Dr. Neena Pahuja: Executive Member at National Council of Vocational Education & Training (NCVET) under Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, GOI

As part of her current role in the regulatory body of skilling, she is currently working on transformation in Skilling, making it aspirational and embedding it as part of continuous learning process & formal education. She supports various policies including Future Skills, Cross-Sectoral skilling, Micro-Credentials and National Credit Framework & its operationalization. She has also supported initiatives on Skilling framework for AI, Digital Skilling framework and the future of work.

Prior to the current role, she was Director General at ERNET India, part of Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (Meity), where she was involved in National Wide policies & new research areas to support “Connected India” initiatives. She was also responsible for National policy on Internet of Things (IoT) with special focus on Health, Manufacturing, Industries 4.0 and Agriculture, where she also helped in setting-up centers of excellence for Start-ups for Intelligent IOT. Before joining government roles, she was CIO of Max Healthcare, and was responsible for implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in their hospitals chain. Prior to that, she was global leader for handling Digitization and Security & Compliance at Genpact and also supported GE to Genpact transition.

She is an alumnus of IITD.