Our Board
Arvind Malhotra - Chair and CEO
Arvind co-founded the FutureSense Group in 2005 as a social enterprise and set up the FutureSense Foundation in 2009 to drive long term social impact, driven by a passion for greater social equality. Arvind has led the foundation since its start and overseen its expansion across the six countries over the years. With career spanning over 30 years, Arvind brings a wide range of business, management and international experience to the Board. Having started his working life in consumer marketing with Unilever, Arvind spent over a decade leading financial services business to expand into new markets and establish customer centric processes. Arvind is a champion for global citizenship and believes firmly in the idea that we must all play our part to tackle global challenges.
Prakriti Malhotra - Co Founder and Trustee
Prakriti co-founded the Futuresense Group along with her husband Arvind in 2005 and currently leads the Challenges Abroad U.K. team. As a founding trustee, Prakriti has been involved with the strategic developments of the Futuresense Foundation from its start, helping it take shape across the global hubs and establish key partnerships. Prakriti has been involved in development work at the grassroots level for over 30 years and is passionate about tackling women’s issues and the challenges facing the girl-child in developing countries. She strongly believes that through education and community action we can enable change and bring about equality.
Stefano Battain - Trustee
Stefano is global livelihoods adviser at War Child UK.
He previously spent 8 years working in Tanzania, South Sudan
and Jordan in various roles supporting vulnerable groups to have stronger livelihoods and enhanced food security.
Born in Italy, Stefano spent his early years in the Dolomites, surrounded by beautiful mountains and green valleys that forged his love for nature. In his early twenties, he started volunteering for a humanitarian organisation while graduating in communication.
He also volunteered in South America and India before undertaking his Masters in Poverty Reduction and Development Management at the University of Birmingham.
Stefano is passionate about travelling, agriculture and socio-environmental justice. In 2015 he took a sabbatical year to travel around the world documenting small grassroots initiatives promoting food sovereignty, based on that he founded the initiative ALTERRATIVE, with his wife Daniela. They currently live in London with their cat, Zaki.
Peter Jewitt - Trustee
Peter brings over 25 years in the life & pensions industry, latterly at board level, during which time he led large-scale operations and development projects and performed a variety of high-level finance roles.
Over his career, Peter has demonstrated a consistent track record of successful delivery over a broad range of assignments covering distribution, profitability, capital restructuring, financial re-engineering, corporate services, and transformation programmes. He has proved his versatility by building on his expertise and background to help launch a number of businesses and alongside these, built a successful consultancy business focusing on using his own experiences to help SME owners achieve their aspirations and objectives.
He is currently involved with a range of companies and charities
Kiron Bose - Advisor
Kiron has over 20 years experience in entrepreneurship, fund management, banking and finance in developing countries. From 1996 to 2018 Kiron worked in Asia with companies and governments, focusing on South and Southeast Asia for much of the period. His previous experience includes 11 years at Goldman Sachs, an early investor in India, Bangladesh, the Philippines and Indonesia and as CIO of Brummer & Partners’ Frontier Fund. He is Chairman of a media startup based in Singapore and Manila. Kiron has a MA in economics from Cambridge University and an MPhil. in economics from Oxford University. He speaks English, Bengali and French. His interests include development economics, Indian art, history and football