Team
Abhishek Chaturvedi
Advisor
Abhishek Chaturvedi, holds a Doctorate in Commerce & Business Administration and is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
He is also a law graduate with an MBA from Symbiosis Pune. Currently, he serves as the Director of Kanpur Education Society, which encompasses CBSE, ICSE, and State Board schools. In this role, he is dedicated to providing quality education at a reasonable cost.
Additionally, Abhishek is a member of the Board of Apprenticeship Training (BOAT) under MHRD and plays a key role in the financial and administrative operations of Neev Trust in Bangalore as a member of its managing committee. He is also a Director at ICAP (IL) India Limited, a prominent inter-dealer broker in the Indian financial market for Government Securities, Corporate Bonds, and Fixed Income derivatives.
Abhishek also consults for NCAER (National Council of Applied Economic Research), India’s oldest and largest independent, non-profit economic policy research institute.
Rivka Israel
Consultant Editor
Rivka Israel trained part-time under Priya Adarkar at Orient Longman while doing a post-graduation in Applied Maths from Bombay University. After working as assistant editor for a year at Longman, she was at OUP for the next eleven years, during which she spent a year doing a diploma in publishing at Oxford Polytechnic on a British Council Commonwealth scholarship. From 1995 to 2020 she worked with Marg Publications, first full-time and later as a consultant.
Nandini Nair
Associate Director
Nandini Nair has been an arts and culture journalist for nearly two decades. She joins New India Foundation having spent a decade as the arts and literary editor of Open Magazine. Prior to that she worked with the magazine sections of The Hindu Business Line, The Indian Express and The Hindu. She writes on a variety of subjects from social trends to gender issues, but the bedrock of her work has always been books. At Open Magazine, she worked with a vast network of freelancers and contributors to drive India's art coverage. She has interviewed leading national and international authors over her career, both for the magazine and literature festivals. She founded a monthly book event, Talking Books Pune, to foster serious conversations in an informal setting between authors and readers. Throughout her career she has channelled her commitment to books through in-depth reviews, interviews, events, and by commissioning the same.
Over the last decade, to engage with the younger generation, and to use reading and writing as a means for critical thinking, she has taught a course Elements of Writing to postgraduate students in Delhi, Leh and Nigeria.
She has a MA in Arts and Culture Journalism from Columbia University, New York.