Srimanta Mohanty,Ph.D. (President & CEO):
	Srimanta has over 18 years of extensive experience in the field of social policy research, project management and program evaluation. Srimanta's professional interest has been in “Demography” , "Development Studies" and “Statistics”. He has worked nationally and internationally. Srimanta has participated in a special mission to Sudan with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where he was responsible for the implementation of the Monitoring and Tracking activities of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Sudan. He worked as a population research expert at the Anhui University (China). He has received many awards and honours. He was a World Health Organization Fellow at Peking University. Srimanta's research work has been in America, Asia and Africa and covers a variety of areas, including health care, program evaluation, diversity management, gender issues, IDP issues,demography, labour market issues, population policy, literacy, human development indicators, and quality of life measurement. Srimanta holds a Ph.D. in Population Studies, M.A. from the University of Western Ontario, Master of Law in Population Sciences from Peking University, Master of Population Studies (MPS) from International Institute for Population Sciences and M.A.(Statistics) from Utkal University.
Srimanta has served as a mentor, volunteer, actor and researcher. Srimanta has a strong belief in the importance of making data based strategic decisions and policies. In his work, Srimanta attempts to set potential targets for the various dimensions of quality of life indicators. He believes indicators are initial guideposts for development planning.