The wide angle picture above shows the four founding figures of ALPs - Hansruedi Pfeiffer of SDC; Vijay Mahajan of Basix; Renee Chao-Beroff of Pamiga and Sanjay Behuria of Livelihood Basix Inc, USA
ALPs would not have been possible without the vision and support of Mr Hansruedui Pfeiffer, who has retired from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in the summer of 2013. He nurtured the ALPs idea from seed to sapling over three years and overcame several challenges to make it happen.
Mr Vijay Mahajan is known to the SDC since 1983, when he founded a development NGO PRADAN. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is a Mid-Career Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS) at the Princeton University, USA. In 1990, he co-founded and ran till 1996, an NGO, VikaSoko Inc, with two others from WWS, Geoffrey Onegi-Obel of Uganda and Thomas Fisher of the UK, to promote Indian-African development exchange. In 1996, he set up BASIX, with SDC and Ford Foundation support. Vijay was selected as one of 60 outstanding global social entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum, Davos in 2003. Vijay is a member of the India-South Africa CEOs Forum and visited South Africa thrice, once as part of the Indian Prime Minister’s delegation. Vijay is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a consortium of 33 donors and foundations, hosted by the World Bank.
Mr Vijay Mahajan is known to the SDC since 1983, when he founded a development NGO PRADAN. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is a Mid-Career Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson School (WWS) at the Princeton University, USA. In 1990, he co-founded and ran till 1996, an NGO, VikaSoko Inc, with two others from WWS, Geoffrey Onegi-Obel of Uganda and Thomas Fisher of the UK, to promote Indian-African development exchange. In 1996, he set up BASIX, with SDC and Ford Foundation support. Vijay was selected as one of 60 outstanding global social entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum, Davos in 2003. Vijay is a member of the India-South Africa CEOs Forum and visited South Africa thrice, once as part of the Indian Prime Minister’s delegation. Vijay is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a consortium of 33 donors and foundations, hosted by the World Bank.