Board of Directors

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Board of Directors

Nishit Kumar

Founder Director and MD

Nishit Kumar is the founder and Managing Director of Centre for Social and

Behaviour Change Communication (SBC3). In addition to his role at SBC3., he is:

∙Member on Board of Studies, Extension & Communication, SNDT Women’s

University, Mumbai

∙Visiting Faculty, PG Program in Development Management, SPJIMR

∙On the Executive Committee of Catalyst 2030 NAISE India Chapter

∙Heads the Social Stock Exchange Task Force of Catalyst 2030 NAISE India

Nishit Kumar has a post graduate degree in Business Management, and has done

programmes at IIM, Ahmedabad. He has 43 years of experience, 15 of which he

spent in leadership positions in advertising, winning awards every year. He worked

for 10 years in the corporate sector, where his last assignment was as CEO of an IT–

ES company.

For the past 20 years, he has been with the development sector. His 11-year-stint

with CHILDLINE India Foundation is well known in the sector. At CHILDLINE, he

developed a passion to work on the issue of Child Sexual Abuse and was

instrumental for the first draft of and the advocacy for what was to be passed in the

Indian Parliament as the POCSO Act. He developed award winning films and

communication for CHILDLINE, including the internationally acclaimed film on Child

Sexual Abuse, ‘Komal’.

The programmes he created at CHILDLINE India won several national and

international awards. He used Social and Behaviour Change Communication

techniques to create a unique story-telling approach to help primary school children

stay safe from sexual abuse. Nishit set up state-of-the-art IT-based communication

centres for CHILDLINE, making the 1098 helpline number the world’s largest helpline

for children.

Priya Subnis Arte, MBA (SIMSREE) was a passionate entrepreneur for the last 17 years. She also is a corporate trainer in personal development, stress management and meditation techniques. She is Trustee of the Pranic Healing Foundation of South Mumbai.

Priya has been working with school children for the last 15 years teaching them techniques to help them cope with stress and improve their academic performance. For 5 years she has been spearheading the adolescent mental health program.

Priya’s passion for improving the health of children and young adults in India led her to collaborate with interdisciplinary experts in the SBC3 team as well as international academics, and develop an interactive school-based program called ENERGETIX Through ENERGETIX, Priya is currently helping teens and adolescents (in grade 8th, 9th and 10th) in Mumbai deal with academic and personal stress; she is committed to spreading this program to other cities in India and Asia. Priya’s constant insights through rigorous academic research and real-world field experience work towards constantly innovating new approaches to meet the mental health needs of today’s adolescents.

Priya Arte

Founder Director and COO

Priya Arte

Founder Director and COO

Priya, an MBA, has been a self-motivated, passionate entrepreneur since college. She combined her design creativity with prudent business capabilities to set up her fashion business.

Her ability to adapt and adjust effectively with new structures, requirements and cultures enabled her to establish a flourishing garment exports business in the Middle East.

Priya is an ardent practitioner of healing and spirituality. She is currently a Trustee of the Pranic Healing Foundation of Mumbai. An energy healing trainer, she imparts knowledge of energy healing and empowers participants to heal the body and mind. She conducts workshops on stress management and relief for companies. Priya has undergone Leadership Training from Landmark Education.

Dr Utkarsh Subnis

Founder Director,
Head SBCC R&D Unit

Dr. Utkarsh’s passion is to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities worldwide with innovative and technology-based interventions based on the science of social and behavioural change communication (SBCC).

He has had formal training in medicine and social sciences from India and the United States respectively, and his work has been published in international medical journals. He holds a PhD in Social and Behavioural Health from the Medical College of Virginia, USA and a Master’s in Health Communication from Penn State University, USA. Dr.

Subnis, is currently doing a research fellowship in the Dept. of Oncology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.
He practices meditation regularly and writes about metaphysics under a pen name.

An Anthropologist, Dr Tanvi Aher has had a fast-growing career in the development sector. She lead the Child sexual abuse awareness and sensitisation program at CHILDLINE India. She took on senior project assignments at CCDT and Americares India and now is the Lead for MHM at Tata Trusts. She is one of the Promoter shareholders of SBC³and is now being inducted onto the Board of Directors.

Dr. Tanvi Aher

Promoter

Governance Structure

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