4 Indians among Asia Society’s 2015 list of global young leaders

Four Indians are among 32 young leaders selected by New York-based Asia Society, a global non-profit organization, as its 2015 class of young leaders to focus on shaping a bright future for the Asia-Pacific region, reported PTI.

Mishi Choudhary, Sanjay Vijayakumar, Aarti Wig and Manish Dahiya have been named the Asia 21 Young Leaders by the society in its leadership programme that identifies and brings together Asia-Pacific's top leaders who are under 40 years of age.

Entering its tenth year, the Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative is a network of over 800 young leaders from 30 nations. "They are all in their own ways focused on shaping a brighter future for the Asia-Pacific region, and confronting the most vexing challenges facing the region today," PTI quoted a statement by the society.

Let’s know the young leaders:

Choudhary is a technology lawyer and an online civil liberties activist. She is the founding executive director of SFLC.in, a pro-bono legal services organisation based in New Delhi that focuses on free speech and expression, privacy, software patents, network neutrality, internet governance and access to knowledge.

Vijayakumar is the chairman of the board of Startup Village, India's first incubator for public-private partnerships, promoted jointly by the Government of India and private sector entities.

Wig is co-founder of the Indian arm of the Yunus Social Business (YSB). She helped set up the world's first Yunus Social Business Fund in Mumbai, which has funded seven social entrepreneurs across India.

Dahiya is the executive director and global head of Energy Complex at Noble Group Limited and his work focuses on enabling the requirements of an energy-short world as it balances its demands for growth with the obligation of providing basic power requirements to the populace, the organisation said.

This year's class of 32 young leaders represent 22 countries and are divided almost evenly between men and women, with 50% working in the private sector, 44% in the non-profit sector, and 6% in the public sector.

Members of the class include social entrepreneur and champion of accountability in Nepal Narayan Adhikari, founder of a for-profit social venture that develops low-cost technology for women in the developing world Zubaida Bai from the US, founder of the first massive open online course (MOOC) platform in Vietnam Duong Giap, Mongolia's first female chancellor of a state university Yanjmaa Jutmaan and Lisa Katayama of Japan, who is empowering social activists and entrepreneurs in Japan with leadership, design, and storytelling tools.

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