The Advisory Group of Dishaa
- an initiative for future leaders in the United Kingdom and India
- has set a challenge to be investigated by 40 high potential
individuals from the private, public, government and not-for-profit
sectors in 2011.
The emerging leaders from the United Kingdom and India will
investigate solutions, and wider implications, to the following
challenge in Pune, India over four days early next year:
Heart surgery at $1,000 (USD) - what has to change in
how society operates and innovates to make this a
reality?
This challenge will be announced by the Advisory Group Chair of
Dishaa, Sudhakar Rao, at the British High Commission in Delhi
tonight.
"We heard today from Dr Devi Shetty, to my mind one of the most
innovative surgeons in the world, that heart surgery at $1,000 USD
is a reality. The challenge facing future leaders in the UK and
India is to investigate how society and systems would need to
change to drive this type of innovation to scale," said Common
Purpose Chief Executive, Julia Middleton. "This challenge is
perfect for Dishaa participants because it frames a specific idea
that requires widespread, systematic and social change to make it a
reality and would apply to many other widespread social, political
and economic issues facing the UK and India today."
The aim of the Dishaa initiative is to expand, enrich and
energise relations between India and the UK by investing in the
next generation of leaders. It will achieve this by developing
shared approaches in both countries to some of the toughest
challenges facing leaders today. The initiative was first
announced by British Prime
Minister, David Cameron, in July 2010.
"Dishaa is Hindi for direction. Dishaa enables future leaders to
see how much can be gained through links between the UK and India
as they set the direction for their lives and careers," said Dishaa
Advisory Group Chair, Sudhakar Rao.
Participants in Dishaa are welcome to apply from diverse fields,
including civil society, arts, media, government and business in
India and the UK. They will participate in four days of intensive
investigation of the challenge in Pune, India, and will report back
their findings to the challenge to a panel of policy experts in
mid-2011.
The Dishaa Advisory Group is comprised of the following members:
Sudhakar Rao, former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka
(Dishaa Chair); Dr Isher Ahluwalia, Chairperson ICRIER; Karan
Bhagat, Managing Director, Barclays Corporate Banking, India;
Michael Duck, Senior Vice President, UBM Asia; Dame Amelia Fawcett,
Board Member, State Street Corporation; R Gopalakrishnan, Executive
Director, Tata Sons, India; Jo Johnson, MP, Member of Parliament
for Orpington; Jude Kelly, Artistic Director, South Bank Centre;
Chris Mathias, Director, Arbor Ventures, UK; Lord Chris Patten,
Chancellor, University of Oxford; Mariam Ram, Founder, TNQ
Publishers; Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya,
Bangalore; Lord Nick Stern, UK India Round Table, UK; and Philip
Wright, Partner, PwC, UK.
Dishaa is proudly sponsored by Barclays, Cisco, Kingfisher
Airlines, PwC, Tilda and UBM. The venue at Pune, kind courtesy Tata
Management Training Centre
