NSEF is India's premier student platform on social innovations with pan-India chapters facilitating the growth of leaders of change. Founded in 2009, with an aim to bridge the talent inequity in the social sector and foster ecosystems where social change catalysts are created and supported.
The young team of NSEF is continuously guided & mentored by experts from the field of Academia, Corporate & Social Entrepreneurship. Our advisors have been an inspiration for us and their work had been recognized by prestigious Fellowships like Ashoka, TED and by many other International & National awarding agencies.
 Prof. Madhukar Shukla |
 Anshu Gupta |
 Priya Naik |
 Pankaj Jain |
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Prof. Madhukar Mishra
Prof. Madhukar Shukla has worked with National Productivity Council and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad and was also a Visiting Professor at ESADE, Barcelona. Prof. Shukla has keen interest in the area of social sector and social entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Advisory Council of University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (founded by Ashoka Foundation and Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford University). He was also the Conference Coordinator for the 1st National Conference on Social Entrepreneurship 2009. Currently he also serves on the core-team of Aspen Institute's Teaching Innovation Program (India), which aims to incorporate the socio-environmental content in the management-school education. Madhukar is also the President, National HRD Network (Eastern Region), and a member of CII's National Committee on Skill Development and HR. Earlier, he has served as Dean (Research) of the Indian Society of Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS), as a member of the Academic Council of Academy of HRD, and of the expert panel of Public Enterprise Selection Board for The Study of Competencies for CEOs.
He has authored more than 30 papers to professional journals in these areas and has published three books . Competing through Knowledge: Building a Learning Organisation (Response Books, 1997), Understanding Organisations (Prentice-Hall of India, 1996), and Developing Leadership in Global Era: HRD Perspectives and Initiatives (co-edited with Uma Jain and Dr Udai Pareek, McMillan India, 2005).
Anshu Gupta
Anshu Gupta founded Goonj in 1998, an organisation which recycles anything that is discarded as an urban "waste" into a resource for others in the rural and calamity-hit areas.
Goonj collects about 20,000kg of clothes every month across India, and turns them into something useable for the very poor - clothing, bags, sanitary napkins, etc. - and reaches them to the needy across 20 states. Goonj achieves this by running collection drives (called 'Vastradans') in urban India where people donate clothes which they do not use anymore, but which are in good condition and can be worn. The clothes are processed and sorted in centres run by Goonj across the country. The processed clothes are then channelized through grass root NGOs and provided either free or under the 'clothes for work' scheme.
Anshu Gupta is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, and Masters in Economics. Anshu Gupta is an Ashoka Fellow and Ashoka Global Ambassador. For his work, he has been the recipient of Changemakers Innovation Award 2004 & 2006, World Bank's Development Marketplace Award 2007, NGO of the Year Award 2007, etc.
Priya Naik
Priya heads Samhita Social Ventures, a social business that aims to provide social organizations with access to funds, people, knowledge, networks and customers. Samhita is supported by Nadathur S. Raghvan, founder and former Joint MD of Infosys. Prior to working with Nadathur, Priya co-founded The Spark Group, an education company that delivered affordable education to low income communities.
Priya's interest in social entrepreneurship began when she worked as a Researcher at the Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA. At MIT, Priya was part of two student-led start-ups: Aerovax, a company that created safe, inhalable aerosol vaccines that could be delivered without the use of needles and Kalpataru, a company that delivered innovative, low-cost technology to increase the efficiency of microfinance institutions. Kalpataru's pilot was tested with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and was presented to Nobel laureate, Dr Muhammad Yunus. Both social enterprises won several awards at MIT.
Priya has worked as a consultant with the International Finance Corporation in Africa. She started her career in Accounting at Arthur Andersen in Mumbai.
Priya has a Masters. in Economics from Yale University, USA, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and a Masters in Commerce from Mumbai University where she stood first in the entire graduating class.
Pankaj Jain
Pankaj Jain is the Principal of Impact Law Ventures and the Founder of NitiLaw Foundation. A corporate lawyer by profession, Pankaj specializes in venture capital and private equity matters, especially in the impact investing and venture philanthropy sector. He is also an ardent advocate of building bridges between law, development and social entrepreneurship. He currently advises a number of start-up entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, social business enterprises, non-profit organizations, impact investors and donor organizations- both Indian and foreign - on a range of legal, regulatory and corporate governance issues in India by providing affordable access to a trusted and competent legal counsel.
Prior to founding his independent law practice in early 2011, Pankaj worked in-house as the India counsel for Acumen Fund, a non-profit social venture capital fund and was involved in working across agriculture, healthcare, water, housing and energy portfolios as well as structuring transactions in the social development space. Prior to joining Acumen Fund, he worked as an associate with the Indian law firm AZB & Partners in New Delhi on corporate advisory and private equity transactional matters. He received an integrated B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree in arts and law from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India where he graduated as the university first rank holder and was a recipient of 11 gold medals, including for the best student for overall excellence, for procuring first rank in the university as well as maximum grades in the subjects of corporate laws, contracts and taxation.
Pankaj is a mentor to a number of start-ups, social entrepreneurs as well as non-profit organizations in India. He currently serves on a number of advisory boards in an honorary capacity, including Samhita Social Ventures and UnLtd India. He is a regular speaker at a number of conferences and also delivers guest lectures and training workshops at a number of law, management and engineering schools in India. Pankaj was admitted to the Bar Council of Delhi in 2006, and is qualified to practice law in India.