Presenter Duration Start Time End Time

GLF 2019 welcome Parmesh Shahani 0:10 9:00 9:10

1 INTRODUCTION OF NEW GLF MEMBERS - PRAISE POET JESSICA MBANGENI 0:10 9:10 9:20

2 DEEPAK PAREKH - CHAIRPERSON OF HDFC - LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM MY LIFE 0:30 9:20 9:50

3 AMITAV GHOSH - AUTHOR - WHY WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE NOW 0:30 9:50 10:20

Godrej Agrovet update Balram Yadav 0:20 10:20 10:40

Coffee break 0:20 10:40 11:00

4 ACHA LEKE - CHAIRPERSON OF MCKINSEY AFRICA - WHAT WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM AFRICA'S BUSINESS REVOLUTION 0:30 11:00 11:30

5 FAITH OSIER - AWARD-WINNING AFRICAN IMMUNOLOGIST - ERADICATING MALARIA ONCE AND FOR ALL 0:30 11:30 12:00

Godrej Consumer Products update Vivek Gambhir 0:20 12:00 12:20

6 SHIVANI SIROYA - CEO OF TALA - FINANCING THE WORLD'S UNBANKED 0:30 12:20 12:50

Godrej Fund Management update Karan Bolaria 0:10 12:50 13:00

Lunch 1:00 13:00 14:00

7 TALK AND PERFORMANCE BY VIDYA SHAH - WOMEN'S HISTORIES MATTER 0:30 14:00 14:30

8 GANESH DEVY - CULTURAL ACTIVIST - SPEECH BEYOND MEMORY 0:30 14:30 15:00

Godrej Chemicals update Nitin Nabar 0:20 15:00 15:20

Godrej People and Purpose update Sumit Mitra 0:20 15:20 15:40

9 SPECIAL FILM SCREENING - PLEASE MIND THE GAP 0:20 15:40 16:00

Tea break 0:30 16:00 16:30

10 PRASAD SETTY - VICE PRESIDENT OF PEOPLE OPERATIONS AT GOOGLE - DATA-DRIVEN HR 0:30 16:30 17:00

11 CRAIG MILLER - LEADERSHIP IS A PERFORMANCE ART 0:40 17:00 17:40

12 CLOSING PERFORMANCE BY BIDISHA MOHANTA 0:20 17:40 18:00

END OF DAY 1 (followed by karaoke and cocktails on the Godrej One rooftop) 18:00

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

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Presenter Duration Start Time End Time

DAY 2 welcome Parmesh Shahani 0:10 9:00 9:10

1 OPENING PERFORMANCE BY ABHINAV GUPTA AND ANANT BAMBLE 0:10 9:10 9:20

2 SALIL PAREKH - CEO OF INFOSYS - RIDING THE NEXT TECHNOLOGY WAVE 0:30 9:20 9:50

Godrej Properties update Mohit Malhotra 0:20 9:50 10:10

3 TV NARENDRAN - CEO OF TATA STEEL - LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMPLEXITY 0:30 10:10 10:40

Coffee break 0:20 10:40 11:00

4 DR. APARNA HEGDE - CHAIRPERSON OF ARMMAN FOUNDATION - NUDGES MATTER 0:30 11:00 11:30

5 FAYE D'SOUZA - EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF MIRROR NOW - JOURNALISM IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD 0:30 11:30 12:00

6 SOHAILA ABDULALI - AUTHOR - WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE 0:30 12:00 12:30

Godrej Global Outlook update Dorab Mistry 0:15 12:30 12:45

Corporate Communications update Sujit Patil 0:15 12:45 01:00

Lunch 1:00 13:00 14:00

Godrej Nature's Basket update Avani Davda 0:20 14:00 14:20

8 STEPHEN ALTER - AUTHOR - BECOMING A MOUNTAIN: WHY THE HIMALAYA MATTER 0:30 14:20 14:50

9 TALK AND CLOSING PERFORMANCE BY SHANTANU MOITRA - THE JOURNEY MATTERS 0:30 14:50 15:20

GLF 2019 Recycled Fashion Show All GLF members 0:30 15:20 15:50

Fun Awards and end of GLF 2019 Nisaba Godrej 0:10 15:50 16:00

Closing tea reception 1:00 16:00 17:00

DEPART FOR GODREJ AWARDS 17:00

THURSDAY, MAY 9

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CURATORIAL NOTEAs senior leaders of Godrej, GLF is the one time every year that we get together to reflect on the year gone by and share our thoughts about the year ahead.

It is also a time that we learn about the fast-changing world alongside our GLF family. Over the past few years, our team has been curating each GLF with a very specific intent. We want each of you to open up your mind and your heart at the end of every conference and we want you to take the knowledge you gain at GLF and share it with your teams at work, as well as with your families at home.

Four years ago, we spoke about leadership as choice making. Three years ago, we said that, when we as senior leaders, make the right choices, we create a beautiful symphony. Two years ago, we decided to create a more equal music, with our focus on women, and it has been interesting to see how this commitment to gender diversity has distilled across our group since then. Last year, we stated that “other worlds are possible”, and GLF 2018 showcased a variety of future imaginations.

The theme for GLF 2019 is “What Matters”. Let us dig deeper and focus on the essentials. Love, health and the environment are 3 areas that I care about personally. Through the conference, we will also shine a spotlight on languages, histories, geographies and concerns that we believe matter now more than ever.

As always, our formats will vary. There will be talks, music performances, screenings and some fun activities through which you all can showcase your creativity. Of course, there are prizes to be won. (We know how competitive you all are!)

I am grateful that so many extraordinary superstars – from the world of business, science, literature and the performing arts – have agreed to come to GLF 2019 to share their stories with you. It is a testimonial to the affection and respect they have for our Godrej group. As I re-read their amazing profiles, I cannot wait to listen to each of them and also to hang out with them post their talks. (In the past, some of my most memorable GLF conversations have happened on the conference sidelines, over the yummy food at the GLF café and I know how much you all like the GLF food too!)

I always say this to you all during each conference and I want to end this note by saying this once again. Our team puts their hearts and souls into organizing GLF each year to inspire you, certainly, but more importantly, to move you to act differently. This GLF too is a call to action. What matters is that we co-create both, a more meaningful Godrej, and also a much better world for future generations.

- Parmesh Shahani

JESSICA MBANGENI is one of South Africa’s most sought-after female iimbongi (praise singers) and has made her mark in a male-dominated cultural terrain. Invoking the role of this ancient tradition, influenced by her grandmother’s isiXhosa storytelling, Jessica offers insightful commentaries on contemporary affairs. Her global career took off when she joined the multi-Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir in 2002 and toured Germany, Australasia, Scotland and 37 cities in the United States of America. In 2016, she was the opening act at the AFCON Cup and performed at many other prestigious events such as the second inaugura-tion of South African President Thabo Mbeki and the grand welcome of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Some of her accolades include the Mbokodo Award for indigenous language preservation, three South African Traditional Music Achievement Awards for Best Female Album, Best isiXhosa Album and Best Song of the Year, 2016.

@jessicambangeni

DR. ACHA LEKE Starting his career at McKinsey as a Summer Associate in South Africa in 1998, Dr. Acha Leke is now Senior Partner at McKinsey’s Johannesburg office and Chairman of the Africa practice. He has since helped expand the firm’s activities across Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Leke is creating transformational change in Africa by serving governments and private sector institutions on issues of economic development, tax administration, growth strategies and investment decisions. He is the co-founder of the African Leadership Academy and the African Leadership Network. He was recognised as Africa’s Young Investment Professional by Africa Investor in 2008, and ranked amongst the Forbes top 10 Youngest Power Men in Africa in 2011, the 50 Most Influential Africans in 2012 (Africa Report) and Top 20 Rising Stars in Africa in 2014 (Euromoney). He co-authored McKinsey’s highly acclaimed Lions on the Move reports and his book Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market was released in November 2018. @achaleke

AMITAV GHOSH Acclaimed author and Padma Shri award winner Amitav Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and is an alumnus of the Universities of Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. Ghosh is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy. His non-fiction work, The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, released in 2016 and his latest novel, Gun Island, is due to be published in 2019. His body of work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. A recipient of multiple awards, Ghosh received India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award in 2018. In 2019, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. @ghoshamitav

DEEPAK PAREKH A visionary, thought leader and innovator, Deepak Parekh is one of the leading voices of corporate India. He spearheads India’s premier housing finance company HDFC and was the founding chairperson of IDFC. In his career spanning 45 years, Deepak Parekh has served as a mentor to many organizations and people. He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan and the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership award. Currently, he serves on the boards of Castrol India, Mahindra & Mahindra and Siemens amongst other companies. In recent years, he has served as the unofficial crisis consultant to the Government of India, be it the turnaround of Unit Trust of India or the saving of Satyam Computers. He is also associated, in an advisory capacity, with several international organisations including the Indo-US CEO Forum, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) and the India-UK Financial Partnership (IUKFP).

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SHIVANI SIROYA An experienced investment banker and micro-finance specialist, Shivani is the founder and CEO of Tala, a mobile technology and data science company that is working to deliver financial access, choice and control to underserved people around the world. During her engagement with the UN Population Fund, she worked closely with citizens of multiple Sub-Saharan and Western African countries and this experience exposed her to the needs of 70% of the global adult population with limited access to organised credit facilities. Shivani then designed a unique app that not only grants micro-loans through a mobile wallet but also assigns a credit score to individuals in far-flung markets based on the data obtained from their smart-phones on a daily basis. Shivani is a 2016 Aspen Institute Finance Leader Fellow, a 2016 WEF Young Global Leader, a 2015 Senior TED Fellow and a 2013 Ashoka Fellow. She was nominated by Melinda Gates as a Wired Icon in 2018. She holds a M.P.H. in Health Economics and International Policy from Columbia University. @shivsiroya

VIDYA SHAH is a musician-activist, a unique combination! Initially trained in Carnatic music, she

later received guidance in the North Indian genres of Khayal (from Shubha Mudgal and Mujahid Hussain Khan) Thumri Dadra and Ghazal (from Shanti Hiranand). She has performed at various national and international forums, including the Tansen Samaroh in Gwalior, the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C, the Asia Society in

New York and the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. A popular performer and a prolific composer, she is a recipient of

the Charles Wallace Award and a Senior Fellowship from the Government of India for her project “Women on Record”, a performance highlighting the contributions of forgotten women performers in the Gramophone era. Her special performances include “The Last Mughal” with author William Dalrymple, “Akhtari - the Life of Begum Akhtar”,

and “Rung- Sufiana”, a rendition of Sufiana Kalam. The author of Jalsa: Indian Women’s Journey from

the Salon to the Studio, Vidya is also the Nana Shirgaonkar Chair Professor for Indian Music at Goa University for 2016-19. @vidyasings

FAITH OSIER Every year, over 200 million clinical cases of malaria are reported worldwide, the majority occurring in sub Saharan Africa and India. Faith’s passion is to relegate malaria to history through vaccination. Her research in humans has shown that eliminating the complex malaria parasite requires a cocktail of potent antibodies acting in synergy. She designed KILchip©, a custom protein microarray that enables her team to identify the most potent antibody cocktails simultaneously in thousands of samples. In her endeavour to build a pool of researchers to augment her study, Faith not only leads a passionate research team in Kenya but is also a Professor of Malaria Immunology at the University of Oxford, UK and has two research laboratories in Biosciences and Parasitology in Kenya and Germany. She holds a Fellowship with the EDCTP as well as the Wellcome Trust and the African Academy of Sciences. She has won multiple awards including the Royal Society Pfizer Award (UK) and the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. She was named a TED Fellow in 2018 and her TED talk on the key to a better malaria vaccine has received more than 1.3 million views.

@faithosier

PRASAD SETTY is Vice President, People Operations - Analytics, Benefits, Compensation and Performance Management at Google. He oversees a team which enables people decisions at Google to be data-driven, generates insights on keeping Googlers happy and productive, and tailors rewards to attract and retain the world’s best talent. Prior to joining Google in 2007, Prasad was Vice President of Workforce Analytics at Capital One. Earlier, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in Washington, D.C. In his career, Prasad has taught farmers how to grow rice, helped the U.S. Army destroy toxic rocket fuel, and built the first variable scanning angle reflectometer. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He also has a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from IIT, Chennai.

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BIDISHA MOHANTA Trained in Hindustani classical music under the tutelage of Padma Bhushan awardee Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan Sahib, Bidisha started her musical journey at a tender age. In order to expand her horizon and explore other genres of music, she moved to Singapore, where she received her degree from LASALLE College Of The Arts. During her stay in Singapore, she was associated with widely-recognised local bands such as Flame Of The Forest, Fungimunkees as well as performing several times with her own band at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatres and other recognised venues. She recently shifted her base back to Mumbai where she made her way into the finale of the popular Indian reality TV show India’s Got Talent. She has also been performing as “Badshah Mayur”, her Drag King alter ego all over India at the Kitty Su chain of nightclubs at The Lalit hotels. Her aim is to provide visibility to the queer youth in India through her music and hence pave the way for a more inclusive future.

@thebidishamohanta

CRAIG MILLER is an internationally acclaimed business leadership coach with a vast array of experiences spanning 22 years in leading and managing sales teams for advertising and marketing companies across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He works with teams and helps them hone leadership skills while teaching them how to push boundaries and optimise results outside their comfort zones. Additionally, Craig renders his services to TED Fellows and is an active member of SupporTED, the coaching support program for TED Fellows. A native of San Francisco Bay Area settled in Spain for over 28 years, Craig’s own background makes him empathetic towards those living and working outside their home towns. His experience enables him to grasp key issues in his client’s environment and develop new practices in co-relation with the current best practices aligned with the results they seek to produce. Craig has authored the book It’s Up to You: Learn Ten Powerful Leadership Practices in which he recognises leadership as a performance art based on a result-oriented bias for action.

DR. GANESH DEVY is a scholar and an activist. He writes in three languages, Marathi, Gujarati and English. He has authored/edited nearly 90 books including works in English such as After Amnesia, In Another Tongue, A Nomad Called Thief, Of Many Heroes, Indian Literary Criticism, Painted Words and The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India. He initiated and led the People’s Linguistic Survey of India with a team of 3000 volunteers and documented 780 languages, published in 50 volumes. A Times of India editorial hailed his work as ‘the world’s largest intellectual project’ and the Padma Shri award was conferred on him in 2014 for this work. Dr. Devy was educated at Shivaji University and the University of Leeds. Formerly Professor of Humanities at the DAIICT and Professor of English at the M. S. University of Baroda, Devy is currently Chairman, ‘The People’s Linguistic Survey of India’ and Honorary Professor at the CMDR, Dharwad. In order to work with Adivasis and the Nomadic Communities in India, he gave up his Professorship and founded two institutions - the Adivasi Academy for Indigenous Studies and the Bhasha Centre for Language Conservation, both recognized as Centres of Excellence. The many awards he has received include the M. M. Kalburgi Research Award (2017), the Prince Claus Award (2011), the SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award (2001), the Gunther Sontheimer Award (1998) and the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book After Amnesia (1994). @ganeshdevy

ABHINAV GUPTA studies at NITIE and is a Godrej LOUD on Campus winner. He has been learning music for over 17 years and can play 6 instruments. He has mastered the art of playing the flute over the last 8 years. Subsequent to his LOUD win he has been honing his skills at the Vrindaban Gurukul School of Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Apart from the flute Abhinav loves to play the harmonium and guitar and has also formed his own fusion band called Dhruv.

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ANANT BAMBLE is a junior college student. He was one of the winners at the first ever Godrej LOUD at Schools contest. Anant has been learning to play the tabla from the age of 11 and aspires to be a professional tabla player. His dream was to enrol in tabla classes and compete at the All India Radio Music competition in 2019. He has given the Akhil Bhartiya Gandharava exam and stood second.

GODREJ LOUD WINNERS

DR. APARNA HEGDE is India’s leading urogynecologist and pelvic floor reconstructive surgeon. During her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she witnessed how pervasive systemic problems in health systems led to loss of lives that were completely preventable. Unable to tolerate the status quo, Dr. Hegde, in addition to her full-time medical practice, founded ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based non-profit that creates scalable programs using technology innovatively to impact maternal and child health. ARMMAN has impacted the lives of more than 1.9 million women and their children across 16 states in India.

Dr. Hegde is also the Founding Director of the upcoming Tata Center of Urogynecology and Pelvic Health at Cama Hospital, Mumbai, India’s first university-based academic Center of Excellence in the field. She is Founder and Director of the Centre for Urogynecology and Pelvic Health (The C.U.P), Delhi, a member of the Editorial Board of the International Urogynecology Journal, the Inter-national Urogynecology Committee on Prolapse and a member of the 7th International Consultation on Incontinence.

In addition to MD, DNB and FCPS degrees in Obgyn, she also holds a MS degree from Stanford University and was awarded the IUGA Interna-tional Fellowship in Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery completed in Cleveland Clinic, Florida. Dr. Hegde won the Social Entrepreneur award by USAID and MSD for Mothers in 2018, the Social Entrepreneur of the year award by the Geneva-based Womanity Foundation in 2017, the People’s Choice Award at the Saving Lives at Birth event in Washington DC in 2011 and Woman Icon in Asia award in 2017 by BERG (Business Excellence & Research Group) among other awards. @hegde_aparna

TV NARENDRAN As the CEO and MD of Tata Steel, TV Narendran oversaw the acquisition of Bhushan Steel Limited and is currently involved in the formation of the Thyssenkrupp Tata Steel JV which would be the second largest steelmaker in Europe. Earlier, as the Managing Director, he successfully executed Tata Steel’s greenfield expansion. He is a member of the Board of the World Steel Association and its Executive Committee. He was the co-chair of the Mining and Metals Governors Council of the World Economic Forum. He is a member from the Indian side in BRICS Business Council and is a member of the Indo-French CEO council. He is also currently the President of the Indian Steel Association. A mechanical engineer from NIT Trichy, he joined Tata Steel after completing his MBA from IIM Calcutta in 1988. He is a Chevening Scholar and has also attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD.

SALIL PAREKH is helping build a digital and cloud focussed Infosys, serving the digital transformation ambition of its clients and the broad

market. He has held leadership roles at Capgemini (member of the Group Management Board) and Ernst & Young

LLP (Partner) over the past 25 years. He has helped build and turn around businesses, and

in doing that, carved out strong leadership teams and trusted client relationships. Salil’s leadership and management portfolios have spanned across geographies including the US, UK, Europe, and Asia/Pacific as well as sectors such as Financial Services, Consumer Products, Public Sector, Manufacturing and he has driven acquisitions and their inte-

gration across geographies and sectors. Salil studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

(Masters in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering) and at the Indian Institute

of Technology in Mumbai, India (Aeronautical Engineering).

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SHANTANU MOITRA is a leading Bollywood music composer who is most known for his scores in the films Parineeta (2005), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006), 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014), and October (2018). His eternal quest for the unknown and the consequent discovery of new people in new locales have led him to create innovative soundtracks strongly echoing Indian folk music. In his early career, Shantanu’s innate talent was recognised when he was asked to compose the advertising jingle for the Uncle Chipps Brand. He cemented his position as a musical genius when he composed the music for a number of Indipop albums for music veteran Shubha Mudgal like Ab ke Saawan, Mann ke Manjeere, and Sapna Dekha Hai Maine before beginning his Bollywood journey with Sudhir Mishra’s film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005).

@shantanumoitra

SOHAILA ABDULALI was born in Mumbai. She has a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a Master’s from Stanford University. She has published two novels - The Madwoman of Jogare and Year of the Tiger, three children’s books, and many non-fiction pieces. Her new book, out worldwide, is What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. She lives in New York with her family, and calls both Manhattan and Maharashtra home. @sohailaabdulali

FAYE D’ SOUZA is the journalist for the Indian millennials – young, fresh and brutally honest. She is the Executive Editor of Mirror Now and hosts the flagship show on the channel,

The Urban Debate. Over the last year, Faye has led the editorial team at Mirror Now to break the conventions of news television and primetime viewing to refocus on the issues that really matter to the Indian citizens. Faye’s focus on accountability of government, respon-sible taxation, safety of women and children, education, health and urban development has also resulted in several policy changes and impact developments that have proven that journalists can still bring about improvements in the status quo. Under Faye’s leadership, Mirror Now has been the recipient of multiple awards for social media, reporting, anchoring

and editorial. She spent her initial years in the world of business news with CNBC TV18. She subsequently joined the Times Network as it was stamping its authority on television news in 2008. @fayedsouza

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STEPHEN ALTER is the author of twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. His most recent novel, In the Jungles of the Night: A

Novel about Jim Corbett, was shortlisted for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His most recent non-fiction book, Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime received the 2015 Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature. From 1995 to 2004, he was writer-in-residence at MIT and, from 1988 to 1994, he was director of the writing program at the American University in Cairo. From 2006 to 2016, he founded and directed the Mussoorie Mountain Festival. Among the honours he has received are the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Senior Research Grant and fellowships from the East-West Centre in Hawaii and the Banff Centre for Mountain Culture. He lives and writes in Landour and was educated at Woodstock School, Mussoorie and Wesleyan University. @stephenalter