About Us

Mohan Kaul

Founder and Chairman

India Partnership Forum

www.kaul.co.uk

We are a non-profit think tank for policy advocacy that supports the UK-India bilateral engagement.

Set up with the support of the High Commission of India, members are invited from a cross section of society including academics, artists, scientists, engineers, business and entrepreneurs.

IPF provides a collective voice and framework to the contribution they make to the UK economy and strengthen their participation in the mainstream of society as well as help in identifying opportunities to contribute towards the development of their community, India and India-UK relations.

IPF will recognise the work of young professionals and encourage members to participate in high level policy advocacy and help in identifying such opportunities.

We aim to focus on creating an interesting, influential and thought provoking think tank that acts as a fount for insightful policy ideas and community leadership.

Siddharth Kaul

CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, IPF

Udayan Guha

PROGRAMME ADVISER, IPF

Transformation and operating model leader (with P&L responsibility), thirty years across financial services and enterprise technology in areas of sales, delivery, procurement including use of AI. Sold and delivered outsourced operations for retail banks, global custodians, and insurers as the supplier), then bought and re-tendered them as the client. Built business organically to $200m P&L from ~$10m, delivering programs of $250m to $750m TCV and 1,500+ FTEs. Most recently interim Global Head of I&T Procurement at CSL, owning ~$450m of annual technology spend

Roles:: McKinsey, PwC, ICI Group, HCL , CSL

Common theme: technology-driven transformation on two horizons: short-term structural cost take-out that lifts EBIT immediately, and medium-term capability and competitiveness built to turbo-charge revenue growth.

Academic background IIT Kanpur (Btech), LBS (MBA)

Currently working as advisor, investor

Ravi Agarwal

PROGRAMME ADVISER, IPF

Ravi Agarwal is a business professional with over a decade of experience in the e-commerce spread across India and UK. He is currently based in the London and works with Amazon leading pricing for their retail business in the UK. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

He also heads the IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Chapter in the UK driving engagement among the alumni community and with the institute. During his time at IIM Ahmedabad, he was the elected General Secretary of the Students' Council. He is also associated with the India Partnership Forum in the UK as an advisor.