Prasanthkumar Nellickal
Catalyst
Qualified as a social development professional, Prasanth is a facilitator in research methodology, participatory planning, project management and counseling. He has got more than a decade’s working experience in health and development sectors particularly in the NGO domain in senior level management. Currently Prasanth is a full time Catalyst at IISE dealing with social and community development and psychosocial interventions.
He started his career in psychological counseling and de-addiction and later moved to HIV/AIDS programmes in prevention, care and support.
Before joining IISE he led the technical support cell for the pilot implementation of ‘Responsible Tourism Initiatives’ for Department of Tourism, Government of Kerala in the capacity of State Programme Coordinator.
Navin Ramachandran
Visiting Catalyst
Navin is an advisor to the board, visiting catalyst and troubleshooter at the IISE. In his spare time he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company for five years and was mainly involved in corporate strategy work across several sectors. In order to balance out the carbon footprint of his consulting days, Navin is currently with a Berkeley based company called Amyris whose mission is to provide high performing alternatives to petroleum based products.
On his association with IISE:
“It all started with an article in the New York Times over 7 years ago. The article inspired me to pack up from the US and travel down to Kerala to meet Paul and Sabriye that led to several discussions about the vision for IISE. A month of talking to people, looking for land and brainstorming on the institute led to a close friendship that has kept me involved and inspired about the mission of IISE.”