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
Society, Policy & Law
Media & Journalism
Business & Entrepreneurship
Education, Science & Innovation

Arts,  Culture,  Entertainment & Sports

Nitish Mishra | Minister for Industries and Tourism - Government of Bihar
University of Hull
Nitish Mishra, a Chevening Scholar and postgraduate in Global Political Economy from the University of Hull, is Bihar’s Minister for Industries and Tourism. He has held key portfolios, driving reforms through technology. With strong UK ties, he brings global best practices to Bihar and is a Harvard Kennedy School alumnus.
Outstanding Achiever

Karan Gokani

University of Cambridge

Babatdor Dkhar

University of Oxford

Simit Ram Bhagat

University  of Sussex

Janeya Mehta

London  School of Economics

Zoya Mehraj

Oxford Brookes University

Government and Politics

Nitish Mishra | Minister for Industries and Tourism - Government of Bihar
University of Hull
Nitish Mishra, a Chevening Scholar and postgraduate in Global Political Economy from the University of Hull, is Bihar’s Minister for Industries and Tourism. He has held key portfolios, driving reforms through technology. With strong UK ties, he brings global best practices to Bihar and is a Harvard Kennedy School alumnus.
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.

Jayant Kumar Singh

London School of Economics

Anish Gawande

University of Oxford

Dr Nitya Khemka

University of Cambridge

Dr Shalini Sharma

University of Oxford

Kunal  Datt

Royal Holloway, University of London

Piyush Chaudhary

University of Edinburgh

Sathishkumar Shanmugam

Loughborough University

Mysore Subbarao Subramanya Rao

King's College London

Society, Policy & Law

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.

Rajesh Talwar

University of Nottingham

Dr Jagdish Chander Batra

Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn

Bikrama Keshari Mohaptra

University of Leeds

Dr Ranjini Canchi Raghavendra

Lancaster University

Divya Lata

Roehampton University

Smita Mankad

Chevening, University of Oxford

Samrat Rahi

Kings College London

Neha Dewan

University of Cambridge

Media & Journalism

Supriya Sobti Gupta | Showrunner/ Executive Producer/ Director/ Founder (MOW Productions)
London School of Economics & Political Science
Supriya is a pioneering Indian filmmaker and the founder of MOW Productions, known for creating impactful non-fiction content. With a BA (Hons) from the University of Westminster and an MSc from LSE, she honed her skills at top UK news organizations like the BBC and Al Jazeera English. Her investigative docu-series, Bad Boy Billionaires, became one of Netflix India's most popular titles. Supriya's directorial debut, Caught Out: Crime. Corruption. Cricket., established her as a leading voice in documentary filmmaking 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.

Aditya Tiwari

University of East Anglia

Jaanhavi

University of East London

Dr Ayanjit Sen

Cardiff University

Business & Entrepreneurship

Ananya Birla | Trailblazing Entrepreneur, Global music Artist, & Mental health Advocate
University of Oxford
Ananya Birla, an entrepreneur, global music artist, and mental health advocate. A graduate from Oxford University, she is the founder of Svatantra Microfin, which has empowered 2 million women entrepreneurs with loans worth over ₹10,000 crores. As a singersongwriter, her music has 400M+ streams, and a mental health initiative, MPower, has supported 100,000+ individuals. Recognized by Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 and Fortune 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.

Dr Shuchin Bajaj

King's College London

Niti Paul

University of Leeds

Dr Sreedevi Devireddy

University of Oxford

Prasad Hattikudur

Aston University

Dr Saikat Kar

University of Edinburgh

Sorav Jain

University Of Leeds

Sanjyot Keer

Queen Margaret University Edinburgh(TNE)

Education, Science & Innovation

Dr. Nikhil Agarwal | Innovation and policy leader
University of Cambridge & University of Edinburgh
Dr. Nikhil Agarwal, an innovation and policy leader, has over 20 years of experience in academia, entrepreneurship, and government. A Cambridge and Edinburgh alumnus, he founded Entrepreneur Café, led India’s largest tech incubator at IIT Kanpur, and now, as Managing Director at IIT Delhi, spearheads India’s first global tech incubator at its Abu Dhabi campus
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.

Dr Arun Prasad

University of Oxford

Dr Santanu Acharya

University of Oxford

Prof. Ashwani Gupta

University of Oxford

Dr Abhishek D. Garg

University of Oxford

Prof. Puneet Batra

University of Oxford

Dr Shubhank Singh

University of Oxford

Dr Raju Vaishya

University of Oxford

Sameer Rashid Bhat

University of Oxford

Jayant Gauri

University of Oxford

Dr Nafeesa Ahmed

University of Oxford

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