Saif Khan

Saif holds a Master of Technology degree in Environmental Engineering and Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Prior to joining CESD, he has worked with WSP’s Planning and Advisory unit, IIT Delhi, and IIT Kanpur wherein he closely collaborated with UNEP, NERC, NITI Aayog and CPCB in multiple projects focused on strategic air quality assessment, statistical data analysis and visualization, technical reviewing and reporting, air quality monitoring and modelling, and impact assessments. He has a proven track record in managing and delivering technical air quality assessments for major projects within the residential, transport, oil & gas, and development and planning sectors. At CII-ITC CESD, he is involved in developing a robust framework for community air quality management using low-cost sensors across rapidly developing Indore Metropolitan Region.

Shubham Mishra

Shubham completed his master’s in environmental sciences from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University), Lucknow in 2018. He has extensive research and work experience in the field of Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Biodiversity conservation. Before joining CESD he served as a research fellow at Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) Headquarters, Lucknow. At UPPCB he contributed to the mainstream research and policymaking, both qualitative and quantitative, in the air pollution domain. He played an active role in the development of City level clean air action plans, State action plan for clean air, Airshed Management Plan, Emission Inventories, Source apportionment studies, Pollution control, and management strategies/tools, etc., under NCAP and other programs by various agencies like GIZ, TERI, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi, A-PAG, DoEF& CC-GoUP, DoUD-GoUP at different levels. He represented UPPCB over the technical front for ‘Air Quality Management Technical Assistance program’ with World Bank.

Aparna Gupta

Aparna has completed her Master’s in Water Science and Governance from TERI University and has done her bachelor’s in Botany from Delhi University. She has five years of work experience with her expertise lying in business development, coordinating for beneficiary trainings and workshops and event management. Her interest areas are waste management specifically Solid waste and E-waste management.

She has worked with organizations like Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, National Institute of Urban Affairs, Saahas NGO and Internet and Mobile Association of India before joining CII-CESD team under Climate Action Program

Anjali

Anjali has completed her Master of Technology from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli with a concentration in Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from Amity University, Noida. Prior to CESD, she has joined us from Central Pollution Control Board with an experience in enforcement of industrial pollution norms, categorization of industrial sectors into different category of industries, IRCA Certified Lead Auditor for Environmental Management Systems. She is a trailblazer in handling NGT court cases, policy making, environmental statistics and implementation of industrial measures in NCR-Delhi for improvement of air quality. At CESD, with an insatiable desire to learn new, she works on policy and advocacy.

Saurabh Kumar

Saurabh holds a Ph.D. (Forest Ecology and Environment) and Master's (Environment Management) from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. He has 8 years of research and work experience in wetland ecology, biodiversity, RS & GIS, EIA, plant carbon sequestration and wastewater. He has 11 published research articles in peer reviewed journals, one book and two book chapters (as co-author

Santosh Yadav

Santosh has a doctorate from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur; a Post Doctorate from the prestigious Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholar of the University of Calgary, Canada. At the Centre, he is coordinating the environmental policy advocacy program and associated with sustainable waste management and environmental auditing services. Prior to joining the CII, Santosh had research and industrial experience of more than 16 years across the areas of environmental safeguard policies, environmental impact assessment and management plan, phytoremediation technology, reclamation of wasteland and mine spoil dump sites, solid waste management, landfill bioreactor technology, sustainable utilization/treatment of wastewater, etc. He enjoys nature walk and bird watching whenever time permits.

Sherry Pande

Sherry holds a Master’s degree in Climate Science and Policy from TERI School of Advanced Studies, and a Bachelors’ degree in Zoology from Carmel College for Women, Goa. She previously worked with Toxics Link before joining CESD. At CESD she is involved in Environment Policy and Advocacy.

Ananya Das

Ananya is doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and an M. Tech in Environmental Science and Technology from National Institute of Technology Durgapur. Her interests lie in the field of Aerosol (Air pollution), Health risk assessment (mixture toxicity), In-vitro toxicity, Epidemiological studies, Inputs to Public Policy Development and Climate Change and Technology adaptation.

Before joining the Centre, Ananya had working experience in the field of air pollution in the State of Bihar and Maharashtra, where she was involved in Research & Analysis, Project Management, Stakeholders Engagement & Donor Reporting.

Eti Drolia

Eti holds a master’s degree in Environmental Studies and Resource Management from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, and a bachelor’s degree in Botany from Hindu College, Delhi University. At CESD, she is a part of the team that works on clean air and sustainable transportation. Prior to joining CESD, she worked at Azyro Infratech in the area of ESG. An animal lover, Eti is also an avid traveller and believes in sustainability and minimalization.

Neha Kaul

Neha is graduated from Delhi University in Botany and post graduated in Environment Management from GGSIPU. A QEHS Consultant, CQI & IRCA Certified Lead Auditor for EMS & certified on GRI Standards for Sustainability Reporting. She brings approx. 7 yrs of work experience in EIA, Carbon Footprinting & EHS (ISO 14001, ISO 18001, ISO 45001 & ISO 9001) PAN India in various sectors and top MNCs. She has been trainer for Management System Standards and assisted organizations to deploy, improve & audit their management systems. Neha earlier worked at Agile Group as Consultant & Sustainability Lead. She has also worked with other esteemed organizations like ENVIRTA Sustainable Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation & WWF.

Shourya Shashwat

Shourya has done his MBA in Business Sustainability from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI School of Advanced Studies) and his Bachelors in Geography (Hons.) from University of Delhi with special emphasis on climate change. Prior to joining CII, He has worked in multiple diverse roles in KPMG, Ashoka University and Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. Shourya has gained valuable and multifaceted experience by being exposed to different sectors. He is an experienced professional in the field of global sustainability framework. His work in the field of Sustainability Reporting, ESG, BRSR, Climate Change and Health & Safety has largely benefitted many organizations. Within CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, some of his responsibilities includes assignments related to Global Reporting Initiative, Environmental Social Governance, Business Responsibility Sustainability Reporting, Climate Change, GHG Protocol – Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, Carbon foot printing and Health & Safety Standards.

Neha Kaushik

Neha holds a Master's degree in Environment Management from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi and a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. Prior to joining CII, she has interned with National Mission for Clean Ganga, Ministry of Jal Shakti and CII-CESD. Currently she is supporting Environment Policy Advocacy, projects related to Climate Change, Zero Waste to Landfill and EHS Compliance.

Vandana Pal

Vandana Pal has a Master’s degree in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management from TERI University, New Delhi. As a sustainability professional with a diverse knowledge base in climate change and sustainable development policies and practices, she has experience with: project development for climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate finance such as NAFCC & GCF, climate policies, particularly with NAPCC, SAPCC and SDGs. In addition, she has worked and collaborated with Government, public and private entities as well as interdisciplinary, multicultural global teams. Before joining the CESD, Vandana worked as Prospecting and Implementation Manager with South Pole, and as a Programme Officer at the Climate Change Department of the State Government of Gujarat.

Samuel Augustin

Samuel Augustin has a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and a Master’s in Economics from Ambedkar University, Delhi. After completing his Master’s, Samuel joined GIZ as an Intern and then later joined Chintan as a Project Coordinator where he worked on projects related to plastic waste management and circular economy. He further went on to pursue the role of a researcher at ICRIER before joining CESD. At CESD, Samuel is a part of the Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency team. He is a passionate gardener and sports enthusiast who strongly believes in minimalism at its core.

Khyati Mynam

Khyati holds a master’s degree in environmental studies and Resource Management from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi, and a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. At CESD, she is a part of the team that works on circular economy and resource efficiency. Prior to joining CESD, she worked at SG Analytics in the ESG domain.

Asprit Kaur

Asprit holds a Master’s degree in Climate Science and Policy from TERI School of Advanced Studies, and a Bachelors’ degree in Environmental Science, Chemistry and Zoology from Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru. She worked with Mobius foundation before joining CESD.

Priyanka Choudhary

Priyanka is an environment and sustainability professional who has worked for sustainable supply chains FSC and PEFC as an auditor and program coordinator. She has organized and conducted webinars in this area and was also involved in quality assurance in her previous role. She is trained in basic LCA and EIA. Priyanka has completed her bachelor’s in Chemistry Honors from Gargi college, Delhi University and her Master’s in Environmental Sciences from Amity University. She was a gold medalist in Environmental Sciences. At CII, Priyanka works as an Associate Counsellor for Sustainability Awards.

Shikhar Jain

Shikhar Jain has over 20 years of experience working with variety of industries, where he has designed, implemented and integrated Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety and Social programs/management systems in over 100 individual facilities and for corporate-wide operations. Shikhar has developed and implemented best practices for several top Indian firms, including in areas of improved operational efficiency, good EHS practices and enhanced compliance management.

Seema Arora

Seema Arora pioneered the creation of services on Environment and Sustainable Development within CII. Her journey with CII began with engaging Indian Industry towards the run up to the Earth Summit in 1992. Seema Arora works on designing innovative products and frameworks to build the business case for industry to invest in sustainability. She has created several initiatives including the world’s first Corporate Sustainability Label from CESD. As the head of CESD she networks with industry, government and community-based organisations to develop policy instruments and innovative voluntary approaches to sustainable development. She is also providing inputs to defining sustainable development action plans for state governments. Ms Arora provides training and counseling to industry for evolving a sustainability vision and a portfolio of sustainability strategies. Her main areas of interest include environmental policy, management systems, corporate sustainability, institutional strengthening and capacity building. Seema Arora is a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability, external review panel for Sustainability Reporting for several global companies, and Polaris Committee of FBN (Family Business Network) International. She is a Bachelor’s in Engineering from Delhi University.

Priyanka Yadav

Priyanka is a gold medalist in M.Sc. Natural Resource Management (NRM). She did her post-graduation in NRM from University School of Environment Management, GGSIPU, New Delhi. Prior to joining CII, she interned with WWF-India and CII, while pursuing her academics. At CESD, she works on environment policy and advocacy, with an objective to imbibe the concept of sustainability into mainstream business planning. Her key responsibilities include providing support in specialized projects like GHG inventorization of entire IPPU sector for the purpose of preparation of BUR-2, CII-NITI Aayog: Cleaner Air Better Life Project. She also manages CII-EnCASe: Environmental Compliance & Advisory Services. She also engages with the members of CII-National Committee on Environment (NCE), for seeking their inputs on various environmental issues to further undertake policy dialogue with all concerned stakeholders.

Lakshmi Iyengar

Lakshmi has completed her B.Com(Hons) from Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University. Has also taken some courses in computer programming at NIIT. Joined CII, Central office and worked there, for a little under 5 years Was a part of the Michael Porter Project which entailed assessing the competitiveness of Indian Industry in particular industry sectors. Also was actively involved with all the major events – trade fairs, conferences, WEF, auto expo etc. Was given independent charge of the in-house magazine, Grapevine. She worked in the Development Sector, at the NGO, Sanjivini Society for Mental Health, as a trained counsellor for ten years. The work there entailed counselling clients with a multitude of emotional problems, conducting community outreach programs for schools and corporates as well as in house workshops. Organising panel discussions/fundraisers and working on their publication and website was a part of her job profile. Lakshmi works in the Communications team and has been with CESD for over four years.

Neeraj Kumar

Nandini Kumar

Nandini has a doctorate in atmospheric chemistry and a master's degree in environmental chemistry. She has taught several subjects related to environmental science and sustainability/global change in an interdisciplinary context at the Master's level at TERI University

Kavita Kathait

Kavita is a development sector professional with working experience at CAPART (MoRD)

Pravir Deshmukh

Pravir has a master degree in Botany and pursuing Ph. D. degree from Amravati University.

Jayashree Singha

Jayashree has been working in the development sector for the past 12 years. She has handled various sustainable projects in different parts of the country in health and education. She also has a wide experience working with international organizations.

Gajendra Singh

Gajendra is an account professional with a Bachelor’s degree and experience of 6 years in domestic and MNC companies. He has worked with Genpact India and Mercer India in the past. Currently, he is taking care of finance and accounts activities in CESD and also supports administration.

Banajyotsna Baruah

Banajyotsna has done her post-graduation in Environmental Science from Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education & Research and graduation in Microbiology from Pune University. She previously worked with Hazards Centre and has 7 years of work experience in research and analysis

Asha Joseph

A marketing professional with almost 23 years of experience, Asha leads the Central Marketing Team for the Executive Education programmes for capacity building at CESD and is also a part of CII-ITC Sustainability Awards, which is a part of CESD’s continued effort to create awareness on sustainability practices and to create capabilities in business, where her responsibilities include promoting Sustainability Awards and Assessor Training, analysis of the applications, and preparation of feedback reports, support at the Awards Ceremony etc. Prior to joining CESD, she worked with Oxford University Press for 19 years where she was responsible for Event Management, Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, among others. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, New Delhi.

V. Vijayasudha

Vijayasudha holds a B.SC in Chemistry from Madras University. She has been with CII for the last 21 years. Before joining the Centre in April 2011 to take on the administrative responsibilities and holding charge of the HoDs office.

Swati Pandey

Swati is facilitating companies in India to integrate sustainability into their business functioning. At CESD she is managing and continuously developing recognition product

Surabhi Pathak

Surabhi Pathak is an MBA in Oil and Gas Management from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun and B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow. She has provided services as a Consultant in the area of Oil and Gas Pipelines. She also has worked as an Assistant Marketing Manager for India Oil and Gas Review Summit and International Exhibition (IORS) and on the Oil and Gas Journal of Oil Asia Publications Pvt. Ltd. At CESD she is working on Energy and Sustainability Consulting, Training and Capacity Building, Report Writing and Presentation, Project of Energy Management Systems ISO 50001:2011 at DMRC New Delhi, developing NATCOM GHG emission inventory for IPPU sector for MoEFCC.

Shreya Dutta

Shreya Dutta received a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration at Amity University

Shourjomay Chattopadhyay

Shourjomay holds a Master's degree in Environmental Studies and Resource Management from the TERI University and a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Honors) from the University of Delhi. Prior to joining CESD, he worked on multiple projects utilizing and developing his skills on various aspects of climate change, agriculture and water. He was part of the team that developed India's first bottom-up HFC emissions model. He also worked on the development of a GHG inventory and Climate MRV system for the state of Sikkim and drafting of the Mizoram State Water Policy. At CESD, he is involved in issues related to a circular economy and resource efficiency. He is working on the development of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) models to identify the scope of circularity within value chains at an economy, sector and entity level.

Abhinav Singh

Abhinav Singh has over 10 years of experience in the renewable energy sector that encompasses regulatory affairs, commercial and business development. He holds expertise in pre-project development and project governance. He was also the team leader of the Standard and Labelling programme of Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Government of India. He is MBA in Power Management from University of Petroleum & Management Studies, Dehradun and B.Tech in mechanical engineering from Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida that is affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University. At CESD, he is involved in consultancy in the areas of Energy Efficiency, Integrated Management Systems and Energy Management Systems.

Mohit Sharma

Mohit is a multidisciplinary professional who has worked extensively on energy and climate-related issues with the goal of balancing economic growth with rising environmental concerns. Mohit received his masters from National Sustainable Energy Laboratory at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011. Before joining CESD, Mohit worked with Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) including brief stints at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). At CEEW, Mohit used global economic and climate models to determine India’s greenhouse gas trajectories in domestic, transportation and industrial sectors and develop abatement curves to inform decision-makers at the Montreal Protocol in the run-up to successful amendment for phasedown of HFCs. Additionally, Mohit has worked in the allied areas of energy efficiency, national energy systems optimisation and waste/resource management. Mohit has published research with international journals including Climate policy and Climatic Change. Mohit worked briefly as a project manager in the manufacturing sector after having a degree in Chemical Engineer from National Institute of Technology in 2006. Mohit's current focus at CESD is clean air and more specifically, development of an integrated airshed management approach and clean industry charter. Most recently, he assisted four task forces under CII-NITI Aayog initiative to prepare four source-specific action plans based on the latest scientific evidence and multi-stakeholder consultations involving the Government, civil society and industry.

Pawan Kumar

Pawan is working with CESD Since last five years in Administration, looking after all office administration activities and supporting Events Organizing Team of CESD. He is having 8+ years of work experience in the same field. Pawan has completed his Bachelor of Arts from Himachal Pradesh University. He prefers to play Cricket and Badminton in his leisure time.

Sonia Dhamija

Working with a PR Firm, Sonia Dhamija has an experience of more than 3 years of managing events, workshops, training, liaison with resource persons, media, network partners. She completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from YMCA. In CII she has joined us as a part of the Events team.

Aarti Maurya

Aarti has completed her Bachelor of Commerce and Education from Delhi University. She has over 6 years of work experience in Organizing events, meetings, seminars, inward and outward delegations with member companies, partners, and Embassies. She was associated with CII with the International Department. At CESD, Aarti works for Centralised Marketing Team (CMT) which promotes training and helping in Sustainability Awards.