Pankaj Saran is an Institution Builder, Management Professional & Consultant, Policy Analyst and a Cognitive Scientist. He has over his professional career worked in international consulting practice with specific focus on Action Consulting intervention for organizational change in large and small Corporate and non-Corporate Organizations; worked as an independent Consultant to various organizations in developing assessment and developmental psychological tools for identifying and developing leadership potential. His current academic activity has been his teaming up with Industrial legends to create and nurture one of the leading institutes in India, EMPI. He has been involved with the architect of India’s IT and Telecom revolution, Padma Bhushan Mr. N. Vittal, in developing ‘Gujarat Vittal Innovation City’ - India’s first integrated High Tech Park that shall co-locate Industry, Academia and R&D in a 1100 hectare cluster format. Simultaneously, he has helped put together a consortium that is developing a similar sized park at Bangalore which will house hi-tech clusters like electronics hardware manufacturing, water innovation park, aerospace and defense cluster, and a stem cell research cluster amongst others.He has also been responsible for floating two first of their kind Initiatives – a participative Public Policy Forum for India (We Think For India) that conceived and ran a National Manufacturing Policy Competition, the findings of which were accepted as a base document to guide the development of the New Industrial Policy by the Government of India through its release by the Prime Minister of India; and the EMPI Indian Innovation Awards that for the first time looked at Organizational and Policy innovation in not only Corporates, but non-Corporates and Government. These awards were joined by the Indian Express Group and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and now also partnered by Businessworld.