Dr Harvinder Singh Bakshi, the Winner of Indian Achievers’ Award 2020 for CEO of the Year in social category, is the former Chief Executive Officer of Global Cancer Concern India (GCCI) who provided leadership to this non-profit organisation since September 2013 to March 2023. Under his leadership, GCCI achieved a place of prominence in the vanguard of cancer-care organisations in the country. It was awarded by Kerala Government for its role in Food-Relief and by Punjab Government for excellence in Cancer- Prevention. Earlier, Dr Bakshi worked in HelpAge India, one of the top 10 NGOs in the country, which is working for the cause of the elderly, for more than 30 years in different capacities and finally shouldered the responsibility of National Director-Advocacy.   As a National Director Advocacy, he made a resplendent contribution in the advocacy for the Rights and Entitlements of the Elderly and inclusion of age-care values in school curriculum; He also officiated as CEO of HelpAge India for a brief period.

Dr Bakshi holds Ph.D. degree in Social Science and was also a recipient of United Nation’s sponsorship for a post-Doctoral course in Social Gerontology at United Nations Institute on Ageing, Malta (Europe).  He also has PG qualifications in Journalism and Industrial Relation.

His work experience embraces Program Management, Resource Mobilisation, Training, Partnership Development, Strategy Formulation, Image Promotion, and Advocacy. 

The countries which he has officially visited include Canada, Malta, Thailand, Malasia, and Nepal.He has appeared as guest and expert in various TV channels like Lok Sabha TV, National Door Darshan, NDTV, CNEB, Zee TV etc. in the programmes on social issues specially related to the elderly.

Dr Bakshi has written poems, articles, and book reviews on social issues. His anthology of poems in Hindi on current social and national issues titled ‘Samsamyik Kavya’ was released in 2022 and has been copiously appreciated. It is available on Amazon.