Governance

Sl. No	Name	Profession / Occupation	Designation
1	Dr Rajesh S Gokhale	Secretary, DBT/DG,BRIC	Chairperson
2	Dr Anand S Deshpande	Founder, Chairman and MD, Persistent Systems,	Co-Chair
3	Shri Vishvajit Sahay,	Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, DBT(joined	Member
4	Dr. Alka Sharma,	Senior Adviser/Scientist ‘H’, DBT	Member
5	Ms. Ekta Vishnoi,	Joint Secretary, DBT	Member
6	Prof. Govindan Rangarajan,	Director, IISc, Bangalore	Member
7	Prof. Usha Vijayraghavan,	Dean of Biological Science Division, IISc, Bangalore	Member
8	Prof. M Srinivas,	Director, AIIMS, New Delhi	Member
9	Prof. Shalini Bharat,	Former Director, Vice Chancellor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai	Member
10	Dr. S Sivaramakrishna Pillai,	Co-founder & Director (R&D), Proklean Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Chennai	Member
11	Prof. Pulok Kumar Mukherjee,	Director, Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Imphal	Member
12	Prof. Ashwani Pareek,	Director, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali	Member
13	Dr. G. Taru Sharma,	Director, National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad	Member
14	Dr. Chandrabhas Narayana,	Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram	Member
15	Dr. Debasisa Mohanty,	Director, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi	Member
16	Dr. Jitendra Kumar,	MD, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), New Delhi	Member
17	Dr. Kalaivani Ganesan,	Scientist ‘F’, DBT	BRIC Nodal Officer and Member Secretary

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