| Shiv Dayal (Chairman) | Shiv Dayal is the founder and CEO of Langham Capital, a cross-border investment bank. Having schooled at Mayo College, Ajmer, Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai, and Dulwich College, London, he has a BA in Economics from Sussex University, an MA in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia, and an MBA from London Business School. |
| Virendra Dayal Senior Trustee (Chairman, 2014–20) | Padma Bhushan; former Under-Secretary-General, United Nations; former member, National Human Rights Commission, Virendra Dayal was formerly with IAS, studied in St. Stephen’s College and was a Rhodes Scholar of the Oxford University. |
| Ashok Dayal Senior Trustee | Former Director, Deutsche Bank and CEO of ANZ Grindlays Bank, Ashok Dayal schooled at Sherwood School and St. Stephen’s College. |
| Nandita Talukder Trustee |
Nandita Talukder is a member of the governing body and the academic committee of Him Jyoti School, Dehradun. Born in Nainital and schooled at St Mary’s Convent, she has worked in education in Upper Assam, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam, and as a merchandiser for Fabindia overseas. She graduated in Economics from Miranda House, Delhi University. |
| Ira Mathur Trustee |
Ira Mathur, an educator and teacher of Spanish, is Head of the Spanish Department and Assistant Curriculum Leader of Modern Foreign Languages at The British School, New Delhi. She has an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an MPhil in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from Instituto Cervantes, Alcala de Henares, Spain. |
| Sandeep Dayal Trustee |
Sandeep Dayal has over four decades of experience in the travel industry, he is a Partner at Anecdotes, a luxury boutique design travel company. He studied at Mayo College and St Stephen’s College. He was a MASHAV Government of Israel scholar at the University of Haifa. |
| Brig Sartaj Singh (Retd.), Sena Medal, (Director) | Brig Sartaj Singh is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy and served in the Indian Army for 33 years. He joined the Trust in 2013 after retirement, and has been involved in all of its functions ever since. |
The Dayal Trust is very grateful for the invaluable contributions of Lavanya Ray and Anita Singh Soin who have been trustees for several years.
The Trust is also deeply appreciative of the contribution of the earlier board members Vinod C Khanna, Sushil Dubey of the Indian Foreign Service and Dr. S. Ramesh as special representative in the Kumaon.