Governance

Constituted on a national basis, the Board of Trustees holds primary responsibility for the growth and sustenance of IFA. The Trustees are closely involved in determining management policies and programme goals, and bring considerable experience in industry, finance, public affairs, law, communications, the arts and the humanities.

In order to streamline the functioning of the Board, and fully utilise the talent and expertise of the Trustees, two committees have been established with clearly defined responsibilities. The Programme Committee reviews the content and priorities of the grant programmes and the Finance Committee supervises investments, approves budgets and monitors expenditure. We also draw upon the expertise of Advisors who help us in specific areas. 

The Patrons of IFA are eminent artists who support our mandate.

Many of our ex-Trustees remain dear friends and well-wishers of the Foundation and enable us to connect to the wider world of the arts and those who support it.

Board Of Trustees

Civil Service | Bangalore
Language and Literature | Allahabad
Advertising and Market Research | Kolkata
Art and Industry | Pune
History and Culture | Goa
Crafts | Kolkata
Dance | New Delhi
Finance | Bangalore
Law | Bangalore
Civil Service | Bangalore
Language and Literature | Bangalore

Finance Committee

S Subramaniam (Chair)
Navtej S Johar
Sajan Poovayya

Programme Committee

Lakshmi Subramanian (Chair)
Alok Rai
Arti Kirloskar
Nandita Palchoudhuri
Navtej S Johar
Vivek Shanbhag

Founder/Director

Former Executive Directors

IFA Settlor

Ex-trustees

A Ravindra
Abhijit Basu (Late)
Abid Hussain
Ajit Nambiar
Aman Nath
Ashoke Chatterjee
Basanta Chowdhury (Late)
Bina Paul
Chiranjiv Singh
Chitra Visweswaran
Francis Wacziarg (Late)
Gieve Patel (Late)
Githa Hariharan
Gulammohammed Sheikh
Gurcharan Das
Ishaat Hussain
Jerry Rao
Jitish Kallat
Kiran Nadar
Lakshminarayanan
Lalit Bhasin
Mani Narayanswami
MV Subbiah
NS Raghavan
P Krishnamurthy
Piyush Pandey
Prakash Belawadi
Pramit Jhaveri
Priya Paul
Rashmi Poddar
Rathi Vinay Jha
Ravi Nedungadi (Late)
RKP Shankardass (Late)
Romi Khosla
Sandeep Singhal
Shanta Gokhale
Sheba Chhachhi
Shivkumar Sharma (Late)
Shubha Mudgal
Shyam Benegal
Simone N Tata
Subhash C Khuntia
Susie Tharu
Tara Sinha (Late)
Vijay Crishna

Patrons

Amitav Ghosh
Naseeruddin Shah
Raja Syed Muzaffar Ali
Shekhar Kapur
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan