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O.P. Jain - Founder Sanskriti Foundation
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 2003, one of India's highest civilian awards.
Mr O.P. Jain has devoted himself to the 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.
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Life
Trustees
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Dr.
Shiva Kumar is an economist and has taught courses
in economics, public policy, and cost-benefit analysis
at Harvard. He is a 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.
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 and 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 Claus Awardee.
Ajay
Vohra is Managing Partner of Vaish Associates and
is a leading specialist in the area of domestic and
international tax. He is well-knownas an arguing counsel
before Tax Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme
Court and has made major contributions to tax jurisprudence
in the country. He has been frequently listed in the
publication Asialaw Leading Lawyers that identifies
the region’s leading practitioners across key
practice areas. He is director and board member of
several companies and professional associations.
Ashok
Jain works 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 Asia’s
first chapter of Net Impact - AGlobal Corporate 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 the Government of India in Public Private Partnership
with Tata Consultancy Services
