Justice JS Verma is well known for judicial creativity in the field of gender and social justice, probity in public life, judicial accountability, sustainable development and human rights. He was one of the youngest judges to be elevated to the High Court at the age of thirty nine. He has served as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court, Chief Justice of Rajasthan, a Judge of The Supreme Court of India and Chief Justice of India. He has also been the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission and has been extensively associated with the mainstream of national social development

Bunker Roy has been a leading figure in the Indian NGO community for the past thirty years and a source of inspiration for many younger social entrepreneurs. Inspired by Gandhi and moved to respond to India’s 1967 famine, Bunker Roy moved from the affluent suburb where he grew up to Rajasthan to help rural villagers improve their lives. The organization he founded in 1972, Social Work and Research Centre, came to be known as "Barefoot College" because its clients are poor, rural, often semiliterate villagers. Today the Barefoot College caters to a host of social activity including education, health, civil works, environment, waste management and alternate energy usage. Communities from all over India have sent representatives to work and study to become "barefoot" health workers, teachers and engineers. Once they return to their villages, they use their knowledge of water engineering, solar power, income generation, medicine and other topics to improve their own communities.

Founder/Chairperson, Spastics' Society of India and The National Resource Centre for Inclusion. For most of her life she has worked for the physically challenged and the cause of education. Dr Alur has been extensively involved in social change, legislation and policy for disabled people Today, the Spastics’ Society is one of the foremost organizations in the medical and social field working for children and adults with physical and neurological difficulties in areas of identification, assessment, education placement in normal schools, vocation and employment as well as pedagogy Dr Alur is a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education and on the National Executive Committee of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

The celebrated cardiologist is an opinion maker with a sizeable and informed following. His pioneering work in the field of coronary artery bypass surgery was at the New York University Medical Center, where he performed over 3000 coronary artery operations. In 1988, at the height of his career, he returned to India and founded a pioneering state-of-the-art heart institute in India. Dr. Trehan is a Diplomate American Board of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery. He was appointed as Personal Surgeon to the President of India in 1991. Besides clinical work he has taken keen interest in training, education and research programs and has presented a number of scientific papers and chaired scientific sessions in national and international conferences. Dr.Trehan is responsible for bringing back to India many expatriate medical practitioners in what is an extraordinary reverse break drain.

Actor, socialite and theater personality Roshan Seth is a person with an abiding passion for perfection. He is a well recognizable face in India because of his role as Jawaharlal Nehru in Sir Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’. A native of New Delhi, Roshan Seth honed his dramatic skills at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. He has acted in a number of films including Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits include Mississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), and The Journey (1997).

A respected member of the teaching fraternity who has contributed significantly to the national literacy movement. Dr. Chona is the Principal of Delhi Public School, New Delhi. She is not only well respected as an academician and as an educational administrator but is also recognized for her delightfuls in imparting education to mentally challenged children. She is a guest writer in the National Dailies on the matter of child psychology. Dr Chona has been decorated with "Padma Bhushan", a civilian award given by the Government of India to recognize exceptional contributions.