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Former Peacecorps volunteer, Rajeev Goyal, talks with villagers in Namje about organic farming and water projects in the village, November 24, 2010.
Asia Society, a leading U.S. organization focused on the Asia Pacific region, announced its Asia 21 Young Leaders Class of 2015, July 8, among them several Indians and an Indian-American, as well as some Nepalese, Pakistanis, a Bangladeshi, and a Sri Lankan. Those selected represent private, public and non-profit sectors and Asia Society hopes through this initiative to help these young leaders under the age of forty build a “critical mass to impact global affairs for decades to come.”
Those selected over the last 10 years of the program’s existence have formed a network of more than 800 young leaders from 30 nations, Asia Society said in a release. Seen as the potential pool for solving some of the most acute challenges that face the region, these candidates were chosen for their proven service and abilities, the organization said.
This year’s 32 leaders come from 22 countries, and percent work in the private sector, 44 percent in the non-profit sector, and six percent in the public sector.
Indian-American Rajeev Goyal made the cut as co-founder and co-director of the Nepal-based non-profit, Kanchenjunga Koshi Tappu Biodiversity Education Land Trust (KTK-BELT). Goyal, a former Peace Corps volunteer was national director of the Push for Peace Corps initiative from 2008 2011, a campaign to double the size of the Peace Corps. He founded KTK-BELT in 2013. The organization aims to mitigate ecosystem fragmentation in the eastern Himalayas by designing a contiguous educational land trust stretching from Koshi Tappu, Nepal’s largest aquatic bird sanctuary, to Mt. Kanchenjunga, the 3rd tallest peak in the world.
Those from India are Mishi Choudhary, executive director of SFLC.in, and legal director of Software Freedom Law Center; is a technology lawyer and an effective online civil liberties activist; Manish Dahiya, executive director and global head of Energy Complex, Noble Group, focuses on enabling the balancing of growing energy neds with the obligation to provide basic power to people.
Sanjay Vijayakumar is chairman, Startup Village and CEO of MobME Wireless Solutions, considered one of the most innovative companies in India. Vijayakumar was rated by India Today as one of the thirty-seven Indians driving the future of India, and Forbes placed him in the “Just 30 Club.” ;Aarti Wig, co-founder and country director, Yunus Social Business India, has helped set up the world’s first Yunus Social Business Fund in Mumbai, which has funded seven social entrepreneurs across India, and is creating a social business incubator program with India’s premier management school and a social business market company for a leading international shoe company. She also conceived of a new financial instrument that will leverage commercial capital to pay for social success in social enterprises.
Nepal and Pakistan scored two candidates each. Nepal’s Narayan Adhikari, South Asia Representative for Accountability Lab and Umanga Pandey, Founder and Director, KG Nepal; Pakistan’s Mohsin Mustafa from the Strategy and Program Development department at The Aman Foundation, and Muhammad Sabir, community worker and founder, Slumabad.
Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are represented on the list by Korvi Rakshand, founder of JAAGO Foundation, and Chatrini Weeratunge, an international development specialist, respectively.
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