as Chile?s and Latin America?s first female Defense Minister (2000 ? 2002). She also served as Health Minister (2002 ? 2004). In 2011, she was named the first Director of UN Women, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and girls internationally. Economic empowerment and ending violence against women were two of her priorities during her tenure. After finishing her second term in March 2018, she was named Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, an alliance of more than 1000 organizations in 192 countries from the sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health communities. Michelle Bachelet has a Medical Degree in Surgery, with a specialization in Pediatrics and Public Health. She also studied military strategy at Chile?s National Academy of Strategy and Policy and at the Inter-American Defense College in the United States.

Jan Morgan founded Grosvenor International, her up market real estate brokerage. This primarily focuses on Central London and serves high profile figures, top executives and people from the media world who require a discreet, hands-on, bespoke service. Jan Morgan has been an active member of the International Women?s Forum for over 20 years and is the past President of IWF London. She is now concentrating on support for Northern Ireland working with a group of European Presidents to extend and enrich IWF in Europe. Her interests include all aspects of health. She is a Life Patron and former Chair of Alzheimer?s Research UK in Cambridge and a Trustee of the Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust. She established and runs LOST (Lithuanian Orphans Support Trust) in aid of the two State orphanages in Vilnius. She trained originally as a nurse at University College Hospital, London and is an award winning garden designer and gardener. Jan loves classical music, especially opera; design and architecture; good food, travel and entertaining her family and friends. Latterly she has, with friends and supporters, transformed the facilities for the children in the two Lithuanian State Orphanages, for which she founded ?LOST?, (Lithuanian Orphans Support Trust) She sends a pre-Christmas truckload of clothes and toys annually, and has set up an award system to motivate and improve the education and behaviour of the children. She currently sits on the Boards of The Royal Free Hospital Charity and the Hospital?s Development Company, establishing a new worldwide Research Institute for Immunology currently under construction

Anabela Gaspar de Freitas is the first woman to be Mayor of Tomar, Portugal. Born and educated in Tomar, she was for several years also a national champion in Badminton. She is passionate about motor sports, theater, music and orchestra. She was President of the General Assembly of the noted Sporting Club of Tomar. Between 2005 and 2009, she also held the position of Director of the Tomar Employment Center. She was also the representative of the Parliamentary group of the 18th Congress of the Organization International Labor Organization (ILO) and was coordinator of the Working Group of the Protected Employment (in area of disability)

Graduated from Istanbul Technical University Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering faculty. Then he completed master?s degree of Engineering Management program from the same university. He worked as research assistant in Karon Menkul & ICE between 1996 and 1998. He had several managerial duties in different departments in Turkcell Group for 15 years in Planning and Reporting, Strategy and Business Development, Investor Relationships, Investments & Subsidiaries, Irancell Project. Mr. Senol was the CFO of Turkcell Superonline between 2006 and 2014. Then he started CFO position in DeFacto in September 2014. Since 2014, he is also Deputy Head of PERY?N which is the biggest NGO of Turkey about the human

International human rights lawyer and digital rights expert. She is the Director of the Smart Citizenship Foundation, an international NGO that aims to strengthen Latin American democracies through the innovative use of technology. In her practice, she represented indigenous victims of genocide and other human rights abuses, including the prominent indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum. She also acted pro bono as one of the lawyers defending Baltasar Garzon and Wikileaks and her work protecting freedom of speech in the digital age was featured in the film ?Hacking Justice?.

Rosario Marin is Speaker, Extesorera, Government

Michelle Obama is President, Obama Foundation

Dr Siddhartha Mehta, BDS MDS is a Orthodontics And Dental Surgery specialist He is founder of the Dr Mehta Clinic which has been in the practice of dentistry since the late 1970’s in the South Delhi Area. The team includes specialists in all the branches of dentistry. It is renounced not just for their expertise but also for their ethical practice, care and humanitarian service. For his services Dr Mehta was conferred Padma Sri Award by the President of india in 2004

Dr. G. Natchiar is one of the founding members of, Aravind Eye Care System. She has served the organization in several capacities and is currently the Director Emeritus. One of her greatest contributions as a founding member was the introduction of Aravind?s paramedical program. For over forty years, this program has been empowering young women from rural backgrounds, training and transforming them into world-class eye care professionals. Dr. Natchiar headed the community outreach programme which is the cornerstone of Aravind?s high volume work. She played an instrumental role in initiating and scaling an innovative service delivery model for rural populations through Aravind?s vision centers and outreach activities. She initiated and implemented a rigorous process to audit the quality, service, performance, and academic development in each area of the hospital across the Aravind Eye Care System. Post-retirement, Dr. Natchiar spends most of her time in farming. Aurofarm, which she completely manages, was recently certified organic by the Govt. of Tamil Nadu. The farm amidst 80 acres of greenery bears testimony to her untiring passion for farming.

Jehan Sadat has become an activist and a contributing participant in international women?s conferences and a catalyst for women?s movements in the Middle East and the Third World. Mrs. Sadat began her social activities several years before her husband, Anwar Sadat, became President of Egypt. She started a women?s emancipation movement in Talla, which was Anwar Sadat?s village town. From the beginning, this movement was aimed at helping women become more self-sufficient and less dependent on their husbands. Among time activist in social work, Mrs. Sadat was among the first to reach the Suez front in 1967 to visit and comfort the wounded. She has devoted a great deal of her time to establishing the ?Al-Wafa Wa Amal? (Faith and Hope) Society in Egypt. This society built the largest hospital in the Middle East for the treatment of war wounded and the largest rehabilitation center for the treatment of handicapped veterans and children. Al-Wafa Wa Amal is a fully integrated city for handicapped war veterans and civilians, complete with clinics, rehabilitation centers, vocational training departments and recreation areas. It was designed to accommodate two thousand patients. The Wafa Wa Amal city, founded by Mrs. Sadat in 1972, depends totally on donations from all over the world. In 1977, Mrs. Sadat initiated the idea of S. O. S. Children?s villages International are designed to offer needy orphans the opportunity to lead a normal family life, within a happy and healthy atmosphere. Among her major concern have been more concentrated efforts for implicating programs for family planning and for eradicating illiteracy. It is her firm belief that ?the most precious capital any country can have is an educated citizen.? She was instrumental in pushing through the Egyptian Parliament, the first ever, family laws and amendments to existing laws which gave women some equality in family affairs. These family laws give the wife automatic custody of children in case of divorce, boys until the age of thirteen and girls until the marry. Most importantly, in addition to alimony and child support, the divorced Wife was to be automatically awarded the family dwelling. In 1975, Mrs. Sadat headed the Egyptian Delegation to the International Women?s conference in Mexico city. She also represented Egypt in Copenhagen, Denmark and in New York at the United Nation. She was elected Chairperson of her village council for five consecutive years and she founded the Arab African Women?s League. Among the many organizations and charitable associations that Mrs. Sadat has either founded or headed are; The Egyptian Red Crescent Society; The Egyptian Blood Bank Society; The Egyptian Society for Cancer Patients; The Egyptian Society for Biomedical Engineering; The Scientific Association for Egyptian Women; The Higher Committee for Children; The Egyptian Society for the Welfare of University and Higher Institute Students; The Egyptian Society for the Preservation of Antiquities and the Society for Saving the Ecology. At the age of forty, she entered Cairo University and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Arabic Literature, Mrs. Sadat graduated at the top of her class. The same year she graduated, she was appointed Lecturer in Arabic Literature at Cairo University where she taught and lectured for a number of years. Mrs. Sadat went on to earn both her Master of Arts degree in 1980 and her Ph.D. in October 1986 from Cairo University.