WSDC / AWSDC 2014

WSDC 2014

This was the first ever Indian team at WSDC that was led completely by Indian coaches who were also Team India Alumni. The new coaches took the team to a 22^nd place finish as they won 4 out of 8 debates, narrowly missing out on a break to the out rounds. Surya Kumaravel was the 7^th best and Raghav Anand the 20^th best English as a Second Language speakers in the world respectively. Surya also placed in the top 50 speakers in the world in the open category.

AWSDC 2014

The Team finished as Semi Finalists, and bowed out to a team from South Africa. In the initial rounds, they won 5 out of the 6 debates and broke 3rd among the 30 teams at the tournament. Tejaswini was placed in the top twenty speakers in the open category of the tournament. Dhruva Bhat was adjudged the second best adjudicator at the tournament.

• Raghav Anand: Raghav Anand has just completed his 12^th standard, scoring 481/500 in his final exams. He will be pursuing Engineering Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He represented India at AWSDC and WSDC 2014, Thailand. He finished as the 20^th best English as a Second Language(ESL) Speaker at WSDC 2014, Thailand.
• Eashwar Nagaraj: Eashwar is currently studying Quantitative Economics at the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. He won the Illinois State Moot court tournament in 2015, and was also runner up at the Ohio State University and Cornell University moot courts in 2015-16
• Surya Kumaravel: Surya is currently studying law at University College London. He finished as the 7^th best ESL Speaker at WSDC 2014, Thailand. He is an integral part of the debating society at UCL serving as its president in 2016-17.
• Sashank Kumar Chenga: Sashankh has completed his 12^th grade, scoring 482/500 in his final examinations. He was a part of the team representing India that made it to the semi-finals of the AWSDC 2014 and the Indian team at WSDC 2014, Thailand. He will be pursuing his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore.
• Keerthanya Rajesh: Keerthanya is currently studying in 12^th grade at PSBB KK Nagar, Chennai. Apart from the AWSDC and WSDC 2014, she has gone on to represent her school at the prestigious World Schools Forum in 2016.

Amrithavarshini Venkatesh

Amrithavarshini Venkatesh: Varshini has been associated with ISDS first as a debater on Team India (in 2008 and 2012) and now as a coach (starting 2014). Varshini graduated from the IIT Madras Humanities programme and consulted on international development efforts with the Dalberg Advisors Mumbai office before joining ISDS in full time capacity as Executive Director.

Padmapriya Govindarajan

Padma is coached and judged for India. She was pursuing her Integrated Masters in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras She was ranked the 18th best ESL speaker in the world at WSDC 2012 as part of Team India; she was also a part of Team India at WSDC 2009 in Athens, Greece, and a part of the team representing ISDS at the Russell McVeagh International Schools Debating Tour in New Zealand.