# 2024 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence Lecture Featuring Ruchira Gupta

**Date**: Thursday, April 11, 2024
**Location**: NYU Stern - Paulson Auditorium
**RSVP**: [Here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgRX8kKCBKqsuy-MaPCcWDb2cCdEHxcf7lRCOrWdAEv361XQ/viewform?usp=sharing)

On April 11th at 5:00 pm EDT, the NYU Stern [Business & Society Program](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/business-society-program) hosted the 2024 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture titled: "How Business Can Help to Stop Human Trafficking," delivered by Ruchira Gupta, Emmy Award-winning activist, author, journalist and founder of Apne Aap.

About the Ashok C. Sani Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
Ashok C. Sani (BS ’74), for whom this lecture is named, was a distinguished graduate, successful entrepreneur, president of C.G.S. Industries Inc., loyal supporter of NYU, and the founding member of the NYU Stern Alumni Council. The Ashok Sani Scholar program shares Mr. Sani’s interest in ethics, truth, peace, compassion and the moral and social responsibilities of members of society with the NYU Stern community.

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![Ruchira Gupta headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/480w/public/2024-03/ruchira_un_portrait_no_watermark.jpg?itok=1k2yoMbb)## Past Sani Lectures

- [Tom Szaky](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2023-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-tom-szaky)
- [Rubana Huq](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2022-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-rubana-huq)
- [Sallie Krawcheck](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2021-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-sallie-krawcheck)
- [M. Night Shyamalan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2019-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-m-night-shyamalan)
- [Alan Murray](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2018-sani-lecture-alan-murray)
- [Larry Silverstein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2017-sani-lecture-larry-silverstein)
- [Robert Frank](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/professor-robert-frank-delivers-2016-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture)
- [John Sexton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2015-sani-lecture-john-sexton)
- [Gordon Brown](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/sani-lecture-gordon-brown)
- [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/innovate-possible-2013)
- [Bill Drayton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/uat_025208)