Board Of Governors
Mr. Vijay Mahajan, BASIX Group CEO and Chairman , was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1970-75); the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1979-81); and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA (1988-89). He co-founded PRADAN in 1983, Sa-dhan in 1998 and APMAS in 2000. He has co-authored a book “The Forgotten Sector” on the rural non-farm sector and written over 50 articles on rural livelihoods, development and micro-finance. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Inclusion, the Microfinance Equity and Development Fund and is also on the Board of CGAP, the global microfinance apex. He was selected as “Outstanding Social Entrepreneur” by the Schwab Foundation of the World Economic Forum, Davos, 2003.
Mr. Deep Joshi (Director): He is the co-founder of Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a non-profit organization and one of the co-promoters of BASIX, a livelihood promotion institute. He has been awarded the Ramon Megasaysay Award – 2009, which is known as Asia’s Nobel Prize. Shri Deep Joshi has a degree from the National Institute of Technology in Allahabad, a Masters Degree in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Management Degree from MIT’s Solan School. He advises the Government of Indian on poverty alleviation strategies.
Dr. Somnath Ghosh (Director): He has done his Ph.D from JNU and worked as faculty at IIM, Luknow and Indore. He is also working as a
Consultant and Trainer in the field of Livelihood Promotion, Human Resources, Institutional Development and micro-Finance. He also heads the Executive committee of the KBS Bank.
Mr. Sanjiv Phansalkar (Director): He was professor in IRMA for more than a dozen years, and was the director with International Water Management Institute, Anand and now he is with Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai.
Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar (Director): He is a Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, he was Director of the Centre for Social Studies, and was Director of Gujarat Institute of Development Research. He is a Gandhian Economist and been closely associated with voluntary movement both in academic and as an activist
Dr. R. Balakrishnan (Director): He is Retired Executive Director of NABARD. He has earned his doctorate for his thesis on Supply Chain Management in Agriculture. He is an acclaimed author in areas of Development Banking and Finance apart from being a socially sensitive manager of a large financial system like NABARD
Mr. Lalit Mathur (Director): He is Retired Director General of National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, and has been involved in various Government rural development programs, including leading CAPART in its early days.
Dr. Vidya Rao (Director): She is a Professor of Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai, and has been actively engaged in building collaborations with TISS with other institutions.
Mr. N. V. Ramana (Director) is a graduate in Dairy Technology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad with specialization in Agriculture. He worked with ITC Group for twenty years; he had been with the BASIX Group in various capacities. He is now working as an independent consultant in the filed of micro-Finance and livelihood promotion. He also serves as a Board Member on Ctran Consulting Services and Indian Grameen Services.