Our Board

Gagan Sethi, Promoting Director

                               – Gagan Sethi is a development educator, organizational development expert, and gender trainer with over four decades of experience in the sector. As the founder of Janvikas, he has played a key role in establishing several strategic organizations across India, including Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Sahjeevan, Drishti, Centre for Social Justice, and the HID Forum. His expertise lies in human and institutional development, capacity building, and training. He was a former chairperson of RRA Network Advisory committee and currently serves as a member of the advisory board.

Kushagra Merchant, Promoting Director

                                    – Kushagra Merchant is a management consultant. He is a co-founder of Social Synergy Foundation (sosynergy.org) that, since its set-up in 2014, provides long-term organisational development and institution building support to a variety of predominantly small and medium-sized civil society organisations. Prior to Social Synergy Foundation, he was a management consultant, first with Accenture Services India’s consulting division, and later with the erstwhile Monitor Group’s unit called Monitor Inclusive Markets (later part of FSG) on their work on development of market-based models for low-income housing and drinking water in urban India.

Our Board

Gagan Sethi, Promoting Director

                               – Gagan Sethi is a development educator, organizational development expert, and gender trainer with over four decades of experience in the sector. As the founder of Janvikas, he has played a key role in establishing several strategic organizations across India, including Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Sahjeevan, Drishti, Centre for Social Justice, and the HID Forum. His expertise lies in human and institutional development, capacity building, and training. He was a former chairperson of RRA Network Advisory committee and currently serves as a member of the advisory board.

Kushagra Merchant, Promoting Director

                                    – Kushagra Merchant is a management consultant. He is a co-founder of Social Synergy Foundation (sosynergy.org) that, since its set-up in 2014, provides long-term organisational development and institution building support to a variety of predominantly small and medium-sized civil society organisations. Prior to Social Synergy Foundation, he was a management consultant, first with Accenture Services India’s consulting division, and later with the erstwhile Monitor Group’s unit called Monitor Inclusive Markets (later part of FSG) on their work on development of market-based models for low-income housing and drinking water in urban India.