Delhi, India, July 2025 – Paramananda Santra, a veteran of large-scale skill-development programmes and cross-border policy initiatives, today steps into public view as Chief Business Officer of Global Nurse Force (GNF) after six months of quietly shaping the organisation’s expansion playbook.
Since joining GNF in January 2025, Santra has activated an ambitious state-by-state outreach strategy, forging new government and industry partnerships in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. These alliances have accelerated ethical nurse-recruitment pipelines, linked local training institutes to overseas employers and established rapid-response channels for credentialing and licensure. Parallel engagement with health ministries and hospital groups on four continents has amplified India’s positioning as an emerging Skill Capital, able to deliver world-class nursing talent at scale.
Leveraging his prior experience at the National Skill Development Corporation and Ernst & Young, Santra has also helped several leading Indian conglomerates convert their corporate-social-responsibility mandates into sustainable healthcare-skilling projects that generate measurable community value and strengthen employer talent pipelines. Collaboration with prominent think tanks and policy networks has yielded evidence-based frameworks for equitable workforce mobility, informing both state and national skills agendas.
The impact is already tangible: hundreds of nurses—predominantly women—have secured dignified, career-defining roles in high-demand markets abroad; international healthcare providers are bridging critical staffing gaps; and Indian communities are benefiting from increased remittances, professional role models and enhanced economic participation by women.
As Chief Business Officer, Santra will build on this early momentum to deepen state partnerships, broaden global outreach and scale tech-enabled pathways that provide life-changing opportunities for nurses while advancing India’s reputation as the world’s trusted source of skilled healthcare professionals. His mandate aligns public, private and knowledge-sector stakeholders around a shared objective: closing global healthcare skill gaps through ethical, sustainable and inclusive workforce solutions.
About Global Nurse Force
Headquartered in Southern California, with a presence in India, UK and UAE, Global Nurse Force provides reliable, cost-effective and customized international nurse recruitment solutions for healthcare facilities across the globe. Since our inception, Global Nurse Force has been connecting talented international nurses with healthcare facilities around the world, making carefully considered staffing matches that are best for both facility and nurse.
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