THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
The Loyola Old Boys’ Association (LOBA), the alumni association of the old students of the Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram, which has a membership of over 4000 old boys spread across the globe, will present its annual Global Leadership Award (GLA) for this year to Sankar Krishnan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Ashoka University, a fully residential interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research university with a focus on liberal arts in Haryana.
The LOBA Young Achiever’s Award will be conferred on BalakrishnanMadhavankutty, Resident Representative, Government of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, at the World Bank. Federal Bank is the title sponsor of the Loyola Global Leadership Awards event. A major Indian commercial bank in the private sector it has more than thousand branches and ATMs spread across India.
The Loyola Old Boys’ Association (LOBA) launched its annual Global Leadership Awards (GLA) in 2015. The award, a first among schools in India, has now entered its third year, and the awards function will be held at the Golf Club on January 19, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. Jithin C Nedumala, Co-Founder and CEO of Make A Difference (MAD), will be the Chief Guest for the evening.
A BTech from CET and an MBA from IIM (A), the Loyola Global Leadership Award winner for 2017, Sankar Krishnan, was perhaps one of the youngest partner at McKinsey in India. In McKinsey, Sankar focused on strategic advice to leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies across Asia and Europe.
He was the leader of the healthcare practice in India and Greater China. He was also the Global Dean of McKinsey’s premier leadership programme for six years. He is also the CEO, of Tesseract Consulting, which primarily focuses on consulting to non-profits. Sankar Krishnan has been working with a global foundation to assess the impact of their programmes for AIDS prevention in India and develop an organizational model for the future. Sankar was also a Member of the Healthcare Working Group to develop the 12 th Five Year Plan for the Kerala State Government in 2011.
He has worked as an advisory board member with NISH, a quasi-government institute focused on the education and rehabilitation of persons with speech-language and hearing impairment. He is also an advisor to several start-ups and technology firms and continues to drive leadership development programmes for upcoming managers in Europe and the US.
As Resident Representative, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, at the World Bank, LOBA Young Achiever’s Award winner Balakrishnan Madhavan Kutty supports the design of the next phase of Government of India’s flagship program on rural livelihoods, National Rural Livelihoods Mission; Guiding policy formulation, facilitating partnerships and leading operations for US $150 million new-generation, multi-sectoral and transformative rural inclusive growth projects. Earlier he had worked as Strategic Management Consultant at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee at Cambridge. An Engineering graduate from CET, he did his MBA from IRMA in addition to doing his Masters in Public Administration at Harvard.
According to Pradeep Suthan, President, Loyola Old Boys’ Association (LOBA), “the Leadership Awards aim to recognize outstanding leaders among the fraternity of old boys who can serve as role models for the new generation at Loyola School. LOBA would like these awards to inspire youngsters to change the world.”
LOBA, which is among a handful of school alumni associations in India, had last year initiated a medical insurance programme for around 120 Loyola School staff members. This year, LOBA will start a pension scheme for retired non-teaching staff – both initiatives funded by the old boys of the school, he added.
