Dr. Charan Singh earned his doctorate in Economics from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He was a visiting scholar for more than a year each at Department of Economics, Harvard University and the Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University. Earlier, he had studied from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; and Delhi University.

Dr. Charan Singh is currently CEO of EGROW Foundation and prior to that he was serving as the Non-Executive Chairman of Punjab & Sind Bank. He was full time visiting faculty and former RBI Chair Professor (Dec 2012 to Dec 2016) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India where he taught comparative monetary policy and policy issues in Indian economy.

Earlier, he was a Senior Economist at the Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC from August 2009 to November 2012 and Research Director (Departments: Economic Policy, Debt Management) at the Reserve Bank of India (1997–2009).

He is now serving as Director on the Board of National Housing Bank, Delhi and NABARD Financial Services Ltd, Bangalore. He is also Member, Governing Board at Policy Foundation, New Delhi; Member of Research Advisory Committee, BIRD, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development; Honorary Fellow, SKOCH Development Foundation; and Member of the Informal Advisory Group on Housing Sector Issues, IMF, Washington DC.

Vaibhavi is a Computer Engineer by education with a demonstrated history of working in the Media and IT industry. She picked up Design Thinking as a course in MICA (when she was a student) and has applied the principles of immersive user research and behavior science in all her projects. She brings to the table her analogous perspective and skills in design thinking, semiotics, decoding culture & consumer and a designer’s approach to problem solving.

As a Senior Design Strategist at TinkerLabs, she has worked on diverse consulting projects ranging from: Social Impact to BFSI and IT, E-commerce. She also conducts Design Thinking Workshops for students of some of top MBA institutes in India – IIM Indore, MICA, Tezpur University amongst others. She has worked on Design Thinking training and workshops for clients like HP, Credit Suisse, Viacom18, Piramal Group, Godrej & Boyce, PIL, TU Cibil, Flipkart, Shriram Life Insurance Company amongst others.

An enthusiastic reader and coffee lover, she can spend hours observing people, trying to identify a quirk that she can write about in her diary. She has a good sense of humour that helps translate her observations into mimicry.

She calls herself the ‘Nudge Unit’ – people facilitator and provocation provider for effective creative outcomes.