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Parag Agrawal Dr. Swati Mohan Meghana Musunuri & Satyam Mishra
you beautiful. Stop comparing your- Bihar, have made it to the list of top
selves with others and let’s talk about 50 finalists for the prestigious US $1
more important things that are hap- million 2021 Global Teacher Prize.
pening worldwide. I think this is what Meghana Musunuri is social stud-
you need to understand. Come out, ies, English, and mathematics teach-
speak for yourself, because you are er from Hyderabad, India in one of
the leader of your life. You are the the teachers to have made it to the
voice of your own. I believed in my- list of top fifty Global Teacher Prize
self and that’s why I am standing here 2021 finalists while Satyam Mishra
today. Thank you.” is a Math teacher from Bhagalpur,
2. neeraJ choPra Bihar, India, who is determined to
Neeraj Chopra won a histor- change the way children look at the
ic gold medal in the men’s javelin world through his pedagogy. Thus,
throw, ensuring India’s best-ever both of them emerged as prominent
Olympic campaign at the Tokyo 2020 Indian newsmakers on a global stage.
Games making it to the top of Indi- 5. adar Poonawalla
an Newsmakers 2021 list. Chopra Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of
became the first athlete from inde- Serum Institute of India (SII) - the
pendent India to win a medal in a world’s largest vaccine manufac-
track and field event. Neeraj is from turer, at the onset of 2021 was in
the village of Khandra in Haryana’s news concerning the production of
Panipat district. Neeraj grew in a COVID-19 vaccine Covishield - the
17-member joint family and was the Adar Poonawalla AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine manu-
eldest of the children. factured in India, and announcing its
3. Parag agrawal accessibility to healthcare workers,
Parag Agrawal 37, an Indian-or- elderly citizens and to public in gen-
igin tech executive, assumed charge eral. Poonawalla continues his ear-
as the new Twitter CEO on Novem- nest efforts in increasing the vaccine
ber 29 (Monday), after Jack Dorsey production from 70 million in March
stepped down as the co-founder of to 90 million in June at SII, besides
the social media giant emerging as assuring of getting clearance from
one of the most celebrated faces of the European Medicines Agency
Indian Newsmakers 2021. (EMA) for Covishield.
Parag completed his Bachelor’s 6. BhavYa lal
Degree in Computer Science and
Engineering (2005) from the presti- In the first week of February,
gious Indian Institute of Technology, Bhavya Lal an Indian-American
Bombay (IIT Bombay) and obtained scientist who oversaw NASA’s tran-
his MS Degree and Doctorate in sition under President Joe Biden’s
Computer Science from Stanford administration, was appointed as
University. the Acting Chief of Staff of the U.S.
4. meghana muSunurI & space agency - NASA for the first
SaTYam mIShra 100 days. Before that, she served as
Meghana Musunuri from Hy- a member of the Biden Presidential
derabad and Satyam Mishra from Bhavya Lal Samir Banerjee
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