Building inclusive cities: inclusion of persons with disabilities

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Murali Krishna's picture
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Murali Krishna Joined Kolte Patil Family office (KPFO) as Head of Investments with over 15 years of experience in Investment and capital markets. The promoter family owns Kolte Patil Developers Limited (NSE: KOLTEPATIL BSE: 532924 ), a public listed real estate developer. He is currently responsible for investment management of the group including identification, evaluation, deal execution, and monitoring every investment asset classes including public markets. Also responsible for providing strategic direction as Head of Investments to the SFO and manage global investment portfolio for the family. A science graduate in Mathematics from Kerala university and after receiving his MBA from the IBS, Hyderabad , worked with HSBC and HDFC where he managed equity and fixed income portfolios for individuals and corporates in the private banking space. Later on he worked with Famy Care Ltd ( Taparia’s Family Office ) and Unilazer Ventures Ltd ( Ronnie Screwvala Family Office ) in heading the SFO investments across asset classes. He has worked with Country Garden holdings Co Ltd (HKG: 2007), managing the Financing & Structuring for investments in India and Sri Lanka. He specialized in investing in alternative assets such as private credit, private equity, and real estate. He is also on the board of investee companies of the group and currently pursuing Post Graduate program from UCLA Anderson School of Management
Dr. Ripal Ranpara's picture
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Dr. Ripal Ranpara is the Assistant Professor at Atmiya University, Rajkot. She is also the Database Administrator of Atmiya University Library and Learning Centre. She is the gold medallist in bachelor and master degree in information technology and computer application. Her expertise and research domains are Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and network security. She has the rich academic knowledge and teaching experience of more than 6 years. She has mentored more than 80 postgraduate dissertations. She has also guided more that 5 funded projects of Rajkot city. She is the resource person of E-learning and network administration value added and co-curricular course at Shree M.N Virani Science College (Autonomous) Rajkot. She is the organizer of more than 2 international, more than 5 national and more than 10 regional events. As an assistant professor of department, she has bought the international oracle academy Memorandum to college to inculcate in the syllabus. She is also the panel member and jury of Gujarat Technological University, Student Start-up innovation Policy. She has also earned the global goodwill ambassador title from international Richard Dipillia Foundation LinkedIn. She is also the Certified Educator Community Influencer at Microsoft Education Community. She has also earned the title of Innovative Educator at Microsoft. She is the Ambassador at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE. She is the advisor member of International Management Research and Technology Consortium. She is the editorial board members of more than five international peer reviewed journals. She is the reviewer member of more than fifteen peer reviewed international journals. Believing in Excellence, She has strong ties with many IT companies for the industry-academia collaboration. She is the board of studies member of Shree M.N Virani Science College as well Atmiya University. She is also the examiner committee member of Saurashtra University. She has been awarded as Best Women in ICT Technology 2019-2020 by International Inspirational Women Award (IIWA) Initiative by global GISR Organization. She has also been awarded as National Women’s Leadership Award in ICT, 2019-2020. She has authored and published more than nine books at international level, on subjects like python, web development, network administration etc. She has published more than twelve research papers in international peer reviewed journals including Springer. She has also published more than five papers in national journals. She has conducted various workshops, seminar and conferences in emerging trends in Computer Science and Engineering. He has also presented many guest lectures in various institutions. She always like to re-engineer the things - and for that reason, research is about the best possible option what she thinks to pursue lifelong. She is also curious to explore her own limits and skills and to get off the beaten path and "she always believe to work with Excellence" by giving hundred percent to complete the desired goal with satisfaction. She always believes in relearning the things.
Oscar Boije's picture
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Oscar BOIJE is a Finnish national with partially Bolivian origins. He joined the Asia-Europe Foundation's (ASEF) Education Department in 2016. Oscar coordinates the ASEF Young Leaders Programme, including the ASEF Young Leaders Summit (ASEFYLS), ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU) and the Model ASEM projects, as well as supports projects under the ASEF Education Policy and the ASEF Teaching & Learning programmes. Oscar is an International Human Rights Law (LL.M) graduate from Lund University in Sweden. He has also conducted exchange studies in Colombia and degree studies in Finland, where he obtained his Bachelor (B.Soc.Sci.) and Master (M.Soc.Sci) in International Public Law. Prior to joining ASEF, Oscar lived in Belgium where he was the Partnership Manager of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), Europe’s largest student organisation.
Mary Chen's picture
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Chairman to the Challenges Foundation, Challenges Foundation. Disability advocate working on building an inclusive community. Our current projects include promoting social inclusion in educational settings whereby students with and without disabilities are brought together in a programme to learn together , grow together and hopefully champion one another. Currently working to promote inclusive fitness and sports for a headstart to inclusive education
Alexandra Albert's picture
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Senior Researcher - Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, NESTA
Irakli Khodeli's picture
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Programme Specialist, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO

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