Meet our 2023 Achievers

Our achievers are some of the brightest young minds in the India-UK corridor. They are trailblazers, Innovators and thought leaders, shaping India's future and setting global discourse.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Sports
Government & Politics
Law
Policy & Society
Media & Journalism
Business & Entrepreneurship
Education, Science & Innovation

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
A National Film Award winner, Parineeti is an acclaimed artist with multiple honours and recognitions to her name. She has appeared in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list since 2013.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Anu Menon | Director and Screenwriter

London Film School

Anjali Menon | Director and Screenwriter

London Film School

Parambrata Chatterjee | Actor and Director

University of Bristol

Rakasree Basu | Film Producer

University of Glasgow

Soha Ali Khan | Actor and Writer

University of Oxford & London
School of Economics

Manu Pillai | Author and Historian

King's College London

Saima Iqbal | Historical Conservationist

Oxford Brookes University

Sports

Aditi Chauhan | Goalkeeper, India
Sports Loughborough University
Aditi is the Goalkeeper of the Indian National Football Team, founder of 'She Kicks Football Academy' and the 'Aditi Chauhan Foundation'. She is a football expert analyst & commentator on major sports channels in India.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Chhavi Kohli | Fencing athlete

University of Edinburgh

Deepthi Bopaiah | Sports, Entrepreneur

University of Oxford

Priyal Narendra Keni | International Rifle Shooter

London Business School

Saurav Ghosal | Squash Player

University Leeds

Suheil Tandon | Sports Entrepreneur

Loughborough University

Government & Politics

Raghav Chadha | Politician
London School of Economics
Raghav is the youngest Member of Parliament in India (Rajya Sabha). He is a national executive member & national spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is Chairman of the Advisory Panel to the Chief Minister of Punjab.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Bhavya Bishnoi | Politician

University of Oxford & London School of Economics

Atishi Singh | Politician

University of Oxford

Gurjot Singh | Senior Police officer, Punjab

University of Bristol

Kaushal Vidyarthee | Office of the Former President of Indian National Congress

University of Oxford

Manish Chadha | Joint Secretary, Govt of India

King's College London

Dr Megha Bhargava | Joint Commissioner, Indian Revenue Service

University of Cambridge

Law

Menaka Guruswamy | Senior Advocate 240
Law University of Oxford
A Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, Menaka is known for having played a significant role in many landmark cases. In 2019 she was featured as one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world for her work spearheading the successful, historic battle for LGBTQ rights in India. She is the first Indian and second woman to have her portrait hung at the Milner Hall in Rhodes House at the University of Oxford.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arghya Sengupta | Author and Lawyer

University of Oxford

Chintan Chandrachud | Barrister

University of Cambridge

Gunjan Singh | Attorney

SOAS, University of London

Krishna Omkar | Corporate Lawyer

University of Oxford

Shreeyash Uday Lalit | Advocate, Supreme Court of India

University of Cambridge

Policy & Society

Samir Saran | Policy Maker
Anglia Ruskin University
Samir Saran is the President of Observer Research Foundation (ORF), one of Asia's most influential think tanks. He curates the Raisina Dialogue, India’s annual flagship platform on geopolitics and geo-economics, and is the founder of CyFy, India’s annual conference on cybersecurity and internet governance. Samir is a member of the India-CEO Climate Action Group, Global Risks Advisory Board, and the Regional Action Group of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Amy Nishtha Satyam | Head of Office for Timor-Leste, UN Women

University of Nottingham

Ishrat Jahan | Development Professional

London School of Economics

Mitali Nikore | Economist & Policy Specialist

London School of Economics

Nabila Jamshed | Governance Specialist, UN

University of Oxford

Pravin Sanjay Nikam | Social Entrepreneur

London School of Economics

Pratishtha Deveshwar | Disability Activist

University of Oxford

Ruma Bhargava | Country Lead Healthcare WEF

University of Oxford

Shalmalee Aidoor | Health Policy Consultant

University of Warwick

Urvashi Prasad | Director, NITI Aayog

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Vignesh Krishnan V | City Director, Teach for India

University College London

Media & Journalism

Marya Shakil | Senior Political Editor & Anchor
Birmingham City University
Marya Shakil is an award-winning Indian television journalist, political editor and TV news anchor with CNN-News18. She hosts the network's shows News Epicentre and Reporters Project. Her show on the Muslim yearning to be part of the mainstream earned her the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award in politics and government category in 2012.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Chaitanya Marpakwar | Journalist, Times of India

Cardiff University

Danish Khan | Journalist & Historian

University of Oxford

Gaggan Sabherwal | Senior Reporter, BBC

Nottingham Trent University

Rahul Kanwal | News Director, India Today

Cardiff University

Raksha Kumar | Multimedia Journalist

University of Westminster

Rohit Jaiswal | Journalist & Strategy

University of Stirling

Srijana Das | Senior Editor, The Times of India

London School of Economics & University of Cambridge

Business & Entrepreneurship

Adar Poonawalla | Business
University of Westminster
Adar is the CEO of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India (SSI), which led the large-scale manufacturing of the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine. He is a board member of the GAVI alliance. He is a philanthropist and named on the Forbes philanthropy list of Asia’s Heroes.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Abhishek Rungta | Entrepreneur

University of Bath

Adrija Biswas | Entrepreneur

University of Warwick

Anu Shah | Entrepreneur

University of Leeds

Dev Aditya | Entrepreneur

Brunel University London

Karmanya Singh Sareen | Entrepreneur

Imperial College London

Kaushal Shah | Entrepreneur

University of Southampton

Prerna Mukharya | Social Entrepreneur

University of Oxford

Prerna Wadikar | Entrepreneur

University of Oxford

Punit Goyal | Entrepreneur

Aston University

Purva Aggarwal | Entrepreneur

University of Hertfordshire

Sadiq Basha | Entrepreneur

University of Greenwich

Tripti Maheshwari | Entrepreneur

City, University of London

Utkarsh Amitabh | Entrepreneur and Author

University of Oxford

Vibin Joseph | Technology Entrepreneur

Imperial College London

Education, Science & Innovation

Somdip Dey | Artificial Intelligence Researcher
University of Manchester
Somdip is a machine learning researcher, educator, entrepreneur & electronic music producer. He is credited with co-developing the Nosh app, an AI-based food management app, aiming to reduce food waste in the household. Dey also co-founded Nosh Technologies & is currently the CEO & Chief Scientist in the company. He is also a Lecturer of Computer Science at the University of Essex & the Danah Zohar Chair Professor of Quantum Philosophy at Woxsen University, India.
Outstanding Achiever

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Parineeti Chopra | Actor and Singer
University of Manchester
Saurav is an Arjuna award winner. A trailblazer, he is the first Indian squash player to break into the top 10 in the world and was also the first Indian to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title in 2004. He won the 2022 Commonwealth Games men's squash singles. The world #15 holds a record 13 Indian national titles, 10 Professional Squash Association tour titles, a gold in the Asian Games and a gold in the World Championships. He took silver in the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles five years ago.

Beena Koshy | Paediatrician

Newcastle University ​

Arundhuti Gupta | Changemaker

University of Manchester

Anthony Vipin Das | Ophthalmologist & Innovator

University of Oxford

Anushree Srivastava | Astrobiologist

University of Oxford

Manisha Nair | Clinical Epidemiologist

University of Oxford

Dr Maitreyee Wairagkar | Neuroscientist

University of Reading

Dr Harmandeep Singh | Cardiologist, NHS

University of Buckingham

Dr Jagadis Kapuganti | Scientist and Innovator

University of Oxford

Dr Narendra Kumar | Cardiologist

London School of Economics

Michelle Fernandes | Environmental Scientist

University of East Anglia

Meghna Puri | President, WWI

King's College London

Meghna Asthana | Researcher

University of York

Prashant Pillai | Associate Dean, University of Wolverhampton

University of Bradford

Nivi Manchanda | Reader, Queen Mary University of London

University of Cambridge

Nitesh Kumar Jangir | Researcher and Innovator

UniUniversity of Oxford
versity Leeds

Dr Suphiya Khan | Innovator and Researcher

University of Oxford

Dr Srijan Jindal | Researcher

University of Manchester

Reshma Rao | Research Fellow, Imperial College London

University of Southampton

Raju Kendre | Activist

SOAS, University of London

Vivek Chandrakant Gurav | Environmentalist

University of Bristol

Tarunabh Khaitan | Educator

University of Oxford

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