Om Prakash Jain established
Sanskriti Foundation in 1979 an organization widely acknowledged as one of the
premier institutions dedicated to cultural preservation and promotion. Mr Jain
was conferred with the Padma Shree in the year 2003, one of India's highest
civilian awards. Mr O.P. Jain has devoted himself to preservation and
nurturing of India's cultural heritage. During his tenure as Convenor of INTACH,
Delhi Chapter (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) he initiated
many activities and projects in Delhi.
Mr O.P Vaish is the founder of a law firm called Vaish Associates. This law firm
has offices in Delhi and Mumbai and presence all over India and world wide
through associates. He is involved in many civic and philanthropic activities.
Mr. Agarwal was
until recently Governor of Sikkim. He was Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
from 1981 to 1998. He has been prominently associated with many institutions
devoted to Social and Charitable Causes.
Justice Mukul Mudgal retired as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana in Feb 2011.
Prior to that he was the senior most judge in the High Court. He has conducted
various cases in civil, constitutional and labour law as well
as public interest litigations. He appeared as amicus curiae in
several cases in the Supreme Court including cases of prison
reforms, environment law cases such as the CNG case and as
counsel in gender justice cases.
Prof. Jain,
presently Trustee-Director of Sanskriti Foundation and Founder Trustee and
Director of CIVIC: Centre for Indian Visual Culture was Director of Crafts
Museum, New Delhi; Founder Dean and Professor of School of Arts & Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Member Secretary of Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts. Prof. Jain has published extensively on India’s Folk arts
and Popular Culture. Former visiting Professor at Harvard University, Prof. Jain
is a Prince Clans Awardee.
A distinguished
Hindi poet, critic, editor, and cultural administrator, Ashok Vajpeyi, has been
a senior civil servant in culture and the arts. He established Bharat Bhavan a
multiarts centre in Bhopal and ran it for a decade and also the First vice
chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Government of
India.H e has won two prestigious national awards for poetry, namely the Sahitya
Akademi Award, Dayavati Modi Kavi Shekhar Samman, Kabir Samman and Bharat Bharti
Puraskar. He has been decorated with higest civil awards by Govt of France and
Poland. His poems have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages.
An eminent art
historian, Dr Punja, is currently CEO of the National Culture Fund and also
serves on a number of Trusts such as Sanskriti Foundation. She has been widely
published and has lectured at various institutions in India and abroad.
He has been the
youngest Additional Solicitor General India, Vice President of the Supreme Court
Bar Association and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. He handles a wide
variety of constitutional, commercial and corporate litigation. He is a member
of the apex Media Committee of the Indian National Congress.
Dr Shiva Kumar is
an economist and has taught courses in economics, public policy, and
cost-benefit analysis at Harvard. He is recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship,
Mason Fellowship, and the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from Harvard
University. He has been widely published and was adviser for the Global Human
Development Report 2000 and is currently Adviser with UNICEF, New Delhi.
Ashok Jain is
working as a Managing Director for OPJK Paper Pvt. Ltd. Apart from being an
active Trustee of Sanskriti Foundation, Ashok Jain is also a Managing Trustee of
the Shree Vidya Trust.
Varun Jain is
Director for Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Honeywell. He has a mid career
Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School and an
MBA degree from the Indian School of Business (ISB) where he was founding
President of Asias' first chapter of Net Impact - a global Corpoarte Social
Responsibility Initiative. Varun was selected by the Asia Society to participate
in the Asia21 Young Leaders' Summit in 2007. Before Honeywell he was involved
with some of the largest e-governance projects undertaken by Government of India
in Public Private Partnership with Tata Consultancy Services
Om Prakash Jain established
Sanskriti Foundation in 1979 an organization widely acknowledged as one of the
premier institutions dedicated to cultural preservation and promotion. Mr Jain
was conferred with the Padma Shree in the year 2003, one of India's highest
civilian awards. Mr O.P. Jain has devoted himself to preservation and
nurturing of India's cultural heritage. During his tenure as Convenor of INTACH,
Delhi Chapter (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage) he initiated
many activities and projects in Delhi.
Mr. Agarwal was
until recently Governor of Sikkim. He was Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
from 1981 to 1998. He has been prominently associated with many institutions
devoted to Social and Charitable Causes. 
Justice Mukul Mudgal retired as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana in Feb 2011.
Prior to that he was the senior most judge in the High Court. He has conducted
various cases in civil, constitutional and labour law as well
as public interest litigations. He appeared as amicus curiae in
several cases in the Supreme Court including cases of prison
reforms, environment law cases such as the CNG case and as
counsel in gender justice cases. 
Prof. Jain,
presently Trustee-Director of Sanskriti Foundation and Founder Trustee and
Director of CIVIC: Centre for Indian Visual Culture was Director of Crafts
Museum, New Delhi; Founder Dean and Professor of School of Arts & Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Member Secretary of Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts. Prof. Jain has published extensively on India’s Folk arts
and Popular Culture. Former visiting Professor at Harvard University, Prof. Jain
is a Prince Clans Awardee. 
A distinguished
Hindi poet, critic, editor, and cultural administrator, Ashok Vajpeyi, has been
a senior civil servant in culture and the arts. He established Bharat Bhavan a
multiarts centre in Bhopal and ran it for a decade and also the First vice
chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Government of
India.H e has won two prestigious national awards for poetry, namely the Sahitya
Akademi Award, Dayavati Modi Kavi Shekhar Samman, Kabir Samman and Bharat Bharti
Puraskar. He has been decorated with higest civil awards by Govt of France and
Poland. His poems have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages.
An eminent art
historian, Dr Punja, is currently CEO of the National Culture Fund and also
serves on a number of Trusts such as Sanskriti Foundation. She has been widely
published and has lectured at various institutions in India and abroad. 
He has been the
youngest Additional Solicitor General India, Vice President of the Supreme Court
Bar Association and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. He handles a wide
variety of constitutional, commercial and corporate litigation. He is a member
of the apex Media Committee of the Indian National Congress.
Dr Shiva Kumar is
an economist and has taught courses in economics, public policy, and
cost-benefit analysis at Harvard. He is recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship,
Mason Fellowship, and the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from Harvard
University. He has been widely published and was adviser for the Global Human
Development Report 2000 and is currently Adviser with UNICEF, New Delhi. 
Ashok Jain is
working as a Managing Director for OPJK Paper Pvt. Ltd. Apart from being an
active Trustee of Sanskriti Foundation, Ashok Jain is also a Managing Trustee of
the Shree Vidya Trust. 
Varun Jain is
Director for Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Honeywell. He has a mid career
Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the Harvard Kennedy School and an
MBA degree from the Indian School of Business (ISB) where he was founding
President of Asias' first chapter of Net Impact - a global Corpoarte Social
Responsibility Initiative. Varun was selected by the Asia Society to participate
in the Asia21 Young Leaders' Summit in 2007. Before Honeywell he was involved
with some of the largest e-governance projects undertaken by Government of India
in Public Private Partnership with Tata Consultancy Services
