Governance & Leadership

Organizing Committee

Advisory, Steering, and Organizing Committees bringing together Government Ministries, national scientific agencies, and prestigious international institutions.

Leadership & Organizers

Established in 1951 at the historic site of the Hijli Detention Camp, IIT Kharagpur brings together eminent national leadership and international academia.

PATRON

Prof. Suman Chakraborty

Director, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

KharagpurChairman

Prof. P.P. Chakrabarti

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering

IIT Kharagpur

Shillong

Prof. Saroj K Barik

Vice Chancellor

NEHU

Bengaluru

Dr. Shailesh Nayak

Director

National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)

Bengaluru

Dr. V Narayanan

Secretary, DOS and Chairman

ISRO

Kolkata

Shri Manoj Kumar Agarwal

Chief Secretary

West Bengal State Government

New Delhi

Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare

Secretary

Department of Science and Technology (DST)

New Delhi

Dr. (Mrs.) N. Kalaiselvi

Director General CSIR & Secretary

DSIR

New Delhi

Dr. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala

Secretary

Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

New Delhi

Shri S Krishnan

Secretary

Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)

New Delhi

Shri Tanmay Kumar

Secretary

Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC)

New Delhi

Shri Ashok K. K. Meena

Secretary

DDWS [Ministry of Jal Shakti]

New Delhi

Shri Narendra Bhooshan

Secretary

Department of Land Resources

New Delhi

Shri Keshav Chandra

Secretary

Ministry of Mines

New Delhi

Shri Vikram Dev Dutt

Secretary

Ministry of Coal

Kolkata

Smt. Varsha Ashok Aglawe

Director General

Geological Survey of India (GSI)

Dehradun

Shri Shailesh Kumar Sinha

Surveyor General of India

Survey of India (SOI)

New Delhi

Dr. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra

Director General of Meteorology

India Meteorological Department (IMD)

New Delhi

Shri Piyush Anand

Director General

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)