Ms. Vedika Bhandarkar is an experienced financial expert with over 25 years of experience in building teams and businesses with Indian and international financial institutions. She is presently the President and Chief Operating Officer of Water.org., a non-profit organisation. Prior to this, Ms. Bhandarkar held various leadership positions at Credit Suisse Securities and J.P. Morgan in India, including Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited, and Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan in India.

Ms. Hanne Birgitte Sorensen is a Danish national with an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of Aarhus. From 1994 to 2016, she worked in various roles within the A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S Group, a conglomerate of eight main companies specialising in energy and transportation. She served as CEO of Damco, a supply chain management company in the Hague specialising in retail, lifestyle, FMCG, technology and chemicals, from 2014 to 2016. She was appointed CEO of Maersk Tankers, the world’s largest product tanker company based in Copenhagen, between 2012-13.

Mr. O.P. Bhatt, a Science graduate, and a post-graduate in English Literature, served as the Chairman of the State Bank Group from July 2006 to March 2011. During his tenure, he led India’s largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India, along with five associate banks in India, five overseas banks, and several other subsidiaries. Under his leadership, SBI rose on the global list rankings of Fortune 500.

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company of more than 100 Tata operating companies with a total annual revenue of over $100 billion. He joined the Tata Sons Board in 2016 and became Chairman in 2017. Mr. Chandrasekaran chairs the Boards of several group operating companies, including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Indian Hotels and TCS, where he was the Chief Executive from 2009-17.