Mr. Anugraha John is a youth leader and peace activist. John is an avid traveler and has been sowing the seeds of ‘global citizenship’ during his travel all across the globe. He currently runs the organization Global Citizens for Sustainable Development, a not-for-profit organization based in Bangalore, India that focuses on youth leadership and youth empowerment, peace and culture, environment and other social development issues. He is the Coordinator of the Asian Citizens Assembly 2010, founder of inter-generational forums such as China-India Forum, Japan-India Forum and is presently on the Youth Advisory Board of the UN-Habitat. He loves to play football and enjoys listening to country and alternative music.

Sangeetha Raju is presently working as the Programme Coordinator for Global Citizens for Sustainable Development. As a participant in the China-India forum, Japan- India Forum and China-India-Japan Forum, she has presented the issues of the Women in India at an Asian level. She holds a Bachelors of Technology Degree in Electronics and Communication from the University of Kannur in Kerala. Her schooling in Kuwait has given her an International exposure on inter-cultural issues. She has worked in the capacity of a Quality Analyst and Team Lead in an MNC in Bangalore. The Mascot initiative in the Corporate Communications Team at her previous workplace has given her the exposure in driving Corporate Social Responsibility programs, Citizens Awareness and other related activities. Besides her career, her interests include Music and sings Alto in a well-known choir in Bangalore.

Grishma Lele at the age of 24 has established herself as a competent Bharat Natyam Teacher and Performer. Grishma has been taking lessons in Bharat Natyam since she was in womb; whereas her regular training started at an early age of five. After passing her Nritya Visharad exam with flying colors, her mother Guru Tejaswini Lele presented her Arangetram. Grishma is privileged  to get training in the famous text Abhinaya Darpanam from Acharya Parvati Kumar and is grateful to Guru Jayashritai Pillai for honing her abhinaya. To be a complete performing artist, Grishma is taking advance training in vocal karnatic music from Mrs. Lakshmi Parthasarathi. She is also doing her Masters in Performing Arts. She has topped in the University in Masters in Dance ( Part I). Being a second generation artist, Grishma has already given more than 60 performances at various prestigious festivals in India, as well as abroad and is a certified National T.V. Artist. Following the footsteps of her distinguinsed mother, Grishma started teaching Bharat Natyam from the age of fifteen.

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Dr. Priti Gupta, a physiotherapist by education, currently Founder & Director of DanceSport India, a Mumbai based company that educates and trains in Latin American and Ballroom dances all over India. She is the founding member of The DanceSport Association of Maharashtra which is affiliated to its national and international bodies. She along with her partner Shannon Benjamin have been the first Indian couple who represented India at various Iternational DanceSport Championships including 5 countries in South-East Asia, Sri Lanka, UK and Hungary. Being a trained Bharat Natyam dancer as well, her work today aims towards developing awareness in India about Sports training, health and fitness issues while treating dance as a therapy in collaboration with eminent teachers and institutions in UK and Hungary.

Liang Chongyi

Zheng Chunguang

Wang Jiake

Dunfei Chen is currently an undergraduate student in Mathematics and Financial Economics from University of Rochester, USA. He is the founding member of China India Forum and was a member of the organizing committee for China-India-Japan Forum which was held in Japan in July 2008. He has represented as a young Chinese leader and speaker at several forums including the China-Europe Forum. He presently engages in dialogue and development work in China and globally with his position as the Director (China Chapter) of Global Citizens for Sustainable Development. His recent research in cooperation with the local government in China includes about the food conditions in near 300 primary schools.

Prof. Jin Siyan received her Master of french langage and literature from the Department of Western Languages, Beijing University. She then teached the “the Chinese New Literature in Chinese Department of the Beijing University, as a researcher on the Genesis of New Poetries in China. In 1986, she came to Paris and  prepared the PHD on comparative literature in Sorbonne IV, in the direction of Professeur Yves Chevrel et Professeur Hsiung Pingming.  In 1992, she obtained her  Doctorate in Contemporary Literature from Sorbonne University, Paris. Her research focused on Chinese poetique, symbolist poetry and the “horizon d’Attente” in Chinese modern literature.  At present she is the Professor and the Director of the Chinese studies Department at the Université d’Artois and at L’ENA in France. 

Prof. Yue Daiyun