TED Fellows Meet the TED Fellows

Prayas Abhinav (India) – Artist and founder of CitySpinning, an organization working to expand the nature and use of public and unused urban spaces

Praveen Agrawal (India) – CTO and co-founder of LeadInvent Technologies, a venture developing new viable therapeutic lead molecules

Yamini Aiyar (India) – Director of the Accountability Initiative, an organization working to strengthen accountability and engagement in Indian governance processes

Irfan Alam (India) – Founder of the SammaaN Foundation, an social enterprise systematizing the rickshaw business

Awab Alvi (Pakistan) – Dentist, orthodontist and author of Teeth Maestro, a prominent Pakistani political blog

Tahir Amin (US) – Director of Intellectual Property at I-MAK, an organization working to increase access to affordable medicines

Reshma Anand (India) – Founder of Earthy Goods, a venture enabling rural agri-based businesses to be competitive

Peace Anyiam-Osigwe (Nigeria/UK) – Lawyer, filmmaker and founder and CEO of Africa Movie Academy Awards

Kishi Arora (India) – Pastry chef and cakesmith behind Foodaholics baked goods and blog

Zubaida Bai (US/India) – Founder of AYZH, a social enterprise providing livelihood enhancing technologies to rural women

Kavita Baliga (US) – Vocal teacher, choral conductor and recording artist at AR Rahman’s music conservatory in Chennai

Sanjukta Basu (India) – Lawyer, photographer, activist, and prolific writer on topics such as women, gender, sexuality, culture, media and representation

Bristol Baughan (US) – Film director, producer and consultant. Films include: Racing Dreams and By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

Svati Bhogle (India) – CEO of TIDE, a non-profit devoted to promoting sustainable development through technological interventions

Sean Blagsvedt (India) – CEO of Babajob.com, a network connecting employers to informal-sector employees through mobile phones

Jane Chen (India/US) – Co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise designing and deploying a low-cost infant warmer

Leila Chirayath Janah (US/Kenya) – Founder of Samasource, a social business enabling marginalized people to receive life-changing work opportunities via the Internet

Tanzeem Choudhury (US/Bangladesh) – Assistant professor at Dartmouth currently researching the development of machine-learning techniques for systems that can reason

Siva Cotipalli (India) – Co-founder and CEO of dhanaX, an India-based social lending network for the poor

Satyabrata Dam (India) – Mountaineer, adventurer, and crime fiction author

Anthony Vipin Das (India) – Ophthalmologist and founder of REPOrT, Rural Education and Prevention of OculaR Trauma

Francis de los Reyes III (US) – NC State-based environmental engineer whose teaching and research focuses on water and sanitation for developing countries

Deepti Doshi (India/US) – India Country Representative of Escuela Nueva, a Colombia-based, multi-grade, activity-based pedagogy that has scaled to over 20,000 schools internationally

Rikin Gandhi (India/US) – CEO of Digital Green, a research project disseminating agricultural information to rural Indian farmers through digital video

Pulkit Gaur (India) – Founder of Gridbots, a technology start-up working to make machines more intelligent and user-friendly

Neha Gupta (US) – Computer scientist, humanitarian, entrepreneur, dancer and co-founder of EachOneTeachOne, a website for online volunteer education

Sarath Guttikunda (India) – Founder of UrbanEmissions.Info, a repository of information and research related to air pollution

Asher Hasan (Pakistan/US) – Founder CEO of NAYA JEEVAN, a social enterprise dedicated to providing low-income families with affordable access to quality, catastrophic healthcare

Lisa Heydlauff (India) – Founder and director of Going to School, a creative nonprofit trust that makes magical movies, books and radio for children

Katherine Hill (India) – Energy Portfolio Manager for India at Acumen Fund, supporting investments in micro-drip irrigation, solar lighting and hydro power for rural electrification

J. Adam Huggins (Canada/India) – Documentary photographer; authored "New York Manhole Covers, Forged Barefoot in India" for the New York Times

Srinivas Kiran Jaggu (India) – Innovation fellow with Stanford-India Biodesign currently developing a novel way to treat emergency patients who need vascular access

Anab Jain (UK/India) – Designer and founder of Superflux, a UK- and India-based "futures" design company, creating opportunities at the intersection of people and technology

Gautam John (India) – Lawyer currently working with the Akshara Foundation and Pratham Books combining his interests in technology and education

Mohan Kandaswamy (India) – Founder of the Oriental Aquamarine Biotech India, a startup working to minimize the water quality problems faced when rearing and maintaining aquatic species

Shalini Kantayya (US) – Filmmaker, eco-activist, educator; her film Drop of Life is a futuristic sci-fi flick about the mounting global water crisis

Siddharth Kara (US) – Author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, which provides a business and economic analysis of the global sex trafficking industry

Poonam Bir Kasturi (India) – Industrial designer, mentor and teacher passionate about simple alternative practices in the cycle of production and consumption

Shiva Keshavan (India) – India's three-time Winter Olympian in the high speed sledging sport of luge

Michele Koppes (US/Canda/India) – Glaciologist and geomorphologist with expertise in landscape evolution and change, and glacier dynamics

Anant Kumar (India) – CEO of LifeSpring Hospitals, an expanding chain of maternity hospitals that provide healthcare to low-income women and children in India

Nandu Madhava (India/US) – CEO and founder of mDhil, a startup providing basic health information via mobile phones in India

M.D. Madhusudan (India) – Conservation scientist and co-founder of the Nature Conservation Foundation

Ramesh Manickam (India) – Founder and CEO of Centroid Creative Hubb, an Indian industrial design firm

Raja Manohar (India) – Founder and Managing Director of Hexolabs, a mobile value-added services company with a focus on innovating multilingual, speech-based solutions for emerging markets

Shaffi Mather (India) – Founder of Ambulance Access for All and Education Access for All

Jessica Mayberry (US/India) – Founder of Video Volunteers, an organization working to create a sustainable global "community media network" for the one billion people living on less than two dollars a day

M.Yasmina McCarty (India) – Co-founder and CEO of GreenMango, a virtual marketplace connecting small businesses in the informal economy with their customers

Dina Mehta (India) – Co-founder and managing director of Mosoci India, an international research and ethnography consultancy

Andrew Mendelson (US) – Filmmaker, film/TV editor, and musician; his documentary, A Cricket in the Court of Akbar, chronicles his journey to India to compete in the largest music competition in the state of Rajasthan

Shandana Minhas (Pakistan) – Print and screen writer; her first novel, Tunnel Vision was published in 2007, she is working on her second

Apurv Mishra (India/Germany) – Founder of Innovator Factor Foundation / Openscientific and inventor of the "Glabenator," a communication system for the physically challenged.

Gaurav Mishra (India) – CEO of social media research and strategy firm 20:20 Social and co-founder of Vote Report India, a citizen-powered election monitoring platform

Shaheen Mistri (India) – CEO of Teach for India, an organization seeking to adapt the Teach for America model to the Indian context

Sunita Nadhamuni (India) – CEO of Arghyam, a charitable Indian foundation with a mission to promote safe, sustainable water for all

Sandhya Naidu Janardhan (India/US) – Architect with Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit sustainable design services firm

Prathamesh Naik (India) – Marketing Director of the Indian School Finance Company, working to alleviate poverty through the for-profit education model

Ashwin Naik (India) – Founder of Vaatsalya, an Indian venture building the country's first network of hospitals in semi-urban and rural areas

Raul Nainwal (India) – Co-founder of iVolunteer, an organization working to promote volunteering in India

Vijay Nair (India) – Founder of Only Much Louder, the first artist management company for indie bands in India

Enda Nasution (Indonesia) – Prominent Indonesian blogger and author of the Politikana blog

Olatunbosun Obayomi (Nigeria) – Biotechnologist focusing on the production of alternative energy from organic wastes

Andy Okoroafor (France) – Founder of Clam, a creative studio that includes Clam Magazine and Clam Films

Gyanesh Pandey (India) – Co-founder of Husk Power Systems, an organization using rice husk to empower more than 5,000 households in over 30 villages

Jasmeen Patheja (India) – Founding member of Blank Noise, a nation-wide, volunteer-led community arts collective triggering public debate on the issue of street sexual harassment

Amruta Patil (India/France) – Writer, artist, co-editor of Mindfields Magazine, a journal about ideas and alternative education

Ashutosh Patra (US) – Appropriate technology engineer developing microbial fuel cells that convert wastewater into clean water and electricity

Manasi Prasad (India) – A Carnatic classical vocalist and classical dancer

Viraj Puri (US) – Co-founder and CEO of Gotham Greens, a New York-based company working to advance sustainable urban agriculture

Kamal Quadir (Bangladesh) – Founder and CEO of CellBazaar, a mobile phone-based electronic marketplace for developing countries

Aun Rahman (Pakistan) – Pakistan Director for Acumen Fund, a global nonprofit social venture fund

Puneet Rakheja (India/US) – Filmmaker and photographer; he is currently documenting his adventures through India in No Toilet! No Bride! Adventures on a Road Less Travelled

Raghav Rangarajan (India) – Automobile enthusiast and founder of IgNite, an automobile workshop specializing in high-octane car service, performance modifications and race tuning

Aparna Rao (India) – A part of the Bangalore-based artist duo Pors & Rao who works with electro-mechanical systems and interactive installations

Nitin Rao (India/US) – Founder of Engineers for Social Impact, an engineering fellowship, and Let Me Know, an organization informing students about various opportunities throughout India

Rohini Rau (India) – Sailor and the first Indian woman to finish on the podium in an International Olympic Class Regatta

Sharmistha Ray (India) – Abstract painter, art writer and Director of Bodhi Art, a foremost gallery for Contemporary Indian Art

Varun Sahni (India) – India Director for Acumen Fund, a global nonprofit social venture fund

Shahida Saleem (Pakistan) – Founder of Sehat First, a social enterprise providing access to basic health care and pharmaceutical services across Pakistan

Kartick Satyanarayan (India) – Co-founder of Wildlife SOS, an organization pioneering the concept of working with indigenous communities to protect animals

Chirag Shah (India/US) – CEO of Sarvajal, a social enterprise increasing access to pure drinking water and CEO of the Piramal Foundation, which helps India's youth actively participate in national progress

Shiladitya Sengupta (US) – Assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; assistant professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT; co-founder of Cerulean Pharmaceuticals.

Parmesh Shahani (US) – Author of Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India and PhD candidate in communication

Alanna Shaikh (US/Tajikistan) – Global health and development specialist, and author of the international development focused-blog, Blood and Milk

Rose Shuman (US) – Founder and CEO of Open Mind’s Question Box, an rural information organization utilizing local-language telephone hotlines and live operators

Santosh Sigdel (Nepal) – A Nepali human rights lawyer working for the protection and promotion of freedom of expression in Nepal

Anindya Sinha (India) – Professor and researcher at the School of Natural Sciences and Engineering focusing in primate behavioral ecology

Sandeep Sood (US) – Founder of Monsoon Company, a software consultancy, and lead writer for Badmash.tv, an animation studio

Matthew Spacie (India) – Founder of Magic Bus, a nonprofit helping marginalized children to develop and discover through sport

Chelsea Strayer (US/Ghana) – PhD candidate at Boston University in biological and cultural anthropology studying Asante indigenous healing rituals in Ghana

Arunraj Subbaraj (India/Oman) – Founder of Ashwa Racing, an organization designing and testing Formula SAE race-cars

Roshini Thinakaran (US) – Filmmaker and founder of Women at the Forefront, a multimedia project examining war and conflict through the eyes of women

Jijo Ulahannan (India) – Physicist specializing in nanophotonic systems, nonlinear dynamics and quantum optics

Amit Varma (India) – Author of the bestselling novel My Friend Sancho and the popular blog India Uncut

Gaurav Vaz (India) – Software developer, bass guitarist for The Raghu Dixit Project and co-founder of RadioVerve, India's first and only Internet Radio Station dedicated to playing original indie music

Nikhil Velpanur (India) – Founder of Strange Brew and Letshead.to, a marketplace for food and drink experiences

Pooja Warier (India) – Co-founder and Director of UnLtd India, an organization that finds, funds and supports startup social entrepreneurs

Aparna Wilder (India/US) – Co-founder of Global Rickshaw, an organization producing short films for nonprofit organizations and socially responsible businesses

Tony Yet (China) – Web designer and TED enthusiast behind TEDtoChina.com