AUROVILLE VISION 2012
Center of International Research in Human
Unity (CIRHU)
Auroville Board of Commerce (ABC)
2nd
Auroville Dialogue
Knowledge, Business and Consciousness
Manifestation of Consciousness through Business in
the Knowledge Society
Auroville
February 27-28, March 1st 2006
Participants’
Profile
Invitees
Mr.
Marc Luyckx Gishi is a mathematician,
philosopher and a linguist, who has been working for the last 10 years with the
Presidents of the European Commission. Presently
he is the Director of “Vision 2020” and an Expert for the Information
Society Programs of the European Commission in Brussels. He is also a member of Auroville International Advisory Council, India,
and Dean of CBA Business School — Zagreb.
Email:
marcluy@scarlet.be
http://www.cba.com.hr
Dr
Phuspa Bhargava,
Chairperson
of the National Knowledge Commission. Scientist, writer, thinker, institution
builder, administrator. Former and
Founder Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.
Widely regarded as the architect of modern biology and biotechnology in
India. Educated at Varanasi and
Lucknow. Obtained his PhD at the
age of 21. Worked in the U.S.A., U.K., France and Germany. Travelled in over 60 countries. Delivered over 250
invited lectures in some 125 institutions outside India. In addition,
participated (as an invitee) in over 100 international meetings, and delivered
over 1600 invited lectures in India. Over 125 major scientific publications, and
over 400 other articles and write-ups on a variety of subjects, in some of the
best-known publications around the world. Four
books including a 500 page monograph on “Proteins of Seminal Plasma”
published by John Wiley, New York; a national integrated science text book for
11-12 years-old; and the recent highly acclaimed book, The Saga of Indian
Science since Independence: In a Nutshell (Universities Press, 2003).
One of the most highly cited Indian scientists.
Email:
pmb1928@yahoo.co.in
http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/04/stories/2005060404541200.htm
Mr. Tachi Kiuchi
is currently chairman of The Future 500, E-Square Inc, Intechstra Inc, G.R.I.
Forum Japan, Children's Express Japan, and lecturer at Musashi Institute of
Technology. He was the first executive from overseas operations to be appointed
to the board of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Tokyo and currently serves as
a counselor. Mr. Kiuchi is a strong advocate of creating corporate culture from
the best of both Japanese and non-Japanese business practices. By stressing the
value of each individual, he urges his managers to combine teamwork, trust and
communication to build strong and personal relationships. Also dedicated to
preserving the environment, Mr. Kiuchi is a cofounder and chairman of The Future
500 in the U.S., Japan and China, a group that strives to promote sustainable
industry and sound environmental practices. In 1992, Mr. Kiuchi received the
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Award for promoting greater U.S.-Japan
understanding, in 1995, he received the International Citizenship Award from the
Japan America Society, and in 2000, Appreciation Award from World Association of
Representatives for Descendants was presented to him. Mr. Kiuchi is the author
of "Working in America — A Guide Book for Japanese Businessmen and
their Families," "Good Morning, This is Kiuchi Talking,"
"New Economy — Proposals from the Rainforest," "New Advocacy of
Learning — Road to Ecological Economy," and "What We Learned
in the Rainforest — Business Lessons from Nature". Apart from writing
books he shares a great passion to run full marathons, he has ran in 27
marathons around the world. Mr. Kiuchi was born in Germany, spending his first
few years there and in England before relocating to Japan. He earned his B.A. in
economics from Keio University in Tokyo, and his M.A. from the University of
British Columbia, Canada.
Email:
kiuchi@e-squareinc.com
http://www.future500japan.org/
Mr. Ajoy Chawla: Head of business unit in Titan
Industries, colleague of Mr. Chakravarti and a regular visitor to Auroville. He
also participates along with his wife in Human development and leadership
seminars for a Human Resources company: TVR Learning Associates.
Email:
Ajoyc@titan.co.in
http://www.titanworld.com/
Dr. Ravi Chaudhry
is the founder Chairman of CEMEX CONSULTING GROUP, New Delhi, a Business
Strategy consulting firm with focus on Success Strategies for International
Growth, Global Competitiveness, and Corporate Governance. He has over
35 years’ experience in International
Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures — including 10 years as CEO of five Tata Group Companies. A
Mechanical Engineer with a Doctoral Award in Business Strategy, he is a
Consultant to several Global Corporations and Sovereign States on their
Strategic Plans for New Markets. He has undertaken extensive research on “why
companies succeed or fail” in Cross-cultural environments.
He specializes in “Business
Model Review and Re-alignment”, to
bridge the gap between “what
is” and “what could be”. He has
grass-roots experience in a wide spectrum of industry sectors. He is the
accredited consultant to Government of Brazil, and “India
Representative” and “Consultant, New Global Markets” for Western Switzerland, comprising Cantons of Vaud, Valais, Jura and
Neuchatel, with the mandate to assist global corporations to set-up a
pan-European operations base in their Region. He has also been a consultant to
Governments of Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Canada and Uganda.
He has advised scores of multinational corporations in Europe, Asia, Latin
America and North America on their global Business Plans. His other clients
include UNIDO, World Bank and international NGOs. He has served on the Boards of
several companies as Director and Chairman.
He is closely associated with initiatives to foster social consciousness
in business today.
Email:
cemex@vsnl.com
http://www.cemexconsulting.com/
Mr. Sergio Lub is an American
artist, born in 1953 from Russian parents in Argentina. Moved to California in
1975 where in 1983 he met and later married Los Angeles artist Gaye Frisk. They
are blessed with 2 children: Sonia (b.86) & Nikolas (b.89). Sergio is
trained as an architect, has inventor patents, has traveled to over 80 countries
and has a business designing and handcrafting copper, brass and silver bracelets
— his designs can be found in nearly 1,000 stores and galleries in the US and
Canada — www.SergioLub.com
Seergio has always been passionate about connecting good people and is
using the Internet to do it since 1995. He helped design the community building
freeware Friendly Favors — www.Favors.org/FF — and the Living Directory
Network — www.LivingDirectory.net — which is presently being used
collaboratively by over 100 organizations and is interconnecting over 40,000
people in over 150 countries and powers: www.livingdirectory.net/AURO
Email:
sergio@sergiolub.com
http://www.sergiolub.com/
Arnab B. Chowdhury is founder and CEO of Ninad — a consulting firm
assists organizations to realize their Communication and IT potential with a
concentration on eLearning while leveraging upon the ‘offshoring’ model. He
has a decade of experience in the areas of strategic planning, communication,
project management, education development, software product design and
development, marketing and media strategy, multimedia technology research and
content development. He has led teams and consulted for organizations such as
MIT Media Lab, IBM, Analog Devices, NEC, Toshiba, Denon and Infosys Technologies
and has received industrial recognition for multimedia product design. He is on
the management teams of Aurosoorya — a Silicon Valley consulting firm, and
iPetitions.com — a New York-based online activism portal. He has written
articles encompassing management, technology and art criticism for publications
such as La Revue Agir, Hindu Business Line, The New Indian Express,
themusicmagazine.com, sulekha.com and Mother India. Arnab has a bachelor’s
degree in Computer Science, creative writing and Indian Philosophy from Sri
Aurobindo International Centre of Education (SAICE), Pondicherry where he now
teaches communication and music composition.
Email:
arnab@ninad.biz
http://www.ninad.biz
Ms Chandana Chakrabarti, presently
Director, Sukriti, a consultancy organisation, was for a decade with the CCMB,
Hyderabad, an internationally renowned basic research laboratory of the CSIR.
She played a crucial role in the building of CCMB along with its founder Dr PM
Bhargava. With over a 100 major articles published in well-known magazines,
newspapers and books published in India and abroad, she wrote a weekly column
for the Deccan Chronicle, Andhra Pradesh’s largest circulating daily.
She has co-authored a book titled, “The Saga of Indian Science since
Independence: In a Nutshell” published by Universities Press.
As a social activist, she is the Convenor of The MARCH, a voluntary
organisation based in Hyderabad, whose efforts have led to the setting up of a
national system of accreditation of diagnostic laboratories to ensure quality
and reliability, and also the national guidelines for accreditation of
infertility clinics. Widely travelled in India and abroad as an invited
participant and speaker at major international meetings, she represented India
at the World Youth Leadership Summit held at the UN Headquarters in New York in
1995. She has anchored several nationally telecast television programmes and has
been compering a wide variety of programmes relating to industry, science, art
and culture. She has been a part of
the visiting faculty of various organisations imparting training in
communication skills and etiquette. She has been intimately involved with
Children’s Film Society of India in organizing the International Children’s
Film festivals in Hyderabad. She was recently rated as being one of the ten most
talented women in the State of Andhra Pradesh. She has also acted in several
feature films and telefilms. She recently enacted a significant role in 2004’s
blockbuster Telugu film “Anand”. She is presently associated with the
National Knowledge Commission, Government of India.
He
is the author of several books including 'New Money for Healthy Communities'
and 'Money & Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis'. His latest book on complementary currencies and exchange systems was
published by Chelsea
Green in 2001. He was the organiser of the 'Fourth World Assembly'
and 'New Economics Symposium' held in San Francisco in 1987 and is Leader
for the Radical
Consultation Forum on Globalisation,
Money & Trade .
Email :
circ2@mindspring.com
http://circ2.home.mindspring.com/
Ram Sehgal is one of the icons of the communication industry. Ram began his career at
Air India, where he spent five years after obtaining his degree in Journalism
from Regent Institute, London, and an advertising degree from Institute of
Practitioners, London. He then moved to S.H. Benson (now Ogilvy) in 1967. He
joined HTA (now JWT) in 1971 as an Account Executive, and by 1976, he had become
Branch Manager of their Delhi Office. After a 15 year innings with JWT where he
worked on a diverse portfolio of brands (Air India, Philips, Voltas, Beecham,
BHEL, ITC) Ram took on the assignment of President at Contract Advertising. Over
his 15 year tenure, Ram was instrumental in moulding Contract into one of the
finest agencies in the country. Under his aegis, Contract consistently produced
superlative creative work that helped build many successful brands. For his
contribution to the advertising industry, Ram Seghal was conferred the A & M
Advertising Man of the Year in 1994. In 2001, the Advertising Club of Kolkata
elected Ram to the Hall of Frame. From 1997-1998, Ram Seghal served as President
of the Advertising Agencies Association of India, and in 1998, as the Chairman
of the Advertising Standard Council of Indian. A gentleman and a man of
character, Ram carriers with him the reputation of being one of the finest
Managers in the country.
Email:
ramrajsehgal@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Helga Breuninger holds degrees in economics and psychology.
She is director of the Breuninger Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany. Helga
initiated 1995 EXZET, a public-private partnership project of the Breuninger
Foundation, empowering and training unemployed people to become self employed.
Two projects of the Breuninger Foundation are operating in cooperation with
Auroville: Integral healing and integral education for global
responsibility. Helga is managing partner of successio GmbH, a consulting
company specialized on succession in family business. Successio has a focus on
coaching female successors for team orientation in business.
Email:
helga@breuninger-stiftung.de
http://www.breuninger-stiftung.de/
Ranjan Mitter did his Masters in Business
Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He subsequently worked in
the fields of Strategic Planning, Turnaround Management, Organisational
Restructuring, Sales, Marketing and General Management. He has worked for
various organisations like Philips, Titan Industries, Polaroid etc. for almost
two decades. For the last six years, Ranjan has been the Honorary Secretary of
Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, a multifaceted institution active in school
cultural and vocational education and in research on the Indian freedom
movement. Since 2000, Ranjan has been teaching at the Management Centre for
Human Values, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has designed and
offered courses on "Business Ethics". He also teaches various modules
in "Business Strategy" courses. Ranjan designs and offers standard and
customised programmes for Management Development Programmes on "Management
of NGOs". Ranjan has lectured twice at the European Summer School for
Advanced Management, Aarhus, Denmark at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, and at
the International Federation for Alternative Trade, Hanoi. He is currently a
member of the International Beliefs and Values Institute of the James Madison
University in Virginia, USA.
Email:
ranjanmitter@gmail.com
http://www.iimcal.ac.in
Ron Anastasia. Hi-Tech Entrepreneur — Founded & directed
several small hi-tech companies, in fields of:
- Computer training
- Holistic medical software, expert systems, knowledge engineering
- Management consulting
- Macintosh software development
- Renewable energy & sustainability consulting
- Photovoltaic solar cells (set new PV efficiency record in 1992)
Founding Director of MIT Appropriate Technology
Group.
Founder of "Science, Culture and Integral
Yoga" Webzine (SCIY)
SCIY address: http://sciy.blogharbor.com (no
www needed)
Email:
rjon@vzavenue.net
Dr. Guenter Faltin. Prof. of entrepreneurship
at Freie Universitaet Berlin, 61,
specializing in business model
development; created his own enterprise, “Teekampagne”, in 1985, a mail
order business that has grown into the world’s biggest importer of Darjeeling
tea; established and financed the “Stiftung Entrepreneurship”, a foundation
to broaden the participation in the field of entrepreneurship.
Email:
faltin@ebuero.de
http://www.teekampagne.de
http://www.entrepreneurship.de
Dr. Shrikant M.L,
over last 25 years(18 of which were in USA), has played a variety of lead
roles in areas of entrepreneurship, inventions/research, business/technology
strategy and in academia as a professor of technology management/strategy. He is a cofounder of InfoAlive Pvt. Ltd. (www.infoalivetech.com)
a specialized technology services company.
He is a co-founder and ex-CTO of Globe Ranger Corp. (USA), a leading
company in wireless SCM space. Dr.Parikh had a long career with IBM (USA) in
technology and business areas prior to that. He was a key member of several
major product teams of IBM and other companies and over years, has successfully
shipped complex software products and solutions. He has advised, guided and been
a consultant to, a number of large IBM customers.
Dr.Parikh serves as an invited adjunct professor at one of the top-ten
management institutions in India. He has guided creation of over all
architecture and design of graduate level management programs focusing on
technology management. His industrial research has resulted in total 33 patents
(granted in USA, Europe or Japan) till date. He has also published over 50
invention disclosures and research papers and served as a referee for IEEE
journals/conferences. He holds a
doctorate degree (SMU, USA) and a master’s degree(University of Texas at
Arlington, USA) in computer science from USA. Dr.Parikh has been training senior
professionals in overall management of technology organizations. He has been
awarded several invention achievement awards from IBM and listed in several
editions of Who’s Who. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE. He has co-organized
prestigious national conferences on leveraging technology for India’s key
developmental goals. Dr.Parikh takes a deep interest in voluntary/NGO
activities. His active interest in these activities stems from a concern for
people at a disadvantage, especially in rural India.
Email:
sparikh@vsnl.com
http://www.spjimr.org
Toine Van Megen
Toine works for Suzlon
Energy Limited, India as Vice President - International Corporate
Development. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Suzlon
Energy A/s, Denmark from where the international business of Suzlon is
managed. Suzlon designs, manufactures, installs and maintains wind turbines, is
market leader in Asia and has an increasing international presence.
Toine lived and
worked in Auroville for a good part of his life. In Auroville he worked for a
number of projects and activities including the Matrimandir and the Auroville
Electrical Service, which he established and managed for a number of years.
Although he is
presently not a permanent resident of Auroville he is often seen there and is an
active participant in Auroville activities and initiatives. He is part of the
Auroville Vision 2012 initiative and aspires to becoming an active participant
in the planning and building of the Auroville Township.
Email:
tvm@vsnl.com
http://www.suzlon.com/
Aurovilians
Serge Brelin
In
Auroville since 1981.
Graphic
designer, printer, publisher and handmade paper producer.
Researcher
in Auroville organization.
Aikido
teacher.
Coordinator of the Auroville Vision
2012 initiative
Member of CIRHU and of the Auroville Institute of Management and Business
Consciousness project team.
Olivier Hetzel
In
Auroville since 1988.
Business
manager in food processing and distribution.
Researcher
in alternative economy and complementary currencies.
Dance
and meditation practitioner.
Member of the Auroville Vision 2012
team
Mr.
Marc Tormo Altimira
In Auroville since 1997
Coffee
consultant, entrepreneur and cook, has been working for the last 10 years in the
hospitality sector.
At
present working in projects related to organic cultivation, processing, packing
and marketing.
Member
of the Auroville Vision 2012 team and of the Auroville Institute of Management
and Business Consciousness project team.
Kathy
Marti
Gilles Guigan
Shivaya
Hemant