Brief Background About The PDF Founder President Mrs Ratan Kaul

Associations

|  Founder President –  PUBLIC  DIPLOMACY FORUM {PDF}

| Festival Director – INKPOT  INDIA  CONCLAVE

| Vice President, ICUNR (Indian Council for UN   Relations)

| Vice President, ICHR (Indian Council of Human Relations),   Registered Trust founded by Dr. L.M. Singhvi.

| Advisor to PRESIDENTS INSTITUTE, India. Headquartered at   Copenhagen, Denmark. Website: http://www.presinst.com

| Executive President, Kashmiriyat Preservation Foundation. 

| Consulting Editor, for Business Sphere.

| General Secretary, for Shanti Sahyog (Registered not-for-  profit organization).

| Hon’y Secretary, (Jammu & Kashmir) AASHIANA [Regd   NGO].

| Advisor, Delhi Literature Festival.

| Chief Advisor, BRIDGES, A Women’s Empowerment   Initiative, Connecting Women !

Professional

| Awarded Ambassador for Peace by the Universal   Peace Federation founded in 1999 by Rev Dr & Mrs Sun Myung   Moon in 2006 (award presented by Eduardo Faleiro, External   Affairs Minister, GOI, New Delhi).

| Awarded Outstanding Woman Social Activist by Russian Centre   of Science & Culture in 2005.

| Awarded Outstanding delegate at Regional Conference of UNA in Asia & Pacific   Dec 1986 by IFUNA under auspices of WFUNA among others.
| Received Women’s Day Award, 2011 by  Smt. Mohsina Kidwai, Smt. Girija Vyas,   Sh. Buta Singh. 
| Awarded RAJIV GANDHI RASHTRIYA EKTA SAMMAN, 2013
| Organised and hosted several Mega Events, International Conferences, Symposia, Seminars & Award Functions with participation from Ministers, both   Central and State, top bureaucrats, Captains of Industry, Ambassadors &  members of the diplomatic corps, media professionals and civil society.
| Published several articles in news magazines and journals on diverse topics   like environment, current affairs etc.
| Edited and published newsletters of IFUNA, Rotary, Shanti Sahyog & Junior   Chamber.

Projects 

| Undertaken several projects for environment protection and   climate change and for preservation of wetlands and wildlife.

| Initiated an environmental campaign for the revival of the   watershed of Damdama lake in the Aravallis which aims at   regenerating and conserving our natural systems .

| Actively promoted the cause of ‘in situ ‘ improvement and   development of urban slums as well as rural areas around Delhi NCR by providing basic knowledge of energy saving initiatives ,health and hygiene ,education for the girl child under EWS category through not for profits aided by PSU’s and reputed corporates under their CSR initiatives.

Education

| Alumnus of Sophia College, Ajmer, Rajasthan,with graduation in Science.

| 1st class postgraduate degree in Linguistics from Delhi University

| Certificate in French from Alliance Francaise, New Delhi.