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Jay Sehgal is the Executive Vice President of the Sehgal Family Foundation and Representative at the S.M. Sehgal Foundation in India. An alumnus of The University of Iowa, he worked in Information Technology in leading private sector organizations in the U.S. and India for sixteen years and served as Director of Information Technology at Proagro Group of Companies in India. Jay then served as Managing Trustee and Executive Director of S.M. Sehgal Foundation and IRRAD for 10 years. Jay represents the Sehgal Family Foundation on the Board of Trustees for Ashoka Trust for Research in Environment and the Ecology (ATREE) and the Iowa International Center. He also serves on the board of India Development Coalition of America (IDCA). Jay resides in Des Moines, Iowa with his wife Veena and two sons. For the past 10 years, the Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD) has heavily focused on developing innovative, replicable models in water, hygiene and sanitation, agriculture and good rural governance that lead to integrated village development. Their mission for the next decade is scaling up of the models/modules in different parts of India in partnership with willing partners in the public, private or nonprofit sectors. They strongly believe that if a model/module is replicable and sustainable, it can be taken to other parts of India and other developing countries after adapting it to local conditions. More information on the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council can be found here.